Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:06:15 UTC
When viewing a page that has been previously deleted (such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia">[[Wikipedia]]</a>), clicking the view/restore edits link will show a different title. For example, at this writing it says "04:32, 10 Nov 2004 Frazzydee deleted Wikipedia:Sandbox/Sigh (argh)". Steps to Reproduce: 1) Create a page, then delete it (or find a page to use from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3ADeletion%20log">[[Wikipedia:Deletion log]]</a>) 2) Create another page with the first page's name in it (for example if the first page is "blah", the second page can be blah<b>adkfj</b>, <b>aksjdfkasjdf</b>blah<b>asdjf</b>, etc.) 3) Delete the second page 4) Go to the view/restore edits link for <i>the first page</i> Actual Results: The username of whoever deleted the second page, as well as the second page's name are displayed. The date is also wrong. It shows when the time/date that the second page was deleted. Expected results: When clicking "view/restore edits" on the first page, it shows the username of whoever deleted the first page, the title of the first page, and the time the first page was deleted. I do not have sysop access on test.wikipedia, so I cannot check if this bug applies in the latest version.
Are you talking about the listed page history, or the line extracted from the deletion log? The listed page history (these are links you can follow to each archived revision of the page) should be correct. If that's not correct, please provide more info. If you mean the extracted line from the deletion log, this is a very inexact science. 1.4 uses a different log system which is not susceptible to this.
> Are you talking about the listed page history, or the line extracted from the deletion log? I'm talking about what is shown when you go to [[Special:Undelete/Firstpage]]
I see my html didn't work. Here are steps to reproduce that are easier to follow. 1) Create a page, then delete it (or find a page to use from [[Wikipedia:Deletion log]]) 2) Create another page with the first page's name in it (for example if the first page is [[blah]], the second page can be blah'''adkfj''', '''aksjdfkasjdf'''blah'''asdjf''', etc.) 3) Delete the second page 4) Go to the view/restore edits link for ''the first page'' (so in this case, [[Special:Undelete/Blah]])
2) Create another page with the first page's name in it (for example if the first page is [[blah]], the second page can be [[blahadkfj]], [[aksjdfkasjdfblahasdjf]], etc.) to see this bug in action, go to [[Special:Undelete/Wikipedia]]
Yes, that's just the log extract line. The history shows only correct items, as far as I can tell.
The problem may also occur if the page contains the username of the person who deleted it...see [[Angela]] and [[Special:Undelete/Angela]].
1.3 branch no longer maintained; 1.4 uses different system which doesn't have this bug.
