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A WMF researcher mass-messaged a bunch of users with the wrong link, which is currently at RfD. Would someone with a bot account kindly generate a list from the WhatLinksHere (all NS) of User talk:BGerdemann (WMF) and replace [[Special:MyLanguage/Research: with [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Research:? Thanks. Aaron Liu (talk) 22:41, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

 Half done @Aaron Liu: VanIsaac, GHTV ^contr_about 02:21, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

(edit conflict) There is only one bot approved to fix mass message errors, but the operator of that bot has been inactive for the last two months. Since there are 2,390 pages needing correction, I am filing a new BRFA. – DreamRimmer (talk) 02:24, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

@Vanisaac, doing this with AWB will trigger a new message notification for all 2,390 users. – DreamRimmer (talk) 02:25, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Just got one for this exact reason; can confirm. Graham87 (talk) 02:40, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

I filed a BRFA for this at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AaBott myself, but I can cancel that and defer the bot stuff to you if you want since you seem much more experienced at this. Aaron Liu (talk) 02:37, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Do you want me to stop? I'm 584 in, with 1810 to go. VanIsaac, GHTV ^contr_about 02:55, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

@Vanisaac stop please. Commander Keane (talk) 03:01, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Will do. VanIsaac, GHTV ^contr_about 03:02, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

@Aaron Liu, Are you okay with me filing a new BRFA? – DreamRimmer (talk) 03:08, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

If you can do it in 8 hours, sure, but I'm feeling like there's a queue thing here and would prefer to retain the old request. Aaron Liu (talk) 10:55, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

I think this can be speedily approved. – DreamRimmer (talk) 10:57, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Fine by me, then. Aaron Liu (talk) 11:00, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Since there is no active bot doing this, I would like to take it on as a generic task for my bot. I have done this before and am available most of the time to address any issues that may arise with mass messages. – DreamRimmer (talk) 11:03, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, I meant that I'm okay with you filing a new BRFA if you can get it speedily approved. Aaron Liu (talk) 11:18, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Got the repeat notification too. Not sure you should worry too much – the repeat will just help to remind people to respond to the survey — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 07:11, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

@Primefac, would it be possible for you to speedily approve it? I am available and can complete the trial immediately. – DreamRimmer (talk) 15:22, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

There are only seven incoming links. Primefac (talk) 15:43, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

There are 1802. Please search for insource:/\[\[Special:MyLanguage\/Research:Wikipedia Administrator Recruitment, Retention, and Attrition/. – DreamRimmer (talk) 15:46, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Oh, right, because it's not directly linking. Jeez. I don't see anything at BRFA, what am I speedy approving? Primefac (talk) 15:50, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

BRFA filed at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BaranBOT 8. – DreamRimmer (talk) 16:07, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Appears  Done by DreamRimmer, thanks. Aaron Liu (talk) 19:07, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Thank you Primefac for speedy approval :) – DreamRimmer (talk) 19:10, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Aaron Liu  Done; only 32 pages are left where the bot couldn't edit because of 'nobots' templates. – DreamRimmer (talk) 01:25, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! I'm assuming we shouldn't manually AWB them either? Aaron Liu (talk) 02:18, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

I have fixed the remaining 32 pages. I always respect 'nobots' templates, but this was the best approach, as fixing them manually without a bot account would have triggered new message notifications. – DreamRimmer (talk) 05:56, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

Remind people of getting their watchlists spammed into the stone age... SerialNumber54129 16:48, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

I've just deleted Category:Worst Picture Golden Raspberry Award winners under speedy criterion G4, repost of deleted content. Could someone remove the 48 articles that are in the category? Nyttend (talk) 19:25, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

 Done   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  19:58, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

@Nyttend: WP:CFDW can handle these in the future – just link to the old CFD :) HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 01:09, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

Pretty much every template listed in Category:South Korea pop music group navigational boxes, Category:Girl group navigational boxes and Category:Boy band navigational boxes is also included in its group's eponymous category (example: Template:Aespa is included in Category:Aespa).

Guideline at WP:CAT#T says that "templates are not articles, and thus do not belong in content categories." - Is it possible for an AWB wizard remove these templates from their eponymous categories?RachelTensions (talk) 02:33, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

@RachelTensions yeah I'll take a look at it for you. Dr vulpes (Talk) 02:49, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

@RachelTensions  Done eponymous categories removed from 102 templates, 148 were already fine. If I missed any or made a mistake please let me know! Ultraodan (talk) 08:53, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

Perfect, thank you! RachelTensions (talk) 14:05, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

Please add {{Independent-record-label-stub}} to all articles in this report, and remove the top level Category:Independent record labels and {{record-label-stub}}, but not any national subcategories/templates thereof. Mach61 15:12, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

Doing – DreamRimmer (talk) 15:21, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

@Mach61:Creation Stories (film) article is about a film, not a record label. I made an edit, so please review the list of articles again and remove any that are not related to the subject of this stub template. – DreamRimmer (talk) 16:24, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

@DreamRimmer simply changing the depth from 2 to 1 removes six false positives and only one false negative (Elevation Records, which I manually tagged). Modified report. Mach61 17:37, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

I have edited 51 pages and am pausing for now. Anyone can complete the remaining pages, or I will handle them tomorrow. – DreamRimmer (talk) 16:31, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

 Working Feel free to go through and finish it up, but I got a few more. Geardona (talk to me?) 21:26, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

 Working on some. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 10:43, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

@Mach61  Done, this query shows empty, I have added Independent record label stubs as a negative to remove done pages. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 11:28, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

Cross-posting a request that I think might be small enough for an AWB run (I'm roughly counting only about 300 pages). See WP:BOTREQ § Tagging Category:Cinema of Belgium for more information. Primefac (talk) 14:34, 23 November 2024 (UTC)

Could someone please remove {{Wikidata redirect}} from these 541 pages. All of these are soft redirects not connected to Wikidata, and soft redirects generally shouldn't be connected to Wikidata so the concerns raised at Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 86#Clear Category:Unlinked Wikidata redirects shouldn't apply. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 20:09, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

 Doing... VanIsaac, GHTV ^contr_about 21:13, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

 Done. Three pages didn't have the template - Sottoscala, Frog march, and Can of whoop ass. List is stored on userspace page. VanIsaac, GHTV ^contr_about 21:44, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

Hi, and hope you're doing well. Is it possible to tag all pages under Special:PrefixIndex/Wikipedia:Donated artwork/ and Wikipedia:Donated artwork itself with {{Historical}}? I don't see any major updates to Wikipedia:Donated artwork since its inception in 2015; Wikipedia talk:Donated artwork last had a discussion in 2021. Please ping if you have questions. Thank you. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 16:21, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

Given the prefix index only shows 7 (8 including the parent page) pages, I’ll do this by hand, unless there are more pages that I’m not seeing.  Working  Done Geardona (talk to me?) 12:00, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

Would it be possible for someone to edit the prose of the articles in Category:Chungha songs to use "Chung Ha" instead of "Chungha"? The parent article was moved after it was established that the artist's name is "Chung Ha" (with the space), not "Chungha".

Right now I'm focusing on the articles directly related to the subject, but there probably a bunch of other locations that refer to her as "Chungha" instead of "Chung Ha" as well.

Thank you! RachelTensions (talk) 17:13, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

 Done Edits – DreamRimmer (talk) 05:34, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! RachelTensions (talk) 05:38, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

This search shows over 50,000 articles with visible links to XXX Province of Iran, which should be XXX province. Anyone want to work on fixing? Dicklyon (talk) 06:13, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

That’s quite a few articles, and might be more suited to WP:BOTREQ, if they tell you to go back here or that a bot is not an option, ping me and I’ll take another look. Geardona (talk to me?) 12:22, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

Are you volunteering to run AWB as bot, or should I be recruiting another bot operator for this? Some semi-automated work on this to develop a good set of patterns would go a long way toward getting bot approval, I think. Dicklyon (talk) 16:18, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

Go to BOTREQ. Primefac (talk) 18:28, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

I know from before that they'll want to see more discussion before considering bot approval, so I started a thread at WT:WikiProject Iran#Fixing widespread over-capitalization of "Province" to make sure there's no project objection. Dicklyon (talk) 18:42, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

Opened request at Wikipedia:Bot requests#Province over-capitalization. Dicklyon (talk) 21:19, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

@Dicklyon, I would be happy to help with this task. If you don't find any other bot, please ping me on BOTREQ once the WikiProject discussion closes. – DreamRimmer (talk) 15:46, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

What if it gets no replies? When can we call it closed? Dicklyon (talk) 02:57, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

• Pages using |Women's cricket=yes should be changed to |Women's=yes as the former is to be deprecated. (Pages are found in Category:Women's cricket task force articles)
• Pages using |Bangladesh cricket=yes should be changed to |Asia=yes as the former task force has been merged into the latter one. (Pages are found in Category:Asia cricket task force articles)
• Pages using |needs-photo=yes, |needs-image=yes, |photo-needed=yes and |image-requested=yes should be changed to |image-needed=yes as the former parameters are to be deprecated.
• All the pages, templates, categories etc. under Category:International Cricket Council should be added to |ICC=yes.

Thanks in advance! Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 05:36, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

Searches [1] [2] [3], about 1500 pages including duplicates (plus 2200 pages in the category, but I have no idea how many of those actually need editing). Qwerfjkltalk 09:52, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

The one's in the category could be done, others I think should be done after a formal discussion. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 10:02, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

There are more results with the value true. [4] [5] – DreamRimmer (talk) 10:25, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi, would it be possible to link instances of "Uprise RI", "UpriseRI", and "upriseri.com" (or "upriseri.com/") within article text and references (website, work, newspaper parameters). At least these searches: [6][7][8]. Thank you! Best, Bridget (talk) 01:16, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

 Doing... JJP_Master (she/they) 01:31, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

 Done 43 edits. JJP_Master (she/they) 01:50, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

Perfect, thank you JJPMaster! Best, Bridget (talk) 03:08, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

We have a bunch of capitalized "At-large" and even "At-Large" to fix. I tried to address one specific context via a template edit request (Template talk:Infobox officeholder#Edit request 2 December 2024), but the suggestion there was to fix it by AWB instead since there are only about 455 articles like that. Here's a diff that fixed one of those. And here's the more complete diff on that article. Anyone want to help? Dicklyon (talk) 17:32, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

 Doing... ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 11:53, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

@Dicklyon  Done This shows ~338 edits done, rest were skipped by AWB as no changes were made (false positives?). Please have a look and let me know. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 14:36, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! Here's a better search, which finds about 40 more that look like they could use the same fix. Dicklyon (talk) 16:14, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

Also, in ones like this you could fix the piped link at the same time. Dicklyon (talk) 17:01, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

@Dicklyon Will do the 40 more in a couple of hours. I didn't get what fix the piped link means. Could you explain? ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 03:31, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

In [[New Hampshire's At-large congressional district|At-large]], the link to New Hampshire's At-large congressional district is piped to "At-large". The first part should avoid the miscapitalized redirect and link directly to New Hampshire's at-large congressional district instead, and be "piped" to the second part, which should be "at-large". Ends up like this with both case fixes: [[New Hampshire's at-large congressional district|at-large]]. Dicklyon (talk) 03:51, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Till now I used a regex which checked after a pipe between [[ and ]]. I thought changing the page name might break some links. Should I lowercase all occurrences of at-large, even in page names? ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 04:05, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

@Dicklyon if the above proposal is not a problem, I can do it now ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 06:36, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Yes, go ahead, since there was a multi-RM discussion that moved all those "At-large" districts to "at-large". If there are any remaining articles with capitalized "At-large" in their titles, you should be able to find them (and maybe fix them) with this search. I don't see much to worry about, other than At-large itself. Dicklyon (talk) 06:38, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Noting that the replacements I am doing are only inside templates, so as to avoid starting of sentences, At-large and other possible errors. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 06:40, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

@Dicklyon  Done, 39 more edits ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 08:13, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! If you'd like to do more, with "At-large" in other contexts, take a look at this search, which is mostly in the title bar of infoboxes. Or these in links from templates such as Main and Further. Or these in a common text phrase. Dicklyon (talk) 16:42, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

33 edits for the first search done. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:37, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

The second one is also done. For the third, should Large be caps or small, as you have included both in the search? ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:44, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

@Bunnypranav: Thanks, those look good. Either At-Large or At-large will match, and should be replaced by lowercase at-large. Dicklyon (talk) 16:08, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

@Dicklyon should at-Large be replaced with at-large? ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 08:10, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

Yes, make it all lowercase. By the way, I use the "subscribe" mechanism to keep track of conversations, so you don't need to ping me. Dicklyon (talk) 15:57, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

I am done with all three above. The last one below is empty (probably done already). I am not doing the below one due to possible errors. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:23, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

Also these, but be careful as a few are in reference titles and such that should be left in title case. Dicklyon (talk) 16:44, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

And these, too. Dicklyon (talk) 17:00, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

I know that this splits the discussion, but if possible could you post this on my talk page. I can't do this for a day or two, but will definitely try my best. Thanks! ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 17:32, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Done. No rush. Dicklyon (talk) 19:44, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

@Dicklyon 38 edits done, waiting for your confirmation on this and this. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 09:22, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

@Bunnypranav: Thanks for doing those. Note that I've linked about 3 more searches above with similar over-capitalizations. I hope you'll do more. Dicklyon (talk) 16:07, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

@Dicklyon Sorry for the delay, unfortunately I do not have access to a computer for the next couple of days. I will hopefully do them by the end of this weekend. If anyone else is able to do this, then go ahead. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 10:01, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

Have a good break then! Thanks. Dicklyon (talk) 17:16, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

@Bunnypranav: Here is another batch that should be fixed to "from the at-large district" (about 45 of them). Dicklyon (talk) 23:31, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

 Done 43 edits ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 10:04, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

Recently, I split the {{SZA}} navbox by moving all of its song articles to {{SZA songs}}. Now, all of those articles need to have {{SZA}} template replaced with the latter template. Elias 🦗🐜 ^{[Chat, they chattin', they chat]} 06:33, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

@PSA

Is the list or articles needing changes the ones linked in {{SZA songs}}? ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 06:35, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

@Bunnypranav, yep, although the discography list already has been changed. Elias 🦗🐜 ^{[Chat, they chattin', they chat]} 06:43, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

 Doing... ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 06:45, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

@PSA  Done: 45 edits Please check if I missed something. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:02, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

@Bunnypranav thanks. Missed a couple but that was because of the redirect links, plus the album articles were not supposed to have the replacements. Other than that, I have checked everything and they're all good. Elias 🦗🐜 ^{[Chat, they chattin', they chat]} 07:22, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

@PSA Should I change the ones missed, or have you done it already. Thanks for fixing the errors! ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:30, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

I already fixed them. Elias 🦗🐜 ^{[Chat, they chattin', they chat]} 07:54, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

I accidentally interrupted the tagging process while using Qwerfjkl's MassCfD tool and need help tagging all the pages I listed at WP:CFDS. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:11, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Doing – DreamRimmer (talk) 04:22, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

@LaundryPizza03, Now that I am on PC, could you please share list of categories that still need tagging? It looks like most of the ones I clicked on were already tagged. – DreamRimmer (talk) 05:36, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

@DreamRimmer: I don't have the time to check them all — there are over 700 in the affected nomination. It will include every item on the list that doesn't already have a CFDS tag. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 06:40, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

No problem, I will handle it for you. – DreamRimmer (talk) 06:43, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

 Done 341 pages. – DreamRimmer (talk) 07:55, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

FWIW, you could probably just undo the edits (e.g. using WP:Kill-It-With-Fire) and then redo. Or you could just paste in the remaining categories and repeat the process, and remove the duplicate nomination. User:Anomie/linkclassifier will probably highlight categories that are already tagged. — Qwerfjkltalk 10:27, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Certain text, most notably "|collapsed=no", is considered redundant in the WikiProject Banner Shell. Can someone please remove this text from the articles in that category? Thanks! - OpalYosutebito (talk) 05:31, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Cewbot will handle this. See User:Cewbot/log/20200122/configuration. – DreamRimmer (talk) 14:31, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Got it, good to know. By the way, I plan on re-requesting AutoWikiBrowser privileges the day before my 21st birthday - OpalYosutebito (talk) 15:15, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Good luck! – DreamRimmer (talk) 15:23, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

This search shows a cluster of about 60 articles with a word-splitting hyphen after a line break, when conventionally the hyphen should be before the line break. Can someone fix? Dicklyon (talk) 23:04, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Remind me if I am missing something, why is the br and hyphen is needed? ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 05:14, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

Agreed; these should probably be removed; I see little reason to make a table "skinny" by adding in awkward line breaks. Primefac (talk) 09:57, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

Some editor thought it would be good to make the columns less wide, and I wasn't going to argue about that, but it's fine by me if someone wants to fix it by just not doing the break at all. Dicklyon (talk) 09:08, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

Many of those same articles also have over-capitalized table headings and such, like I fixed in this one. I'm not sure how consistent the pattern is, but I've seen quite a few like that. Could someone do the case fixing along with the line-break fixing please? Dicklyon (talk) 09:14, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

@Dicklyon  Done 60 edits. Fixed the case errors in the totals section of the tables based on some sampling of what parameters exist. Random checking afterwards seems to show most of the case fixing is done. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 14:02, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! Dicklyon (talk) 20:52, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

@Bunnypranav: If you're up for more "Votes" case fixing, look at this search and this one with lots of overcapped headings (example fixes here and here); note lowercase "other" after dash. Dicklyon (talk) 05:00, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

96 edits first one done. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:29, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

Should instances of "adjoing" be "adjoining"? Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 22:16, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

With many typos, you need to look at them one by one to see if some other word was meant or would be a better choice. Since there are only eight instances of "adjoing", I don't think AWB is needed. – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:19, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

I'd like {{DSM copyright}} to be posted on about 200–300 talk pages. The articles in question are at List of mental disorders.

Would someone like to do this? And what's the most useful way for me to give you the list of target articles?

WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:42, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

@WhatamIdoing: I am happy to help with this. Please share the list of target articles using https://ctxt.io/ and send me the link once it is published. – DreamRimmer (talk) 10:35, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

What do you want on that page? (For example, full URLs, or [[Links]], or ???) WhatamIdoing (talk) 02:36, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Latter. – DreamRimmer (talk) 02:43, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Hey DreamRimmer, I saw this so I made the list for you (https://ctxt.io/2/AAB4sW0WEA, it contains the format you wanted, no pipes, without Talk: prefix and only the links to mental disorders on the page) on behalf of WhatamIdoing. Also, I don't believe this a task that necessitates AWB (there shouldn't be a need for a human to review), so I've coded a regular old bot script to do this based on the list (User:MolecularBot One-off Task #3) and will file a BRFA. MolecularPilot ^{🧪️✈️} 05:32, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

I usually file BRFAs for tasks that involve editing at least 700-800 pages. For this task, I did not see a need for a BRFA, so I planned to use AWB or PAWS. Thank you for providing the list. I could have created it myself, but I was not sure if any pages needed to be excluded. I am perfectly fine with you doing this using your bot. – DreamRimmer (talk) 10:44, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Please feel free to run this with AWB as there are only ~300 pages and we tend to not set up bot runs for less than 500. Primefac (talk) 13:22, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Just in case you decide to go the BRFA route, or if someone complains at you, please note that I've pre-acquired evidence of consensus for these edits at WT:MED. (If they complain at you that the DSM's content should be "fair use", send them to me.) WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:43, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, WhatamIdoing and thanks to DreamRimmer for handling this! It's really great to see another editor interested in psychology (it's my favorite class at school, and that's why I made the list for DR, because I know about the DSM). :) MolecularPilot ^{🧪️✈️} 02:36, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

@MolecularPilot, thank you. Also, please put WP:MED and WP:PSYCH on your watchlist, and join any discussions that interest you there. WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:56, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

@WhatamIdoing : I'm happy to do this if DreamRimmer doesn't pick up. In either case, would you like to have this prepended before template:Reliable sources for medical articles or somewhere else? NotAGenious (talk) 16:44, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

@DreamRimmer Your edits contravene WP:TALKLEAD. NotAGenious (talk) 17:13, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

I am aware of TALKLEAD and have just made two edits. I don't see any issue with placing it at the top, but if putting it in the middle of other templates is a better approach, I am happy to do that. – DreamRimmer (talk) 17:26, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Do you think this qualifies as #5 High-importance attention template, or as an addendum to #14 reliable source for medical articles? VanIsaac, GHTV ^contr_about 18:53, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

I'd guess that it fits in with #5 ("Notice") or #6 ("Warning"), but I will be satisfied with any location that seems plausible. WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:48, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Already done. – DreamRimmer (talk) 01:46, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

The following discussion has been moved here from WP:BOTREQ as such a task would require human confirmation and is not appropriate for a bot to do (but is the perfect use case for AWB). Thank you to everyone for your time! :) MolecularPilot ^{🧪️✈️} 05:18, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

I'm still finding a lot of TV show articles following the format "Name of show was" even though MOS:TV has dictated "Name of show is" for ages. Could a bot be made that can find cases where "was" is still being used? Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 19:13, 28 September 2024 (UTC)

@TenPoundHammer: in theory, yes. A lot of variations of the sentence would have to be considered, but it is possible. A few rare false positives may occur if the show's name was changed. This would make it borderline WP:CONTEXTBOT though. But if we make the bot good enough, then we may be able to run it. —usernamekiran (talk) 21:07, 28 September 2024 (UTC)

I have context concerns as well. This might be better for a database report, if only to see the scale/scope of the issue. Primefac (talk) 13:40, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

@Primefac: can we do that then? Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 18:02, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

I mean, I am not personally going to do it, but "we" as a whole/community can certainly do that. Primefac (talk) 19:34, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

@TenPoundHammer try at WP:SQLREQ if you want some SQL code for the DB report. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:08, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

Sounds like a job for WP:AWB, where each change can be verified by a human before it is made. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:30, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

MolecularPilot ^{🧪️✈️} 05:18, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

I wonder, though: If there are really a lot of these, then that's evidence that the community's practice is different from the guideline – and generally, in such cases, it's the guideline that needs updating. If we had an RFC saying something like "Should television shows that have long since ended be described in the present tense? For example, Captain Kangaroo was broadcast from 1955 to 1992. Should the first sentence say that it 'was' a television show, or that it still 'is' a television show?", I'm not certain that people would say that something that stopped being produced and aired 32 years ago is something that we should still describe in the present tense. WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:00, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

From what I gather from past discussions, as well as my own interpretation of MOS:PRESENT, is that if a show still exists then it "is" a program. I think it's worth checking to see how many of these exist before we start worrying about whether practice has drifted from procedure. Primefac (talk) 09:45, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

@MolecularPilot: Could you provide a list of pages where you would like this to be changed? Consider this a QPQ for the AfC bot request you handled yesterday. JJP_Master (she/they) 23:46, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Hi! Omg thank you, you are soooo nice! :) I'm not entirely sure, I was just clerking WP:BOTREQ yesterday and this one seemed better suited to here, you'll have to ask TenPoundHammer. Thanks again! :) MolecularPilot ^{🧪️✈️} 02:34, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

I disagree with the premise that this needs Human verification on a number of levels. At the most basic level, if we currently have pages that are in error (and we do, as I see these being manually changed and fixed quite often), and even if the bot changes all instances to "is" instead of "was", then that is still more correct than having "was". But we don't need to go that far, if a show is lost, it should be under Category:Lost television shows, so the bot can ignore those pages. If the page isn't there, then we have bigger issues than "is". Since this should not be a one-time run, but at max a weekly run, needing a Human instead of a bot to run this seems counter-productive (and most likely not going to happen). Gonnym (talk) 13:19, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

This search shows about 157 articles needing more post-move cleanup, particularly needing Draft changed to lowercase draft in the lead sentence, all alike except for punctuation order. Other fixes are likely needed in the same articles, like I did here (or variations thereon). I'm happy to help develop or review regex patterns, though I'm still a relative amateur at such things. Dicklyon (talk) 21:38, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

 Working ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:04, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

@Dicklyon  Done 157 edits ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:39, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

Many of those have no link to NFL draft. You can link it where you case-corrected it, like I did in the more complete example. Dicklyon (talk) 16:05, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

I didn't know that linking it was also requested, as it was not mentioned that clearly in the first post. Will probably do another run soon ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 10:03, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

I was pretty ambiguous. Happy with whatever you want to do on this. We can discuss offline, or at your talk page, or whatever, if you want to volunteer to do more. Dicklyon (talk) 06:39, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

@Dicklyon Discord? ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:03, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

Negative good buddy. Dicklyon (talk) 07:21, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

Ok then, I'll replace players in the NFL draft with players in the NFL draft Sounds good?~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:37, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

Yes, thanks. But while you're at it, you might see if there are more related fixes to piped links to do, like I did here. Or whatever else you see, if you have time to spend looking for more things to fix. If not, no worries. Dicklyon (talk) 22:40, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

@Dicklyon as I am do not have much knowledge in this subject, if you could provide me with searches, I am ready to do the changes. I hope that is not a problem. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 03:34, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

You can convert these strings to regular expressions, and downcase Draft in all

1. (NFL) [[National Football League Draft|Draft]]
2. The [[NFL Draft#Procedure and rules|draft rules]]
3. separate [[American Football League Draft|Draft]]
4. American Football League Draft|

Dicklyon (talk) 04:22, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

@Bunnypranav: If you're still looking to contribute on this one, the four numbered literal strings above just need to have all occurrences of "Draft" replaced by "draft" (do 3 before 4). Dicklyon (talk) 11:16, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

I can't do it for a while (IRL works), sorry! May tackle it afterwards. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 11:17, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

No problem. Take it easy, prioritizing real life. Dicklyon (talk) 11:21, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Would anyone be able to help add Template:Indigenous peoples in Washington to its respective articles? A few already have it, but most (I think ~70) don't. Thanks! PersusjCP (talk) 20:43, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

To save a click, here is the transclusion check. Primefac (talk) 11:16, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Doing – DreamRimmer (talk) 12:12, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

 Done Edits – DreamRimmer (talk) 12:32, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Appreciate it PersusjCP (talk) 18:10, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

I erevised the nomination for Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2025_January_1#Establishments_in_Iran,_pre-1935, and the category tags need to be updated accordingly. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 20:08, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

LaundryPizza03, you also seem to have missed tagging quite a few of the categories. The easiest thing to do would probably be to revert the edits and retag. — Qwerfjkltalk 21:29, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

I have retargeted the redirect Template:AFC redirect archiveTemplate:AFC redirect archive (previously redirecting to Template:AfC redirect and category archive) to point to Template:AfC redirect archive instead. Each of the 198 transclusions at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:AFC_redirect_archive&limit=500 should be updated to transclude {{AfC redirect and category archive}} instead of {{AFC redirect archive}}. GTrang (talk) 01:18, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

Doing – DreamRimmer (talk) 08:55, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

 Done Edits. – DreamRimmer (talk) 09:48, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! I was legitimately just thinking about doing that when creating the 2025 category archive, checked the history and didn't realize that got fixed today. Appreciate the effort you two! Utopes _{(talk / cont)} 18:12, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

Would someone please do a quick replace run to downcase "Crash" in links found by insource:/\[\[Wall Street Crash of 1929/ (that is, piped or not)? Dicklyon (talk) 09:49, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

Disagree with replacing the piped links as the "offending" text is hidden already. Primefac (talk) 12:42, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

The offense is that it shows up in the maintenance report Wikipedia:Database reports/Linked miscapitalizations. If we don't work on reducing these, the report becomes less useful. But most are not piped; I can work on piped ones by hand if someone doesn't want to do them by AWB. Dicklyon (talk) 22:43, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

Quite a few articles have a two-line table heading where the second line is "Votes" and should be "votes" (e.g. for Total votes, Electoral votes, etc.). The pattern insource:/\<br\>Votes/ finds 97 of these. Some may have other related over-capping, but for many, or most, it's just this one error. Oh, and the br tag should have slash in it. Can someone take on replacing these? Dicklyon (talk) 10:20, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

@Dicklyon: Sure! What do you mean by "related over-capping"? Rusty 🐈 14:44, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

 Done, I just fixed the stuff with the "votes" text. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rusty Cat (talk • contribs) 15:05, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

Thanks! Dicklyon (talk) 22:43, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

I opened Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2025_January_15#Category:Attacks using the Mass CfD tool, but my browser crashed during the tagging process. Please tag all categories that don't have the tag, and notify all users who created a nominated category. There are 1956 categories in total. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 05:28, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

Done – DreamRimmer (talk) 13:29, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

We have about 5000 articles with non-piped (visible) links to over-capitalized census redirects such as 2020 United States Census, and lots more with piped links, accounting for the great majority of links listed in the report Wikipedia:Database reports/Linked miscapitalizations. I expect that at least these will be easy to tackle with AWB. Dicklyon (talk) 02:50, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

Can you provide a diff with an example edit fixing this error? VanIsaac, GHTV ^contr_about 08:16, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

Here's one. And here's a diff showing 2 fixes, one piped and one not. Dicklyon (talk) 17:16, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

I've been working on these issues for some time. I have settings files in AWB that target the capitalized versions of our articles for different countries, and there are a lot of them. Dawnseeker2000 17:25, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

Indeed, I see over 22,000 candidates here, and there are lots more. Perhaps best to divide and conquer, as you look pretty fully occupied? And yes I'd be happy to call and chat. Dicklyon (talk) 17:45, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

That'd be great! Dawnseeker2000 20:22, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

I don't think that is a good search parameter for candidates. If I understand the report correctly, it comes from the link part being incorrectly capitalized, not the text. VanIsaac, GHTV ^contr_about 00:30, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

I'm sure better searches are possible, but that simple one does find text, not piped links (which would also be worth finding and fixing). Dicklyon (talk) 00:55, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

My initial concern with overfitting the criterion is identifying a link to "Census", which can occur as the initial word of a sentence. Initiating a correction in that instance would be problematic, and I don't know if there are others as well. VanIsaac, GHTV ^contr_about 02:37, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Well, yes, that's why we review edits in AWB, isn't it? To catch false positives and write better patterns to avoid them recurring, no? On that particular one, I see a few sentences like "Census day was ...", which seems like a peculiar place to link it, so I'd unlink that and link census somewhere else. Dicklyon (talk) 03:10, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Here's another easy batch worth fixing. Dicklyon (talk) 22:34, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

Here's a good search that finds about 7600 to fix. Just replace the search regex therein with $1 $2 census{{subst:lc:$3}}. It's US only, but could easily be modified for other country censuses. And if you're good with regexes you'll probably see ways to improve it. Dicklyon (talk) 23:14, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

And here's a search finding nearly 1000 different ones, to be replaced with $1 $2 census|$3census]]. Is there a better way to share patterns that doesn't rely on being able to run AWB or JWB? Dicklyon (talk) 23:31, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

Done most (I believe my regex missed some) US censuses from 1790 to 1900 (included). Milo8505 _(talk) 19:07, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

@Milo8505: Thanks for that! Will your process scale to the much larger numbers for more recent censuses? Do you plan to keep at it? Dicklyon (talk) 11:04, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

@[[User:Dicklyon|Dicklyon] No, the process is very much manual and requires attention while using AWB. I will keep at it when I have the time (i.e. not now, due to WP:BUSY). Milo8505 _(talk) 08:14, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

Help! I sent a mass message yesterday to Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/Invites with an incorrect date in the header. I wrote "LA Wildfire edit-a-thons January 26 and February 3" - it should be "LA Wildfire edit-a-thons January 26 and February 2." Can someone correct it? Thank you! JSFarman (talk) 01:27, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

Doing – DreamRimmer (talk) 01:47, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! JSFarman (talk) 01:53, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

 Done Edits – DreamRimmer (talk) 02:44, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

At Talk:Aizkraukle district#Requested move 23 December 2024 and Talk:Minsk district#Requested move 25 December 2024 we have a list of titles where "District" was moved to lowercase "district". And at Talk:Abancay province#Requested move 16 December 2024 where "Province" was moved to lowercase "province". And at Talk:Hunter fracture zone#Requested move 9 December 2024 where "Fracture Zone" was moved to "fracture zone". And at Talk:Buffalo Head terrane#Requested move 14 December 2024 where "Terrane" was moved to "terrane". And at Talk:Dakar region#Requested move 11 December 2024 and Talk:Adrar region#Requested move 11 December 2024 and Talk:Bafatá region#Requested move 11 December 2024 and Talk:Brest region#Requested move 11 December 2024 where "Region" was moved to "region". And Talk:Eurasian plate#Requested move 6 October 2024 where "Plate" was moved to "plate". And more. In all of these types of moves, the title starts with a capitalized proper name, so it will be capitalized in any context, whether sentence initial, heading, mid-sentence, or otherwise. So automating the case-fixing cleanup should be pretty easy; just need to be careful not to apply changes inside file names or ref titles. There are hundreds of article titles, with typically dozens of links to each, and probably lots more in sentences, not linked, so probably a thousand or more edits needed to finish the move cleanups of these. Anyone want to do some? Dicklyon (talk) 11:30, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

If someone wants to start on this, maybe try the first one, search for Latvia and search and replace this regex:

(Aizkraukle|Alūksne|Balvi|Bauska|Cēsis|Daugavpils|Dobele|Gulbene|Jēkabpils|Jelgava|Krāslava|Kuldīga|Liepāja|Limbaži|Ludza|Madona|Ogre|Preiļi|Rēzekne|Riga|Saldus|Talsi|Tukums|Valka|Valmiera|Ventspils) District

with

$1 district

Easy? Dicklyon (talk) 07:55, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

Hi. I just performed two moves from ambiguous titles to unambiguous titles, but I need help with all the links pointing to the ambiguous titles. All the links to Joan, Duchess of Brittany should go to Joan of Penthièvre instead (in many cases it is only a matter of removing the silly pipe because she is normally called Joan of Penthièvre anyway); and the links to Joanna of Flanders should go to Joan of Flanders, Countess of Montfort. After that I can turn the two pages into disambiguation pages. I will be very grateful for your help. Surtsicna (talk) 10:55, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

 Doing... ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 10:58, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

@Surtsicna  Done. Pages that link to "Joanna of Flanders" and Pages that link to "Joan, Duchess of Brittany" each shows only one links, in a hatnote, I hope you can fix that as needed. Small note, I used User:BilledMammal/Move+ retarget links, which was much easier than setting up AWB. It is also easier to use, so you can try it out yourself the next time you may need this. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 11:14, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

This was incredibly fast! Thank you! I have been editing Wikipedia for 16 years and have never used such tools. It may be time that I learn :) Surtsicna (talk) 11:19, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

[[Charlie Monk]] -> [[Charlie Monk (racer)|Charlie Monk]] Dab cleanup following creation of Charlie Monk (broadcaster). Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 18:57, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

 Done Dawnseeker2000 20:02, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

Please add {{Aircraft first flown in year category header}} to all subcats of Category:Aircraft by year of first flight, replacing current content. Thanks. Jeeputer ^Talk 19:10, 29 January 2025 (UTC)

This is tested on Category:Aircraft first flown in 1891. Jeeputer ^Talk 19:23, 29 January 2025 (UTC)

@Jeeputer:  Done! GoingBatty (talk) 07:08, 30 January 2025 (UTC)

We get a lot of auto-generated refs from the Trove newspaper archive, but it capitalizes every word in the newspaper names, including "And". I've fixed at least a hundred of these. Fixing just these two will take several hundred edits:

• Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay And Burnett Advertiser to Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser
• Queensland Times, Ipswich Herald And General Advertiser to Queensland Times, Ipswich Herald and General Advertiser

So that's a quick task for AWB. Going forward, it would be useful if someone would do a run now and then to fix those and all these others (and whichever other ones we might add to the list on discovering them:

• Australian Town And Country Journal to Australian Town and Country Journal
• Clarence And Richmond Examiner And New England Advertiser to Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser
• Hobart Town Gazette And Van Diemen's Land Advertiser to Hobart Town Gazette and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser
• Illustrated Sydney News And New South Wales Agriculturalist And Grazier to Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier
• Northern Territory Times And Gazette to Northern Territory Times and Gazette
• Port Phillip Patriot And Melbourne Advertiser to Port Phillip Patriot and Melbourne Advertiser
• South Bourke And Mornington Journal to South Bourke and Mornington Journal
• South Coast Times And Wollongong Argus to South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus
• The Armidale Express And New England General Advertiser to The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser
• The Inquirer And Commercial News to The Inquirer and Commercial News
• The Scrutineer And Berrima District Press to The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press
• The Sydney Gazette And New South Wales Advertiser to The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser
• The Sydney Mail And New South Wales Advertiser to The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser

In all these the "And" (or two "And"s in couple of them) should be replaced by "and", whether the text is in a link or not. I've linked them here to demonstrate that links won't go red with these changes. Dicklyon (talk) 10:59, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

Let me take a look at this...  Working on the first two papers. Geardona (talk to me?) 14:25, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

Should be  Done, let me know if anything else crops up Geardona (talk to me?) 15:14, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

@Geardona: Thanks! That's got most of them. Searching Wikipedia:Database reports/Linked miscapitalizations for " And", I see 4 that still have incoming links. Looks like between us we missed a couple:

• Queensland Times, Ipswich Herald And General Advertiser still has 1 incoming link (or more probably, you fixed them all and one new one got added)
• The Sydney Gazette And New South Wales Advertiser still has 2; looks like you just missed it (I don't see it at your settings)

And it seems I failed to list these 2 with one incoming link each:

• Toowoomba Chronicle And Darling Downs Gazette
• Toowoomba Chronicle And Darling Downs General Advertiser

I can fix those by hand, but if you're developing AWB settings that should be able to find and fix these somewhat automatically, you might want to look at these before I make them disappear. Probably there are also more that I don't see right now, as I'm just looking at ones that currently have incoming links. Dicklyon (talk) 12:27, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

Fixing now! and yes, I am making a template for this project. Geardona (talk to me?) 15:51, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

@Certes and Geardona: I see that Certes has a list with a ton more of these Trove newspapers, at User:Certes/Trove/full. Maybe that can be mined to generalize Geardona's fixer settings. Dicklyon (talk) 11:01, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

There's also a much bigger generalization of this to redirects with " And " in them. My Quarry query has found over 5000 of them, listed at User:Dicklyon/And. Some of these also have others words over-capitalized (typically "Of", "The", and such). From a quick sample, I'd say most do not have any incoming links, which is good. To find ones that do, it would be useful if each was tagged as "R from miscapitalization". Dicklyon (talk) 10:51, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

If an AWB run or genfix is happening, it could also usefully fix certain wikilinks. Trove offers a canned citation template, but it often links to a different newspaper, to an unrelated topic or to a disambiguation page. For example, the wikitext Trove offers for citing id 505 links to Sunday Times (a UK newspaper) rather than The Sunday Times (Sydney). Id 499 links to Referee, enlightening the reader about sporting umpires, rather than The Referee (newspaper). Id 248 links to dab Record rather than The Record (Melbourne). A list of the more common errors is in User:Certes/Trove. Such links added to Wikipedia before June 2024 have almost all been fixed, but new ones will be appearing and I am not aware of any methodical process to catch them. Certes (talk) 17:32, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

@Dicklyon, my current method for generating the list of fixes is very hard to scale to multiple pages. Could I get a version of https://quarry.wmcloud.org/query/89960 with all of the instances of the problem redirects occurring in plaintext and links? (for example, instead of showing Ashmore And Cartier Islands (the page), it would give me a list of pages that have Ashmore And Cartier Islands (the phrase) on them, etc for all 5057 pages).

As for @Certes, my concern with running any kind of automated or semi-automated editor on that dataset is the same ambiguity that is the problem in the first place, if there is any way to find only the problematic citations, that would work fine. (I hope this isn't misunderstanding the request)

Let me know if none of this makes sense Geardona (talk to me?) 17:53, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

I wonder if we could convince the good people at Trove to provide actual good wikilinks, using Certes's table.

I don't know a way to collect all the pages that contain all these strings, other than generating one at a time in JWB. But someone who is good with scripting might be able to augment JWB or AWB to take a list of searches to generate from. Dicklyon (talk) 22:33, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

I’ve got an idea to remedy this, however it might not work. (I’m going to try to use this page to skip the UI getting in the way) Geardona (talk to me?) 23:24, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

I've tried asking Trove, who politely acknowledged my request but hadn't changed anything last time I looked. The erroneous links are in very specific strings. A typical example newspaper article is here. Click the bookmark icon with hover text "Cite" in the left column, then scroll down to "Wikipedia citation" to see {{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article149498474 |title=SHIPPING. |newspaper=[[Daily Telegraph]] |volume=III, |issue=71 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=18 June 1883 |accessdate=18 January 2025 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}, which our editors copy verbatim. Sadly, this doesn't contain the Trove ID which would distinguish it from other historic Australian papers called Daily Telegraph but the location usually provides a distinctive enough pattern, e.g. \{\{cite news \|url=http://nla\.gov\.au/nla\.news-article[^}]*\|newspaper=\[\[Daily Telegraph\]\][^}]* \|location=Tasmania, Australia[^}]* \|via=National Library of Australia\}\}. In a few awkward cases, the same vague location was used for two distinct papers with different articles. Those require checking the date but are edge cases. It's basically what I used to do manually each day as and when the errors appeared. Certes (talk) 23:33, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

@Geardona: There are a few more to do now, esp. a handful of links to Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay And Burnett Advertiser, and few others listed at Wikipedia:Database reports/Linked miscapitalizations. Dicklyon (talk) 05:51, 1 February 2025 (UTC)

Hello, I was pointed here for this task from Wikipedia:Bot requests, there is a need to remove leading and trailing spaces from the non-breaking space character ( ). If a space exists then you end up with 2 spaces in the rendered text and it negates the purpose of having a non-breaking space as a break can be made between the space and the non-breaking space. You should ignore the cases where a non-breaking space is used as a template parameter or a cell entry in a table. Keith D (talk) 17:04, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

This request seems wrongheaded on its face. The insertion of NBSP between spaces is the only way to have the wikitext interpreter render multiple spaces when needed, and without viewing the full page in a standard browser window, you would be unable to even make any sort of judgement about whether this might be a possibility, making it incompatible with standard operation in the AWB interface. I'm not even sure you could generate a target list sans a full database dump. This is exactly the sort of unthoughtful fiddling - making assumptions that standard workarounds are somehow errors - that pisses off editors, so I'd withdraw the request. VanIsaac, GHTV ^contr_about 04:30, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

OK I will withdraw this, but there is a need to clean-up such things as £3   which causes a problem of having 2 spaces and negates the use of the non-breaking space. Keith D (talk) 11:30, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

This is not a bad idea, but the request above is underspecified at best. What are the exact situations in which this construction is allowed, and in what situations is it not allowed? Figuring out which instances should be fixed, and how, and which should not, will probably require human judgement in many cases. In many cases, the right answer is to remove the nbsp, not the space. Here's a search in article space that currently returns 17,649 articles, some of which are probably false positives that should not be modified. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:17, 8 February 2025 (UTC)

It has been decided this infobox should be deleted after converting its transclusions. As a part of the conversion, the category (Category:Cyrillic letters) and the short description ("Cyrillic letter") transcluded from the infobox should be added to articles that transcludes the template. Preferably, SD should not be added to articles that already have one, and the category should not be added to pages that are already in one of its subcats (as it is non-diffusing). Janhrach (talk) 20:54, 7 February 2025 (UTC)

 Doing... —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 12:20, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

@Janhrach: Added Category:Cyrillic letters and short descriptions to all, except Cyrillic script, Cyrillic alphabets, Cyrillic digraphs, Cyrillic script in Unicode, Romanian Cyrillic alphabet (articles about alphabets, not just letters), Modifier letter apostrophe, Modifier letter double apostrophe (articles about sounds in several languages, not Cyrillic letters), and Yae (Cyrillic) (SD and html comment says it is "non-Cyrillic"?) I didn't edit drafts and userspace drafts, and limited to mainspace only. Is there anything else I need to do? —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 15:44, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

Thank you very much. Could you (or anybody else) please replace tranclusions of {{Infobox Cyrillic letter}} (and of all redirects to that template) without any non-empty parameters with tranclusions of {{Cyrillic alphabet sidebar}}? Thank you. Janhrach (talk) 19:02, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

Will there not be a corresponding infobox as per the TFD? —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 13:36, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

I am sorry, I withdraw my request. I wanted to handle tranclusions of {{Infobox Cyrillic letter}} without any parameters (with empty parameters treated as if they weren't there; hence I used the potentially unclear wording "tranclusions [...] without any non-empty parameters") separately, but it is not necessary. Janhrach (talk) 17:08, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

Sure. —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 18:45, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

I would like to request an AWB run to convert transclusions of {{Infobox Cyrillic letter}} to {{Infobox grapheme}} and {{Cyrillic alphabet sidebar}}. I have already done such conversions (semi-)manually by replacing {{Infobox Cyrillic letter|[...]}} with {{subst:User:Janhrach/Infobox Cyrillic letter|[...]}}. I think this method could be used to convert the rest, with help of AWB.

I have spotted some drawbacks, but I think I have handled them sufficiently. The title and audio params of Infobox_Cyrillic_letter are not supported by Infobox_grapheme; however, these appear to be unused (tracking categories: Category:Pages using Template:Infobox Cyrillic letter with param audio, Category:Pages using Template:Infobox Cyrillic letter with param title). There is no simple way to fill the letter param of Infobox_grapheme, and also the derived param is not converted into the proper format for fam1. The former drawback causes visible quirks only when the param derived is present; I have manually converted all transclusions containing derived and ensured the results are good. (See Category:Pages using Template:Infobox Cyrillic letter with param derived. The two drafts remain there because the characters in question are not in Unicode, and I am unsure if images are OK to be added to |letter=. Anyway, these are not going to be accepted because of unnotability.)

So I think this ready to be converted. Thank you very much for your help. Janhrach (talk) 17:00, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

 Doing... VanIsaac, GHTV ^contr_about 19:09, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

and  Done. The majority of this task involved replacing one of several redirects to the target template, including {{Cyrillic navbox}}, {{Cyrillic alphabet navbox}}, and {{Cyrillic script navbox}}. Those redirects should be deleted along with the target template. Also, there were several instances where the deleted template was called without any parameters, and I replaced those directly with {{Cyrillic alphabet sidebar}}. VanIsaac, GHTV ^contr_about 20:06, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

Many thanks. Janhrach (talk) 15:29, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

Vanisaac, I still see about 30 transclusions of the template, which is preventing deletion. Primefac (talk) 16:25, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

I assume that this is intentional, because these are in the User or Draft namespaces. I think the best thing to do is simply to remove the template transclusions – I think we should minimize messing with others' userspace, and as for the drafts, these are not going to be accepted because of unnotability, so we should not waste time on them. Janhrach (talk) 16:45, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

I think that's a rather flawed line of reasoning. If the template is already being replaced, why not just replace it everywhere? That way the person using the original template isn't struggling to figure out how to replace it themselves after it is removed/deleted. Helping another user isn't "messing with" their draft. Primefac (talk) 16:57, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

Well, not all of the userspace pages are drafts. Some just put it on their user pages, or on non-draft subpages, e.g. User:Soap/interesting climates. Some of the editors are gone, probably forever. Janhrach (talk) 17:12, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

So? Who cares? If a template needs replacing, it should be replaced. It shouldn't matter if it's on a live article, a user sandbox, or the user page of someone who hasn't edited in 20 years. Primefac (talk) 17:17, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

Okay, I got the ones in user and draft namespaces. VanIsaac, GHTV ^contr_about 18:08, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

Cheers, ta. Primefac (talk) 18:57, 17 February 2025 (UTC)