Template talk:Article history

Did you know articles that are good articles

The category Category:Wikipedia Did you know articles that are good articles disappears when the parameter | currentstatus = GA is replaced with | currentstatus = FFAC/GA ( vs ) even though the article is still a good article. Where can the display of categories be found? Tbhotch^™ (CC BY-SA 4.0) 19:05, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

Can someone add the parameter |dykimage=?

Having this

| dykdate       = 
| dykimage      = File:Example.svg
| dykentry      = 
| dyknom        = 

would remove the image from |dykentry= and allow error checking to function as intended. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 00:26, 9 February 2026 (UTC)

Gonna @Mr. Stradivarius, MSGJ, TheDJ, Johnuniq, Izno, WOSlinker, and Paine Ellsworth: as people that might have a clue about LUA and this module. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 00:29, 9 February 2026 (UTC)

Please provide more context for Lua (not LUA!) people. I picked Talk:Kubrick stare from Category:Pages with a malformed DYK entry where {{Article history}} includes

dykentry = [[File:Kubrick stare.jpg|right|60px]] ... that a '''[[Kubrick stare]]''' ''(example pictured)'' can be "invasive" and "troubling"?

I gather that with the wanted change to the module, the wikitext for the image would be moved from dykentry to the new dykimage. If present, the module would insert that wikitext before dykentry after checking it? If that is the only problem with the malformed entry category, it might be better to leave the parameters as they are but change validationPatternGroups in Module:Check DYK hook so it accepts [[File:xxx]] at the beginning of dykentry. Or, add |dykignoreerror=1 to the template at Talk:Kubrick stare with no change to the module. Johnuniq (talk) 03:42, 9 February 2026 (UTC)

@Johnuniq: The idea is to convert the Kubrick stare article history template from

 | dykentry = [[File:Kubrick stare.jpg|right|60px]] ... that a '''[[Kubrick stare]]''' ''(example pictured)'' can be "invasive" and "troubling"?

to

 |dykimage = File:Kubrick stare.jpg 
 |dykentry = ... that a '''[[Kubrick stare]]''' ''(example pictured)'' can be "invasive" and "troubling"?

So that things display neatly, and the error checking works as intended. I don't really care about the exact look on the talk page, so just any standard layout that makes sense. {{DYK talk}} would give

Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 05:07, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

@Johnuniq: any update/feedback/ideas/comments on this? Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 09:33, 6 July 2026 (UTC)

@Headbomb: I think the aim is to remove stuff from Category:Pages with a malformed DYK entry that shouldn't be there. I made this edit at Module:Check DYK hook and that category is now empty (it previously had 67 entries, example: Talk:Citrine). I don't think parameter dykimage is needed? Johnuniq (talk) 05:16, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

Mainly to clearing the category, but it was also to properly display the image. The way this shows in Firefox is like this: where the image spills over a border. Not a critical problem, but there seems to be some html/css issue in there. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 05:25, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

New gtname parameter

Can a |gtname= parameter be added (based on the page renaming at ), so pages like Wikipedia:Good topics/WandaVision don't need a redirect created from Wikipedia:Featured topics/WandaVision? Unless I'm missing a parameter that allows that. Gonnym (talk) 09:52, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

{{FeaturedTopicSum}} could be used to detect whether it's a featured or a good topic. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:56, 5 April 2026 (UTC)

dykdate parameter adds wikilink to the wrong page

The dykdate parameter has a logic error that leads to a wikilink to the wrong page.

For example, Talk:Dianna Cowern has had a DYK entry on November 7, 2025; but the link in A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on November 7, 2025 should link to Wikipedia:Did you know archive/2025/November#8 November 2025. Since the early days of DYK, the DYK archive always lists the date when an entry was removed from the Main Page, not the date when it was added.

This is particularly relevant for entries that appear on the last day of a month, where the link leads to a completely wrong page (example: Talk:Arlington Ladies, DYK from 31 May 2010, but listed on the page for June 2010). Compare Wikipedia talk:Did you know archive/2025/March and this archived discussion about the corresponding bug in Template:DYK talk, which leads to the same problem. Renerpho (talk) 21:07, 3 April 2026 (UTC)

This is a longstanding issue where DYK appears on the front page at say November 7 at 10 pm, and get 'archived' at November 8, 2 am, leading to an archive date mismatch. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 09:36, 6 July 2026 (UTC)

Edit request 3 July 2026

Description of suggested change: Add "draftifed" as an outcome of AFD. Vestrian24Bio 11:33, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

Is there a discussion that led to consensus to add this option? Should it be added to any other actionX options, like PROD? – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:34, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

Draftify has been included in the Twinkle's AfD module recently. It's also now included as part of the Template:Article for deletion/dated.

I'm not sure sure about how PROD works but maybe that too... Vestrian24Bio 06:02, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

Failed featured list candidates

What is the correct status of a GA that becomes a failed featured list candidate? I am currently leaving them as GA. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:57, 6 July 2026 (UTC)

Sounds reasonable as a default. It's not meant to happen as lists cannot be Good Articles, but removing the GA tag should probably go through GAR. CMD (talk) 03:26, 6 July 2026 (UTC)

It's not meant to happen, but occasionally it does. List of governors of Ebonyi State was rejected for FLC because it didn't meet the minimum number of items, so it was nominated for GA instead. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 03:57, 6 July 2026 (UTC)

Looking at that one it should probably be moved to Governor of Ebonyi State, but that is also not something an article history gnome should need to sort out. CMD (talk) 07:41, 6 July 2026 (UTC)

Tracking category for

• insource:/\| *dykignoreerror *= *yes/ yields 5 result (for this template).

• insource:/\| *bypass-error*= *yes/ yields 37 results (for {{DYK talk}}).

Those should be tracked in Category:Pages with a non-standard DYK entry. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 05:39, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

@Johnuniq: anything that can be done here? Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 09:59, 8 July 2026 (UTC)

I know very little about this template and I don't understand this proposal. Stumbling around I found mention of bypass-error at Category:Pages with a malformed DYK entry. Are you saying that it is invalid for {{Article history}} but is sometimes used and you want a tracking category? There is a mechanism for that which someone like Zackmann08 would be familiar with. Re dykignoreerror, I guess you would like a reliable way of finding occurrences so they can be cleaned up to avoid missing errors? Why not use search? Module:Article history is a thing of beauty but it is complicated and while adding a tracking category would probably be easy, finding that easy method (and ensuring nothing would break) might take a lot of time. Johnuniq (talk) 11:02, 8 July 2026 (UTC)

@Johnuniq: Basically, for {{article history}}, if |dykignoreerror=yes, populate Category:Pages with a non-standard DYK entry. And for {{DYK talk}}, if |bypass-error=yes, populate Category:Pages with a non-standard DYK entry. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 15:17, 8 July 2026 (UTC)

Edit request 7 July 2026

Change the former featured list icon to align with the former featured article icon, which is slightly nicer.

−

FFL = { id = 'FFL', name = 'Former featured list', icon = 'Cscr-featured-strike.svg', text = "'''$1''' is a [[Wikipedia:Former featured lists|former featured list]]. " .. "Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original " .. "nomination page and why it was removed. If it has improved again to " .. "[[Wikipedia:Featured list criteria|featured list standard]], you may " .. "[[Wikipedia:Featured list candidates|renominate]] the article to " .. "become a [[Wikipedia:Featured lists|featured list]]." },

+

FFL = { id = 'FFL', name = 'Former featured list', icon = 'Featured article star - cross.svg', text = "'''$1''' is a [[Wikipedia:Former featured lists|former featured list]]. " .. "Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original " .. "nomination page and why it was removed. If it has improved again to " .. "[[Wikipedia:Featured list criteria|featured list standard]], you may " .. "[[Wikipedia:Featured list candidates|renominate]] the article to " .. "become a [[Wikipedia:Featured lists|featured list]]." },

It's unclear why they're different icons since both FLs and FAs use the same icon. -- Reconrabbit (talk) 16:30, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

 Done phuzion (talk) 19:58, 7 July 2026 (UTC)