Editing Eurovision Wiki talk:WikiProject Articles for creation (section)

== Problem with AFCH ==

I've been having problems with the AFCH script that I don't know how to fix. 

For several months now, I have been persistently unable to use the script to post a comment to a draft at all — the comment window comes up and lets me ''type'' a comment, but I have no button with which to ''save'' my comment to the draft so that anybody else can ''see'' it, and I have to ''manually'' post my comment in the edit window if I feel sufficiently attached to it to bother.

And if I try to decline a draft, meanwhile, the "decline submission" button ''is'' present, but the first time I hit it it just disappears and the decline fails to save at all — I can let it sit for 10 or 15 minutes, and still nothing further happens, and if I try to reload the page it still has the pending submission template on it. If I try to ''redecline'' it a ''second'' time, ''then'' it will work properly, but it consistently fails to work the ''first'' time and inevitably requires me to decline the draft ''twice''.

Both of these have been consistent problems, every time I've tried to comment on or decline any draft at all, for several months now. But I'm not really seeing reports above that this is happening for other people, so it may possibly only be affecting me, and thus I don't know what to do to fix it. (Trying to uninstall and reinstall the script didn't work, and it doesn't make a difference whether I'm using Firefox or Chrome, and still happens the same either way.) [[User:Bearcat|Bearcat]] ([[User talk:Bearcat|talk]]) 14:46, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

:@[[User:Bearcat|Bearcat]], do you keep an AFC log? If so, that's almost certainly your problem - archive the old one and start a new one. -- [[User:Asilvering|asilvering]] ([[User talk:Asilvering|talk]]) 14:59, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
::I'm [[Special:PrefixIndex/User:Bearcat/|not seeing one]], nor is there anything jumping out at me in the common/monobook .js files. [[User:Primefac|Primefac]] ([[User talk:Primefac|talk]]) 15:06, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:@[[User:Bearcat|Bearcat]] - is the second issue seems similar to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/Archive_61#AFCH%20Script%20Hangs this problem from last year?] which is something that I get fairly regularly, if I add a comment or put the draft under review. I just open a new tab, copy over the comment and that tab then saves OK. There was some solution in there but beyond my curiosity radar. [[User:ChrysGalley|ChrysGalley]] ([[User talk:ChrysGalley|talk]]) 16:47, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
*I didn't have a log at all, and didn't even know I actually had a choice in the matter. Starting one does seem to have resolved my problem for the moment, as I have now been able to reject a draft on my first try, although I haven't yet found a draft I felt a need to comment on for the purposes of testing whether it fixed that problem or not. So I'll keep y'all updated if and when I know what happens in a comment situation. [[User:Bearcat|Bearcat]] ([[User talk:Bearcat|talk]]) 17:26, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
::Okay, I tried ''creating'' a placeholder testing draft so I could "comment" on it myself — and while I did get the "post comment" button back, it didn't appear right away, and instead appeared ''only'' when I used the backspace key to correct a ''typo'' in my comment. [[User:Bearcat|Bearcat]] ([[User talk:Bearcat|talk]]) 17:37, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:Any relevant [[WP:CONSOLEERROR]]s when performing either of those actions? Look at console errors that are typical on non afch pages, then see which new ones jump out for this afch bug and please post them here. –[[User:Novem Linguae|<span style="color:blue">'''Novem Linguae'''</span>]] <small>([[User talk:Novem Linguae|talk]])</small> 06:55, 15 February 2026 (UTC)
::Nope, that gave me nothing. Didn't report a single JS error from any website besides Freepik. [[User:Bearcat|Bearcat]] ([[User talk:Bearcat|talk]]) 16:57, 15 February 2026 (UTC)
:[[User:Bearcat]] - If I understand your problem, I was one of the reviewers who previously reported the problem.  I was advised that I should refresh the screen, by clicking the browser refresh or by clicking the * (star) tab at the top of the draft window.  I have never experienced the hang-up if I have remembered to refresh the screen before issuing the AFCH command (any of accept, decline, or comment).  I do sometimes experience the hang if I forget to refresh the screen before issuing the command.  Also, if the screen gets part-way through the sequence that you expect, rather than all the way through, you know that it hung, and you need to press the star tab and repeat the command.  Is that clear?  [[User:Robert McClenon|Robert McClenon]] ([[User talk:Robert McClenon|talk]]) 05:31, 17 February 2026 (UTC)