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I'm fairly sure that this problem is new since 19th April. On that date I fixed a cite error in [[The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings]] by commenting out an unused reference, and, I hope, I would have noticed the other three error messages if they had been there on that date. Very little has happened to the article since then. -- [[User:John of Reading|John of Reading]] ([[User talk:John of Reading|talk]]) 10:36, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

:There is some odd interaction with {{tl|vgreleaseVideo newgame release}}. I commented it out of [[The Exiled Realm of Arborea]] to fix the problem for now. ---'''''—&nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|<span style="color:gray">Gadget850&nbsp;(Ed)</span>]]<span style="color:darkblue">&nbsp;'''''</span>^{[[User talk:Gadget850|''talk'']]} 11:32, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

::Removing the months and days makes the problem disappear too - <code><nowiki>{{vgreleaseVideo newgame release|KOR|2011|NA|2012|EU|2012}}</nowiki></code>. The year-only case is handled specially by the first test in {{tp|Date sortable}}, so it must be the following block beginning "#iferror". This doesn't look good. Could this be a side-effect of the MediaWiki upgrade? -- [[User:John of Reading|John of Reading]] ([[User talk:John of Reading|talk]]) 12:08, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

:::Good question. Do we have a downlevel test wiki? See [[User:Gadget850/a10]] for some testing on this issue.---'''''—&nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|<span style="color:gray">Gadget850&nbsp;(Ed)</span>]]<span style="color:darkblue">&nbsp;'''''</span>^{[[User talk:Gadget850|''talk'']]} 12:12, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

::::[https://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Here] is a note that they are running 1.20wmf1. I've stripped away a few more levels of templates at [[User:John of Reading/X3]], which might help. -- [[User:John of Reading|John of Reading]] ([[User talk:John of Reading|talk]]) 14:21, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

:::::By coincidence, I have been working on Error: Invalid time. The {{tl|dts}} series of templates stuff the sortable part inside {{code|display:none}} which suppresses the error message and makes troubleshooting a pain; see [[MediaWiki talk:Common.css#Parser function errors]]. I don't see Error: Invalid time in [[The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings]] HTML. ---'''''—&nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|<span style="color:gray">Gadget850&nbsp;(Ed)</span>]]<span style="color:darkblue">&nbsp;'''''</span>^{[[User talk:Gadget850|''talk'']]} 15:18, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

::::::{{tp|vgreleaseVideo newgame release}} calls down to {{tp|Date sortable}}. Is that one of the templates that you'd expect to populate the category? The documentation for {{tp|vgreleaseVideo game newrelease}} says that you can pass any text you like instead of a date, "such as a message indicating the game is still in development or was cancelled". It is relying on #time to spot whether the parameter is a date or not, and this mustn't put the article into any error categories. -- [[User:John of Reading|John of Reading]] ([[User talk:John of Reading|talk]]) 15:34, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

[[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Named refs and #time errors]] ---'''''—&nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|<span style="color:gray">Gadget850&nbsp;(Ed)</span>]]<span style="color:darkblue">&nbsp;'''''</span>^{[[User talk:Gadget850|''talk'']]} 23:03, 27 April 2012 (UTC)