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Vanish requests with blank reasons have the reason field populated with a message
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

  • go to Special:Globalvanishrequest
  • don't put anything in the reason field
  • don't qualify for automatic vanishing
  • submit the request

What happens?:

  • When the reason value is presented to special:globalreanamequeue the value is "User notified of global name conflict in preparation for SUL finalization"

What should have happened instead?:

  • The value should be preserved, if it is null it should still be null

Software version (on Special:Version page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):
WMF production

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Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):

Event Timeline

Seddon moved this task from Incoming to Task Backlog on the Account-Vanishing board.

Change #1071658 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dbrant; author: Dbrant):

[mediawiki/extensions/CentralAuth@master] Don't show "SUL finalization" message if reason field is empty.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1071658

Change #1071658 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/CentralAuth@master] Don't show "SUL finalization" message if reason field is empty.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1071658

JJMC89 assigned this task to Dbrant.
JJMC89 moved this task from Verify in Production to Done on the Account-Vanishing board.