User talk:Bgwhite/Archive 13

Re: POM

No, I was not the one. I was also thinking who made so many edits in that category!

• WP:POM can not add defaultsort! And this has more issues: this does not add the pages in my watchlist. That means if you revert and reply to me (in your edit summary), I can't understand it. I reported/suggested it in the first weak.
• About AWB, most probably I asked this "How to" question somewhere , I can not remember the question now, might be question 3 at this AWB talk page! --Tito Dutta (talk) 02:07, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Most probably in both questions were unanswered. I thought to ask you too which I have not done so far! I had another question too "How to skip "You have new message" alert in AWB, there is no way to skip ("cancel") it unless you see it. which I have not asked still. --Tito Dutta (talk) 02:12, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

1) Get any alert when I am editing any user page or talk page which is unwanted (everytime I load a category I have to filter out manually)?

Not exactly sure what you are asking. If you load a category, it is all or nothing.

2) Stay signed in always (I mean bot Ctrl+L and sign in from saved account too?

AWB should never log you out unless you close down the program.

I have saved 5 different profiles. Each one has different settings. Each one does have a username attached (either me or my bot account). I manually enter the password, but you can save it if you want.

1. After I have the settings I want I hit File -> Save settings.
2. In the profile window (Ctrl+L), press the "Add button". You can enter the settings file, username and password.

3) Avoid adding "Orphan" tag in articles? That's a tag I don't like to add!

It is either use all tags or no tags. I do keep "auto tag" off... It is under "Options" in the bottom middle window.

4) How to add persondata short description using AWB?

If there is no persondata, AWB will generally add it. After that, you have to manually type the value. See more below.

5) "How to skip "You have new message" alert in AWB

You don't. You have to view the message. In theory, if you are using AWB, somebody leaves you a message that there is something wrong with your edits, you will be able to stop and correct your edits as soon as possible.

A) To add defaultsort and name automatically, you have to uncheck an option. Under Options at the top, uncheck "Restrict {{DEFAULTSORT}} change addition.

B) I use a program that with one key press, Persondata, defaultsort template or anything else is added. I press (Ctrl+C) and an empty persondata template is added. I add alot of banners and parameters to talk pages: (Alt+O) adds WikiProject Olympics. (Alt+A) adds WikiProject Athletics. (⊞ Win+s) adds |sports-work-group=yes |sports-priority=low. You can set it up to add anything, so a common short description value would be an example.

The program is AutoHotkey. My script is at User:Bgwhite/AutoHotkey

C) Under options -> Default edit summaries. You can add/delete/change your edit summaries. If you click ok, you can save these summaries so the next time you log in, they will be there. Just hit "save settings" under file. This is another reasons I have 5 profiles. The talk page profile has different edit summaries than the main page profile. Bgwhite (talk) 07:10, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

1) Once I have mistakenly edited Wikipedia talk archived discussion and once a user's sandbox, though I have reverted quickly. Searching with "What links here" gets you all namespace results, now you have to "filter" those. I knew it, but those two times I forgot to filter. That was the question. Is there any way yo get alert?

Is this the "What links here" on the website? There is a way on the site to filter on the web with the "Namespace" drop down menu.

Otherwise, under "List" -> Filter, you can set it to not keep userpages or talk pages.

2) I can not understand. Or that's I am doing. Open AWB → Press Ctrl+L → Click on Titodutta where password is already saved. But, since I have only 1 profile in AWB, I don't want to know to do this too. I want to auto sign in as I do in Wikipedia (Firefox).

No, there is no way to do it like Firefox.

3) I manually undo it by double clicking on the line (specially if those are "New pages" to avoid biting new users), but that AWB does not understand that and adds "Tagged Orphan" in edit summary.

That is a "bug" of AWB. You can't double click to undo a change made on the first line. There was a reason why this is done when I asked, but I can't remember now.

Unclosed small tags list

Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Sandbox for those who really want some extra fun in their lives. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:55, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

error fix 34

I just undid this as it removed the {{overline}} from a digit which was meant to be there: the paragraph only makes sense with it. It's unclear what problem you're trying to fix from your edit summary but if there's a problem with the overline template that's only the first of many uses of it in that article, where it's used for the particular mathematical notation of balanced tenary. It shouldn't be removed without replacing it with some other notation which distinguishes those digits.--JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 22:44, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

I'm not a math major, so it doesn't make sense with or without. In wikicode, three curly braces (ie. {{{ ) means a start of a variable. So {{{overline|1}},0,1} could mean overline is the variable name with a value of 1. Also, some bots see {{{overline|1}} and think this is a template, but the editor just mistakenly added a third curly brace and then the bot will delete a brace. Adding a <math> or {{math}} tag, putting <nowiki> around the first brace or putting a space after the first brace. I don't know which one is best. Bgwhite (talk) 23:32, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

It's displaying fine so the parser is coping fine with it. If bots can't cope with it then they need fixing, or at least training so they recognise such constructions as well as the parser. But it's valid syntax, unless there's some guideline I'm not aware of.--JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 00:02, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

The overline template is used correctly in various mineral articles such as azurite, I see no error in viewing the articles so I'm reverting. Vsmith (talk) 23:37, 21 December 2012 (UTC) Without the overline the article is in error. Vsmith (talk) 23:39, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

You are not seeing an error in the article, but it is coded wrong and a bot will change it. Correctly code it or have it changed again and again at some point by bots. There are only about 10 articles that it was coded wrong. Bgwhite (talk) 23:49, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

This overline could be crucial and shouldn't be removed by a bot (rather fixed). That said, Vsmith, in many entries on cleavage plane, like in copiapite, that overline is useless because of equivalent directions (i.e. -101 there is same as 101). In some cases, I'm not sure, because of the different angles between, say, 101/-102 and 101/102 planes. Are those cleavage planes a loose list, or they are groups of interrelated directions? Materialscientist (talk) 23:58, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

I'm going thru and adding a math tag before cases of {{{Overline|. Bgwhite (talk) 00:00, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

Please read above - in most cases (maybe even all) they could just be removed. Materialscientist (talk) 00:07, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

Seems the bot may need educating. That said - the curly braces around crystal planes could be replaced with square brackets - or would that run afoul of another bot? I see the Handbook of Mineralogy uses both -- and I don't recall any specific reason for one or the other, need to dig out the old ref books. A math tag would be ugly and not needed there. Vsmith (talk) 00:19, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

{{math}} changes the font to a serif one in modern/vector etc. skins. Better to use {{nowrap}}, assuming disabling line breaks within the string is not a concern.--JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 00:23, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

@Vsmith, the use of brackets is explained in Miller index - the four types refer to four cases of crystallographically equivalent planes/directions or fixed planes/directions. This comes back to my question above, whether those cleavage planes are related groups or loose lists (my guess is they are loose lists, i.e. all those overlines can be removed from cleavage, and there is no use in any cumbersome formatting). Materialscientist (talk) 00:28, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

I figured this: overline can often be removed, but only by a person who understands all consequences for a given sentence, i.e. {} brackets, overline, and their combination may be crucial when the symmetry is low (especially if there is no inversion center). For example, in ajoite, (table I), 4-4-4 and 44-4 planes are distinctly different, and thus removal of overline would likely be erroneous in any situation. Materialscientist (talk) 03:17, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

Indeed the overline is important in some cases, see rhodonite: "Perfect on {110} and {110}, (110) ^ (110) = 92.5°" for an example. Although not critical here as the bar is over the second 1 and that shouldn't bother the bot. Point is {110} is a valid construct and as noted above it "parses" just fine - therefore rather than an awkward "fix" with nowrap - why not educate the bot? If a bot is making changes to valid content erroneously, then fix the bot rather than needlessly complicating the act of editing. Vsmith (talk) 03:58, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

List of Muppets

Hi Bgwhite. Seasons greetings and hope you're well. I'm letting you know I had to undo your edit to List of Muppets. You'd removed some transclusion code which was enabling the list of Muppets which featured in The Muppet Show to be mirrored in The Muppet Show article. Removing the code caused the entire List of Muppets article to be mirrored in the characters section of that article, which, as I'm you can imagine, was causing a lot of confusion. I added the code some time ago to help tidy up the articles. I was just hoping for some clarification on why you believed it should be removed, I realise it was for a good reason, but I don't know what that is. In the case that there is a problem with the code, I'd like to fix it properly. ~~ Peteb16 (talk) 23:33, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

If statements shouldn't be in articles. In this case does removing the if statement, but keeping the <onlyinclude> statements work? Bgwhite (talk) 00:07, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

Apparently yes. Many thanks and best wishes. ~~ Peteb16 (talk) 00:18, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

We have been...

... sabotaged. No end of misery! Bunglers! Dunderheads! First 11 pages --Tito Dutta (talk) 02:41, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

Bot is screwing up tags

Your bot is changing the close of <font> tags from </font> to </span> [1]. That is bad code and should not be happening. Thanks. VanIsaac_{WS Vex}^contribs 04:54, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Many of BG19bot "convert HTML to wikicode" changes appear to be incorrect. For two different examples see Edmonds Station and Kingsway/Royal Alex (ETS). Secondarywaltz (talk) 22:30, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Nope, it's worked just as planned. Two things going on. There is an unusual <font color> combination, so "font color" wasn't changed to "span color". This will be rectified on the next database dump and the second pass of the bot. Second, the page is coded wrong. The proper way is for font/span tag to go inside the wikilink to change the color of the wikilink. As long as there wasn't an unusual combination, the bot did correct the coding and moved the font/span tag inside the wikilink. There were alot of pages that the font tag were actually broken, but now work. Again, most of these should be rectified on the second go around. Bgwhite (talk) 23:02, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

If it ain't broke, don't fix it, break it completely! I don't understand the need to do this. I await the next running of the bots :) Secondarywaltz (talk) 23:22, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

But it is broke. The font tag is depreciated, should never be used and will someday go away. {{TransLink (BC) color|}} is coded incorrectly, causing the "unusual" combination and the article was coded incorrectly by not putting the font/span tag in the wikilink. In this case it worked before my changes, but there have also been cases where it didn't work, but now does. You see it breaking your page, but I'm trying to make it work for all pages... hopefully, cross fingers. Bgwhite (talk) 23:45, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

OK. Rather than wasting any more of your time and mine by complaining, I will be constructive and manually fix the stations of those two transit systems. If I see more problems like this, I now know what is required. Secondarywaltz (talk) 22:03, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

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I do not know what error you were trying to correct , but these fixes (Yasenevo (Moscow Metro), Novoyasenevskaya (Moscow Metro)) spoil pages. May be in this case need to do something else. --Туча (talk) 11:43, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

Misplaced honorifcs

Thanks again for your sterling work on pages using the officeholder infobox. I wonder whether you might be able to do a bot run to fix cases like this one and likewise for suffixes (e.g. "MP" or "M.P."). Obviously, we can't find them all, but the commonest should be doable.

Yea, this should be no problem. A quick database scan found 4,000 cases of "sir". With this being Christmas week, I probably won't get to it this week. Bgwhite (talk) 23:20, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

"A pretty poor excuse...". Have a good one. (BTW, you should be able to shift, say, "Sir and anything left of it", like |name=The Rt. Hon. Sir Joe Bloggs or |name=General Sir John Doe.) Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:52, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

font-size

I believe you meant to use font-size instead of size in this edit. I fixed it and then moved the css to the parent div. thank you. Frietjes (talk) 18:11, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

Yea, that was a brain fart on my end. I hand't seen the color template before, I'll have to remember that next time. Bgwhite (talk) 23:05, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

forigenda articulo

• User talk:Drmies#What's in a name?

It was due to be deleted today, but I've contested Proposed Deletion. Uncle G (talk) 00:28, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

• Either you have alot of time to spare or you are very creative. I'm going with creative. It took me a bit to realize the vacuum reference. I finally got after looking what Hoovian was linked to. My original thought was Hubert Hoover. Remember to watch the new episode tomorrow. It is available for a few weeks on BBC's website. Bgwhite (talk) 07:43, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
  • Don't forget, as a Hoovian, the English Professor Vacuum that has led to the likes of Wybren Jan Buma and Rolf Bremmer being sucked into Wikipedia. And any good Hoovian should know that it's Hubert D. Hoover. Uncle G (talk) 10:06, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

AWB Task?

There are few stub articles on mountains of Mars where a Google book cited as, see reference 1 of Octantis Mons. But, I don't know what happened but, when I started creating a new article on Mars mountain I found that link is taking you to wrong page. Hence page=136 of all references (URL) need to be replaced with page 63 Can it be done quickly using AWB? --Tito Dutta (talk) 08:46, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

Can you provide us the list of the pages? -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:34, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

I tried to search with wikitext date=1 June 2012|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-4614-2302-7|pages=135– and replace with date=1 June 2012|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-4614-2302-7|pages=63– but that did not work very well. If it is going to be time taking, then leave it. I'll do it manually when I'll ad NASA images in those articles! There may be more articles, I have quickly searched few from the pages I have created.

• Australe_Montes
• Chalce_Montes
• Coronae_Montes
• Euripus_Mons
• Geryon_Montes
• Hellas_Montes
• Hibes_Montes
• Octantis_Mons
• Pindus_Mons
• Sisyphi_Montes
• Tanaica_Montes
• Xanthe_Montes

--Tito Dutta (talk) 10:53, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

1. First off, you have the syntax wrong. It is not "pages=135-", it should be "page=135".
2. There is the find and replace feature in AWB. Under "Options" in the bottom-middle window you will find and replace. Click "Normal Settings"
   1. Type what you want to find in the find column: Lets say type in: page=136
   2. Type what you want to replace the above find with in the replace column: In this case: page=63
   3. Click done. Make sure to check "Enabled" on the Options window. Now edit pages. If AWB finds any "page=136", it will replace this value. Bgwhite (talk) 05:43, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Proposed merge Walden Schmidt (Two and a Half Men character) --> Walden Schmidt

I see that you have been editing Walden Schmidt (Two and a Half Men character). Please note, there is a discussion about merging this article into Walden Schmidt at Talk:Walden Schmidt#Proposed merge. --AussieLegend (✉) 16:54, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

thanks

Just thanking you for cleaning up my lousy citations. I get vertigo trying to figure it out but I'm trying JGVR (talk) 19:59, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

You welcome, I think.... I'm not sure what page I helped on. All we can ask is you try. There are a ton of things to learn around here. If you need any help, just ask. Bgwhite (talk) 20:20, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Johannes Pieterse Van Brugh. References are the one of my weak points, I wrote only about a dozen short articles and they are a mess in the ref area. Is there a message board to give a shout and see if anyone is interested? JGVR (talk) 20:55, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Not sure about a message board. Wikipedia:Teahouse is a place for new editors to ask questions.

The good news is that there is an easier way to do the refs, templates. With templates, you don't have to worry about the format of the reference as the template takes care of that for you. I converted Johannes Pieterse Van Brugh to use templates. A reference is at Wikipedia:Citation_templates. I've got the syntax of website, book and newspaper down, but I can't remember journals or other "weird" ones, so I look at the reference page. Bgwhite (talk) 22:07, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Cha Cha Malone

Please see User talk:Just unknown Just unknown (talk) 21:37, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Thank You, Thank You x1000

Thank you for the revamp / update of WP:FIX. Not only for the excellent redesign, but for the extremely useful 'database dumps'! To this point I had used Google, which is fine, but the list from the database dump goes much quicker!

		The Cleanup Barnstar
		For much appreciated effort on the rework of WP:FIX! Sct72 (talk) 04:07, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

You are welcome. Hopefully there will be a lot less false positives. Back in the day, I also fixed and looked for articles via Google. It was frustrating, especially for combinations like "a a". My plan is to do dumps for the rest of them in January, then do updates every 2-3 months or as needed. Give me a yell anytime if you want a dump done or something needs to be tweaked. Thank you for doing most of them. It looks like the heavy lifting has been on your shoulders. Bgwhite (talk) 05:46, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Light Blue -v- Light Blue Pour Homme

Bgwhite, I would like to expand the Light Blue Pour Homme page from being solely about the men's fragrance to being a page about the entire fragrance line. In addition to the original women's fragrance, Dolce & Gabbana has just released Light Blue Living Stromboli--which I would like to include on the page as well. In my opinion, it doesn't make sense to have three separate pages, so what would you think about changing the name of the page from "Light Blue Pour Homme" to "Light Blue (fragrance)"? If you don't think this would be acceptable, I will "undo" my recent changes. Thanks, SchoolMarm101 (talk) 18:46, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

It does make sense. A couple of things. "Notes" section should be renamed. Not sure on the name... Other lines? Other frangrences? Product line? Second thing is to mention the other versions in the lede. Bgwhite (talk) 18:53, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Big tag!

Big tag! Mind correcting there too? That was flag of India.. It became so popular? I see it in every 2-3 days! For you people I had to change this signature! Arghh! --Tito Dutta (talk) 19:25, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

You are jealous because you don't have the same type of signature anymore. Why did you change your signature to a plain one? Bgwhite (talk) 19:29, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

You again folgot? Bad memoly... bad memoly! See why I changed mys signature and what you previously folgot! I see my signature everyday! --Tito Dutta (talk) 19:39, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

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3 small tags in a row

I guess you could report this as a bug. Is this that common though? Is this fixed by running general fixes for a second time? We could keep the "Yes" with the minor exceptions described in the footnote. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:47, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

The 3 in a row is minor. However, </small></small> with only one opening small tag is the vast majority of cases I see. Bgwhite (talk) 06:50, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Page Name Change Request

I figured this out. Thanks. SchoolMarm101 (talk) 02:06, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Did you know that...

... you have scored 384.64569 in a proposed assessment scale --Tito Dutta (talk) 22:00, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

If a proper metric was used, my number would negative.... Bgwhite (talk) 22:08, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. (William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell c. 1790).

Hey, I'm a recovering Eng. Lit. major, and every now and then I have a relapse. --Shirt58 (talk) 09:07, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Was this fixed?

Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs#Plugin.2B.2B_not_adding_listas. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:56, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Yes Bgwhite (talk) 21:54, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Accidentally broken reflist on Alan Grayson

Hey Bgwhite, Just noticed that one of your edits accidentally cut the closing curly braces off a reflist template on Alan Grayson. You can see the diff of your edit here: [2]

I've fixed the broken reflist, but you might want to have a look through your recent edits in case it also happened elsewhere.

Happy editing!

Kind regards, Matt (talk) 08:14, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

General “fixes”

Please, check more carefully your semi-automated edits. You totally screwed up the brackets in these two edits: [3], [4].—Emil J. 17:41, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Talkback

Thanks so much for your responses on the NAS Wexford Ireland page. I'm most grateful for you feedback and agree. It really is a work in progress, but felt it was best to put it out there rather than the single paragraph of introduction which was originally there (though even though very important). Happy New Year. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rocketrosy (talk • contribs) 04:14, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Hello, Bgwhite. You have new messages at Wikipedia:Bot requests.
Message added 19:49, 14 December 2012 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Not a real tb, but this might be interesting for you. mabdul 19:49, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

Fixing not necessary

Dear Bgwhite, Thanks for taking an interest in my "Almost finished" biography article on Sergio Franchi. I know that I still have a lot to learn, but your edit moved my "Notes" section from the paragraph to which it referred (CDs) to a separate section. I hope nothing else has been changed.Cathlec (talk) 13:06, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

I changed the syntax to use proper notes. Bgwhite (talk) 21:14, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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	I keep seeing you in my watchlist, improving and organizing biographies I started. Thanks! Jokestress (talk) 00:27, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Steinvör Sighvatsdotter

I address you simply because I found your pawprint on the page Steinvör Sighvatsdotter. I have now translated Google´s machine "translation" of this page, so I hope it is understandable, but it is not readable (I fear) so any help to improve the language will be highly appreciated.

Since I do not know how to do it myself I wonder if you could change the name of this article from Steinvör Sighvatsdotter to Steinvör Sighvatsdóttir? There are Swedish, Danish and Norwegian forms of this name, but on English Wp I think that the Icelandic form should be used. (She was an Icelander.) There are of course other questions, such as should her name be spelled Steinvǫr or Steinvör? Since she lived in the 13th C and Finnur Jónsson used the spelling Steinvör I suggest this is the best choice. The second question is whether her patronymicon should be spelled Sighvatsdóttir or Sigvatsdóttir. Finnur Jónsson prefered the second spelling, but the Icelandic Wp has the first. My own feeling is that it doesn´t matter, but that a redirect page should cover the alternative. I would have liked to give more references, but the Kålund edition of the Sturlunga Saga has no page numbers, and at present the sagas I would have refered to in Guðni Jónsson´s web version are red-linked. As soon as they become blue I will be able to give more source references. (http://www.heimskringla.no/wiki/Sturlunga_saga ) I wrote the original article on the Swedish Wp and had no intention to write it in English since my knowledge of your language is negligable. But someone who spells her name Marika backwards introduced it on en:wp, and since I did not understand Google´s machine translation of my own words, I felt compelled to write a translation of the translation. I wonder if you could also change the name of the page Holldóra Tumadóttir into Halldóra Tumadóttir, which is the correct spelling. I suppose I will have to translate this article too, because the machine translation is (hopefully) more worthless than I am and Aciram/Marika completely missed the point. Halldóra was not an important person, she was just a pawn in the game. I almost wept when I wrote that article (in Swedish) but perhaps I managed to keep it sufficiently neutral and unemotional since Aciram did not see the point. I meant Halldóra´s life as an example of the tragedy of the Icelandic civil war that cut right through her heart, killing her own children and relatives on both sides. Best wishes and Happy New Year and may there be peace. Srv.rosen (talk) 18:21, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

I moved the page to Steinvör Sighvatsdóttir per your request. Bgwhite (talk) 22:07, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Thank you very much. I am now sobering up after New years's eve. I wonder, could you also move the page Holldóra Tumadóttir to Halldóra Tumadóttir? Holldóra is a misspelling. It should be spelled Halldóra (with an "a"). If you do not believe me you could check with the Icelandic wp is:Halldóra Tumadóttir. Best wishes Srv.rosen (talk) 08:45, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

(Talk page stalker)  Done --j⚛e decker^talk 02:39, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Auto-edits to Óró sé do bheatha abhaile

Please stop doing the same edits to Óró sé do bheatha abhaile after I revert them. The HTML is deliberately left in the quoted text in the reference and the other reference which you keep deleting is a valid web page and a useful citation. I don't know why Wikipedia's spam filter doesn't like it, but it is a false positive.

If you wish to put a case for reverting my second reversion of your edits, please do so on the talk page for the article.

☸ Moilleadóir ☎ 11:37, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

First off, the last one was a manual edit. Please read WP:BLACKLIST on how to add a blacklisted link. However, the link you are adding is unreliable and shouldn't be used. HTML shouldn't be used where an equivalent wikicode is found... the page will be added to CheckWiki page and will continually be overridden. Bgwhite (talk) 17:31, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Special Barnstar
	Thank you for adding details for Henry W. Gould! RexRowanTalk 19:12, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

lang

instead of doing this could you convert these to {{lang}} or {{lang-ru}}? Frietjes (talk) 01:18, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Will do Bgwhite (talk) 02:01, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

I just did a database scan so I can fix the ones I messed up. FYI... There are a total of 154 articles that use <font lang and 380,000 that use {{lang}}. Bgwhite (talk) 08:20, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

color

be careful with edits like this one. that template does not generate the leading # symbol, so you effectively removed the coloring with this edit. Frietjes (talk) 01:22, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

There was no # symbol before the edit, so I didn't add one. The template should contain the # symbol and not the article. If the template contains the name of of a colour, adding a # before it in the article breaks things. I'll remember if I come across another Hong Kong subway article, it is done wrong and adjust. Bgwhite (talk) 02:16, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

the issue is that the symbol is not required for <font color=>, but it is for <span style="color:">. compare

<font color=CCCCFF>font CCCCFF</font> 
<font color=#CCCCFF>font #CCCCFF</font>
<span style="color:CCCCFF">span CCCCFF</span>
<span style="color:#CCCCFF">span #CCCCFF</span>

you will find that three out of four work. the # is not required for font color, but it is for css. Frietjes (talk) 22:31, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Defaultsort

BG19bot I notice just added a defaultsort to 2012 6 Hours of São Paulo and set it to 2012 6 Hours of São Paulo, which I'm sure you'll agree is purposeless. Defaultsort shouldn't be placed on article labelled with years that start with years. --Falcadore (talk) 12:26, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Per WP:MCSTJR, there cannot be ligatured or accented letters. It changed São to -> Sao in DEFAULTSORT and the sort values that were previously added into the categories. Bgwhite (talk) 17:36, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Defaultsort inaccurate edit summary

The bot made this edit saying that it was adding a defaultsort. It wasn't. Would you mind fixing the bot so it doesn't use inaccurate edit summaries? Thanks. Bencherlite^Talk 19:08, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

That was a manual error on my part. The edit summary was supposed to say "WP:CHECKWIKI error fix for #61. Punctuation goes before References. Do general fixes if a problem exists". I forgot to change the summary. Bgwhite (talk) 19:39, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

No problem, accidents happen. Regards, Bencherlite^Talk 19:46, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

a headsup

I initiated a discussion [5] over the differences in our interpretations of the requirement that sources be independent. 17:17, 10 January 2013 (UTC)Geo Swan (talk)

Does Ctrl Shift P...

...work for you in AWB? --Tito Dutta (talk) 20:00, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Manual is wrong. It should be Ctrl+Alt+P. I'll fix the manual. Bgwhite (talk) 20:04, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

That is not working either! --Tito Dutta (talk) 20:10, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Two things come to mind. 1) Do you have a default browser set? 2) You are running an older version of AWB. Maybe there is a bug? Get version 8853 here. Bgwhite (talk) 20:13, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

AWB 4.6.2.0

I have downloaded it and got struck in a loop, I can not sign in . --Tito Dutta (talk) 20:35, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Being logged into the website doesn't help with logging into AWB.

Hmmm, did you install the new version into a clean directory and logged out of the old? I can't think of anything else. If still a problem ask at AWB's talk page. Bgwhite (talk) 20:38, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

4.6.2.0? This is D-E-A-D. It doesn't use API and it's only for wikia editors. Please download versions 5.0+ and up. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:36, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Yes, I have downloaded 5.4.0.1 now. Working fine! First I downloaded the second link from the page linked in BGWhite's post above!--Tito Dutta (talk) 23:42, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

BG19bot using erronious edit summaries

As in here, where the edit summary doesn't reflect what was done. Thought you should know. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 22:23, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Also as in #Defaultsort inaccurate edit summary, reported (by me) and acknowledged by Bgwhite earlier on. Bencherlite^Talk 22:25, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

From the time I started up the bot to when Bencherlite contacted me about it, the bot had run ~90 minutes. So, there are probably ~200-250 articles with messed up edit summaries. Bushranger's page edit came in before Bencherlite's notice. Thanks again Bencherlite. It wouldn't have been pretty if it was still continuing. Bgwhite (talk) 22:34, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Ah, sorry I missed that. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 23:04, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

I'll be back in the game soon

I had problems downloading the database dump with my sloooooooow intenet connection and I ve also been busy irl. I'll be back in the game soon. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:38, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Threats, threats, threats. Bgwhite (talk) 23:42, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

bad conversion

something went wrong here, not all the lang templates are closed. clearly they were screwed up to start with, but the screw up wasn't as visible. Frietjes (talk) 00:30, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for catching it. I'm doing these manually and do preview the page before saving. Don't know how I didn't catch that one. Bgwhite (talk) 00:36, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Bot task

Hi,

I noticed your bot is editing at ~15 edits per minute. That is pretty high, is there a reason for this? CrimsonBlue (talk) 01:58, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Bot speed varies depending on what my computer is doing, time of day (aka internet speed) and most importantly, how fast Wikipedia is at load/saving pages. ~15 edits is at its high end, but usually it's 7-8 a minute. Weekends are the slowest and weekday nights the fastest. I have insomnia, so I run the bot at all hours of the night. Not sure if you using Pywikipedia with me AWB is causing any variances. Also, the closer you are to the east coast of the U.S., the faster things will be. Bgwhite (talk) 06:46, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

You Got Mail!

Hello, Bgwhite. Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.

Curb Chain (talk) 04:35, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar (almost) for you!

Tito Dutta (talk) 20:51, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Removing (poor) references from Sarah Powers Bradish

Hello. I think removing references, as poor as they were, as in Sarah Powers Bradish, does not qualify as 'general fix' or 'cleanup'. Please be careful. Thanks - Nabla (talk) 01:30, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Case sensitive search in AWB

Do you know how to search a case sensitive search in AWB? For example, I want to search only the pages with "bgwhite" (not Bgwhite etc) Regex? Wikisearch text does not seem to work! --Tito Dutta (talk) 17:19, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Two answers. 1) Regex does do cases sensitive searches. 2) When doing a search, regex and non-regex, check the "case sensitive" box.

I don't know how long it would take you to download 9GB. I've got the latest database dump. Tell me what you are searching for and I can do a scan and send you the much smaller results. Bgwhite (talk) 18:09, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

9 GB? I have a monthly 5 GB quota, after that internet becomes extremely slow (details)

Another example, I want to search (in AWB) only those articles with the word "bengali" (not "Bengali") (the way we search "What links here (all NS) or Checkwiki error 61). --Tito Dutta (talk) 18:55, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

I'll rub it in... Your average is 1.21 Mb/s download. I just ran the test and mine was just over 25 Mb/s. The test was to a server close to me. If I choose a server near Wikipedia's site, I get a paltry 20 Mb/s.  :) I'll run a scan for the word "bengali" in a couple of hours... I have to be offline for a bit. Bgwhite (talk) 19:09, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Not actually, 1.21 Mb/s is high speed for me. I have changed the comment "average speed" in the document. 20 Mb/s is unimaginable for me. I have never used an internet with 20 Mb/s... never... let me try to imagine.. downloading Firefox 15.9 Megabyte.. clicked on "Save file"... hush "Download complete".

But, please beat Sarah Price in internet speed. Can you? And can you please give me the speedtest result URL you have just taken to publish in this same section of this document? I just need the speedtest image URL and city! --Tito Dutta (talk) 19:25, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

That list does not work, I was looking for list of articles with text bengali (not "Bengali"). --Tito Dutta (talk) 23:04, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

No, it does work. Open an edit window and search for "bengali". Bgwhite (talk) 23:10, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Following your direction, (searching with Firefox search option, "match case" ticked)

The first article's result: | image = File:1010 bengali comedy.jpg

Second article: (reference) * www.bengalitollywood.com/../100-love

Third article: {{cite web | url=http://eversion.news-eleven.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=576%3Adozens-killed-hundreds-of-buildings-burnt-down-by-bengali

So one, AWB will not and should not convert "bengali" to "Bengali" here! --Tito Dutta (talk) 23:16, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Correct, AWB shouldn't convert in those three cases. I'll re-run a scan to remove some of those cases. Bgwhite (talk) 23:36, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

This post contains humour

He he he he! AWB was ineffective for the first three entries I chose (and of that list), please read pages 11–12 of this book which'll show there are chances that AWB will be ineffective in 100% entries of that list! --Tito Dutta (talk) 23:45, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

• Great work!
• Excellent work!
• Superb!

I mean I have done a "great" and "excellent" work! "Superb"! the second quip here. Anyway, all those entries have been processed, though only 25-30 articles had the word "bengali"in main text.

Back to the main question, how did you search these articles, can I search with "Wik text search" or something so in AWB? I guess you'll get much much articles if you search with "english" and replace with "Engslih" (though I am not going to do that, out of WP India), I can try tamil→Tamil, india→India etc! --Tito Dutta (talk) 07:20, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Sent you an email of my test.

I'm not aware of a "Wiki text search" that will do the same thing. I am doing the database scan in AWB, however, you need the database dump.

My search was [^/-]bengali ( which means find any bengali as long as it wasn't /bengali or -bengali). I'll run one for tamil and india. Bgwhite (talk) 07:39, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

In search of alternative

You'll get 50,000 results if you can find only the results with text ==See Also== and ==External Links== and replace with ==See also== and ==External links==
Anyway, since you are an expert AWB user can you tell me if it is possible to include this code in AWB setting so that we can use the case sensitive "Google Search"?
I am searching other options! --Tito Dutta (talk) 02:38, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

They must start search operators in "Wiki text search" at least this one "word" (i.e. exact word in article text, case insensitive, space counted)! --Tito Dutta (talk) 02:43, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

Bot task mislabeled?

I appreciate this edit, but what the bot did and what the bot said it did in the edit summary are not the same thing. I just wanted to let you know. This is also Sven Manguard 19:26, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

The bot did do what the summary said.

First part of the summary says "(WP:CHECKWIKI) error fix for #61. Punctuation goes before References." In the article, it fixed "<ref name=IGD></ref>." There was a period after a ref that the bot fixed. It is hard to notice the change in the diff.

Second part of the summary says "Do general fixes if a problem exists", which the bot did do by fixing the refs. Bgwhite (talk) 21:17, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

How about this edit? Pretty sure there's no punctuation change there (my previous edits in fact effected this throughout the article), although the bot did alter some references. --pmj (talk) 10:01, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

The bot works from a database dump that was created on January 3. You fixed there punctuation error on the 6th. The rest of the edit summary "Do general fixes if a problem exists." still stands. There is nothing wrong here. Bgwhite (talk) 22:28, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for that detail about how the bot gets its data. The edit summary is nonetheless incorrect, but since it's caused by stale data rather than a logic fault, there are no doubt more important tasks to prioritise over fixing this. Keep up the good work! --pmj (talk) 03:07, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Bot removing intentional underscores with odd message

Hi there. Please see diff 532407377 of the “stat (system call)” article by BG19bot. It has removed some underscores from “time_t” that are meant to be there. I seem to be losing a battle with these AWB bots here. Also the message just mentions WP:DEFAULTSORT, which is nowhere to be seen in the article, but now I see that’s a mistake that seems to have already mentioned above. Vadmium (talk, contribs) 03:40, 11 January 2013 (UTC).

The bot edited the article ~20 minutes before I was made aware of my error.

The edits are valid. It removed three underscore, two of which shouldn't cause you a problem. The third was [[time_t]]. I assume you want the underscore to show up in the article. If you want to display text for a link that is different from the linked article title, you use a pipe... thus [[time t|time_t]]. Follow MOS and most problems go away. Bgwhite (talk) 05:32, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

I’m not sure I consider the end result (time t without an underscore) to be valid. Also I looked but could not find anything in the MOS about making links with underscores in them. However I did find Category:Articles with underscores in the title, which seems to be present for just this problem. I have added it to the time_t redirect in question. Do you think that will help prevent the issue from recurring? Vadmium (talk, contribs) 01:22, 12 January 2013 (UTC).

No, this fixes nothing. The article in question, time t, has no underscore. Category in question is for articles, not redirects, plus there is no redirect in the title.

Again, following the rules fixes the problem.... [[time t|time_t]] Bgwhite (talk) 22:39, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

I can see that a piped link might fix this instance, but it does not seem to be the natural way to include an underscore in a link. There are plenty of other cases where unpiped links are used. Can you point out if a rule about using piped links is written down anywhere? This is the first I have come across the idea.

Would you consider preventing your bot from automatically removing underscores from unpiped links? Also I suspect this AWB script already respects underscores in some cases (e.g. Yobot diff 422256852 from Apr 2011) and I would like to understand why; is it due to the category I found, or perhaps the use of {{DISPLAYTITLE}}? What does the category actually do, and why isn’t it appropriate for redirects? Vadmium (talk, contribs) 23:06, 14 January 2013 (UTC).

Refs

Hello. Sorry to have to ask, but what does 'punctuation comes before references' mean? Thanks. Rosser Gruffydd 22:52, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

See MOS:REFPUNC.

Should be: Sorry to have to ask,<ref>...</ref>

Should not be: Sorry to have to ask<ref>...</ref>,

Bgwhite (talk) 22:59, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

Bose Ikard

Re BG19bot's edit summary there... I admit it, the bot did the right thing and the last edit on the page is about a comma but why does its rationale state that the edits were done only because of punctuation? It seems that most of what the bot did was cleaning up refs by using 'ref name ='... Anyway, just was wondering if the Bot picks the last edit performed on a page or if the amount of editing as done on a majority basis affects the edit summary. Cheers, Shearonink (talk) 21:57, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

The reason the bot edited the page was for the punctuation. A database scan revealed the problem and the page was put in the bot's queue.

Last part of the edit summary says, "Do general fixes if a problem exists." It is unknown if a "general fix" problem exists. If there is a problem, bot will fix it while visiting the page. Bgwhite (talk) 23:00, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Redirect proposal

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:William Trump#Redirect. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 06:39, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Re: Tamil Nadu

1. Ya, there will be many pages. Do you have the list? It will be similar for "india (India)", "tamil (Tamil)", "hindi (Hindi)", "See Also, See also", "External Links, External links".
2. Last year or the year before, a person named Matthew Epstein did a crazy to thing to get a job in Google. No formal application, he created a website and started shouting there to hire him. At that time I was, (and still I am, though very much irregular there now for my work in Wikipedia) a Top Contributor of Gmail Help Forum (i.e. also a type of online volunteering, reference). We few top contributors had a great laugh on his site and works. Actually I made that animation keeping this Matthew in mind, meet Matthew and see his unique idea to get job here: googlepleasehire.me. The best point is, I don't need to see that moustache since I edit own talk page very rarely! --Tito Dutta (talk) 08:09, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Indian music

Most probably you know that from 1500 BC or so till 1700 AD India enjoyed her golden period. I often feel surprised when I see people judging Indian culture based on some second class, third class movies or performances of actors, actresses, models. Our heritage can be found in our philosophy, our music etc. No, not Bollywood. Please don't judge Indian music by Hindi songs.

I have uploaded a short piece of a classical Indian instrumental music sample, My dear, Bgwhite, I strongly urge you to spend few moments and listen to the cropped track. This is Bismillah Khan playing Shehnai (one kind of Indian flute) and raga Yaman. This or similar music is generally played in marriage festivals and you can find the happiness and festive spirit here.

If something really makes me proud as an Indian then it is a work like this You can download the cropped track (last part) from here (mp3, 2.3 MB). --Tito Dutta (talk) 09:04, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Result

0 in first 50. AWb is not making the intended change (i.e. Tamilnadu→Tamil Nadu). I have aborted the task. --Tito Dutta (talk) 09:34, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Bgwhite. You have new messages at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Check Wikipedia.
Message added 22:15, 17 January 2013 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

I mentioned you here. Nothing bad, I'm just trying to fix this issue without going back to a depreciated HTML attribute. Thanks! :-) Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 22:15, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Lord Charles Hay

I've proposed reverting your move of 20 minutes ago at Talk:Charles Hay (British general)#Suggested move. Opera hat (talk) 00:28, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Have I posted...

.. a reply here? It is true, I started writing a reply and then became busy with a proposal. Yes, I have tried that! --Tito Dutta (talk) 06:41, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Great minds think alike :) It is an AWB rule to change tamilnadu -> Tamil Nadu. However if [[Tamilnadu]] is found in an article, AWB won't change any tamilnadus in the article.. AWB will also not change if tamilnadu if it is in a template, quotes or italics. I too had questions about this and I asked GoingBatty about it. Adding the find/replace will overcome this.

Wikipedia:AWB/T#Usage says: "AWB purposely avoids fixing typos in certain areas of the wiki-text. Typo fixing is prevented within: image names, templates names and parameters, wikilink targets, quotations, and any text that follows a colon or asterisk. If a typo rule matches a wikilink target, this rule will be ignored on the whole page." Bgwhite (talk) 06:49, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

So far, it has not worked. and there is a minor issue, the rule is deleting the space (i.e. Tamilnadu has→ [[Tamil Naduhas!

The best think might be verbatim search. If "quErY" is not possible then !qUEry! or ~queRY~... but we need such an "exact search" option. There are so many "See also"→"See Also" waiting for you! --Tito Dutta (talk) 08:29, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Hmmm, worked every time for me. Do you have the "regex" box checked? Do you have example pages? Bgwhite (talk) 08:35, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

"Please send me your XML file or see/correct settings here --Tito Dutta (talk) 08:41, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

You are missing a + at the end in the second regex. -> \s+tamilnadu\s+ Bgwhite (talk) 08:48, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

I don't have "single line" checked, but I don't think that will make a difference. Bgwhite (talk) 08:52, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

+ added, please send me the XML file, I'll directly use that settings! (also if possible please send the Kingbotk plugin environment settings (the long list they have, untick everything, all Wikifeatures etc..) --Tito Dutta (talk) 08:57, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

I'm about to goto bed. Will send it tomorrow. Bgwhite (talk) 08:59, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Going to bed at 2:30 pm in afternoon? (okay, I understand), and itmight be useful too for new AWB users, unless they have a settings library, you can create a library with most common settings, so that they can download and use! (can modules be also stored and sent via XML file?) --Tito Dutta (talk) 09:01, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Have you guys tried to ask WP:AWB/T for help? -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:39, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

#20

75% of the cases? Do you have examples of not being fixed? -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:22, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

I should have kept example articles. It was weird because I didn't see any rhyme or reason. It looked random.

I think "Yes" should be restored and report a bug in case something is not fixed. At least AWB is supposed to fix all of them. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:44, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

#63 has problems with ( [ and [[. Example is:

1. List of reality television show franchises (I fixed it) ^{<small>[[#endnote 1|1]]</small>}.
2. Plug-in electric vehicles in the United States (I fixed it) ^{<small>(1)</small>}

I've seen it with ^{<small>[1]</small>} Bgwhite (talk) 08:34, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Another one. Won't do <small>^<text></small> Bgwhite (talk) 08:57, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Let's see if Rjw can fix any of these for us. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:45, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

I need an example of the latter. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:07, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

William Joseph Chaminade

Thanks for the suggestion about using the bot for improving the entry, but it has been experienced repeated vandalism by an anonymous editor under a variety of url's, who keeps added material for which he/she gives references which do not support the material he/she adds. This person has now taken to also including that notice about improving the article, I presume as way of showing what he/she can do. Any suggestions? Daniel the Monk (talk) 18:15, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Looks like you and others have been having "fun" with the IPs for several months. I put a protection on the page. No IP users can edit the page for a month. If you have problems after the protection expires, give me a buzz. Bgwhite (talk) 18:29, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! I expect it likely to start up again, but appreciate a break. Daniel the Monk (talk) 21:39, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Issue with bot ref changes

This AWB edit only mentioned "Add DEFAULTSORT using AWB", but also made some ref changes. That itself is not a real problem.

However, there are issues with the ref edits. First, in the beginning of the edit, you swapped a couple. Later, you also changed source= to publisher=. Source is not a real parameter, so the removal was correct. However, it should have been replaced with work=, which is the "name of the source periodical" (e.g. The New York Times). Publisher is actually the name of the person or company that publishes the work. As {{cite news}} says, it is "not normally included for periodicals". This is a common mistake.

Thanks for your work. I hope this helps. Superm401 - Talk 06:53, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

Refs were swapped because refs should go in ascending order in which they appear in the text. Thus the refs should go ^[1][3][4] and not ^[1][4][3]. The swapped refs were ^[8][3] before the edit and ^[3][8] after the edit.

For {{cite news}}. If it is a newspaper, it should be |newspaper=The New York Times, not work=. The bot didn't know if it was a newspaper, journal, web, so it default's to publisher. If it defaulted to work, I'm sure somebody would be upset it didn't default to publisher. If you feel this is wrong and should be defaulted to work, the leave a note at Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser. Bgwhite (talk) 07:10, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

Well, this is Wikipedia, where somebody's gonna get upset about anything. It should default to "work", because that's correct, and "publisher" is not. As far as I know, "work" is perfectly acceptable to substitute for values such as "newspaper" or "journal". When I come across an erroneous "publisher" parameter, I almost always replace it with "work", because I'm lazy and it's got five fewer characters to type than "newspaper". And "publisher" is almost always incorrect. I often find |publisher=The Sun, but the publisher of The Sun is not The Sun; it's News International. Replacing "source" with "publisher" at least does makes the source visible in the ref by substituting a valid parameter for an invalid one, but it's still incorrect. Note the visual difference between this citation and this one.

I've never seen AWB do this before. Was the bot using a plugin? Or maybe I've just never seen it because it's a rarity.... MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 10:36, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

It has to do with Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Rename template parameters. Publisher is wrong for a periodical, but isn't it less wrong than not showing any value at all? -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:08, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the link; I'd never been to that page before. As I sort of said above, I agree that it's "less wrong", but it's easy enough to make it "more right". We have to be detectives and figure out what the intention was when someone made an erroneous edit. The intention in most cases seems very clear to me (for periodicals, at least), so I'm going to change it. If someone disagrees, I guess they'll change it back and/or discuss it. It's not really that important, as it seems to be a rare error. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 20:20, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for replying. I'd never heard about the ascending order thing, but now I understand that change. As others said, "work" is basically always correct. As {{cite news}} says, "work: Name of the source periodical; may be wikilinked if relevant. Displays in italics. Aliases: journal, newspaper, magazine, periodical." You don't need to know which it is (since they're aliases), just the name of the work. Mandarax, I appreciate the change. Superm401 - Talk 06:35, 21 January 2013 (UTC)