User talk:Citation bot/Archive 12
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Request: Strip commas at the end of parameters
- What happens
- Nothing
- What should happen
- [1]
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
This should apply to all parameters. There's no reason for any parameter to end with a comma. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 23:43, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
- Except perhaps
author-sep? Martin (Smith609 – Talk) 07:45, 25 August 2018 (UTC)- Yes, that would be the exception. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 13:31, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
author-separator author-name-separator separatorAManWithNoPlan (talk) 16:46, 1 November 2018 (UTC)- https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1011 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 16:51, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
- Yes, that would be the exception. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 13:31, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
- Presumably you mean parameter values. And Martin's special case would
|author-sep=,, where the comma is the value, not some trailing cruft. ♦ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 20:32, 2 November 2018 (UTC) - cs1|2 does not have or support
|author-sep=,|author-name-separator=, or|separator=.{{cite book |title=Title |last=Last1 |first=First1 |last2=Last2 |first2=First2 |publisher=Publisher |author-sep=, |author-name-sep=, |separator=,}}
- Those parameters were deprecated and removed when
|mode=was instituted. - One might legitimately set
|postscript=,: - —Trappist the monk (talk) 20:43, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1020 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 20:59, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
Request: chapter-format
- What should happen
- If removing
|chapter-url=, also remove|chapter-format= - We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1017 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 14:06, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
Bug: Spaces in ref-tags
- What happens
- The bot doesn't expand bare URLs in ref tags if there is a space in the
</ref > - Relevant diffs/links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AJosve05a%2Fcite-sandbox&diff=prev&oldid=866905443
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1018 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 17:00, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
Interesting new ability for Citoid
phab:T124610#4715397 or rather phab: T198567 might be of interest for the bot as well. (t) Josve05a (c) 16:14, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
- Please keep an eye on it. When it gets really reliable; then we might add it. For now {{notabug}}. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 14:10, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
PMID low numers
- What happens
- The bot does not remove
|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1despite|pmid=1exists - What should happen
- Replace
|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1with|pmid=1 - Relevant diffs/links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lolita_Lebrón&diff=866697532&oldid=866671113
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
- In https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AJosve05a%2Fcite-sandbox&diff=prev&oldid=867085176 the bot did not add
|pmid=1or|pmid= 11442. (t) Josve05a (c) 15:20, 3 November 2018 (UTC)- https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1021 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 18:52, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
Request: Expand doi citations in {{cite news}} as well
- What should happen
- The bot should expand
{{cite news|url=http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cen-v076n048.p024}} - We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1019 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 17:09, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
Do not override specific page with page range
- What happens
- Bot overrides specific
|at=p. 29with|pages=21–40 - Relevant diffs/links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AJosve05a%2Fcite-sandbox&diff=prev&oldid=867384576
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1026 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 15:36, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
Remove doi.org if adding doi parameter
- What happens
- The bot adds
|doi=10.4224/PhysRevA.96.042113.data - What should happen
- The bot should remove
|url=https://doi.org/10.4224/PhysRevA.96.042113.datasince the doi resolves - Relevant diffs/links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AJosve05a%2Fcite-sandbox&diff=prev&oldid=867385059
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
we only remove the URL if the doi is in CrossRef. Probably should make an execption for doi.org. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 14:29, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
- https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1025 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 15:33, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
Emergency blacklist
zenodo.org has been blacklisted on English Wikipedia for copyright reasons (at least for now). Please disable the addition of it (and allow other edits to be made; the bot currently fails on Radon). See Special:PermanentLink/867438103#zenodo.org. (Courtesy ping Nemo bis and JzG) (t) Josve05a (c) 21:42, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
- https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1029 (t) Josve05a (c) 21:51, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
- and yet researchgate is cool. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 22:20, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
- i am glad we currently clean up those urls, so we convert pdf links to landing pages. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 22:22, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
- Yes. A friend cannot upload her papers to ResearchGate but can upload them to Zenodo. I think that may be telling. Guy (Help!) 23:40, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
- Blocked and {{fixed}}. Also, a second pull is in place to turn it back off, if that is possible. You are correct, it is one thing to violate your own papers' copyright; but it is another thing to violate everyone's papers copyrights. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 18:25, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
- and yet researchgate is cool. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 22:20, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
Bug: Publisher weirdness
- Relevant diffs/links
- [2]
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
- Did you verify that there are not whites that got changed? i cannot look right now. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 15:44, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
- I'm not sure what 'changing whites' would be here, but it did something similar in the previous edit [3], where normally it removes publisher in cite journals. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 18:14, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
- If it does than that's another bug. It shouldn't remove the publisher parameter in cite journal templates unless the publisher value would be the same as the journal value. (And, actually, for optimal meta data it shouldn't even remove it then for as long as it is correct, so that both meta data entries journal and publisher can be populated. Instead, seemingly duplicate values should be detected in the cite template and one of the values suppressed in the output, but not in meta data.)
- --Matthiaspaul (talk) 11:44, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
- i got auto corrected. whitespaces not whites. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 22:37, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
- it drops publisher then google books adds it back AManWithNoPlan (talk) 03:55, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
- I'm not sure what 'changing whites' would be here, but it did something similar in the previous edit [3], where normally it removes publisher in cite journals. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 18:14, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
- I just saw it remove a publisher from a "journal" that is really a newsletter whose publisher should not have been removed: Special:Diff/866664956. For major well-established academic journals, removal of publisher may be a good thing, but blindly doing it to all journal citations is not. Citation bot absolutely should not be making this kind of decision, and should not even be suggesting it to human editors (as they too-often fail to exercise any judgement of their own). —David Eppstein (talk) 21:02, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
{{cite magazine}} seems like the proper template is what i am hearing from you. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 21:32, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
- This should stop the drop/add cycle https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1024 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 15:27, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
Adding publishers to journal
- What happens
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Eumolpinae_genera&diff=prev&oldid=867400935
- What should happen
- The opposite!
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1024 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 15:27, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
Bug: bot has to be run twice
- What happens
- In edit 1 it adds
|chapter=. In edit 2 it changed|url=to|chapter-url= - What should happen
- In edit 1: If adding
|chapter=, also change|url=to|chapter-url=in same edit. - Relevant diffs/links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AJosve05a%2Fcite-sandbox&diff=prev&oldid=864969377
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1028 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 15:48, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
Better europepmc.org support
Try running the bot on <ref>http://europepmc.org/scanned?pageindex=1&articles=PMC1697073</ref>. You would expect to get something like:
{{Cite journal |last=Barker |first=C. A. |year=1975 |title=The Ontario Veterinary College: Temperance Street era |journal=The Canadian Veterinary Journal = la Revue Veterinaire Canadienne |volume=16 |issue=11 |pages=319–328 |pmc=1697073 |pmid=1104138}}but instead you will get
{{Cite journal | url=http://europepmc.org/scanned?pageindex=1&articles=PMC1697073 | title=The Ontario Veterinary College: Temperance Street era| journal=The Canadian Veterinary Journal| volume=16| issue=11| pages=319| date=November 1975| last1=Pmc| first1=Europe}}
Completely missing the authors and IDs. (t) Josve05a (c) 23:49, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
- https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1027 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 15:40, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
- {{fixed}}
CAPS-insensitive URLs
- What happens
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Josve05a/cite-sandbox&diff=867472498&oldid=867472485
- What should happen
|url=//JSTOR.org/stable/1733521>|jstor=1733521- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1030 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 23:21, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
Remove Pubmed URL without www.
- What happens
|url=https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12357708is not removed- What should happen
- Treat it the same way as
|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12357708 - Relevant diffs/links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AJosve05a%2Fcite-sandbox&diff=prev&oldid=867484728
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1030/files AManWithNoPlan (talk) 04:23, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
Do not add URL if PMC exists
- What happens
- On
{{Cite journal|last=Espy|first=Kimberly Andrews|last2=Fang|first2=Hua|last3=Johnson|first3=Craig|last4=Stopp|first4=Christian|last5=Wiebe|first5=Sandra A.|last6=Respass|first6=Jennifer|date=2011|title=Prenatal tobacco exposure: Developmental outcomes in the neonatal period.|journal=Developmental Psychology|volume=47|issue=1|pages=153–169|doi=10.1037/a0020724|pmid=21038943|pmc=3057676|issn=1939-0599}}it wants to add|url=http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1501&context=psychfacpub - What should happen
- Do not add OA-links if
|pmc=exists, since PMC is already OA. See bullet point #2 on Wikipedia:OABOT#What kinds of links won't the bot add? - We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1035 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 13:56, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
removed archive url
- What happens
- The bot removes
|archiveurl=when changing|url=to|chapter-url= - What should happen
- Leave
|archiveurl=(at least if only one kind of URL parameter exists) - Relevant diffs/links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Josve05a/cite-sandbox&diff=867839758&oldid=867839747
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
Request: Do not add OA url if |foo-access=free
- What should happen
- Do not add OA url if
|doi-access=free,|jstor-access=free,|ol-access=free, or|osti-access=freeis true - We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
Request: The New York Times
- What happens
- Bot adds
|newspaper=The New York Times - What should happen
- Also remove
|via=www.nytimes.com(and derivations) - Relevant diffs/links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American_nationalism&diff=prev&oldid=867477333
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1043 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 23:56, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
Reuters
- What happens
- The bot added
|newspaper=Reuterswhen|publisher=[[Reuters]]existed - Relevant diffs/links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Loudness_war&diff=prev&oldid=866766938
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1044 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 00:03, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
Bug: Failed to remove doi.org URL
- What should happen
- Remove
|url= - Relevant diffs/links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AJosve05a%2Fcite-sandbox&diff=prev&oldid=867928878
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
If running the bot again, it removes it. Perhaps a "run bot muliple times, until no changes is attemeted, before saving the edit" rule should be implemented. (t) Josve05a (c) 22:01, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
- That is a horrible idea. Although I too have considered it. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 23:06, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
- Yeah (hence it being in small). I can just imagine the bot edit warring with it self back-and-forth...however, it logically feels as if "all possible edits should be made" before saving the change. (t) Josve05a (c) 23:09, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
- And the bot gets banned from database access for repeats and edits take two to three times longer..... AManWithNoPlan (talk) 23:11, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
- And during periods of high use, big edits fail since the bot is too busy double checking itself.... AManWithNoPlan (talk) 23:12, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
- A (short) time-out for "second round" could be added, or only do it for "small" articles (i.e. if running it manually on a short section), or only run twice if there is not high-use (if that could be "tracked"). Not advocating this be implemented here, though. The issue at hand can (hopefully) be patched this time. Just a thought.(t) Josve05a (c) 23:15, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
- And during periods of high use, big edits fail since the bot is too busy double checking itself.... AManWithNoPlan (talk) 23:12, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
- And the bot gets banned from database access for repeats and edits take two to three times longer..... AManWithNoPlan (talk) 23:11, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
- Yeah (hence it being in small). I can just imagine the bot edit warring with it self back-and-forth...however, it logically feels as if "all possible edits should be made" before saving the change. (t) Josve05a (c) 23:09, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1049 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 23:53, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
Request: More caps
- What happens
|journal=Bjpsych International|journal=Ieee Transactions on Computers|journal=Papers from the Workship Within the Framework of the XIII International Congress of Celtic Studies- What should happen
|journal=BJPsych International|journal=IEEE Transactions on Computers|journal=Papers from the Workship within the Framework of the XIII International Congress of Celtic Studies- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1042 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 23:13, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
Bug: DOI broken, or not broken - that is the question
Impossible to know, since I do not know what your sent to the bot. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 14:59, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
- {{notabug}} probably is one time fluke AManWithNoPlan (talk) 19:01, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
Bug: Unlinking
drops one them adds other. weird.AManWithNoPlan (talk) 04:39, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
- https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1050 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 05:21, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
Encyclopedia
- What happens
- It adds
|title=The Encyclopedia of Libertarianismdespite|encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Libertarianismexists - Relevant diffs/links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AJosve05a%2Fcite-sandbox&diff=prev&oldid=868402210
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
Follow-up from User talk:Citation bot/Archive 11#Request: Encyclopedia
CAPS: Oecd
OECD should always be capitalized. I've seen it both in |last1= and |publisher=. <ref>https://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264239012-en</ref> adds |last1=Oecd (t) Josve05a (c) 10:47, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
- https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1053 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 16:31, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
{{fixed}}
Ultra slow
- What happens
- Bot takes forever to run. Hours+, times out all the time, etc...
- Replication instructions
- Click [5] to run the bot
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
It has been that way for about a day. Sometimes you will get lucky and get a 500 error instead of timeout. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 16:56, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
- Although frustrating, these very slow runs do often perform the requested edits even if they never return to display a result. Lithopsian (talk) 20:19, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
- Status
- new bug
- Reported by
- —Chris Capoccia T⁄C 18:45, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
- What happens
- Citation bot does not finish any page and just times out
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
{{fixed}}
Request: Single quotes misused as arrows should be unchanged
- What happens
''- What should happen
- nothing
- Relevant diffs/links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AJosve05a%2Fcite-sandbox&diff=prev&oldid=868782545
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1059 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 16:27, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
Similar names in newspaper/via/publisher are redundant
- What happens
- adds
|newspaper=The New York Timesbut doesn't remove|publisher=New York Times - Relevant diffs/links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AJosve05a%2Fcite-sandbox&diff=prev&oldid=868780380
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
- This could be generalized to anything that differs only by a leading 'the'. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 16:25, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
- Good idea The Headbomb. I might want to create a case-intensive str_is_basically_the_same() function. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 16:32, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
- https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1066 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 21:12, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
- Good idea The Headbomb. I might want to create a case-intensive str_is_basically_the_same() function. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 16:32, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
Bug: doi.library.ubc.ca is a DOI resolver, not a website
- What happens
- Bot added
|url=https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0071732as a OA-link. - What should happen
|doi=10.14288/1.0071732and|url=https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0071732both lnks to the same place. And it has a recognized doi in the path, and should be removed. We should not add such links.- Relevant diffs/links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stainless_steel&diff=868800317&oldid=868799341
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1058 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 16:08, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
- and https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1072 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 18:16, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
Bug: Google Maps publisher is Google
- What happens
- Removes
|publisher=Googlefor citations to Google Maps - Relevant diffs/links
- Don't
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
* {{Citation | publisher = Google | url = https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=210554752554258740073.00045675b996d14eb6c3a&ll=6.839971,28.205177&spn=170.959424,24.609375&z=1 | type = map (non-exhaustive) | title = Participatory budgeting initiatives around the world}}.
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1070 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 16:19, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
Series/Title
- What should happen
- Don't add (identical)
|series=Handbook of Development Economicsif|title=Handbook of Development Economicsalready exists (without somehow removing one of them) - Relevant diffs/links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AJosve05a%2Fcite-sandbox&diff=prev&oldid=868951621
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1073 (at this moment there is a backlog of 18 pull requests, since I am working half-days and the bot operator is not). AManWithNoPlan (talk) 18:22, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
similar data in title/journal/publisher/etc
Will this fix this as well? (t) Josve05a (c) 00:34, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
Change cite book to Cite book
- What happens
- [6] [See last diff line]
- What should happen
- leave caps alone
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
Huh? ♦ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 20:32, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
- Obviously the type of template gets changed more than once as the bot does its thing. I think we can fix. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 20:50, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
- Also added
|journal=to a{{cite book}}. That sounds odd...(t) Josve05a (c) 21:00, 15 November 2018 (UTC)- https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1074 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 21:30, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
- Also added
Request: Minimal cite conference support (doi url)
- What should happen
- In
{{cite conference}}Replace|url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2012.02.120with|doi=10.1016/j.eswa.2012.02.120 - Relevant diffs/links
- Should do: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Health_care&diff=869013786&oldid=869013715
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1075 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 21:33, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
wrong message
In: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quarter-inch_cartridge&curid=895102&diff=869312464&oldid=866498559 it changed from ISBN-10 to ISBN-13, which is fine, but the message says that it removed the access-date. That seems a different question, so should have appropriate message. Gah4 (talk) 21:23, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- The full message is "Alter: isbn. Removed accessdate with no specified URL". It covers both, but admittedly the amount of texted changed appears to be inversely proportional to the length of the message text. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 22:22, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
- {{notabug}} AManWithNoPlan (talk) 19:34, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
Weird doi and hdl formats which works
What should be done with
. doi:10013/epic.10107.d001. hdl:10013/epic.10107.d001. {{cite journal}}: Check |doi= value (help); Cite journal requires |journal= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
The links works, but it is not allowed formats, and the bot does not expand from them. (t) Josve05a (c) 21:15, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
- Probably nothing? Let users fix the errors themselves? Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 21:51, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
- The valid identifiers, btw, are doi:10.2312/BzP_0107_1992 and hdl:10013/epic.10107. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 21:52, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
- The doi link works since dx.doi.org will resolve non-doi hdl. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 22:55, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
{{wontfix}} and will leave for humans to fix. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 21:30, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
Bug: SSRN Electronic Journal
- What happens
|journal=SSRN Electronic Journaldespite https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1057- What should happen
|journal=Middle East Review of International Affairs- Relevant diffs/links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AJosve05a%2Fcite-sandbox&diff=prev&oldid=869766750
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
yeah. that accidently got fixed in a case-sensitive way. waiting for another pull. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 13:24, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
- {{fixed}} AManWithNoPlan (talk) 15:29, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
Request: clean up google search so-called references
While I'm not sure why a citation to Google Search should ever appear in an article, they do quite a lot. It would be good if the bot would remove unnecessary parameters for such URLs as well, as it does with Google Books.
Unnecessary parameters in https://www.google.com/search?q=%22institute+for+sustainable+weight+loss%22&oq=%22institute+for+sustainable+weight+loss%22&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i59.14823j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
aqs=chrome..69i57j69i59.14823j0j7Assisted Query Stats - used for logging purposes onlysourceid=chromeWhere the search originated from - used for logging purposes onlyie=UTF-8input encoding; default is UTF-8
client=firefox-aWhere the search originated from - used for logging purposes onlyrls=com.ubuntu%3Aen-US%3Aunofficialhl=en(Not sure if we want to keep this and point to the English version specifically of the search result or not)aq=oversion of the client - used for loggig purposesoq=Original query - i.e. previous search queryaqi=
Unnecessary parameters in https://www.google.com/search?q=roosevelt+in+hoxsey%27s+plane (not mentioned earlier):
tbm=ischsa=Xved=0ahUKEwie-7Cq4snbAhWxpFkKHYhmDvAQ_AUICigBbiw=837bih=607
(t) Josve05a (c) 19:37, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
- On VERY rare occasions they are valid (example: the term xyz is more popular/common than zyx on the Internet). Almost all the time, it would be more honest to just say <ref>Look it up yourself loser</ref> AManWithNoPlan (talk) 20:01, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
aqs=chrome..69i57j69i59.14823j0j7 Assisted Query Stats - used for logging purposes only sourceid=chrome Where the search originated from - used for logging purposes only ie=UTF-8 input encoding; default is UTF-8
- So, these are the ones to lose client (assume language= is actually important)
rls= aq= oq= aqi= tbm= sa= ved= biw= bih= aqs= sourceid= client= ie=UTF-8 (Since this is default, but keep any other)
- AManWithNoPlan (talk) 02:24, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
- https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1079 and https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1080 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 05:09, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
- {{fixed}} AManWithNoPlan (talk) 17:18, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
- https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1079 and https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1080 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 05:09, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
Bad Data detection: SSRN Electronic Journal
- What happens
|journal=SSRN Electronic Journal- What should happen
- This is in many cases incorrect, despite Crossref stating this. For e.g. this edit it should be "Middle East Review of International Affairs, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 35-59". Perhaps
|journal=SSRN Electronic Journalshould be forbidden, since there seem to be a lot of misattribution to the real source. - Relevant diffs/links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AJosve05a%2Fcite-sandbox&diff=prev&oldid=868769405
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1057 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 15:10, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
- And https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1081 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 19:37, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
existing wrong information is not fixed
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
Please see [7]. It seems extremely improbable that the issue number and page number would both be 061102. JRSpriggs (talk) 20:59, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
- {{notabug}} the bot generates perfect output and leaves user input fields alone. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 21:22, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
Request: Cite paper support
- What should happen
- {{cite paper}} is an alias of {{cite journal}} and should be supported in the same ways as {{cite journal}} is (only let the template name stay the same)
- Relevant diffs/links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AJosve05a%2Fcite-sandbox&diff=prev&oldid=870018089#Test
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
Removal of reference link not justified
- What happens
- Your bot has done this editing https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=King_City_weather_radar_station&diff=870540302&oldid=849398472 but the link to the pdf paper is working fine (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/07055900.1991.9649414), one has to wait a bit longer. Furthermore, the bot removed the Publisher for no good reason as "Atmosphere-Ocean" is the official journal of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. Please adjust it.
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
The style guides are very clear on not including publishers for Journals. 99% of the time the pdf links to publisher pdfs do not work, and even when they do, they often do not last for long. Anyway, it adds nothing that the doi already provides. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 16:30, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
- the correct publisher is tandy anyway. As usual, it was wrong. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 16:40, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
- {{wontfix}}
Citing magazine
- What happens
- uses {{cite journal}} for Wired (magazine)
- What should happen
- use {{cite web}} or {{cite magazine}}
- Relevant diffs/links
- [8]
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
I do not think this fixable, since the only way is to maintain a list of 10,000 magazines. Also, the template are actually exactly the same. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 15:40, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
- Why did it convert from cite web to cite journal? -- GreenC 15:47, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
- They are not exactly the same. The rendering of
|issue=and|number=differs, and you cannot set|title=nonein cite magazine (there may be other differences). --Izno (talk) 18:41, 24 November 2018 (UTC)- That's news to me. I see that this is fairly new change. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 19:09, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
- This pull will help a lot https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1104 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 03:33, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
- Much better and mostly {{fixed}}
- This pull will help a lot https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1104 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 03:33, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
- That's news to me. I see that this is fairly new change. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 19:09, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
- They are not exactly the same. The rendering of
Publisher
- Status
- new bug
- Reported by
- Katolophyromai (talk) 13:02, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
- What happens
- For some odd reason, the bot keeps removing all information from citations about the publisher of the source and the location of the publisher. I have noticed it doing this for a while now and have had to keep cleaning up after it. I do not know if these removals are intentional or accidental, but I see no reason why the bot should be removing publishers from citations, considering that the publisher is a fairly essential piece of information about the source.
- Relevant diffs/links
- Recent examples of this include the bot's activity here and here. It has done it before, but I cannot find the other examples right away and would have to go looking for them.
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
All style guides reject including that information for journals. Also, it is often incorrect. The bot has been doing this for over a decade, so I am sure there are other examples. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 15:34, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
- Flagging as {{notabug}} until debate is over and this is finalized once and for all. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 17:27, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
CAPS: A.I.E.E.
- What happens
|journal=Journal of the A.i.e.e- What should happen
|journal=Journal of the A.I.E.E.(note the intentional trailing dot)- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1060 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 16:46, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
"Om" vs "om"
- What should happen
omshould not be capitalized in Scandinavian languages (but if it is, it shouldn't automatically be de-capitilized)- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
Example |journal=Meddelelser om Grønland (t) Josve05a (c) 16:59, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
- I have have to think about Om vs. om. For now, adding journal titles is good first step. https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1060 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 17:03, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1060 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 16:34, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
Request: JMIR mHealth and uHealth
- What happens
|journal=JMIR MHealth and UHealth- What should happen
|journal=JMIR mHealth and uHealth- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
The Feedback from the Maintainers is that publishers need to be less self-important. 😀😬😜😂 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 23:56, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
- https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1060 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 00:00, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
More caps: PeerJ
- What happens
|journal=Peerj- What should happen
|journal=PeerJ- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
Added to https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1060 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 19:34, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
Request: Bot adds - and . as names
- What happens
- Bot adds
|last1=-|first1=-. - What should happen
- Do not add names with no latin letter characters (or some simialar rule)
- Relevant diffs/links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AJosve05a%2Fcite-sandbox&diff=prev&oldid=870702100
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
Authors: - -. is and interesting author. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 14:52, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
- https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1103 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 01:20, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
- and now https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1107 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 16:40, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
Fails to remove PMC url
- What happens
- Keeps
|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3737244/ - What should happen
- Should remove it, like so [10]
- Relevant diffs/links
- [11]
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1106 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 16:40, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
Bug: JSTOR API is a cookie monster and wants his cookies
- What happens
JSTOR API returned nothing for JSTOR 40238871- Relevant diffs/links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Josve05a/cite-sandbox&oldid=867475487
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
What gives? Temporary issues, or a bug somewhere? (t) Josve05a (c) 23:27, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
- About seven hours ago the test suite suddenly stopped working. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 23:29, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
- We are blocked. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 23:57, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
Caps: J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci
Request: Better UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) support
- What happens
- Bot adds
|url=http://dare.uva.nl/personal/pure/en/publications/deaf-discourse-the-social-construction-of-deafness-in-a-bedouin-community(eb0cb2ac-7045-40fe-8bcf-a40b2c534003).html - What should happen
- Bot should add
|hdl=11245/1.345005instead - Relevant diffs/links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AJosve05a%2Fcite-sandbox&diff=prev&oldid=870110654
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
Is there an API or a way to "find this"? Or is it too much work? (t) Josve05a (c) 13:10, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
- Many users prefer direct links to PDF files rather than records (although librarians and website owners prefer links to HTML pages so that they can track the users more easily). That said, this repository attempts to provide the handle in its HTML metadata, but is misconfigured: <meta name="DC.identifier" content="http://hdl.handle.net11245/1.345005"> (slash missing). I suggest to warn the repository administrators. Their records on BASE are also all broken, some OAI-PMH fixes are in order. Nemo 14:47, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
{{wontfix}} at this time. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 22:38, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
Slow
- Status
- new bug
- Reported by
- 94.234.40.218 (talk) 12:33, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
- What happens
- the bot is uploading new data slowly. I can not get it to work at the moment.
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
Also not working for me. I asked it to check The Bill, so far 25 minutes and it's done nothing.-- 5 albert square (talk) 13:43, December 2018 (UTC)
{{wontfix}} shared server and sadly when it gets slow people often just start trying again and again thus making it worse (similar to shooting someone because they are bleeding and hoping it will help) AManWithNoPlan (talk) 15:32, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
Bug: Do not add OA link if adding free ID
- What happens
- Bot adds both
|pmc=5818020which is open access, and|url=http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10045938/1/Antoniades_Verbal%20learning%20and%20hippocampal.pdf. A link should not be added if a free ID is present. This is regression, or not completely done last time (check needs to be done after adding IDs. - What should happen
- Only add
|pmc=5818020 - Relevant diffs/links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hippocampus&diff=870226157&oldid=870046014
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
This is not a regression. The URL is added before the PMC is present. Will have to think about this. Perhaps move adding Open URL to the end would be best. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 16:46, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
- https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1099 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 22:49, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
Added additional alias of "work" paramter
- What happens
- Bot added "journal" parameter when "magazine" parameter was already present, creating a duplicate parameter error (since both are aliases of "work"). This is similar to the error which renames parameters to create aliases of "work", but in this case new parameters are being created.
- Relevant diffs/links
- Wired article
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
very rare. fix https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1108 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 04:02, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
- Status
- {{notabug}}
- Reported by
- 81.153.242.15 (talk) 15:42, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
On November 19th, you removed two wikilinks from Sackur–Tetrode equation. Both wikilinks seem to be useful; so I restored them. To me, the removal of the wikilinks indicates a bug. 81.153.242.15 (talk) 15:41, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
- removal of partial wikilinks is not a bug. you need to wikilink the entire journal name or it will be removed by the bot. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 16:27, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
Weird Citation bot bug
- Status
- {{fixed}}
- Reported by
- AdrianWikiEditor (talk) 12:08, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
- What happens
- It put the title as "Your NED search results"
- What should happen
- It should say just NED or something like that.
- Relevant diffs/links
- Special:Diff/871488348
- Replication instructions
- I don't know if it'll do the same thing again but my guess is any NED websites.
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1109 once implemented this will stop bot from trying to expand this website. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 18:27, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
Non-names
- What happens
- generates first and last name "Telegraph Reporters"
- What should happen
- blacklist these, I don't think there's many such words, e.g. reporters, journalists, correspondents, anchors
- Relevant diffs/links
- [14]
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1110 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 15:57, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
Bug: doi's with plus signs
In this edit:
- Removed
+in the|doi=10.1002/1097-0142(19840201)53:3+<815::AID-CNCR2820531334>3.0.CO;2-U- Regression of https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/993
(t) Josve05a (c) 09:30, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
- it is interesting that Wiley cannot handle the doi either. plus signs are a horrible choice. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 19:06, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
- waiting for bot to come alive to debug AManWithNoPlan (talk) 03:21, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
- https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1054 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 16:47, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
- Not only conveting existing doi's, but also adding bad doi's :/ (t) Josve05a (c) 22:53, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
- That is no surprise. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 23:30, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
- No, but still sad. A bit surprised though that it didn't add
|doi-broken-date=, but I guess it tests if broken before parsing what to write. (t) Josve05a (c) 23:47, 15 November 2018 (UTC)- when it gets url encoded, the space becomes a plus sign. When people start using doi with spaces and emojis it is going to suck AManWithNoPlan (talk) 00:02, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
- No, but still sad. A bit surprised though that it didn't add
- That is no surprise. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 23:30, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
{{fixed}} AManWithNoPlan (talk) 14:30, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
Request: Process website dates more
- What happens
|date=30/11/2011- Relevant diffs/links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AJosve05a%2Fcite-sandbox&diff=prev&oldid=870225631
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=School-to-prison_pipeline&diff=872325415&oldid=872325081
- https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1098 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 23:08, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
Reuters
- What happens
- adds
|newspaper=Reuterswhen|agency=Reutersis already present - What should happen
- nothing; Reuters is a news agency
- Relevant diffs/links
- [15]
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
- When the actuall website is Reuters.com, it whould be the work (such as
|newspaper=), but while Reuters is the author of an article on another website (such as theguardian/nytimes) it should be|agency=. In this case|agency=Reutersbe removed. Both|agency=Reutersand|newspaper=Reutersshould not be present. (t) Josve05a (c) 14:59, 24 November 2018 (UTC)- Same proble as with assocaited press AManWithNoPlan (talk) 17:54, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
- https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1102 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 19:31, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
- Same proble as with assocaited press AManWithNoPlan (talk) 17:54, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
{{fixed}}
be less exact with agency
- In the same edit, it did not add an extra parameter for the Associated Press of Pakistan and for Agence France-Presse. All these agencies can often be called a couple of different names (e.g. AP, the Associated Press, or Associated Press), so that might be an issue. wumbolo ^^^ 19:44, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
- I have added to pull 1102 some code to make it less exact. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 23:16, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
{{fixed}}
Date format
- Status
- new bug
- Reported by
- SusanLesch (talk) 16:12, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
- What happens
- Date added in wrong format (for example, "date=2016-08-03" was added right after "accessdate=16 September 2018")
- What should happen
- Should determine the page's format and copy that format
- Relevant diffs/links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Minneapolis&type=revision&diff=872994460&oldid=871424039
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
{{notabug}} the accessdate is formatted wrong, not what we did. The page says {{tl:Use mdy dates}} AManWithNoPlan (talk) 16:47, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
Request: handle non-escaped dx.doi.org URL
- What happens
- Adler, Robert F.; et al. (December 2003). <1147:TVGPCP>2.0.CO;2 "The Version-2 Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Monthly Precipitation Analysis (1979–Present)". Journal of Hydrometeorology. 4 (6): 1147–1167. Bibcode:2003JHyMe...4.1147A. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.1018.6263. doi:10.1175/1525-7541(2003)004<1147:TVGPCP>2.0.CO;2.
{{cite journal}}: Explicit use of et al. in:|first1=(help) - What should happen
- The bot shoudl remove the
|url= - Relevant diffs/links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Josve05a/cite-sandbox&oldid=868937431
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1072 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 16:44, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
- What should happen
- Remove
|url= - Relevant diffs/links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Josve05a/cite-sandbox&diff=869097807&oldid=869097784
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
and https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Instar&type=revision&diff=872352613&oldid=872351168
{{fixed}}
Cite arXiv should have capital X
- What happens
- The bot converts
<ref>https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0512078.pdf</ref>to{{Cite arxiv}}. - What should happen
- It should be
{{Cite arXiv}}(capital X) - Relevant diffs/links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Consciousness&diff=869954364&oldid=869954280
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
{{fixed}}
Bot renames parameters to create duplicate alias of existing "work" parameter
- What happens
- Bot renames "publisher" parameter to "newspaper". However, "website" parameter is already present. This creates a duplicate parameter error since both "website" and "newspaper" are aliases of "work".
- What should happen
- Don't convert any parameter to any alias of "work" if any alias of "work" (e.g., journal, newspaper, magazine, periodical, website) is already present.
- Relevant diffs/links
- Robert Stephens diff and Frank Williams (actor) diff and Spinal disease diff
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
- https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1100 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 23:07, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
- Not sure how to tell if this is fixed, but if it was, it didn't work: edit at 19:57, 29 November 2018, see citation with title beginning "USA cyclist Tejay van Garderen". DferDaisy (talk) 01:31, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
{{fixed}}
Running bot twice (again)
- Relevant diffs/links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Malnutrition&diff=prev&oldid=870400649
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1101 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 17:13, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
{{fixed}}
The tool seever is down
- Status
- new bug
- Reported by
- 5 albert square (talk) 00:58, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
- What happens
- I'm getting a 500 internal service error when trying to run the bot to check the page Jay Brown
- Relevant diffs/links
- https://tools.wmflabs.org/citations/process_page.php
- Replication instructions
- I go to Citation bot/use and select to activate the bot. In the page name I have typed in Jay Brown and select "process page". Then this error appears
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
{{fixed}}
Server got Nuuk'd?
- What happens
- 500 Internal Server Error
- Relevant diffs/links
-
- Replication instructions
- Go to its main page tools
.wmflabs .org /citations /, Thorough mode = yes, Commit edits = yes, and insert "Nuuk" into the input box next to "Process page". Then hit "Process page" and the error will occur almost immediately. - We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
{{fixed}}
Unexpected data found in parse_plain_text_reference. Citation bot cannot parse.
- Status
- {{fixed}}
- Reported by
- Lithopsian (talk) 14:18, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
- What happens
- Message Unexpected data found in parse_plain_text_reference. Citation bot cannot parse. Please report. A&A 619, A49 (2018)
- Relevant diffs/links
- [16], will that work?
- Replication instructions
- Running CitationBot against Hyperion proto-supercluster should give the message.
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
- Thank you for the report. This comes from arXiv data. We support about a dozen formats that they use. This helps us decode new ones (or in some cases detect and not decode). AManWithNoPlan (talk) 15:33, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
- https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1118 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 19:19, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
chapter= added to Cite encyclopedia without removing title=
- What happens
- chapter= was added to Cite encyclopedia without removing title=, causing there to be one quoted version of the chapter name and one italicized version.
- What should happen
- Bot should not operate on a citation formatted in this way
- Relevant diffs/links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AJonesey95%2Fsandbox3&diff=prev&oldid=872714555
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
|chapter= is not a documented parameter in {{cite encyclopedia}}. |title= is supposed to be used for the encyclopedia entry. The bot should probably not add chapter at all when title is present, and it definitely should not add chapter and leave title in place. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:53, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
- The bot's edit summary was also partially incorrect in this edit, in that it claimed to have "Removed parameters", but it did not do so. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:54, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
- This should help a lot https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1121 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 00:59, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
Convert worlcat.org urls with titles in urls to oclc also
- What happens
- user enters a worldcat page for the url parameter and Citationbot ignores it
- What should happen
- worldcat urls should be removed and replaced with the oclc parameter, the same as with pmids and dois that are in the equivalent urls entered and swapped by the bot. In the case below, it should replace
|url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/dictionary-of-entomology/oclc/1038886039
with|oclc=1038886039
- Relevant diffs/links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Glossary_of_entomology_terms&curid=5072111&diff=873157988&oldid=873147962
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1114 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 04:00, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
GBIF
This edit (since reverted) had a number of issues, not least that no journal is involved. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:46, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
- Debugging now. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 18:59, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
- Weird. i cannot get it to reproduce AManWithNoPlan (talk) 00:46, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
- will just flag {{wontfix}}
- Weird. i cannot get it to reproduce AManWithNoPlan (talk) 00:46, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
Removal of valid URL from {{Cite}} tag
- Status
- {{notabug}}
- Reported by
- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 19:41, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
- What happens
- URL parameter removed from
{{Cite|url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-38928-3_11}}tag in article Internationalization and localization - What should happen
- URL parameter should be left intact or moved after other parameters.
- Relevant diffs/links
- Internationalization and localization
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
The doi link points to the exact same page and is not prone to breaking as publisher links are. also, this case the pdf file is actually free which is a very unusual for a publisher website. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 21:04, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
Fails on Probiotic
- What happens
- Doesn't finish the run
- Relevant diffs/links
- https://tools.wmflabs.org/citations/process_page.php?edit=toolbar&slow=1&page=Probiotic
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
{{notabug}} banned urls cannot be in modified text. z e n o d o. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 22:49, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
eScholarship
- What should happen
- [17]
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
code change submitted AManWithNoPlan (talk) 01:49, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
Wish list
Discussion: non-functional jstor dois
Any thoughts on which of these is better:
Cartwright, Jane (1999). "Early and Medieval Literature". The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies. 61: 556–60. doi:10.2307/25833172 (inactive 2018-10-20). JSTOR 25833172.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of October 2018 (link)
Cartwright, Jane (1999). "Early and Medieval Literature". The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies. 61: 556–60. JSTOR 25833172.
Should that bot remove the non-functional doi when it the same as the jstor link with 10.2307 added in front of it? AManWithNoPlan (talk) 16:30, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
- I prefer the second version only, or at least not displaying inactive doi's if other IDs exists. (t) Josve05a (c) 21:16, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
- Non-functional DOI links of the form 10.2307/<JSTORID> can be removed if they are broken. Working JSTOR dois, or JSTOR dois of a different form should be left alone. I believe JSTOR used to have internal redirects, but no longer do, so that's why we've got a bunch of crap 10.2307/<JSTORID> DOIs laying around. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 21:49, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
- Anecdotally, sometimes the works where the JSTOR ID doesn't correspond to a working DOI actually have another DOI from a publisher. I'm not sure if these DOIs were never issued or what. Nemo 23:04, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
- That is correct, some do not actually have the doi issued. Some have one from the publisher and one from jstor (and maybe one from researchgate and and who knows who else. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 01:22, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
- Anecdotally, sometimes the works where the JSTOR ID doesn't correspond to a working DOI actually have another DOI from a publisher. I'm not sure if these DOIs were never issued or what. Nemo 23:04, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
- Non-functional DOI links of the form 10.2307/<JSTORID> can be removed if they are broken. Working JSTOR dois, or JSTOR dois of a different form should be left alone. I believe JSTOR used to have internal redirects, but no longer do, so that's why we've got a bunch of crap 10.2307/<JSTORID> DOIs laying around. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 21:49, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
- https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1127 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 17:20, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
{{fixed}}
Request: clean up sciencedirect URLs
- What should happen
- Remove
?via%3Dihubfrom sciencedirect URLs - Relevant diffs/links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Josve05a/cite-sandbox&diff=next&oldid=869955914
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
Search results for ?via%3Dihub . Perhaps remove all "via" URL-parameters for that link. (t) Josve05a (c) 13:08, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
- https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1128 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 17:34, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
Newspapers with multiple names
- What happens
- changes
|website=[[The Daily Telegraph]]to|newspaper=The Telegraph - What should happen
- don't change the newspaper name if it's wikilinked
- Relevant diffs/links
- [18]
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1129 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 22:10, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
- and https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1131 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 17:02, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
BBC Sport
- Status
- {{fixed}}
- Reported by
- Mattythewhite (talk) 16:01, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
- What happens
- changes
|publisher=BBC Sportto|newspaper=BBC Sport - What should happen
- Nothing;
|publisher=BBC Sportis the preferred format - Relevant diffs/links
- [19]
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
Why do you say that? AManWithNoPlan (talk) 15:33, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
- Please refer to this discussion. Mattythewhite (talk) 13:51, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
- I will think about the solution since bbc (not bbc sports) is the publisher. Newspaper is one of the many work aliases. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 21:16, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
- See also this discussion. The use of
|publisher=BBC Sportis a well-established norm and there is consensus for it. Nzd (talk) 08:46, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
- See also this discussion. The use of
- I will think about the solution since bbc (not bbc sports) is the publisher. Newspaper is one of the many work aliases. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 21:16, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
- https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1130 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 02:16, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
Fails to convert urls with library proxies
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1115 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 04:24, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
- Two jstor areas in code. Now need to do part right after plants. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 16:58, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
please add more entrez support
- What should happen
- [22]
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1116 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 19:06, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
API: Silent/Verbose mode for category
Add a 'silent' mode. This would simplify the output to simply
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- [12:13:02] Processing page '[[2018 FFA Cup preliminary rounds]]' – [[edit]] – [[history]] # No changes required.
when there is no changes made and
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- [12:13:02] Processing page '[[2018 FFA Cup preliminary rounds]]' – [[edit]] – [[history]] # Updating the page ([[diff]]).
when there is a change made. This could probably made 'default' for categories, with &silent=0 to disable it. Or alternatively, &verbose=1 to enable verbose logs. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 12:25, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
- difficult to fix: pages that take a while to process will cause an HTTP disconect. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 13:13, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
- @AManWithNoPlan: not sure what's that got to do with a simplified output in general? Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 13:36, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
- perhaps output dots as the bot runs. let me think about it. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 13:50, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
- @AManWithNoPlan: not sure what's that got to do with a simplified output in general? Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 13:36, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
way to many places in the code would need changed. also likley to drop connection while running. {{wontfix}} AManWithNoPlan (talk) 17:03, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
Do not touch any parameter with comments
In this edit.
- Removed/touched a parameter with a comment
<!-- some readers have trouble with the link generated by the doi= field? -->, which should "block out" the bot from touching it. (t) Josve05a (c) 09:30, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
I think more {{fixed}} now. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 16:50, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
Spanish title case
- Status
- new bug
- Reported by
- Simon Burchell (talk) 11:12, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
- What happens
- Inappropriate capitalisation of foreign language titles - Spanish does not use title case, it uses first letter only capitalisation of titles.
- What should happen
- For Spanish titles, first letter only capitalisation (i.e. where language=es (and potentially other languages), don't apply English-language capitalisation rules.
- Relevant diffs/links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paris_Codex&type=revision&diff=874680100&oldid=837840965
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
Note that the journal themselves capitalize, e.g. "Tomado de Joaquín Galarza, “Los códices mexicanos”, Arqueología Mexicana, Edición especial núm. 31, Códices prehispánicos y coloniales tempranos. Catálogo, pp. 6 - 9.". The main issue here is that you're trying to add the issue title to the journal. It really should just be
- "Códices Mayas" [Maya codices]. Arqueología Mexicana (Special issue 31): 10–23. August 2009.
{{cite journal}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter|authors=(help) or similar.
Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 14:09, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
- Just because the original source has one style does bot mean we follow it. Thouhts? AManWithNoPlan (talk) 17:14, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
- {{notabug}} Jounal titles in many styles are capitalized. No the bots fault that the template was used wrong. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 16:56, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
API: add &via= option (also what does &edit= do?)
In a call like https://tools.wmflabs.org/citations/process_page.php?edit=toolbar&user=Headbomb&page=Steve_Bieda, does edit=toolbar do anything? Because I'd like to have some ways to tell the bot that it was triggered via {{Draft article}} or citation expander, or similar.
We might want to rename the parameter to allow something like
https://tools.wmflabs.org/citations/process_page.php?via=User%3AHeadbomb%2Fcitation.js&user=Headbomb&page=Steve_Biedahttps://tools.wmflabs.org/citations/process_page.php?via=the+%5B%5BWikipedia%3ACitation+expander%7Ccitation+expander%5D%5D&user=Headbomb&page=Steve_Biedahttps://tools.wmflabs.org/citations/process_page.php?via=%5B%5BTemplate%3ADraft_article%5D%5D&user=Headbomb&page=Steve_Bieda.
This way we could give a summary like
- Add: website. Removed parameters. You can use this bot yourself. Report bugs here. | Headbomb via User:Headbomb/citations.js
- Add: website. Removed parameters. You can use this bot yourself. Report bugs here. | Headbomb via the citation expander
- Add: website. Removed parameters. You can use this bot yourself. Report bugs here. | Headbomb via Template:Draft article
Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 03:43, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
- I wonder what the audience of this additional message would be? To most users, what is important is the content and motivation of an edit, rather than the circumstances in which an editor came to make it. If I have a clear understanding of the motivation for this change, I'll be able to consider the best way to implement it. Martin (Smith609 – Talk) 08:56, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
- The goal is mostly to have a way to see where Citation bot is used from. How many of those edits were triggered by the web interface? How many were from user scripts and from which userscript, or how many from templates and which templates (and do any need updating)? How many were done via the Citation Expander gadget? It's not necessarily to have 'official' stats (it would be nice though), but knowing where the bot is used from is nice, and could let us give help to newbies that run into issues with the bot. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 10:32, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
- For example, [23] was most likely triggered from {{Draft article}}, present on Draft:Lil ginger ale (we sadly can't feed who used the Template from the template because we don't have a
{{CURRENTUSERNAME}}magicword/variable), but knowing it was triggered from the template means it has a fairly high chance of being used by a newbie, and was probably triggered by one of these people. So that lets us (or at least me) customize feedback to people. If I see someone doing something weird/unusual with the bot from {{Draft article}} vs Web Interface vs Gadget vs User Scripts, well you more or less have a continuum of likely noob vs likely noob/intermediate vs likely intermediate vs likely advanced user dealing with the bot. And you'd have an idea of who could have triggered the bot in that scenario. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 10:45, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
- For example, [23] was most likely triggered from {{Draft article}}, present on Draft:Lil ginger ale (we sadly can't feed who used the Template from the template because we don't have a
- The goal is mostly to have a way to see where Citation bot is used from. How many of those edits were triggered by the web interface? How many were from user scripts and from which userscript, or how many from templates and which templates (and do any need updating)? How many were done via the Citation Expander gadget? It's not necessarily to have 'official' stats (it would be nice though), but knowing where the bot is used from is nice, and could let us give help to newbies that run into issues with the bot. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 10:32, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
mostly {{fixed}} up. Draft actually comes from several templates deep in https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Automated_tools/core&action=edit AManWithNoPlan (talk) 21:52, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
Blacklisted URL
If the bot tries to "reformat" a blacklisted link (e.g. https://zenodo.org/record/1223952/files/article.pdf to https://zenodo.org/record/1223952 the bot will not be able to save the edit. We should stop to reformat these URLs, in order to be able to edit such pages. Editing pages with existing links aren't stopped, but formatting them turns them in to new links - which are blacklisted. (t) Josve05a (c) 07:06, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
- https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1142 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 14:05, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
- Given that there are multiple ever changing black lists that would be hard. Awesome, but hard. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 14:54, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
{{fixed}} for now. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 05:25, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
time out on Life extension
- What happens
- Times out
- What should happen
- No timeout?
- Relevant diffs/links
- [24]
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1145 and https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1144 and https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1143 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 18:03, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
Update naldc.nal.usda.gov URLs
- Status
- feature request (maybe better {{fixed}} by an AWB user?)
- Reported by
- Nemo 12:25, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
- What happens
- A broken URL like https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/naldc/download.xhtml?id=42375&content=PDF is left undisturbed: special:diff/875701440.
- What should happen
- URL gets replaced with the functioning new equivalent https://naldc-legacy.nal.usda.gov/naldc/download.xhtml?id=42375&content=PDF
- Replication instructions
- Special:Search/insource:"naldc.nal.usda.gov/naldc/download.xhtml"
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
- Make a WP:BOTREQ and someone can take care of this with AWB. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 16:02, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
- Yes please use BOTREQ for URL updates, but be careful using AWB it typically breaks archive URLs and/or doesn't undo previous archivals of the broken URL. -- GreenC 16:08, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
- one time focused tasks like this are not optimal for the citation bot. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 23:54, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
- I meant, the job is done. It has been completed. Special:Search/insource:"naldc.nal.usda.gov/naldc/download.xhtml" shows zero hits. I posted the diff to illustrate for Headbomb what is required when modifying URLs - it's not a search-replace with AWB because that causes problems with archives. -- GreenC 00:16, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
- Thank you for the fix and for the wayback "medication". Nemo 00:24, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
- I meant, the job is done. It has been completed. Special:Search/insource:"naldc.nal.usda.gov/naldc/download.xhtml" shows zero hits. I posted the diff to illustrate for Headbomb what is required when modifying URLs - it's not a search-replace with AWB because that causes problems with archives. -- GreenC 00:16, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
- one time focused tasks like this are not optimal for the citation bot. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 23:54, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
Request: Shove "additional information" stuff after the pipe in edit summaries
It would probably make more sense to shove "additional information" stuff after the pipe
- <changes> | Activated by Headbomb. You can use this bot yourself! Report bugs here.
or
- <changes> | Activated by Headbomb on Category:Livestock stubs via the web interface. You can use this bot yourself! Report bugs here.
- <changes> | Activated by Headbomb on Category:Livestock stubs via the citation expander. You can use this bot yourself! Report bugs here.
if &via= and category mentions are implemented. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 04:10, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
- https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1134 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 21:05, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
- Via= can't really be implemented in any useful manner, since edit= is currently unused and all usages use edit=toolbar and the draft article uses edit=toolbar and draft does not directly include it (it is two templates deeper, so we can't even tag it as from draft). We have done what we can for now. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 23:03, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
- How about the way I suggest above? Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 23:34, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
- There’s no way to easily detect how it was run. We already specify category as different. We have improved user detection though. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 23:57, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
- Yes, but there is a way to recognize what is fed in
&via=, or if a&via=is declared. Also, since it got archived, what's the syntax for via? Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 00:15, 24 December 2018 (UTC)- it does not exist. there’s no reliable way to do it. We can detect category vs toolbar, but nothing else. That is why edit= is not used. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 00:28, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
- Well that's what the request in via was about. To add support for
&via=. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 03:54, 24 December 2018 (UTC)- I know and we’ve done all we really can. Unless we have some way of actually getting reliable information (which we do not) there’s really no point to adding it. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 04:08, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
- What do you mean 'reliable information'? what's wrong with just displaying the information that's passed in
&via=! That'd be the whole point of via. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 04:54, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
- Well that's what the request in via was about. To add support for
- it does not exist. there’s no reliable way to do it. We can detect category vs toolbar, but nothing else. That is why edit= is not used. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 00:28, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
- Yes, but there is a way to recognize what is fed in
- There’s no way to easily detect how it was run. We already specify category as different. We have improved user detection though. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 23:57, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
- How about the way I suggest above? Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 23:34, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
- Via= can't really be implemented in any useful manner, since edit= is currently unused and all usages use edit=toolbar and the draft article uses edit=toolbar and draft does not directly include it (it is two templates deeper, so we can't even tag it as from draft). We have done what we can for now. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 23:03, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
- we would need an approved list of options to choose from and not just accept random strings. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 04:59, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
- I honestly doubt anyone would set it, since the toolbar and the citation toolset core that draft pulls information from both set toolbar. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 05:01, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
- Why would we need a list of options / pre-approved stringers? 99%+ of usages would be from templates and scripts. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 06:19, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
- I think the pre-approved strings would serve as a kind of input sanitisation. Otherwise at some point you may need to check that you're not inserting junk or spam in edit summaries (where it's hard to remove). I don't know how important a concern this is, but it's not unreasonable to keep it mind. Nemo 10:08, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
- Why would we need a list of options / pre-approved stringers? 99%+ of usages would be from templates and scripts. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 06:19, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
- I honestly doubt anyone would set it, since the toolbar and the citation toolset core that draft pulls information from both set toolbar. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 05:01, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
{{fixed}} pipe added. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 19:38, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
Fix spacing in page/issue rages
- What should happen
- [25]
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
If it is only long dashes and numbers and spaces then remove spaces. Correct? AManWithNoPlan (talk) 21:54, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
- Could be letters too, like A23 - A48. Convert/fix that to A23–A48.Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 22:02, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
- that get dangerous could be junk like ii - iii, 5-7 or the evil look at pages 5 to seven and browse around pages in the early teens..... I will think about how many letters to allow. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 22:06, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
- I can start simple and move on from there. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 22:53, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
- https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1135 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 23:01, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
- I can start simple and move on from there. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 22:53, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
- that get dangerous could be junk like ii - iii, 5-7 or the evil look at pages 5 to seven and browse around pages in the early teens..... I will think about how many letters to allow. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 22:06, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
miscellaneous
- Status
- {{fixed}}
- Reported by
- Michael Goodyear ✐ ✉ 18:30, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
- Relevant diffs/links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hannah_Arendt&type=revision&diff=875145591&oldid=875142730
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
1. French journals like Archives de sciences sociales des religions do NOT capitalise
2. Why change page= to pages=, when the article is one page only?
3. The name of this website is HannahArendt.net
- many style guides actually specify capitalization of Foreign journals independent of the what the journal itself is called. It’s an odd thing. Specific journals can be submitted for capitalization as needed. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 19:16, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
- pages vs. pages is odd. Jstor gives us a range and then we fix that and so it is temporarily a range of pages AManWithNoPlan (talk) 19:16, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
- websites are not case-sensitve, but I can add a capitalization exception. the initial reference being a mix of a journal and a website confused the bot. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 19:16, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
- https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1136 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 19:39, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
- websites are not case-sensitve, but I can add a capitalization exception. the initial reference being a mix of a journal and a website confused the bot. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 19:16, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
- pages vs. pages is odd. Jstor gives us a range and then we fix that and so it is temporarily a range of pages AManWithNoPlan (talk) 19:16, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
Do not add null
- What happens
|issn=null- Relevant diffs/links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AJosve05a%2Fcite-sandbox&diff=prev&oldid=875487557
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1137 and https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1138 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 00:13, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
When journals ends in 'Des', don't uncapitalize
- What happens
- [26]
- What should happen
- A final 'Des' will always be the undotted ISO 4 abbreviation for 'Design'
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1146 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 21:36, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
Prioritize DOI > Bibcode > Arxiv when fetching journal information
- What happens
- Adds J.phys.a from arXiv
- What should happen
- Add Journal of Physics A from DOI
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
If arXiv has a doi then process that before the rest of the record AManWithNoPlan (talk) 18:52, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
- https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1140 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 19:04, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
Bot adds deprecated class= to Template:Citation
- What happens
- Bot adds deprecated class= to Template:Citation
- What should happen
- Bot should not add
|class=to anything except {{Cite arxiv}} - Relevant diffs/links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Incidence_coloring&type=revision&diff=875657208&oldid=874114333
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
I see that the template documentation has changed again. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 18:25, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
- https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1148 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 18:51, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
Messes with a pubmed it shouldn't mess with
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1149 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 04:40, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
Capitalize after (
- Status
- {{fixed}} just for new series
- Reported by
- Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 19:54, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
- What happens
- [29]
- What should happen
- (New Series), not (new Series)
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1150 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 17:11, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
More JSTOR support
- What should happen
- Replace
|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1q1xrtswith|jstor=j.ctt1q1xrts - Relevant diffs/links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AJosve05a%2Fcite-sandbox&diff=prev&oldid=875487557
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1154 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 04:24, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
ePrint
See also User_talk:Citation_bot/Archive_10#eJournal_of... (e?Prints should read e-?Prints?)Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 18:03, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
- will add ePrint, e-Prints, and e-Print to the existing ePrints. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 18:22, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
Bot generates template errors
- What happens
- [32]
- What should happen
- Not that
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
Don’t convert to cite arXiv when incompatible parameters exist. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 18:26, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
- https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1153 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 23:47, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
Request: Better Citoid like capabilities
- What happens
- Citation bot edit
- What should happen
- Citoid/Zotero edit
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
Investigating. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 21:41, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
- If the Citation bot can easily read & process the HTML Meta tags for the page, it could sometimes do better for these cases.
- For the example Nature URL, prism.doi, dc.identifier, DOI meta tags all provide the doi, though the first two give doi:....
- I think the prism. tags may also work for some newspapers.
- Wikipedia:Scripts/Perl scripts/hdump-head.pl was my ugly attempt at this. Hope this is useful. RDBrown (talk) 08:13, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
- can you point to a single page where prism works better? Also, we need php, not perl generally. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 19:42, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
- I needed to fix the perl script for https after that, this is the output for the Nature url Josve05a referenced
# https://www.nature.com/articles/546031a#bk4 Page title: <title> @0.0.0 "Books in brief | Nature" msapplication-tilecolor #940720 dc.identifier doi:10.1038/546031a wt.z_primary_atype Books and Arts robots noarchive dc.publisher Nature Publishing Group wt.cg_s Article access_endpoint https://www.nature.com/platform/readcube-access theme-color #940720 twitter:description Barbara Kiser reviews five of the week's best science picks. wt.cg_n Nature dc.date 2017-05-31 doi 10.1038/546031a wt.template oscar twitter:card summary twitter:title Books in brief prism.startingpage 31 twitter:site @naturenews dc.creator Barbara Kiser prism.rightsagent permissions@nature.com dc.rights ©2019 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All Rights Reserved. prism.url https://www.nature.com/articles/546031a description Books & Arts wt.page_categorisation Article_HTML wt.z_bandiera_abtest a prism.issn 1476-4687 prism.issn 1476-4687 dc.subject Climate sciences dc.subject Engineering dc.subject Medical research dc.subject Nuclear physics dc.description Barbara Kiser reviews five of the week's best science picks. dc.type Books and Arts wt.z_cg_type Nature Research Journals wt.z_subject_term Climate sciences;Engineering;Medical research;Nuclear physics dc.copyright 2017 Nature Publishing Group prism.copyright 2017 Nature Publishing Group dc.language En dc.title Books in brief viewport width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=2.5,user-scal able=yes dc.rightsagent permissions@nature.com prism.volume 546 wt.z_subject_term_id climate-sciences;engineering;medical-research;nuclear-physics twitter:image https://media.springernature.com/full/nature-static/assets/v1/image-assets/546031a-i1.jpg dc.source Nature 2017 546:7656 msapplication-tileimage /static/images/favicons/nature/favicon-144x144.3e61d1f755.png prism.number 7656 prism.publicationdate 2017-05-31 journal_id nature access Yes prism.doi doi:10.1038/546031a prism.section Books and Arts dc.format text/html prism.publicationname Nature |author=Barbara Kiser |date=2017-05-31 |title=Books in brief |journal=Nature |volume=546 |issue=7656 |pages=31 |doi=10.1038/546031a Barbara Kiser[au] 2017-05-31[dp] Books in brief[ti] Nature[ta] 546[vi] 7656[ip] 31[pg]
::That is it is dumping all the page meta tags, then cite journal parameters, then a PubMed query. I'm not a PHP programmer, but this StackOverflow answer may be useful, if you're not already retrieving the meta tag data. I think PRISM may include the Dublin Core dc. tags as a subset, but the BMJ & maybe the Oxford journals also add useful citation_ tags.
dc.contributor Gordon C S Smith dc.contributor Jill P Pell dc.identifier 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1459 citation_title Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials citation_public_url https://www.bmj.com/content/327/7429/1459 citation_mjid bmj;327/7429/1459 citation_lastpage 1461 citation_doi 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1459 citation_section Hazardous journeys citation_article_type Other citation_pmid 14684649
I have submitted code to find the doi. https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1156 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 00:58, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
Smarter duplicate handling
- What happens
- Whenever there is a
|foobar=<SOMETHING>|barfoo=...|foobar=<NOTHING>, the bot changes that to|DUPLICATE_foobar=<SOMETHING>|barfoo=...|foobar=<NOTHING> - What should happen
- Whenever there is a
|foobar=<SOMETHING>|barfoo=...|foobar=<NOTHING>, get rid of the empty parameter and keep the full one. E.g. [33]
Exception: Keep the handling of author/editor parameters the same (last/first, editor-last/editor-first, etc...) since people often mangle the order by accident. - Relevant diffs/links
- [34] (see
DUPLICATE_location) - We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
This is not actually a bug. The bot leaves the citation unchanged in its current method. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 02:38, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
weird ResearchGate thing
- What happens
- [35]
- What should happen
- not that
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
That is actually the correct information. Hard to deal with people who do not know how to spell when inputting data! AManWithNoPlan (talk) 19:01, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
- Correct information? There is no journal named 'peprint' out there, and that doesn't seem to be anywhere on the RG page either. Is this GIGO? Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 19:05, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
- yes indeed it is correct. That’s the journal the author entered. Obviously GIGO. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 19:14, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
TY - BOOK AU - Petit, Jean-Pierre PY - 2016/07/04 SP - T1 - Schwarzschild 1916 seminal paper revisited : A virtual singularity JO - peprint ER -
Anyway, close this one then. No need to code an exception for such uncommon GIGO. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 19:33, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
- {{wontfix}} as you said. Would have been a lot funnier if they had spelled it will one more e. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 19:34, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
Timeout on Red imported fire ant
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
Blocked zenodo dot org url is trying to be added. Not sure how or why. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 23:29, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
- https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1171 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 00:51, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
- https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1175 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 02:39, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
CAPS: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS
- What happens
|journal=Fluids and Barriers of the Cns- What should happen
|journal=Fluids and Barriers of the CNS- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1173 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 02:40, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
URLs containing an ISSN-DOI replaced with link to incorrect article in a different journal
- Status
- {{fixed}}
- Reported by
- Randykitty (talk) 09:48, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
- What happens
- The bot replaced some valid references by a reference to a completely different article (a book review published 10 years before this journal was established...) Worse, it inserted this faulty reference multiple times but as different references (probably because they were named and got different names). The apparent reason for this is that the URLs of the references had changed although (with 1 exception) they still redirected to the correct page. I have corrected this manually (see article history). I do find it weird that "cite web" references were replaced by "cite journal" ones that were completely inappropriate. Although the bot indicated that it was "user activated", there was no indication about who this user was, who clearly failed to check the edits made by the bot.
- Relevant diffs/links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Genes,_Brain_and_Behavior&curid=14177857&diff=877031301&oldid=873065992
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
- This mostly happens with Wiley's "fake DOI" ISSN links (which are often rather spammy by the way, as in this article) and can be conclusively solved only by actually resolving DOI links. Nemo 10:32, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
- Look where the incorrect reference goes. Even though the bot put "journal=Genes, Brain and Behavior", it was to an article in a completely different journal that had "Genes, Brain and Behavior" as title. It didn't go to one of Wiley's URLs at all. Wiley doesn't use these fake DOI URLs any more, although these generally are still functional but redirect to the new (non-DOI) URLs. All that the bot should have done was replace the "fake DOI URL" with the new URL. --Randykitty (talk) 10:45, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
- That's a problem with fake DOIs that resolve. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 15:14, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
- I could probably add code to detect DOIs in the form of 10.xxxxx/(ISSN)xxxx-xxxx which are obviously just an ISSN. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 15:21, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks for maintaining this invaluable tool. BTW, I'm still curious why the bot took those fake DOI links and arrived at an old book review, mixing up the review title and the journal name... --Randykitty (talk) 15:35, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
- The Bot took the journal title which was in the title parameter and did a PMC search and found an exact match and went with it. We do have rare false positives like this. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 15:55, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
- I see. Yes, that must be rare :-) Thanks again. --Randykitty (talk) 16:06, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
- The Bot took the journal title which was in the title parameter and did a PMC search and found an exact match and went with it. We do have rare false positives like this. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 15:55, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks for maintaining this invaluable tool. BTW, I'm still curious why the bot took those fake DOI links and arrived at an old book review, mixing up the review title and the journal name... --Randykitty (talk) 15:35, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
- I could probably add code to detect DOIs in the form of 10.xxxxx/(ISSN)xxxx-xxxx which are obviously just an ISSN. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 15:21, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
- That's a problem with fake DOIs that resolve. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 15:14, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
- Look where the incorrect reference goes. Even though the bot put "journal=Genes, Brain and Behavior", it was to an article in a completely different journal that had "Genes, Brain and Behavior" as title. It didn't go to one of Wiley's URLs at all. Wiley doesn't use these fake DOI URLs any more, although these generally are still functional but redirect to the new (non-DOI) URLs. All that the bot should have done was replace the "fake DOI URL" with the new URL. --Randykitty (talk) 10:45, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
Once this is accepted and pushed to wikipedia, the bug will be gone. https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/1177 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 19:55, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
Timeout at Edward M. Fram
- We can't proceed until
- Feedback from maintainers
{{notabug}} I ran it successfully and there were no changes to make. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 04:31, 7 January 2019 (UTC)