All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part X

[Tennie]

Here's something that's been annoying me lately:

Normally, with MediaWiki, the standard for potholing goes like this: "[[Link|pothole]]", which produces "pothole".  Note the single vertical line ("|") in the link.  However, something that I've noticed a lot is that a lot of potholes contain a vertical line at the beginning, i.e. "|pothole".  Checking the source reveals that, instead of a single vertical line separating the link from the pothole, there are two vertical lines, i.e. "[[Link||pothole]]".

In another potholing goof-up, I've encountered potholes that were structured as such: "{{[[Link]] pothole}}".  Note the curly brackets instead of square brackets.

Considering the fairly large number of both types of screwed-up potholes that I've encountered thus far, I'm willing to bet that trying to fix them manually would get tedious very quickly.  Therefore, I recommend that either a bot be created specifically for fixing flawed potholes, or an already existing bot be upgraded to have this capability.  I'll let you decide how to proceed.

Thank you.