From 3c4d0de9bd7f42f5385de91ed0aff080fb7114a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinzler@wikimedia.de>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:09:21 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] catch exceptions while generating auto delete reason

---
 includes/Article.php | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/includes/Article.php b/includes/Article.php
index 249d48f3a0..5470dbcac7 100644
--- a/includes/Article.php
+++ b/includes/Article.php
@@ -1384,7 +1384,13 @@ class Article extends Page {
 		// Generate deletion reason
 		$hasHistory = false;
 		if ( !$reason ) {
-			$reason = $this->generateReason( $hasHistory );
+            try {
+                $reason = $this->generateReason( $hasHistory );
+            } catch (MWException $e) {
+                # if a page is horribly broken, we still want to be able to delete it. so be lenient about errors here.
+                wfDebug("Error while building auto delete summary: $e");
+                $reason = '';
+            }
 		}
 
 		// If the page has a history, insert a warning
-- 
2.20.1