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Carl Belew

Carl Belew -> [[Carl Belew]] Introduce wikilinks now that he has an article. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 07:53, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

  Doing... Adamiow (talk) 11:12, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
  Done Adamiow (talk) 11:25, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

Trial citation style conversion

I asserted on a talk page that "Converting [the Breast cancer awareness] article to use shortened footnotes would be very easy and could even be accomplished in one edit by asking an expert in the use of regular expressions". I went on to add that "[e]ach occurrence of a reference, e.g. (King 2006, page 2), would be replaced by an {{sfn}} template, giving e.g. {{sfn|King|2006|p=2}}". How true is my assertion? If such a conversion is very easy as I assert, would an "AWB expert" consider running a trial conversion of Breast cancer awareness to a sub-page of mine (not yet to the article itself) to help illustrate the better visibility of multiple citations to the same author? --Senra (talk) 14:48, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

  Doing... GoingBatty (talk) 15:52, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
  Done, although due to the different varieties of references it took more than one edit to get it all right. See User:Senra/Breast cancer awareness. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 16:29, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
Much appreciated --Senra (talk) 17:16, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

Consensus reached

Please modify Breast cancer awareness to change the citation style to shortened footnotes using {{sfn}} as consensus has been reached. We are aware it is the holidays so there is no rush whatsoever for this --Senra (talk) 00:51, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

  Done - just copied the version in your userspace to the article. GoingBatty (talk) 04:36, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
There have been edits since the trial version so I have raised a task at User talk:Charles35#Breast cancer awareness citation changes. Thank you for your help. Much appreciated --Senra (talk) 14:12, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

John Lloyd Miller

John Lloyd Miller -> [[John Lloyd Miller]] Add wiklinks since many pages mention him but don't link to him. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 22:14, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

  Doing... Chris the speller yack 17:38, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
  Done. Chris the speller yack 18:00, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
This tool is also helpful! --Tito Dutta (talk) 20:52, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
You're right. And it's a lot of fun. Thanks! Chris the speller yack 00:34, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

McGehee

Can I please have someone introduce wikilinks for Vicky McGehee (i.e. Vicky McGehee -> [[Vicky McGehee]])? Thanks. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 03:42, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

  Doing... Chris the speller yack 04:09, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
  Done. Chris the speller yack 04:37, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

Wikiproject assessment

WikiProject Environment now has the importance parameter activated. The articles from Talk:1979 in the environment trough to Talk:2016 in the environment all need an update with "{{WikiProject Environment|class=list|importance=low}}". Cheers. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 03:42, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

  •   Done manually -- Cheers, Riley 04:18, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
Gosh! You're keen! I stated doing it but it was too much for me. Thanks. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 04:20, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
Any time! :) -- Cheers, Riley 04:27, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Billy Kirsch

Please add wikilinks for Billy Kirsch (i.e., Billy Kirsch -> [[Billy Kirsch]]). Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 01:55, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

  •   Doing manually... -- Cheers, Riley 02:25, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
  Done manually [1]. -- Cheers, Riley 02:38, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

filmgola.com

Please remove all references containing links to filmgola.com, which were added during a massive spamming campaign. Thank you. Someguy1221 (talk) 02:21, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

  Done. Special:LinkSearch/*.filmgola.com. Braincricket (talk) 03:06, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
Oh, and I also removed the sentences for which filmgola.com was the only reference. Braincricket (talk) 03:10, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Tony Mullins

Tony Mullins -> [[Tony Mullins]] Introduce wikilinks now that he has an article. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 01:46, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

  Doing... GoingBatty (talk) 02:03, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
  Done - added wikilinks to 41 articles, skipped 19 (most of which refer to a horse trainer with the same name). GoingBatty (talk) 02:27, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Infobox legislation: parameter names updated

The parameter names used in {{Infobox legislation}} have had underscores added to them. Could you please update all articles that use this infobox? The parameters that require updating are the following: 

shorttitle        → short_title
parliament        → legislature
longtitle         → long_title
territorialextent → territorial_extent
enactedby         → enacted_by
dateenacted       → date_enacted
datepassed        → date_passed
dateassented      → date_assented
royalassent       → royal_assent
datesigned        → date_signed
datecommenced     → date_commenced
dateofexpiry      → date_of_expiry
daterepealed      → date_repealed
administeredby    → administered_by
billcitation      → bill_citation
billdate          → bill_date
introducedby      → introduced_by
1streading        → 1st_reading
2ndreading        → 2nd_reading
3rdreading        → 3rd_reading
whitepaper        → white_paper
committeereport   → committee_report

Thanks! — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 18:28, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

I'm not familiar with this infobox. Do the old parameters still work? If so, would this be considered a cosmetic change that doesn't change how the article is displayed to the reader, which could violate the Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser#Rules of use? If the old parameters do not work anymore, could you please provide more information? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 20:11, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
The old parameters still work. -- Cheers, Riley 20:35, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
I intend to remove all the old parameters from the template to reduce its size and simplify the code. — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 06:03, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
  •   Done then. -- Cheers, Riley 11:56, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
Brilliant! Thanks very much. — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 18:29, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, I missed a few: 

dateexpiry   → date_of_expiry
commencement → date_commenced
related      → related_legislation

Thanks. — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 18:40, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Anyone? — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 12:36, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
  Done Technical 13 (talk) 18:53, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
Great, thanks very much! — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 15:00, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

Problems with signatures that have open tags

I would appreciate it if someone could review the discussion currently going on at User talk:AutomaticStrikeout/signature history and tell me if it would be possible to fix the problem of open tags in some of my old signatures using AWB. AutomaticStrikeout (T • C • Sign AAPT) 15:46, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

  • Oppose fixing; they aren't causing any harm, and this looks like would in all likelihood be just a waste of edits. Learn from the mistake, yes, but don't worry about sweeping up the (little) mess from prior. —Theopolisme (talk) 21:56, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
  • I have some previous revisions of my signature that were offensive to some people that I have thought about a mass cleanup to match my current signature and could sweep his up at the same time. I'd rather see it all tidied up now than have it cause a problem later and wonder why. Also, Theopolisme, I'm assuming that you do realize that the font element is deprecated in HTML 4.0 Transitional, invalid in HTML 4.0 Strict, and not part of HTML5 and you could make your current signature compliant by changing:
    —'''[[User:Theopolisme|<font color=#232323>Theopolisme</font>]] <font color=#4F4F4F>([[User talk:Theopolisme|<font color=#4F4F4F>talk</font>]])</font>'''
    to:
    —'''[[User:Theopolisme|<span style="color:#232323;">Theopolisme</span>]] <span style="color:#4F4F4F;">([[User talk:Theopolisme|<span style="color:#4F4F4F;">talk</span>]])</span>'''
    right? invalid HTML is a peeve of mine, just ignore me if you don't want to change your signature. I would still like to know if it is okay for me to go through and fix AS's and my old non-compliant signatures. Thanks Technical 13 (talk) 00:58, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for pointing that out! I've fixed my signature. Theopolisme (talk) 11:24, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
Don't feel too bad. Edit Wikipedia talk:Protected Page Editor/Tally and you will see some truly atrocious HTML coding on signatures. LOL Makes me laugh. ;) Anyways, back to the topic at hand, would it be alright if I used my newly gained AWB super powers to fulfill this request and clean up my old signatures at the same time, or would that be "abuse of the semi-bot"? Technical 13 (talk) 12:14, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

{{Expert-subject-multiple}} replacement

Task request – replace transclusions of {{Expert-subject-multiple}} by substituting {{subst:Expert-subject-multiple/sandbox}}. Per TfD, {{Expert-subject-multiple}} has been merged into {{Expert-subject}} and uses of the former can now be replaced. {{Expert-subject-multiple/sandbox}} has been set up to substitute in the correct template with correct parameters filled out (testcase), so the only change needed is {{Expert-subject-multiple → {{subst:Expert-subject-multiple/sandbox. All existing parameters in the template calls should be left as-is. Thanks, — Bility (talk) 20:27, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

  Done — Bility (talk) 08:24, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Replacement: USA relief → USA | relief = 1

Quite similar to the request above: there are over 1,000 articles that transclude Template:Location map USA relief while they should use the standard Template:Location map USA; all of them seems to be articles on protected areas.

The following replacement should take place in all pages that use {{infobox protected area}}: 

| map = USA relief → | map = USA | relief = 1

Could anybody with AWB perform the job? Thank you in advance! Michael! (talk) 15:24, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

I would be happy to once I complete the {{Out of date}} replacement task above if no-one beats me to it. Technical 13 (talk) 15:36, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
Warning: since this results in no visible change on the rendered page, it would seem to violate AWB's instructions about insignificant edits. Perhaps you should make a bot request. Chris the speller yack 15:51, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
I was going to batch this in with the other two I said I would do once I finish up the big "Update" template one. I'll also process this with other general fixes and so-forth. I've found that the appearance ends up getting changed when all gen fixes (including MOS and whatnot) are applied 95% of the time. The "few" that don't have something else changed, I'll go back and clean up manually. I don't mind doing a little wikignome cleanup after for the ones that don't "qualify". Technical 13 (talk) 16:01, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
@Technical 13: thank you in advance for your help!
@Chris the speller: I'm not sure I understand the problem. These many minor changes have to be performed first, in order to clear up and standardize the usage of location maps. Afterwards, USA relief and Switzerland relief could be removed/merged, since they are obsolete to the standard USA and Switzerland, which have greater functionality. Michael! (talk) 17:48, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
WP:AWB says "Do not make insignificant or inconsequential edits. An edit that has no noticeable effect on the rendered page is generally considered an insignificant edit." The rule is clear as a bell. It makes no difference how noble the project is. I did a number of these where I could also make a visible change, such as supplying a missing space after a comma, or fixing punctuation, but it was fairly slow going. Chris the speller yack 00:23, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

{{Out of date}} replacement

Task request – replace transclusions of {{Out of date}} (including redirects {{Outofdate}}, {{Outdated}} and {{Out-of-date}}) with {{Update|inaccurate=yes}}. Per TfD, {{Out of date}} has been merged into {{Update}} and uses of the former can now be replaced. Note that other parameters (such as |date= or |talksection=) should not be replaced, just the template name: {{Out of date → {{Update|inaccurate=yes. — Bility (talk) 18:40, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

  Doing... Technical 13 (talk) 19:19, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
I've completed about 20% of my first pass. Placing on hold while I eat supper, watch some tv, go to bed, sleep... Will pick back up on it tomorrow. I'm finding a regex search of \{\{Out( |-|_)?(of)?( |-|_)?date(d)? is working well other than the ones that are hiding inside of {{Multiple issues}} as a parameter and not as a template. I'll hunt those down and fix them on my second pass. Technical 13 (talk) 23:59, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
  Doing... Technical 13 (talk) 11:17, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
I added a second ReGex search and replace and started the second pass. About 40% done of whole thing. Bed time. Should be able to finish this up by Monday or Tuesday at the latest. Technical 13 (talk) 01:44, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
  Doing... Technical 13 (talk) 11:29, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
I also noticed that Twinkle still has {{Out of date}} in the tag module, and I've request it be removed. Just a note... Technical 13 (talk) 16:52, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
Bed time. Should be able to finish this up tomorrow. Technical 13 (talk) 01:05, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
Been   Doing... again since about 12:00, 13 May 2013 (UTC) -- Technical 13 (talk)
  •   Done a preliminary pass. I'm calling it a night. I'll pull up a new list and run through whatever is left (there are some that are being called in unusual ways) and whatever is new. The rest I'll have to go through one at a time and figure out why my ReGex missed it. Technical 13 (talk) 23:05, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
I'm fixing the ones where {{multiple issues}} contains the old style |out of date= by changing it to {{Update|inaccurate=yes}} and converting all the other parameters to the new style. That will take care of about 100 articles. GoingBatty (talk) 00:07, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
I already got a bunch of those... I was going to work up a ReGex tomorrow to get the rest. :) Technical 13 (talk) 00:31, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
Okay, I've reworked some of my ReGex and added a new section and whatnot and unchecked some of the stuff checked by default in the "skip" tab and now I'm picking up the rest of them... There are about 1500 on my list and I should be able to clean them up within a week...
  Doing... Technical 13 (talk) 11:26, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
  Done Technical 13 (talk) 14:04, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

{{CanParlbio}} parameter addition

Task request – add |nolist=yes to instances of {{CanParlbio}} inside <ref>...</ref> tags. A list of articles transcluding {{CanParlbio}} inside refs can be found at User:Bility/cleanup. Note that uses of {{CanParlbio}} outside of refs, e.g. in an "External links" section, should be left as-is. An example replacement:

<ref>{{CanParlbio|ID=28f27f0b-b175-49c4-9380-a0beed2adae5|2=John Flaws Reid}} Retrieved 16 Mar 2012.</ref> →
<ref>{{CanParlbio|ID=28f27f0b-b175-49c4-9380-a0beed2adae5|2=John Flaws Reid|nolist=yes}} Retrieved 16 Mar 2012.</ref>

Thanks, — Bility (talk) 20:18, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

Hello, could you please justify this? I see no such parameter in the source of the template, and it also isn't on the documentation page. Thanks.  Hazard-SJ  ✈  21:19, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
See Template talk:CanParlbio#Merge Template:MPLinksCA. -- John of Reading (talk) 21:25, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
This would be in preparation of syncing to the sandbox, at which time the parameter would output a link with no list markup. There are currently at least a few hundred instances of this template being used to try and create a list of links, but are currently broken until this template is synced with the sandbox code. — Bility (talk) 21:43, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
OK, thanks. I could do this if no one beats me to is (going offline now).  Hazard-SJ  ✈  02:26, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
Sorry for the delay, it seems one of my plans to directly parse the ref tags and add the parameters has been "foiled" so far, so I'll go ahead and try without that.  Hazard-SJ  ✈  03:09, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
  Done  Hazard-SJ  ✈  02:42, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
Thanks! — Bility (talk) 17:17, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

New location for X!'s edit counter

I image all on-wiki instances of //toolserver.org/~tparis/count/index.php? should be changed to //tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/pcount/index.php?, as a result of the move. I'd love to do it, but AWB isn't working on my virtual version of XP (I'm waiting for the Mac version...). Ignatzmice•talk 22:12, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

I see the new link on the bottom of Special:Contributions, but it doesn't seem to be working for me. GoingBatty (talk) 13:54, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
Nor me, but we do have a lot of edits. I've mentioned this at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 120#Toolserver issues, and cyberpower678 (talk · contribs) says he is looking in to it. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:01, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
OK, it's working for me now (except for deleted edits, but I'm sure that will get fixed at some point), so back to the original question.
I requested a change to Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/User tabs on this talk page. Do you think we should be changing user pages? Other than user pages, where else would this old link be found? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 02:52, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
Mostly people's userpages, I admit (and I expect lots of those would by fixed by updating all the userboxen), but some old Teahouse, VPT, etc. archives as well. Maybe it's not that big of a deal. shrugs Ignatzmice•talk 03:12, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
Can User:TParis just make a soft redirect from the old tool URL or something? Theopolisme (talk) 03:39, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
It appears to me that the userboxes each require you to input a number of edits. Do you see any that specifically link to //toolserver.org/~tparis/count/index.php? GoingBatty (talk) 04:06, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
There were a few, but two had been changed and I just did the other two. As you can see, though, it's still showing up on lots of pages. Maybe that'll fade as a few hours? Or something? But it is also linked to from non-userboxes on some of those pages, I can see. Ignatzmice•talk 11:48, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
  • TParis can't make a soft redirect, because the toolserver tool is used crosswiki, and Wikimedia labs doesn't seem to have working support for s7 atm. Snowolf How can I help? 12:33, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
  • Ah, okay, that makes sense. Thanks for clarifying! Theopolisme (talk) 16:03, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

John Barlow Jarvis

Please replace John Barlow Jarvis with [[John Barlow Jarvis]]. Introduce wikilinks now that he has an article. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 20:19, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

  Doing... HueSatLum 22:32, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
  Done...I think. HueSatLum 00:15, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

Replacement: Switzerland relief → Switzerland

There are over 1,000 articles that still transclude the Template:Location map Switzerland relief while they should use the standard Template:Location map Switzerland. It seems to be all articles on mountains.

What has to be done is pretty straightforward: all pages that use {{infobox mountain}} or {{infobox mountain pass}} (perhaps also {{infobox mountain range}} and {{infobox glacier}}) should have the following changed: 

| map = Switzerland relief → | map = Switzerland

Could anybody with AWB help me and perform the job? Thank you in advance! Michael! (talk) 12:51, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

I would be happy to once I complete the {{Out of date}} replacement task above if no-one beats me to it. Technical 13 (talk) 15:36, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
Was there any discussion about this?  Hazard-SJ  ✈  03:25, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
Templates are not normally orphaned until discussed at WP:TFD or another suitable location. DavidLeighEllis (talk) 22:02, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Licenses

The following images: [http://tools.wmflabs.org/catscan2/catscan2.php?categories=All+non-free+media&negcats=Non-free+images+for+NFUR+review%0D%0ANon-free+images+with+NFUR+stated%0D%0AWikipedia+files+with+unknown+source%0D%0AAll+free+media&ns%5B6%5D=1&templates_any=Non-free+use+rationale+logo%0D%0Alogo+fur&templates_no=db-i3%0D%0Adi-orphaned+fair+use%0D%0ANon-free+Mozilla+logo%0D%0APD-ineligible-USonly%0D%0AFree+in+US+media%0D%0ANon-free+Hong+Kong+Government&sortby=uploaddate&ext_image_data=1&file_usage_data=1&doit=1 - Needs {{Non-free logo}} adding.

On a similar note - http://tools.wmflabs.org/catscan2/catscan2.php?categories=All+non-free+media&negcats=Non-free+images+for+NFUR+review%0D%0ANon-free+images+with+NFUR+stated%0D%0AWikipedia+files+with+unknown+source%0D%0AAll+free+media&ns%5B6%5D=1&templates_any=Non-free+use+rationale+album+cover%0D%0Aalbum+cover+fur&templates_no=db-i3%0D%0Adi-orphaned+fair+use%0D%0ANon-free+Mozilla+logo%0D%0APD-ineligible-USonly%0D%0AFree+in+US+media%0D%0ANon-free+Hong+Kong+Government&sortby=uploaddate&ext_image_data=1&file_usage_data=1&doit=1 require {{Non-free album cover}} adding.

The full list of absolutely everything needing a suitable license is : http://tools.wmflabs.org/catscan2/catscan2.php?categories=All+non-free+media&negcats=Non-free+images+for+NFUR+review%0D%0ANon-free+images+with+NFUR+stated%0D%0AWikipedia+files+with+unknown+source%0D%0AAll+free+media&ns%5B6%5D=1&templates_any=Non-free+use+rationale%0D%0ANon-free+use+rationale+2&templates_no=db-i3%0D%0Adi-orphaned+fair+use%0D%0ANon-free+Mozilla+logo%0D%0APD-ineligible-USonly%0D%0AFree+in+US+media%0D%0ANon-free+Hong+Kong+Government&sortby=uploaddate&ext_image_data=1&file_usage_data=1&doit=1

But may require filtering.. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 18:09, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

  • I could file a bot request to help out with these if you'd like.  Hazard-SJ  ✈  04:35, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

KCMG

Please could some kind person replace the 330-some mainspace occurrences of [[KCMG]] with [[Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George|KCMG]]

Rationale: KCMG is a long-standing redirect to Order of St Michael and St George. But recently someone over-wrote the redirect with an article about the Hong Kong firm KC Motorgroup Ltd (KCMG). That article was promptly deleted for copyright infringement and I've restored the redirect, but I expect that the over-writer will be back, so I suggest pre-emptively changing the existing links to KCMG (all of which, as far as I can see, refer to people with the knighthood). A link to "Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George" explains the acronym on mouse-over, and redirects to "Order of St Michael and St George".
Thanks! Stanning (talk) 08:00, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

  Comment: I'm not sure about this one. Changing it to link to Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George which is a redirect to Order of St Michael and St George seems like a bad idea creating that many double redirects... I wouldn't be opposed, however, to changing the links to all point to KCMG if that would be acceptable to the requester. Technical 13 (talk) 11:49, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
  Remark: It wouldn't be creating double redirects: it would be replacing links to a redirect with links to another, better redirect, pointing to the same article. The purpose of the code [[Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George|KCMG]] is that you see the text KCMG, when you move your mouse over the text you get a box showing what the acronym means, and when you click on it you go to a full article. See Hughie Edwards for a good example: mouse-over each of his post-nominals (including KCMG) and you'll see how this is used. Stanning (talk) 19:22, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
In reply to this, what would be the sense of replacing a redirect link with another redirect link? It'd be better to use the direct link to the page. Also, see WP:NOTBROKEN. I don't think this should be done.  Hazard-SJ  ✈  02:35, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
I've already explained why this makes sense. The existing redirect KPMG isn't broken now, but it was broken this week by an unrelated article being posted over it; that article was deeted for copyright infringement, but I expect the poster to be back with an altered article - why not? The restored redirect has been marked {{R with possibilities}}, reasonably because it's in obvious danger of being overwritten again; hence the proposal for a pre-emptive change
I've also explained above why an alternative redirect that provides a meaningful 'tooltip' on mouse-over is better than a direct link to the relevant page.
But never mind; I can see that somehow this proposal isn't making sense to people. Forget it. Stanning (talk) 07:49, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
  • @Stanning and Hazard-SJ: I'm wondering if you've both overlooked what my proposal was. My proposal is to replace the current links to [[KCMG]] to be links to [[Order of St Michael and St George|{{Abbr|KCMG|Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George}}]] which looks like KCMG so that the link reads "KCMG", points to Order of St Michael and St George (direct link), and still shows "Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George" on mouse-over. These are the three issues I saw, and this proposal fixes them all. Technical 13 (talk) 11:40, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
  • @Technical 13: Yes, I'm sorry, I had overlooked what your proposal was. I wasn't aware of the abbr template - nor, I'm ashamed to say, of the HTML abbr tag which the template uses - so I didn't understand what you meant at first. That indeed fixes the issues and I'd be very glad if you'd implement it. Many thanks! Stanning (talk) 12:12, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
    •   Doing... Technical 13 (talk) 15:19, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
      • @Technical 13: I hope you're aware that WP:NOTBROKEN explicitly lists "redirects can indicate possible future articles" as a reasons not to change (bypass) redirects. That's the only issue I have.  Hazard-SJ  ✈  16:35, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
        • Hazard-SJ, due to the high likelihood of the article changing (KCMG is an acronym, which means it is likely to become a disambiguation, and will end up causing about 700 double redirects, I see this as being broken in which WP:NOTBROKEN does not apply. Technical 13 (talk) 17:20, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period

I just stumbled across this redirect and have found that it was moved to Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (notice lowercase p) in May 2012. However, there seem to be about 412 pages that link to this redirect. Would someone be able to bulk fix all these links to make them point to the intended page? Thanks! -- (T) Numbermaniac (C) 07:37, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Removal

Is there any way that AWB can remove all instances of the |slogan= field from transclusions of {{Infobox company}}? I'm still finding a lot of instances of the template using that parameter — it shouldn't be there, since it's no longer supported. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 06:19, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

I would be happy to once I complete the {{Out of date}} replacement task above if no-one beats me to it. Technical 13 (talk) 15:36, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
I'd love to do this, but before starting, I read in one of the discussions that "caption" could have been used. Should I just change the parameter name to caption where there isn't already a "caption", and just remove in all other occurrences, or should I just remove regardless of caption? There are currently ~48968 transclusions of the template.  Hazard-SJ  ✈  03:36, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
@TenPoundHammer: ↑  Hazard-SJ  ✈  03:21, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
I would say change them to caption just in case. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 16:57, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
Hazard-SJ are you doing? Technical 13 (talk) 11:55, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
Yes, I'll do it tomorrow.  Hazard-SJ  ✈  04:34, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
Just an update, I think I'll end up taking this through a BRFA since I've generated 820+ instances of this so far (and counting).  Hazard-SJ  ✈  06:02, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
BRFA  Hazard-SJ  ✈  21:06, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

Auto rename of article title

We're changing to a more phonetic spelling of country names on wiki-cy. I can do that within the article, but is it possible to automatically change the article's name? I have a bot: BOT-Twm Crys. Thanks. Llywelyn2000 (talk) 11:29, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Automatically as in with the names and changes provided, of having to fetch from a category, or what? You'd have to be more specific. Also, were you planning to do this with AWB? P.S. I have a bot too :P  Hazard-SJ  ✈  02:25, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Image attributions

This is to do with ensuring Commons Helper picks up the right data when it's used. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 23:59, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

  Doing... -- Aunva6talk - contribs 23:10, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

/I'm pretty sure I misinterperited how this was supposed to be done [2] -- Aunva6talk - contribs 23:52, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

General Cleanup

I just nominated Turkish people for GA. Can anyone with AWB take a look? Cavann (talk) 16:58, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

  Done - GoingBatty (talk) 19:38, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
Thanks! Cavann (talk) 20:12, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

Finding all graphical timelines

Hi, I'd like to request a search through all of mainspace, for the string "<timeline>". (in order to find all the graphical timelines that are not currently in category:graphical timelines). Please and thank you! –Quiddity (talk) 19:24, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

This appears to be a rather large task. Therefore, I have opened a BRFA to request permission to perform it in an efficient manner, under a bot flag to avoid flooding recent changes and watchlists. DavidLeighEllis (talk) 22:05, 11 August 2013 (UTC)
perhaps it can also accomodate the one below, should only be a minor change in the programming, as I understand it. -- Aunva6talk - contribs 22:41, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
Magioladitis should be able to do a database search pretty easy to find out how any are affected. I wouldn't think it would be more than a couple thousand at most. Kumioko (talk) 23:24, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
  Done
John of Reading has kindly found these, and left the list at User:Quiddity/Articles containing timelines, in case anyone else was interested in glancing through. I'll try to glean some insights from it, soon.
Thanks also to DavidLeighEllis for populating Category:Articles which contain graphical timelines‎.
Both efforts are appreciated. –Quiddity (talk) 23:07, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

Finding all generated score audio

I'd like to request a search through all mainspace, for the string "<score vorbis="1">". (In order to find all scores that have auto-generated samples via the Help:Score extension). Please and thank you! –Quiddity (talk) 19:54, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

  Doing... This is my first AWB task, so I might end up blowing up Wikipedia instead. Do you want a list of pages that have this string? APerson (talk!) 17:21, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
Yes please :) I'm mostly asking out of curiosity, but if patterns are visible in the data then it might lead to other good thoughts. –Quiddity (talk) 20:27, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
All right; here is the list of all articles in mainspace with the string <score vorbis="1">: Loading... APerson (talk!) 01:02, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
  Not done After checking at #wikipedia-en-help and elsewhere, I couldn't find a way to search in the wikicode of something. Maybe you could check the thoughts in the previous section? (Sorry!) APerson (talk!) 01:20, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
@Quiddity: I will ping you once I've downloaded the next database dump, which should be in the first week of September. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:35, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
  Done
John of Reading has kindly found these, and left the list at User:Quiddity/Articles containing score vorbis equals 1, in case anyone else was interested in glancing through. I'll try to glean some insights from it, soon. –Quiddity (talk) 23:09, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

Linking something in Wikipedia space that has been created in Wikipedia space

Could all (or nearly all) links to the Wikimedia Foundation in Wikipedia space now be linked to Wikipedia:Wikimedia Foundation? I thought this might work easier with AWB. Not sure. Thanks! Biosthmors (talk) 19:33, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

  Doing... theonesean 00:43, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
  Not done - there are none, surprisingly. theonesean 00:44, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
Where are you getting "there are none" from? There are hundreds. Mogism (talk) 00:48, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
Which pages should NOT be changed? Maybe the old issues of the Signpost, for example? GoingBatty (talk) 01:27, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
None? WP:WMF links to the English Wikipedia article as the first link anyways. Biosthmors (talk) 08:36, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
  • This seems trivial and not in need of being done. Technical 13 (talk) 01:37, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
    • Please reconsider. We have two independent editors at WT:WMF requesting it. I don't want to go through by hand. =( Biosthmors (talk) 08:35, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
      • I have to agree that an AWB run is inappropriate - look at the last page of results to see all the hundreds of instances we definitely wouldn't want to change - also any instances where the link is in an editor's comment (eg teahouse, reference desk, arbcom proceedings, etc), or where the full details of the mainspace-article were (or might have been?) particularly what was intended (eg for Wikipedia:Survey disclaimer I'd want to contact the page-creator or similar, to check whether they actually wanted the link changed). I'd also be worried about changing links to point to something that is so-very-new (both undeveloped, and unwatchlisted). In short - I'd suggest working on that page for a few more months, before any mass-linking is considered. HTH. –Quiddity (talk) 19:56, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Move up italic title template to remove whitespace?

I just made that edit, and I did another like that recently too. Could this be automated across the wiki? I don't know what kind of magic is possible with AWB. Biosthmors (talk) 15:00, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

Quiddity, perhaps? Biosthmors (talk) pls notify me (i.e. {{U}}) when u sign ur reply, thx 10:47, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

Biosthmors I don't know how AWB works (I'm on Linux, and refuse to use Wine), but I can point you towards Template talk:Italic title#Why can this template produce unwanted whitespace.3F where you should give your example, and request one of those template-gurus to track down the problematic whitespace - We don't want to move templates within the page, they should be able to live on 1-line-each without whitespace problems; fix those problems! –Quiddity (talk) 15:55, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
Thanks Quiddity! So can someone automate that, then? Thanks. Biosthmors (talk) pls notify me (i.e. {{U}}) when u sign ur reply, thx 16:52, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

Jerry Crutchfield

Jerry Crutchfield -> [[Jerry Crutchfield]] The person now has an article, so please introduce links. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 23:55, 21 September 2013 (UTC)

  • Why is this an AWB task request? Are there that many mentions of this person that this can't be done quickly through a search to build a list of articles and a little manual editing? Please expand on why this is needed. Technical 13 (talk) 00:18, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
  • Because going through individually is very laborious, and AWB can do it much faster. I've made similar request dozens of times before with no problems. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 06:43, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
  Done Links added to 99 articles. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:39, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

Batch linking request

Request wikilinks be created from reference note citations for "Weeks, Mary Elvira" to Mary Elvira Weeks.

Apologies, but this kind of detail work is hard for my eyes/fingers. Also, the name tends to be buried in cite templates and last first named and the like. Perhaps someone who is adept has an automated or semiautomated method.

71.127.137.171 (talk) 18:57, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

  Doing... -GoingBatty (talk) 20:43, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
  Done - mostly with |authorlink=Mary Elvira Weeks. GoingBatty (talk) 22:06, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
You freaking rock!71.127.137.171 (talk) 22:13, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

Removal of dead field

{{Infobox shopping mall}} no longer supports the |parking= parameter. Is there a way that someone can remove all instances of it using that field? Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 01:59, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

  Doing... — Bill william comptonTalk 16:12, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
  • Feel free to stop anytime, since there was already ignored consensus of four editors to restore the parameter, if renamed. Now five, including evidence of extremely frequent proper use, belying the deletion request's rationale. See Template talk:Infobox shopping mall. --Lexein (talk) 13:40, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
Not doing. — Bill william comptonTalk 14:11, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
Please note that AWB should not be used for this purpose even if unanimity for dropping the parameter existed. WP:AWB says "Do not make insignificant or inconsequential edits. An edit that has no noticeable effect on the rendered page is generally considered an insignificant edit." This was such a case. If it is decided that the parameter should indeed be removed, a bot request should be made. Chris the speller yack 15:47, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
I concur. Bill william compton, you've now been requested to stop as your edits are against WP:AWB#Rules of use. Therefore, please stop. --Lexein (talk) 04:12, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Restoral of usage of revived field

{{Infobox shopping mall}} once again fully supports the |parking= parameter, per Template talk:Infobox shopping mall#Reinstatement. So can someone please restore the 307 prior AWB deletions on 26 October which have edit summary: "removing deprecated parameter using AWB". The list of edits started here, ended here. A few of them have already been reverted manually, so checking for "parking" first would be sensible. Thanks. (By the way, because these edits will now affect the appearance of the page, AWB is appropriate to use.) Doing it manually will take about 5 hours, given how long my few restorals have taken. --Lexein (talk) 05:25, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

As far as I know, AWB doesn't have standard functionality to revert edits. GoingBatty (talk) 01:29, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
Well, how do we get >300 edits reverted? --Lexein (talk) 06:26, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
If Bill william compton saved a copy of his list before he started fulfilling the original request, he can use that to restore them, or he can share the list to do it. I also believe there "may" be a way to pull that chunk of his contributions and do a mass rollback on them ({{Admin help}} may be needed here, or at least someone with rollback). Technical 13 (talk) 15:30, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
Aw, I deleted the list and setting two days ago. I can rollback myself. — Bill william comptonTalk 15:44, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
I've rollbacked all the rollbackable (is that even a word?) edits. — Bill william comptonTalk 16:05, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
  • It's a word to me... xD Technical 13 (talk) 16:47, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
  • Thanks for the rollbacks! Just curious, how long did it take? With or without AWB? --Lexein (talk) 16:56, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
Not more than few minutes with the AWB, you just need a proper regex code. — Bill william comptonTalk 06:22, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

The Mystery of the Missing Spaces

Could AWB or some sort of bot do anything about this rather ubiquitous error?

Please see: Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics#The Mystery of the Missing Spaces

Anna Frodesiak (talk) 00:11, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

I have a number of Find & Replace rules that catch a lot of these (I have fixed zillions), but they hit way too many false positives for them to be put into Typo rules, and the existence of even a few false positives rules out the use of a bot. There was some discussion in February 2012 here. The real solution, I think, is to educate a few more editors who primarily edit this kind of article on the use of spaces. It's not really tricky to learn. Chris the speller yack 02:31, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
Thanks, Chris. Your feedback is much appreciated. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 06:36, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Joey Moi

Joey Moi -> [[Joey Moi]]. Please introduce wikilinks now that he has an article. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 17:38, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

  Done--Racklever (talk) 18:03, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

Small scale domain updates

Copying from myself at Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Small_scale_domain_updates:

I probably have added 50-100+ external URLs to policy and discussion spaces that link back to a personal domain, where I host my academic writings and datasets relevant to Wikipedia and collaborative security. This domain has now changed, and while there is an HTTP redirect in place, administrative policies dictate that will not survive forever. The file paths are constant. This is a touch painstaking manually. Is there a way to automate this? If so, is that solution limited to en.wp or is this something that can be done for all WMF properties (I know I have links on Wikimania wikis and Metawiki, at minimum)?

I am looking to change everything of the form, http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~westand to http://www.andrew-g-west.com. I've followed a couple of pointers, so I am hopeful this might be the right place. Thanks, West.andrew.g (talk) 05:36, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

The find and replace is an easy task if AWB can find the relevant articles/pages. Are there perhaps some categories these articles may be part of, common links, etc? Even if there is a pool of 1000 pages, we can go thru them with AWB quickly to pick out the correct 100 and make the switch.— TAnthonyTalk 08:00, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
OK, I'm realizing that you're saying the link is basically only on WP and talk pages, not within actual article space. I think I could pull that from your contribution record and easily make such a fix BUT we generally do not go back and "correct" discussion material in an effort to not disrupt the historical record. Maybe someone else more familiar with that policy can advise if there are precedents? Perhaps instead of an actual replacement we could add a note beside it, like (Update Dec 2013: new link) so the historical record is preserved? Depending on the forum though, such a correction may not be of any value (if already archived, for example).— TAnthonyTalk 08:26, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
@TAnthony: - You bring up a very good point! Could you please make a list of the pages, and then User:West.andrew.g can decide from there? Off the top of my head, I'd suggest the following:
  • Unarchived talk pages - West.andrew.g can add a new post in the same section with the new URL.
  • Archived talk pages - Instead of changing the archive, West.andrew.g can add a new post in the related unarchived talk page.
  • Article space and Wikipedia space - change the URLs via AWB.
Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 14:02, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
[3] -- Although one needs to CTRL+F for "westand" to actually find the ones specific to my URL path. This could be "grep"ed rather easily, though. Let me know how I can best help. Also, is it actually poor form to fix URLs on archived talk pages if the content at the destination has not changed? Although I kinda understand the logic; it is a net gain for the end user with very little downside. Thanks, West.andrew.g (talk) 20:04, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
@West.andrew.g: A lot of false positives on that list - it appears there are only about 60 links to your old website. I removed your URL from Wikipedia:Turnitin#Who is involved - the link to your user page should be sufficient. I also updated Wikipedia:STiki/Sandbox#Credits and more information, Wikipedia:Revision deletion#Statistics, and User:West.andrew.g/Flow funding manually.
Note how even your own archived talk pages state "Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current page." I suggest you request permission in the appropriate venues to explain the situation before making the other changes. Good luck! GoingBatty (talk) 20:08, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
Thanks so much for your help. West.andrew.g (talk) 20:16, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

Language tool suggestions

Moved to: Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos#Language_tool_suggestions. Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 11:41, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

Classifying redirects for WP:WikiProject Michigan

Hi ya'll. Would anyone be interested in running through all of the articles on this list (NA-class, unassessed quality articles for WP:WikiProject Michigan) and setting the talk page project assessment to "class=redirect"? There are currently 1005 redirects on the list... Thanks in advance, if anyone has the time/interest... Dana boomer (talk) 18:20, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

I'm working in this now ;) — TAnthonyTalk 22:04, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
  Done, though the assessment tally may take a little while to refresh.— TAnthonyTalk 23:23, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
WOW! That is awesome - thanks so much! Dana boomer (talk) 14:57, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Mark for speedy deletion 1,397 pages

It has been requested that all of the subpages of User:C which were created by Amit6 be deleted. Not including the sandbox, to which an additional user has contributed, that is 1,397 pages. I have spot checked them (at name format changes) and none of those I checked have any additional contributors (except User:C/Sandbox). Amit6 has stated that they should be deleted. Given the large number of pages, I don't desire to go through them, even using AWB, by hand to add :

{{db-g7|rationale=User Amit6, who created this page and is the only contributor, has requested deletion [[Wikipedia talk:User pages#C.C2.A0.28talk.C2.A0.C2.B7_contribs.29|here]]. Note: User Amit6 is not linked in this message so that the user is not notified of the use of a mention of their user name 1,397 times, which would be disruptive.}}

at the top of the page. This is something that appears most appropriate for a bot enabled account. Alternately, work could be saved if an administrator with a bot account could either delete them, or add the template and then delete them. I am unsure if there is a procedural shortcut that is appropriate.

Note that these pages have been cumulatively listed at Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2014_January_11. However, they are not in the template namespace and are speedy deletion candidates which makes these pages outside the bounds of a TfD on at least two counts. Makyen (talk) 03:19, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

The correct way to handle this is to find an admin willing to do the work. It's pointless to tag 1,397 pages and then delete them. I'll post something at WP:AN. Johnuniq (talk) 03:46, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
It did feel pointless to do it by tagging them for deletion. I just was not aware of another appropriate procedural method. I am usually hesitant to resort to appealing to admins. However, this does appear to be a case where normal one-off (i.e. tagging) procedure is not appropriate. Thanks for putting it up on WP:AN. Makyen (talk) 05:38, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
  Done See WP:Administrators' noticeboard#Speedy deletion of 1,397 pages Thanks, Johnuniq. Makyen (talk) 05:54, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Brazilian footballers

If someone's looking for a project, Category:Brazilian footballers and its subcategories Category:Brazil international footballers, Category:Brazil international footballers and Category:Brazilian women's footballers seem to contain a sizable number of articles which are sortkeyed to alphabetize on the person's first name instead of their last, and thus need to have their DEFAULTSORT tags corrected. This task, I warn you now, will suck mud — but it falls under the rubric of somebody's going to have to get it done. I'd bot it if I knew how. Bearcat (talk) 04:51, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

I was just taking a look at these articles and in many cases this sorting seems intentional ... as noted in the leads of many articles, some players are apparently "known by" their first names or nicknames (for example, José Carlos de Almeida is apparently known as "Zé Carlos" and sorted as such despite the article name). I'm also not sure about the consistency of article naming; my previous example uses the "real" name but the article for Thomaz Soares da Silva is Zizinho. This seems to occur a lot and confuses the issue of what name to sort by. I did come across some clearly mis-sorted ones but anyone attempting this should read the lead carefully.— TAnthonyTalk 08:40, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
Actually I should have pointed out more clearly that I don't know whether, assuming the articles are named correctly based on WP:COMMONNAME, it is improper to sort them by something different than some part the article name itself (as in the case of José Carlos de Almeida above). And there seem to be about 4800 unique articles among these categories to go through.— TAnthonyTalk 08:52, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
The sortkey must always be based on the actual title of the article, because it only changes where the title appears in an alphabetical list and does not change how the title appears. If the person's last name is in the article title, then the sortkey has to alphabetize them by last name — if it's really that critically important that Ademar dos Santos Batista, to name just one example, is alphabetized under A for "Ademar" instead of S for "Santos", then it has to be moved to a title that (with whatever disambiguation is necessary) names him as just "Ademar". If the surname is in the title, however, then the article has to sort on the surname. Bearcat (talk) 20:01, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
Would not a person with this name "Ademar dos Santos Batista" normally be considered to be "dos Santos Batista, Ademar"? In other words that the surname is "dos Santos Batista" and the given name is "Ademar"? Thus, the sortkey would begin with "dos". Right??
One of the other examples: "Thomaz Soares da Silva" could be either "Soares da Silva, Thomaz" (probable) or "da Silva, Thomaz Soares". Given that it is listed as "Thomaz Soares da Silva", I would consider the most probable to be "Soares da Silva, Thomaz".
The third example:"José Carlos de Almeida" again could be "Carlos de Almeida, José" (probable) or "de Almeida, José Carlos" As with the previous example, I consider the most likely to be "Carlos de Almeida, José".
In these cases, don't the "da Silva" and "de Almeida" versions tend to be English/American-ized versions? There are certainly ones that look similar that are not English/American-ized versions, but a lot of such which we see reading English tend to be for people living, particularly, in the US or otherwise inaccurately translated. Obviously, for those families living in the US for generations the shorter version has generally become the actual surname.
I am not saying I know these to be accurate. I am just trying to figure it out (both the general and specific cases). Makyen (talk) 23:44, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
Portuguese names, like Spanish names, contain two surnames. One from the father and one from the mother. In Spanish, the order is Father Mother. In Portuguese, the order is Mother Father. Also, Portuguese names are not sorted on the prefix. So, Thomaz Soares da Silva is sorted: Silva, Thomaz. Bgwhite (talk) 01:35, 19 January 2014 (UTC)


  • Per WP:MCSTJR, "Some people are known primarily by their first name only. When it is not possible to set the first name alone as the article title, as with many articles in Category:Brazilian footballers, you should sort with the first name first to make the article easier to find in the categories." This was added because of discussion at WP:Football... Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football/Archive 56#DEFAULTSORT. Another factor is in Brazil, people are more likely known just by one name. Part of it is tradition, the other part is so many people of the same surname. 10% of Brazilian's have Silva as their last name. For example, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil was known just by "Lula". Bgwhite (talk) 01:35, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

Jason Deere

Jason Deere -> [[Jason Deere]] Introduce wikilinks since he has an article. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 17:11, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

  Done — TAnthonyTalk 18:19, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Help with changing "the the" to "the"

Hi everyone :) I'm currently working on changing errors in fixing a double "the" in articles when it's supposed to be one. For example:

He won the the Nobel prize for literature.

Using AWB, I've created a system that will automagically change this to "He won the Nobel prize for literature."

Betacommand was kind enough to use a script they made to find all uses of "the the" in articles using regex. The final list can be found on WMFlabs, at 4,213 articles with a double 'the'.

What I do to correct the errors:

  1. I save the the list of errors (link above) as a .log.txt file by pressing command-s (on Chrome)
  2. I open AutoWikiBrowser (AWB)
  3. optional: Under the 'Options' tab in the bottom middle of AWB, I keep all of the Automatic changes on (Auto tag, Apply general fixes, and Unicodify whole page). This allows me to fix errors in articles while also fixing 'the the'
  4. I turn on the 'Find and replace' option and the 'Skip if no replacement' option (although it shouldn't skip because everything in the list is supposed to have 'the the' in it. A reason why it might skip would be if someone else fixed it since the list was created)
  5. In the 'Find and replace' box, I click on 'Normal settings'. On the window that opens, I have the following options set:
  1. Find 'the the ' and replace with 'the '
  2. Find 'The the ' and replace with 'The '
  3. Find 'the The ' and replace with 'The '
  4. Find 'The The ' and replace with 'The '
  5. Please note the spaces after all of the find and replaces. This is done to prevent false positives (errors in the system) such as "The theater was created in 1990." The only options I have turned on for all of these find-and-replaces are 'CaseSensitive', 'Minor', and 'Enabled'.
  6. A screenshot is available if you're confused
  7. Click on the 'OK' in the top right
6. On the left of AWB I click on the drop-down list next to 'Source:' and choose "Text file (UTF-8)".
7. On the bottom of AWB I click on the 'Filter' button. In the popup, I check off everything under 'Content' and 'Talk'. Nothing should show up except for mainspace articles on Wikipedia, but I don't see any reason not to keep all of 'Content' and 'Talk' checked. I don't check off anything else except for 'Sort alphabetically' and 'Remove duplicates' (both of these options are found in the 'Other' section in the middle of the popup. I make the 'Set operations' dropdown on the right side of the page 'Symmetric difference'. I then click 'Apply' in the top right of the popup.
8. I then press the 'Make list' button in the bottom left of AWB. This should bring up a popup. Locate your .log.txt file of the list of articles with errors. Click on it and press the 'Open' button in the bottom right of the popup. This should cause a list of articles to show up in the box in the bottom left of AWB.
9. I then go to the 'Start' box in the bottom middle of AWB and *hold breath* press 'Start'. If you have not already logged into Wikipedia from AWB, you will be asked to do so now in a popup window.
10. Articles should now be processed. Please manually check each edit to confirm that an error is not being made. Here are some false positives (errors in the system) I've found:
  1. Filenames. Changing a file's name could and probably will break the file. If you need a file's name to be changed, follow the instructions on the Wikimedia Common's page for file renaming.
  2. There is a band known as 'The The'. Make sure you do not change anything related to them.
  3. URLs (commonly known as links). This could break the URL.
  4. When 'the the' (not capital sensitive) is used as an example or is purposefully used. Here's an example.
  5. In references, when the title in the reference has an error. For example, "Eravikulam "Eravikulam National Park, Munnar, Kerala, India, the the home of Nilgiri Tahr". Eravikulam National Park. Retrieved 28 August 2013." In the link this reference has, the title says 'the the', so you should not fix it.

I hope you guys consider helping :) -Newyorkadam (talk) 01:21, 30 January 2014 (UTC)Newyorkadam


  • FYI... 'the the' report is also found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Fix common mistakes. Keep track of any false positives. Add them to a whitelist so they aren't reported again. Sct72 is, well, not right in the head. So, he loves doing this kind of thing. Hopefully this tutorial will allow his crazy to go faster. :) Bgwhite (talk) 02:51, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
  • Ah, thanks for the link :) I actually saw that my system skipped past some articles and under further investigation I realized that it was because Sct72 fixed the errors :) Great job! I can't seem to find a whitelist on that page, where is it? -Newyorkadam (talk) 03:31, 30 January 2014 (UTC)Newyorkadam
  • As for a whitelist, I have moved my edits to the bottom of the individual Database Dump pages with strikethrough - not sure if that helps. As for Not Right In The Head, I've been doing all these edits manually without AWB - so there's your answer! :) Sct72 (talk) 01:48, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
You'll see from Wikipedia:Typo Team/works completed that this is one of my hobbies - I fixed about 7000 of these during 2013. I only look for "[Tt]he the", not cases where the second word has a capital T. I was going to tackle this again when the February database dump becomes available. I posted some details here, and I've just posted my settings file at User:John of Reading/Sandbox (permanent link). You'll find there some extra rules for common errors ("according the the" > "according to the", and such like) and extra rules for skipping false positives. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:56, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
I understand not doing a double capital t, but why not a lowercase t then a capital t? (i.e. 'the The'). -Newyorkadam (talk) 12:19, 30 January 2014 (UTC)Newyorkadam
Because after I'd seen dozens of instances of things like "the The Times reporter", I couldn't decide whether they looked wrong or not. LilHelpa (talk · contribs) [ping!] has written about this at User:LilHelpa/thethe. -- John of Reading (talk) 15:15, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
[ping!] I love it that you're all out there doing this! It's been a while for me as I know John et al do it more efficiently. -LilHelpa (talk) 20:20, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
  • Why not search for "The The " as well? This would catch instances of /The The Institute of Awesome held a press conference/ Also, is there any format handling? /the the best place on Earth/ or /the "the best place to eat"/? Technical 13 (talk) 12:41, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
  • Yeah, after I made this post, I added 'The The ' to 'The '. I forgot to add it here; I just did it, thanks :) -Newyorkadam (talk) 14:28, 30 January 2014 (UTC)Newyorkadam
  • My regular expression here catches cases where there are quotes or apostrophes between the two words, and/or when the second word is inside a wikilink. -- John of Reading (talk) 15:15, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
Silly question - In what cases does the Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos#Duplicated_words rule NOT fix these? GoingBatty (talk) 21:18, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
To partially answer my own question, you might want to add another regex rule such as Find the\s*('*\[\[the ) and replace with $1 with case sensitivity turned off to catch things like "the The Times reporter". GoingBatty (talk) 21:25, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
That wouldn't work as a WP:AWB/T rule because wikilink syntax is hidden from the article before the built-in typo-fixer is run. But, yes, the existing rule could be expanded to handle "the the" with quote marks or apostrophes between the words.
It also wouldn't work well as a find+replace rule if you have "Add replacements to edit summary" ticked, because the edit summary would contain unbalanced square brackets and might not be displayed correctly. My regexp matches all the way to the closing brackets to avoid this. -- John of Reading (talk) 22:13, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
  • This may be a slight "veer" topic-wise, but what do you recommend for Duplicated Words on a Page title or (shudder) Category name - as I have run across both? Leave a note or? Sct72 (talk) 02:00, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
@Sct72: If it's an out-of-the-way page and an obvious typo, then I would move the page (my move log). If I'm in any doubt, I post on the talk page instead. For categories, post at WP:CFD/S, and if no-one objects a bot will do the hard work for you in a couple of days. I rarely ask for files to be renamed, as those names aren't so visible to the reader. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:00, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

Greg Droman

Greg Droman -> [[Greg Droman]]. Introduce links as he has an article. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 03:39, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

  Done I added a link to 18 articles. -- John of Reading (talk) 05:40, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

Help with regular expressions

In Fyodor Dostoyevsky bibliography, I want to replace the short footnotes with extended templated references. If the volume and page numbers should stay, what code will it be? I tried with "^<ref>''Complete Works'', vol. [1-30], p. [1-600]</ref>$" and the output "^<ref>{{cite book|editor=Institute of Russian Literature (The Pushkin House)|title=Complete Works in Thirty Volumes (полное собрание сочинений в тридцати томах)|publisher=Nauka|volume=[1-30]|page=[1-600]|language=Russian|year=1979–90|isbn=5-02-027952-8}}<ref>$", but it does not seem to be right. Tomcat (7) 11:18, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

@Tomcat7: Try this with the Regex and Enabled box checked and the After fixes box unchecked:
Find: >''Complete Works'', vol\. (\d*)(\(I\))?, p*\. ([\d–-]*)<\/ref>
Replace: >{{cite book|editor=Institute of Russian Literature (The Pushkin House)|title=Complete Works in Thirty Volumes (полное собрание сочинений в тридцати томах)|publisher=Nauka|volume=$1$2|page=$3|language=Russian|year=1979–90|isbn=5-02-027952-8}}</ref>
Having said that, I think this change would add unnecessary length to the article. GoingBatty (talk) 01:38, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

Years in spaceflight

Please can someone with AWB add a |year= parameter and the relevant value to each article using {{Infobox year in spaceflight}} and named in the sequence 1955 in spaceflight, like this? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:48, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

  Done -- John of Reading (talk) 19:15, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
And promptly. Thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:45, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

Building infoboxes

~260 instances of {{geobox}} for building need to be replaced with {{infobox building}} (11,780 transclusions) or in some cases, possibly {{infobox church}} (6,063 transclusions). Is this something AWB could be used for, or is the task too complicated? more detials at Template talk:Geobox#Use for buildings. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:57, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

Automating sort keys "by year"

I placed this as a bot request, but, for the moment, I was wondering whether AWB can help me.

The specific bot request I made was to do things such as:

For example, would it be appropriate for a bot to change the sort key of Category:Manufacturing companies established in 1897‎ in Category:Manufacturing companies by year of establishment to "1897".

For some specific categories, I feel comfortable that it should be done, but...

I can select the categories in Category:Manufacturing companies by year of establishment, but is there a function to automatically add/change the sort key? — Arthur Rubin (talk) 05:37, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

@Arthur Rubin: What I would do is use Find/Replace to search for instances of [[Category:Manufacturing companies by year of establishment]] and replace it with [[Category:Manufacturing companies by year of establishment|{{subst:Str rightc|{{subst:PAGENAME}}|4}}]] to extract the year from the title and add it as a sort key. SiBr4 (talk) 21:30, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
Thanks. That looks as if it should work, and, if it doesn't, I should be able to tweak it. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 21:39, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

The National Archives

Around three years ago, The National Archives was changed from a redirect to the The National Archives (United Kingdom) to a redirect to List of national archives. This was a reasonable change - we shouldn't be UK-centric - but it left around seven hundred pages linking to the wrong place. Most, but not all, of them should link to The National Archives (United Kingdom). That's rather more changes I feel inclined to tackle single-handed, but perhaps a few people would like to take on a part of the work? Colonies Chris (talk) 21:57, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Would it make sense for The National Archives to link to a disambiguation page instead of a list? GoingBatty (talk) 01:36, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
  Doing... some, BTW.... GoingBatty (talk) 01:46, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
@Colonies Chris: Doing more today - should have pinged you yesterday. GoingBatty (talk) 15:04, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

Don Law

Don Law -> [[Don Law]] Introduce wikilinks now that he has an article. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 10:53, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

  Doing... Chris the speller yack 13:48, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
  Done. Care had to be taken to avoid the Boston-based promoter of the same name. Chris the speller yack 14:11, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

Figure skating competitions by year

Please edit the members of Category:Figure skating competitions by year, changing the parent category parameter in the template from 

Figure skating competitions by year

to 

Years in figure skating

This is to implement a CFD from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2014 April 18 currently listed at WP:CFDWM#Other. – Fayenatic London 10:44, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

Portals

Following invertions of redirections motivated by the Manual of Style, and as recommended by Help:Moving a page#Moving a portal, please replace the links to:

Portal:Parliamentary Procedure, Portal:Molecular and Cellular Biology, Portal:Software Testing, Portal:Rock Climbing and Portal:Computer Generated Imagery

By direct links to:

Portal:Parliamentary procedure, Portal:Molecular and cellular biology, Portal:Software testing, Portal:Rock climbing and Portal:Computer-generated imagery

Thanks! Coreyemotela (talk) 19:02, 22 May 2014 (UTC).

These moves are still being discussed at Portal talk:Molecular and cellular biology#Moves, so it might be better to delay the updating of the portal names in articles. -- John of Reading (talk) 05:09, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
The inversion of redirections to respect the Manual of Style is not really discussed ; it is only questioned by one IP address. But we can still wait a little bit if you think it is better. Coreyemotela (talk) 06:29, 23 May 2014 (UTC).
Update of the request: please replace the links to:
Portal:Parliamentary Procedure, Portal:Molecular and Cellular Biology, Portal:Software Testing, Portal:Rock Climbing, Portal:Computer Generated Imagery, Portal:Musical Theatre, Portal:Body Modification, Portal:Molecular Anthropology, Portal:Indian Education, Portal:Extinction, Portal:Hazardous Materials, Portal:Human Health and Performance in Space, Portal:Hindu Mythology, Portal:Tamil Cinema, Portal:Pervasive Developmental Disorders and Portal:Aquarium Fish
By direct links to:
Portal:Parliamentary procedure, Portal:Molecular and cellular biology, Portal:Software testing, Portal:Rock climbing, Portal:Computer-generated imagery, Portal:Musical theatre, Portal:Body modification, Portal:Molecular anthropology, Portal:Education in India, Portal:Extinct and endangered species, Portal:Hazardous materials, Portal:Human health and performance in space, Portal:Hindu mythology, Portal:Tamil cinema, Portal:Pervasive developmental disorders and Portal:Aquarium fish
Thank you! Coreyemotela (talk) 06:43, 25 May 2014 (UTC).
  Not done No consensus for the renames to take place. --Mdann52talk to me! 15:40, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

CfR tagging

Can some one pleast tag the 243 categories listed at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2014 July 2#Category:Fooian law? The necessary line to be prepended is:
{{subst:cfr||Category:Fooian law}}
עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 10:40, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

  Already done by Paul 012. SiBr4 (talk) 11:31, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
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