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Article author wrong...

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This article:
http://www.planetcatfish.com/shanesworl ... ith+A+View
says that it was uploaded on the 1/Jan/2011, and written by Peter Cottle. Which is wrong, as it says in the article "At the time of writing, 2002 ..." [or something to that extent] (and I know I've read this article a LONG time ago).

It also has a broken image, which I can't fix...

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Yes, that's an old cached copy - it shouldn't actually be visible still. Will check it out.

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Mats,

This is an "reused ID" bug. The article was replaced, you can't actually find it through navgating the site. What you have found is a link to it from a cached google image that's triggered an admin email to you that has caused you to use this URL (and again as it's posted above...).

The "bug" here is that if an article exists but isn't in the section you're accessing it from (section=cotm, shanesworld, book review etc) then you don't get a graceful error.

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http://www.planetcatfish.com/shanesworl ... ticle_id=1 - article ID 1 is a book review, but because an article record exists, the Shaneworld article page tries to work with it.

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So, I guess we should have an error message when this happens, rather than "random content from who knows where"...

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Yes indeed, that's the bug and I suspect it exists for all article sections. Leave it with me!

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Fixed.

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