I have recently created stub articles for both Champion Data and AFL Tables, which are major statistical players in the Australian Football League and have been referenced consistently across Wikipedia.
I am now please seeking an automation to add wikilinks to all instances of each phrase on Wikipedia.
I understand the second request is quite arduous! I hope there is not much human intervention required here; it shouldn't be the case as they are mostly part of citations / references. Please let me know if there is anything else required on my end. Thank you! Gibbsyspin13:37, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
I think that, to avoid CONTEXTBOT issues, the approach here is to only touch instances in citations, where afltables.com is present elsewhere within the ref tags. Probably could be done with an AWB bot. Would need a BRfA. Snowmanonahoe (talk·contribs·typos) 15:04, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
The AFL Tables article has now been userfied with a view to merging into an as yet unwritten article about AFL analytics. The current request related to AFL Tables should go on hold. We will revisit in the future with a request to wikilink all instances of AFL Tables to a section or anchor within that future article. Aspirex (talk) 11:59, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
Error in Women in Red newsletter
Hello friends, as per this kind message from @Jonesey95, an error crept in the most recent Women in Red newsletter, see this diff. Would someone be able to fix it. I'm aware there have been a couple more of these syntax errors over the past year or so. I'm going install the Syntax highlighter myself, and encourage other team members who write the invitations to do so too. Many thanks to the AWB cm=ommunity for your help! Lajmmoore (talk) 07:18, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
I could fix this super easily, although it really shouldn’t be done by anyone without a bot flag. (It would trigger notifications) (just use this no regex needed '''''[[Find a Grave]]'''-> '''[[Find a Grave]]''' ) Geardona (talk to me?) 11:06, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
Looks like around 1400 pages affected in user talk space. Lajmmoore, if you know of other specific Signpost issues list them here and I'll see about getting a BRFA filed. Primefac (talk) 11:54, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
Having done this on a similar article and a half-dozen others, I can say that the easiest way to do it is just cut/paste the references into a text document (leaving behind the named ref tag itself) and then copy/paste the final list back into the article. I don't think AWB will make it any easier, and you'll spend more time coding it than just doing it by hand. Primefac (talk) 11:41, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
What is it you want them tagged with? There appear to be multiple criteria for requesting a rename, and you haven't specified one. VanIsaac, GHTVcontWpWS01:10, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
That would be a useful script, but I can't do that here because I needed to specify "NOBOTS". Implementation requires the closer to edit a template. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 20:06, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
use of "a oceanic" in some climate sections of articles
Recently I have noticed that many articles about places mistakenly use "a oceanic climate" instead of "an oceanic climate" when referring to an areas Köppen climate classification within their climate sections. I think this happens most frequently with french places, but that could just be since they are more like to have an oceanic climate. some examples of pages with this issue include Colombes, Saint-Maurice-aux-Forges, and Palaminy. When searching for the phrase "a oceanic" I get 240 or so results (however some of those might not be from the same issue). Gaismagorm (talk) 16:37, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
It looks like many of these "agency" parameters are used with "cite report" template calls, and that "publisher" may be a better alternative parameter name than "author" in such cases, unless already used. The "agency" parameter is valid with other templates such as "cite news". —ADavidB04:59, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
Yeah, and in our circumstance, publisher is already used. Here is an example of the types of citations that are causing this issue. This is a report on an individual tornado. The data is collected by the local National Weather Service office (which we have historically/erroneously listed as the agency=). It is published, however, on the National Centers for Environmental Information website (which we have historically listed as the publisher=). We have struggled with the proper way to format these references. It would probably be simplest to just exchange agency= for author=. wxtrackercody (talk · contributions) 05:48, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
Agreed, on further examination. My AWB usage remains somewhat basic and I encourage others to take on this task. —ADavidB05:56, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
I don't think awb request or a sledge hammerapproach is appropriate here at this time. Imstead i think it would be more appropiate to look at theae references properly, have a project discussion on how to cite them better or get the agency parameter added to cite report.06:30, 21 April 2024 (UTC) Jason Rees (talk) 06:30, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
I endorse the request here, though I would clarify the scope of what's requested. Specifically, there is widespread use of {{cite report}} misusing the |agency= parameter specifically for references linking to the Storm Events Database hosted by the National Centers for Environmental Information. In some cases, NCEI is erroneously listed as the agency. In other cases, a weather forecast office of the National Weather Service is erroneously listed as the agency. In either case, the agency parameter should be removed for all {{cite report}} in the aforementioned project category that point to https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/stormevents/ and its subpages (as linked previously). If the |agency= was listed as a forecast office (something of the form National Weather Service Office in Memphis, Tennessee, though National Weather Service* may be a reasonable catch-all), then it should be listed as the |author=. If necessary, |publisher=National Centers for Environmental Information should be amended/appended to the citation template. TheAustinMan(Talk ⬩ Edits)15:04, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
Bumping this discussion since we are still looking for someone to fulfill this request. There are thousands of broken references currently scattered across the WikiProject, so we would greatly appreciate swift assistance if anyone is available. wxtrackercody (talk · contributions) 06:18, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
Sorry, I am struggling to fully understand the request, I have looked through the category randomly, and haven't found anything really sounding like what you are describing. Is it possible for one of you to manually make an example edit? Geardona (talk to me?) 00:43, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
@Geardona: The vast majority of broken references will be on tornado list pages, but they're scattered all throughout the category. The May 2019 list (and all list pages like that) are a great example of the issue we're facing. In all of these references, the local NWS office is listed as the agency. Since that is the wrong parameter to be using/because agency= is deprecated in the cite report template, agency= needs to be changed to author= in all cases where a local NWS office is listed. Please refer to TheAustinMan's comment for how this applies more broadly. wxtrackercody (talk · contributions) 01:43, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
There are 325 pages using the {{cite report}} template with agency parameter that need fixing. I can do it, but since Geardona is up for the task, I'm leaving it to them. Geardona, could you please find instances of {{cite report|agency= in these pages and replace them with {{cite report|author=. There may be more pages that use the cite report template with agency parameter. We can find and fix them once these 325 pages are fixed.Thank you. – DreamRimmer (talk) 13:06, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
I read the documentation for the Storm Data website, which is published by NOAA. The documentation is here. Storm Data aggregate information from many sources, including first person, media, WFOs etc.. they then re-publish the aggregate results in Storm Data. As such, the author is technically Storm Data, but this is also the |work=, so there would be no author listed. Normally on Wikipedia we only list the author to help readers find and verify a citation. Since the citation is to Storm Data, that is all that is needed ie. |work=Storm Data. Everything else is extraneous and not what the citation system was mean to do. It looks like trying to re-create sub-elements of the Storm Data database within the CS1|2 system. Another way to say this, it is citing two sources in a single citation: the Storm Data citation, and also citing the WFO and/or whatever other sources used by Storm Data. It's a sign of a problem. -- GreenC20:33, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
I'm not an expert in referencing. I would just point out that the local NWS offices are responsible for submitting the NCEI entries. Whether the tornado was reported by someone out and about, evident on radar, or found in a damage survey after the fact, the local offices are singularly responsible for confirming the tornadoes and then finalizing them to send over to NCEI for Storm Data. I'm not sure if that changes your point here. wxtrackercody (talk · contributions) 21:42, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
I'm having a hard time understanding the Storm Datareport page because there is no apparent unique identifier (for the report). There is a code in the URL id=814712but that could be a website software code that could change. In these cases the URL itself is the key. But that is fragile, because they will in the future abandon this system and make a new one that may not have a 1:1 conversion eg. no redirects. So assuming the current Storm Data site is defunded or changed, they make a new system without redirects - a common scenario for government sites. How would you track down the report at the new site. Going by title only "Kentucky Even Report: EF1 Tornado" is not enough. The citation would probably need to contain the event date at least, to remain verifiable for the long term.
Thanks for the response. For now, I'd like the agency= to author= request to be processed simply so we can remedy the thousands of broken references. After that, I will refer the project back to what you said so we can figure out a more suitable way to cite them moving forward. wxtrackercody (talk · contributions) 18:22, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Is this not a case where it's easier to change the template to support the parameter, rather than remove it completely? Mdann52 (talk) 17:16, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
About 4,200 pages with WP:CIRCULAR issues
Hi, for those who may be interested, I've posted the list of pages at User:Dawnseeker2000/Sandbox 3. I've been using some borrowed scripts to help keep the list from growing too much, but it's been at the 4,200 level for the last couple of years. This is about articles that have references that refer to Wikipedia articles, and the first four here will remove those references and the fifth one removes the {{Circular reference|date=July 2024}} template, if present.
@Dawnseeker2000 and Neils51: I don't think this is a good place to post a task like this, since it's not exactly suited for "easy" removal, and some may treat it like it is just that simple. Ideally, the circular link is followed, and replaced with an actual ref after doing a bit of reading & confirming. Failing that, the circular refs should be replaced with {{citation needed}} instead, and not just removed (unless there are additional supporting refs). ~Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)12:16, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
Thanks @Tom.Reding:, I thought I would "test the waters" and see what transpired. I don't mind working through these occasionally (probably manually) and placing the {{citation needed}} template. Thanks Dawnseeker, for the list. Neils51 (talk) 12:44, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
Might just be me, but a lot of times I see a "reference" which should have been a wikilink instead (e.g. such and such went to Example State University<ref>https://en.wikipedia.orghttps://demo.azizisearch.com/lite/wikipedia/page/Example_State_University</ref>) and might actually have a reference further down the way. Primefac (talk) 19:54, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
Just a quick PWB script I used. AWB won't neatly do null edits in bot mode so needs spamming the save button in my experience, PWB makes null editing simple. Mdann52 (talk) 19:37, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
Eh, if I need a bunch of null edits, I'll go manual on my own AWB account; no point in accidentally having a bot edit if for some reason it decides to actually save a change. Primefac (talk) 20:09, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
Around 230 misattributed author name parameters to remove
Hi! Can someone with AWB permissions have a quick go through the articles returned by a search for insource:"last Company first Rand McNally"?
These citations appear mostly to support claims of 1925 populations in United States populated places, from Rand McNally's 1925 Premier Atlas of the World etc. The citations do already correctly contain |publisher=Rand McNally & Company, and the source provides no other attribution, so the bogus |last=Company and |first=Rand McNally and parameters can simply be removed.
@Folly Mox, I can see the author parameter when I export this citation, and it also lists Rand McNally and Company as a contributor, so should this really be removed? – DreamRimmer (talk) 14:42, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
Attributing authorship to the entire company isn't an unreasonable proposition, although it does feel duplicative to the |publisher= field. If we wanted to retain corporate authorship attribution, then the substitution would be last= Company | first=Rand McNally andauthor=Rand McNally and Company.This is something of an editorial choice: I do see people citing sources where the publisher and corporate author are identical. As mentioned, it feels duplicative to me, but it's not an invalid approach. Having said that, google books is not a particularly accurate arbiter of what kind of attribution is necessary for Wikipedia (for example, their edited volumes never attribute chapter authorship in metadata, their periodicals don't have volume and issue information in metadata, etc).In any regard, thanks for any fix you do perform. This is a lot of articles to go through by hand. Folly Mox (talk) 14:53, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
When using |author= avoid citations like {{cite news |work=Weekday Times |author=''Weekday Times'' editors |title=...}}, unless the article is on a field in which the majority of professional journals covering that field use such a citation style.
I think that H:CS1 can be interpreted to cover cases where |lastn=Company |firstn=Rand McNally or |authorn=Rand McNally & Company unnecessarily duplicate |publisher=Rand McNally & Company.
Removing Template:midsize from infobox parameters (violation of MOS:SMALLFONT)
When {{small}}, {{midsize}}, and other size-reducing templates are used inside infobox parameter values, it is almost always a violation of MOS:SMALLFONT, an accessibility guideline (exceptions are in enlarged parameters like |title=). I have found that an editor added {{midsize}} to {{Infobox judge}} parameter values in about 350 articles, and to {{infobox officeholder}} parameter values in as many as 960 articles. Is anyone available to tidy these up, like this? The fixes should be limited to infobox parameter values; uses in the body of the article are often acceptable. I expect that there will be another, similar request once those are cleared up and I can see where else {{midsize}} is being used. Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:30, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
I seek to depopulate several categories with similar contents, which are almost all redirects with a common format and which sometimes point to synonyms (e.g. Order-3-4 square honeycomb is another name for the cubic honeycomb).
You will need to provide a list of restaurant articles for anyone to be able to do this task. Or maybe there's a search result that could generate that list? Either way, AWB needs to start with a list of articles to apply an edit to. VanIsaac, GHTVcontWpWS07:38, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
This is the search result that could generate a list of candidate articles. There are some false positives such as Wikipedia articles about chefs and cities. Cunard (talk) 07:47, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
As of mid-August, Upstate South Carolina now has two area codes: Area codes 864 and 821. Could someone with AWB access check all articles that redirect to Area code 864 to make sure the infobox correctly displays the updated area code number. The changes in parameter |area_code= (for articles that use Template:Infobox settlement) should be as follows:
parameter |area_code= itself should become |area_codes=
[[Area code 864|864]] should become [[Area codes 864 and 821|864, 821]]
Some articles may also use parameter |area_code_type= and will not become plural. For articles with the parameter, the most likely change needed will be:
[[Wikilink|Area code]] should become [[Wikilink|Area codes]]
Henri IV's white plume could use some minor MOS copyedits: MOS:CURLY, MOS:DASH, and at least one reference before punctuation. GENFIXES alone might handle it all, but I'm not on Windows and don't have access to a gsub function from my browser. Please let me know if this kind of request is out of line, and how I could have fixed it myself with the installation of an applicable user script 🙃 Sorry, Folly Mox (talk) 14:37, 31 August 2024 (UTC)
Thanks, DreamRimmer! That handled everything but the ref before punct, and broke a couple image links which I manually repaired via copypaste during double check of the script's changes.
Can the table colour on the tables on the linked pages be changed to:
style="background:#ddffdd;" for wins (currently grey)
style="background:#ffdddd;" for losses (currently blue)
style="background:#ffffdd;" for draws (currently white)
I've recently closed a move and the primary page has a little under 400 links in the namespace [4], but I have to step away from my computer and I do not have AWB rights/nor the correct OS to run it. Is there a willing editor who wants to tackle the links and find and replace [[The People]] → [[The Sunday People|The People]].
The purpose of the template is to compute a hex value that can be plugged into any color-related wiki markup, such as table BG colors and {{color box}}. I recently improved a table in Mired by including color samples representing various temperatures, which required a gradient for temperature ranges. However, I was able to incorporate it into the default, displayable version of the template. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 16:02, 14 September 2024 (UTC)
@Dilettante: Glad to help. I only made about 15 edits in reality; it seems that most of the links were from the navbox Template:Slave narrative, which I have now changed.
Soft deletion is a special kind of deletion which may be used after an article's deletion discussion. If a deletion discussion receives minimal participation, the article may be deleted. However, in this case, the article can be restored for any reason on request.
Thank you all getting nearly all of the links restored. For the remaining 15 links that aren't on the current version, would AWB be able to restore the links? Cunard (talk) 10:39, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
I seek to create a large number of redirects to the lists of isotopes. I compiled User:LaundryPizza03/Isotope_redirects#Isotope_names from NUBASE2020 and post-2020 discoveries in a database of isotope discoveries maintained by FRIB, including instructions for each of four categories of redirects. There are a few isomers that aren't included because they were discovered more recently than NUBASE2020, but to date nobody has systematically tracked these discoveries as FRIB has done for the ground states.
Thank you for the notie, editor Tom.Reding! The essay WP:Printability is perhaps a little dated but might give some insights. With little else to guide editors, the sorting of mainspace redirects to printworthy or unprintworthy is still very often a judgement call. My best advice is to start off asking yourself if these redirects would be helpful in a printed-type version of WP, and then applying the printability as consistently as possible across the various types of redirects. Ya'll seem to have an excellent handle on the other categorizations. Best to you and thanks again!P.I. Ellsworth , ed.put'er there12:23, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
My assumption is that the vast majority of these #Rs would be considered unprintworthy, but I'd need a vocal (not WP:SILENT) consensus before placing the appropriate un/printworthy tag. ~Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)12:47, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
@LaundryPizza03:MPGuy2824 brought up missing anchors on these article targets, so I'm thinking about making anchors for all isotopes listed on each "Isotopes of <element>" page, then going back to working on the next set of #Rs (hopefully with autopatrolled). ~Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)12:26, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
When fully complete, I'll go through each "Isotopes of <element>" page, check each "#<Element>-<x>" #R anchor pointing to it, and pile all orphaned anchors into an 'anchor bank' above each list, like what there was on Isotopes of barium before they were migrated to list anchors. ~Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)18:13, 5 October 2024 (UTC)
Done. I have removed these two parameters from all the articles, along with a few other unknown parameters from the infobox. I didn’t realise there were more unknown parameters at first, so I only used regex to tackle these two. As a result, I might have ended up editing around 10 to 15 pages twice while removing the other unknown parameters. Edits. – DreamRimmer (talk) 14:58, 13 October 2024 (UTC)