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"Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification": This has always struck me as a serious problem ... people routinely think they've pinged someone, but the ping didn't work for various reasons that are obscure to most editors. I see this is live at Meta ... anyone know when it's coming to en.wp? I don't see it in the Beta tab of Preferences. - Dank (push to talk) 14:12, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

@Dank: Preferences → Notifications → Failed/Successful mention. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 14:17, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

Template for error reports

I've just made {{Template error report}}; you can see it in use on {{Authority control}}. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:13, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

Is there a way to see which articles contain a particular erroneous parameter? Looking at the report for {{Taxobox}}, it's pretty obvious where the problem is when there's a typo for the "binomial" parameter, but not at all clear when there's a typo for a higher taxonomic rank. Plantdrew (talk) 15:46, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

@Plantdrew: Because of the volume of parameter data (millions of parameter usages), heavily used templates have been excluded from showing specific pages that use a particular parameter. The blacklist is here (GitHub). I can enable a couple of these templates per month to provide the page level links. --Bamyers99 (talk) 16:19, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

@Bamyers99:. Thanks. Maybe I'll ask you in a couple of months to enable page links for taxobox? For now I can find plenty of stuff to fix even without page level links. Plantdrew (talk) 16:47, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

Looks useful, Pigsonthewing, thanks. Perhaps add to our suggestion page so Evad37 can include in our next edition? -Pete (talk) 17:09, 29 September 2016 (UTC)