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Friuli Venezia Giulia

I would like to change all "Friuli-Venezia Giulia'" to "Friuli Venezia Giulia" (since 2001 it has been called "Friuli Venezia Giulia"), but it is a bit complicated to do this on all Wikipedia pages. Could you kindly start a bot and give it this command? I think it's doable. Update: could you at least help me with the 70 or so remaining communes? I have done 200 or so, I can't always do everything myself without being helped in anything. I repeat, I am not God, although in this encyclopaedia I am certainly among the best in terms of accuracy! All municipalities can be found on this page: Friuli Venezia Giulia. JackkBrown (talk) 16:42, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

This search shows that there are 942 remaining pages with links to that page in the source text. – Fayenatic London 17:00, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

Fixing the templates which link to the old name would change the name in a lot of articles with a few edits. Certes (talk) 17:08, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

@Fayenatic london: @Certes: will you help me, please? I'm doing everything I can, will you help me? JackkBrown (talk) 17:10, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

@Certes: thank you very much for what you are doing, you have saved me hours of work. JackkBrown (talk) 17:20, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

I've edited most of the templates. In some cases such as Template:Politics of Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Template:User in Friuli-Venezia Giulia/doc, some of the linked articles, files and categories have hyphens and some don't. I've used the unhyphenated version where it exists but haven't created any. Certes (talk) 17:37, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

@Certes: thanks! What about all 924 pages that still have dashes? How do we do it? I certainly can't do it alone. Tomorrow or today I'll finish the 70 or so communes that still have hyphens. JackkBrown (talk) 18:01, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

Well that's what this page is for, to invite volunteers. I'm a bit busy to do them myself at the moment, and there's no deadline. Certes (talk) 18:33, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

Running now Special:Contributions/GreenC bot -- GreenC 19:50, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

It's done according to Fayenatic London's search.

Categories might need renaming for example Category:Friuli-Venezia Giulia geography stubs (full list). Probably need to propose them at WP:CFD and when that closes support there might be automated processes to update the child articles. Also some articles still have it, list, and the backlinks for those articles that were renamed, would need updating. -- GreenC 20:44, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

There are also a few dozen articles and five templates to consider renaming. (Redirects can probably be ignored, though we may want to duplicate them without the hyphen.) Certes (talk) 21:27, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

@Certes: exactly, something is still missing. JackkBrown (talk) 22:03, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

I have fixed the templates, I believe, including updating links, moving a few target articles, and creating necessary redirects as needed. There may be a couple of new double redirects that I hope a bot will fix. I did not move pre-2001 articles such as 1968 Friuli-Venezia Giulia regional election, since the province name had a hyphen at that time. – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:30, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

{{User in Friuli Venezia Giulia}} is still linking to the old article name. I think fixing it may require File:Flag of Friuli-Venezia Giulia.svg to be moved, leaving a redirect. I am unfamiliar with file moves and redirects. – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:41, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

The flag is at Commons, and is used by multiple other Wikipedias. Consider creating a local copy of it at the unhyphenated name? – Fayenatic London 17:02, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Both names are valid, though, so it seems like a perfect situation for a redirect. I just couldn't figure out how to create one in File space. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:59, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

I created a redirect, but it was not working in that template. Instead, that need has been resolved by specifying the image link in Template:User in Friuli Venezia Giulia. – Fayenatic London 22:17, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

All of this is quite unfortunate. The move of the article from "Friuli-Venezia Giulia" to "Friuli Venezia Giulia" was quite misguided as the region is commonly known as "Friuli-Venezia Giulia" with hyphen and its official name is a matter of debate, as the Italian Constitution, the highest law of the land, still refers to the region as "Friuli-Venezia Giulia" with hyphen. Finally, the move was not only misguided, but also lacked a true consensus. --Checco (talk) 21:00, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

@Checco: so let's keep either one or the other variant, having both spellings only creates confusion. Honestly, and I'm not the only one to think so, but one of many, without the hyphen it's much neater, since you can better understand that until 2001 it was officially called "Friuli-Venezia Giulia"; let's leave it like that. JackkBrown (talk) 21:42, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

It's very important to have consensus for a change before coming here to request help with the mechanics. I assumed good faith and that this RM showed consensus. If that's wrong, we should probably have another RM on the Friuli Venezia Giulia article and punctuate everything else according to the results. Certes (talk) 22:25, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

@Certes: I don't believe I have made an error, but on the off chance that I have, I kindly ask that you do not lose faith in me, and I apologise to you all (in case I have made a mistake). Ever since I was born (I was born in this millennium) I have never read files, communications, official documents, work papers, school papers, etc. with "Friuli-Venezia Giulia" (with a hyphen) written on them. JackkBrown (talk) 22:34, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

I didn't mean to question anyone's good faith. The worst that I'm suggesting is consensus might have swung back to hyphenated title in a discussion which everyone (including me) overlooked. I still don't see such a discussion, but it seems prudent to check. Certes (talk) 22:43, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Well, the name has been changed in all content pages apart from categories, which are still hyphenated apart from deaths, synagogues and cyclists. The controversy rules out speedy renaming under WP:C2D. So we either need a further RM on the lead article, or to take the categories to a full CFD to remove the hyphen following the 2019 RM in good faith. – Fayenatic London 22:49, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Stylistic issues are interesting, but the fact of the matter is that "Friuli-Venezia Giulia" is both the most common and the official name.

That is why, thanks to this discussion, I started a new thread: Talk:Friuli Venezia Giulia#Requested move 15 November 2023. --Checco (talk) 14:21, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

The article was moved back to its original as well as official and most common name, Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

I am thus asking User:GreenC or anyone else willing to help a) to re-name all the articles, templates and categories inclduing "Friuli Venezia Giulia" (without hyphen) instead of "Friuli-Venezia Giulia" (with hyphen); b) to replace all the links pointing to "Friuli Venezia Giulia" instead of "Friuli-Venezia Giulia". --Checco (talk) 17:34, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

Are we sure? Making all these changes is a great deal of work for several editors, as well as polluting page histories, etc., and should not begin until we have consensus on the best title. Although no one explicitly opposed the RM, it wasn't well attended. Certes (talk) 19:38, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

I agree with Certes. The close appears to have ignored what I believe is a MOS-required dash instead of a hyphen in the name. I spent a bunch of time on the initial renames and moves, and I would like to see a firm consensus before investing more time. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:38, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

What a mess. Probably the argument for the dash will end up being the stronger since it's specific to the region name, and not a generic MOS guideline. Shame on me for making this change without clear consensus. Shame on User:JackkBrown for pleading for technical before consensus for a name change - tail wagging the dog. Get consensus first, then ask for technical help to implement it.

I would support a second RM given the first was not well attended by the stake holders, and it was a non-admin closure. User:Checco, User:Certes, User:Jonesey95: what do you think of that? If it is the same result, I can help to undo some of the changes. We can ping everyone who has been involved. -- GreenC 01:52, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

At the risk of blowing things up, I wouldn't mind seeing an RM that included the other, similar regions that are currently joined with hyphens instead of the dashes that I believe MOS requires. Let's get it right. (That said, I'm not going to die on any of these hills except the one where I do a bunch of work and then it has to be undone.) – Jonesey95 (talk) 07:33, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

I think we should wait for a clearer and better attended consensus before making further bulk edits or page moves, even if the status we rushed into (mea culpa) isn't optimal. I can't offer any informed insight into whether the best title uses a space, hyphen, dash or something else. Certes (talk) 11:06, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

In my view, the dash is out of question, as the name of this region, as well as those of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and Emilia-Romagna, are not in English. In Italian language, the dash is not used. All three regions have Italian names, officially including a hyphen. --Checco (talk) 20:54, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

Our MOS does not care how it is done in other languages, only in English. French often puts a space before a colon, but we never do so on the English Wikipedia, even when copying titles of French documents. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:18, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

True. We don't have articles called Москва or 北京. Certes (talk) 21:55, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: not true, in the "Bibliography" section I very often noticed the space before the colon for titles of French books, documents, etc. JackkBrown (talk) 21:56, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

Right. That's an error that can and should be corrected here on the English Wikipedia. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:35, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: Wikipedia can no longer be sustained unicamy by human work, that is why (I am not asking) bots are very useful. In the French language Wikipedia they are often used, I don't understand why they are rarely used here (if you want these kinds of errors corrected, a bot could do it (it's not possible to correct thousands of lines of bibliographies of French titles)). JackkBrown (talk) 23:01, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

JackkBrown, as a bot op, it is because it takes a very long time to get a bot approved, and is often easier to do it (semi-)manually. — Qwerfjkl talk 16:45, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

@Qwerfjkl: ABSOLUTELY NOT! Perhaps those who have acquired tools to facilitate their work, but users like me cannot sustain a humanly inconceivable amount of work (I'm not referring to this problem, "Friuli-Venezia Giulia"); in my case, many times for certain things I'm alone. In short, with all due respect, what seems to me (I could be wrong) is that with this justification (albeit true) you don't give a damn about the problem. As long as the problem remains on Italian topics and not American or British ones, few people care (luckily there is me (and not only me) who thinks about my beautiful country). JackkBrown (talk) 21:00, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

JackkBrown, I'm not suggesting you do it all manually, not an I implying that this doesn't matter. It does, however, take months to get a bot task approved. You could request access to WP:AWB and do it yourself (or indeed post here as you have done). — Qwerfjkl talk 21:30, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

@Checco: I mean no disrespect, also because you're an excellent user, but a work cannot be started and not finished (this is the hundredth "Friuli Venezia Giulia" I find, without a hyphen); it would have been better not to intervene and leave everything as it was. JackkBrown (talk) 15:52, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

Please do not hit a wasp nest with a stick and then blame others when you are stung. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:37, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: it would have been enough to do it all over again with the bot, the last time everything was solved in less than half an hour. JackkBrown (talk) 18:46, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

This search may help you. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:37, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

Along with User:JackkBrown, I also do not understand why it was possible to do all those fixes in early November and not to do it the other way around now. The article is now correctly name according to its most common and official name, "Friuli-Venezia Giulia". I hope a bot could help us in fixing all instances, especially articles, templates and categories whose names feature "Friuli Venezia Giulia" instead of "Friuli-Venezia Giulia". --Checco (talk) 06:50, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

It's certainly possible to reverse the changes, though the work will involve several editors and take a lot longer than half an hour each. (Reverting changes is often harder than making them, because moving a page to a title that is occupied requires more privileges than moving it to an unused title.) Having wasted our time once, and polluted the edit histories of hundreds of pages unnecessarily, we need to be very sure that there is a consensus for a new name and that this would be a correct, undisputed and final move. Certes (talk) 11:04, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

And, Checco, as you can read above, the close resulting in the hyphenated name is disputed, or at least viewed as suspect, by multiple editors. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:26, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

@Certes: I have no words... I know how this story will end: readers will find both "Friuli-Venezia Giulia" and "Friuli Venezia Giulia" (surely Friulians will hate this encyclopaedia), because two people (me and User:Checco) cannot sustain this work. JackkBrown (talk) 15:33, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

Barbara D'Urso

A few months ago, the title of the "Barbara d'Urso" page (lowercase; incorrect) was changed to "Barbara D'Urso" (uppercase; correct). Since all other pages (except for some of my corrections) are still in lowercase, I kindly ask for a bot to fix this (it will be a short job). Thanks in advance. JackkBrown (talk) 11:00, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

insource:/Barbara d'Urso/ — Qwerfjkl talk 12:01, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

@JackkBrown: ~~Not done~~ - Her official website uses "Barbara d'Urso". GoingBatty (talk) 20:30, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

@JackkBrown: Striking out my previous reply, as most of the sources in the article use "D'Urso" (or "D' Urso"). A bot wouldn't be appropriate for a small run to update these 18 articles, but someone may choose to use AWB to manually to do this. GoingBatty (talk) 16:24, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

Done – DreamRimmer (talk) 17:17, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

50 TFD notices

Would someone be willing to add this to templates {{X22}} through {{X71}}? Thank you very much. –Novem Linguae (talk) 09:31, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

Doing – DreamRimmer (talk) 12:37, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

Done – DreamRimmer (talk) 13:24, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

Also notified JPxG, the creator of Template:X53, and RandomWikiPerson277, the creator of Template:X54 to Template:X71. – DreamRimmer (talk) 14:00, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

Awesome. Thank you for going the extra mile. I appreciate your hard work. –Novem Linguae (talk) 14:02, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

I wonder how hard it would be to adapt User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/massCFD for TfD. — Qwerfjkl talk 20:34, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

Fix links to Holiday music

Please fix the links to Holiday music, which is now a set index per RfD. According to that RfD, most links are referring to Christmas music. I have AWB access but don't have the time to do this (It's 3 am here). Queen of Hearts ❤️ (she/they 🎄 🏳️‍⚧️) 08:34, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

Doing – DreamRimmer (talk) 08:55, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

@Queen of Hearts, Done. I've managed to fix most of the links, but I might have missed a few along the way. Whenever you get a chance, could you take a peek at the remaining links? Thanks! – DreamRimmer (talk) 09:43, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

Remove see also to deleted list

List of events named massacres was removed by an AfD at the beginning of last month (2023-11-03). The deletion leaves behind red {{see also}} links from almost every sub-category of Category:Massacres by year. Is a bot available that can safely remove these obsolete {{see also}} links? -- Mikeblas (talk) 02:26, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

Doing – DreamRimmer (talk) 02:33, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

Done @Mikeblas – DreamRimmer (talk) 04:13, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

Awesomesauce. Thanks!!1! -- Mikeblas (talk) 14:37, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

Spaghetti Western

A user some time ago edited "Spaghetti Western", writing "Spaghetti" with a lowercase initial. I'm correcting this in all the other articles, is there anyone who wants to help me? There is always the BOT option. Update: there are about 2,600 articles, we need a bot! JackkBrown (talk) 11:25, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

The first sentence in the lead has spaghetti in lowercase. Does this conflict with the task or am I misunderstanding? —Panamitsu (talk) 11:49, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

@Panamitsu: I mean that since the user has decided to write "spaghetti" (of "spaghetti Western") with a lowercase initial on the whole page, it would be correct to write "spaghetti" in lowercase on all other pages too. JackkBrown (talk) 11:58, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

I don't think this is necessarily an issue. It can be written as a type (lowercase s) or a proper noun (capital S) so a bot run would have context issues, and I'm not sure it's worth making that big a fuss over it. Primefac (talk) 13:07, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

@Primefac: but there is still a problem with consistency, it is ugly to look at and to read, like 'Friuli Venezia Giulia' (Certes refused to use his bot) without and with hyphen. According to your thinking, we can totally give a damn about consistency, because yes, sources, etc. are important; then let's make the encyclopaedia aesthetically ugly, we only care about verified sources and information anyway. Sorry for the outburst. JackkBrown (talk) 13:26, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

Consistency (or lack thereof) is exactly why redirects exist. If we were dead-set on never allowing anything other than 100% non-redirected links, we would have a bot replacing them automatically throughout the project already. Clearly, given that we do not have this hypothetical bot, that is not the desired outcome. Primefac (talk) 13:32, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

@JackkBrown: I don't know how you found 2,600 articles, as this search only finds 1,251 articles. There are plenty of false positives, such as the Spaghetti Western article itself, where "Spaghetti Western" is properly capitalized at the beginning of sentences and within references. Because of those context issues, this is not a good idea for a bot (see WP:CONTEXTBOT). You might be able to drum up support for a rule to suggest at Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos that would change "Spaghetti Western" to "spaghetti Western" when it's not the beginning of a sentence (and the typo rules don't impact references or text in italics). Those rules are not invoked by bots, but by editors using AWB manually. Hope this helps! GoingBatty (talk) 06:41, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Australian Dictionary of Biography CS1 template errors

Two citation module updates ago, support for the |website= and |work= (amongst aliases) was dropped from {{cite book}}, which has given us Category:CS1 errors: periodical ignored (25,577). User:Citation bot fixed a number of these some time ago, and I recently started whittling away at it oh so slowly, like a galangal root or kabocha squash.

I've found that there's a non-trivial percent of problem citations that trigger this template error that involve the Australian Dictionary of Biography. All of these I've come across (dozens) have "Australian Dictionary of Biography" in the |work= or |website= parameter (the error), where it should be in |title=. Many of these citations additionally duplicate the |chapter= parameter (the biography subject and their vital dates) in the |title= parameter.

I've never used AWB, but I'm wondering if a subset of these could be fixed with it. This search (|website=) returns around 1000 results; this search (|work=) returns close to 3000.

The actual implementation would ideally include:

verify there's a |chapter= parameter; if not, change |title= to |chapter= and |url= to |chapter-url=.
set |title=Australian Dictionary of Biography and |title-link=Australian Dictionary of Biography
remove all of |website= and |work=.

Does this seem doable? It looks like it would cut the category down by like 12%. Folly Mox (talk) 10:13, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

@Folly Mox: Hi there! Once you add the category to searches, this search |website= only returns 449 results and this search |work= only returns 940 results.

Although you've asked to use {{cite book}}, should we use {{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography}} instead? GoingBatty (talk) 22:35, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

GoingBatty, oh right! I think I was aware of {{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography}}, but helpfully forgot about it. I wonder if the rest of my search hits that aren't in Category:CS1 errors: periodical ignored (25,577) are misused {{cite web}}s that Citation bot will eventually turn into erroneous {{cite book}}s?

In any case, yes, I think the custom wrapper template sounds superior to {{cite book}}, although it looks like we will have to do some URL parsing to retrieve the critical |id2= parameter.

I'm beginning to get the impression this might be a better task for a bot than for AWB. Also a tiny bit dismayed that even if we're able to fix all of these, according to your more precise searches it will only shrink the category by less than 5%, but it's not nothing. Folly Mox (talk) 02:08, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

@Folly Mox:

BRFA filed. I'm trying to run a couple articles with misused {{cite web}}s through Citation bot, but it's taking quite a while. If you see Citation bot creating erroneous {{cite book}}s, then please submit a bug report. GoingBatty (talk) 19:13, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

Scripts will assist although appears to require a little manual work as well. Neils51 (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Neils51 (talk • contribs) 11:56, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

@Folly Mox:

Doing... GoingBatty (talk) 04:00, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

@Folly Mox: My bot has updated almost 800 articles. Some of the remaining articles are in Category:CS1 errors: periodical ignored but it's not the ADB reference causing the issue. Other articles have both |chapter= and |title= and need a manual review. If you see remaining patterns that the bot should fix, please let me know. Otherwise, I'll consider this as

Done. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 16:52, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Thank you, GoingBatty! 🙏🏽 Folly Mox (talk) 17:11, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Removing spammy content from c. 270 gene articles

Is someone able to remove all the sections on gene knockouts from these articles? They can mainly be achieved through removing the entire "model organisms" section e.g. [1] but there are some articles where there may be some other content in that section. I have posted about this at the COI noticeboard and there haven't been any objections to the removals. Please let me know if you need more details about what to leave / remove. Thanks SmartSE (talk) 14:49, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

Hey @Smartse I'll start working on them, I'll let you know if I run into any problems. Dr vulpes ^{(💬 • 📝)} 05:40, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

@Smartse I'm about half way complete, it's late where I am so I'm going to bed but I'll finish the rest tomorrow. Dr vulpes ^{(💬 • 📝)} 07:10, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

@Dr vulpes: Thanks! Evidently not quite as automatable as I had hoped but you're quicker at it than I am! SmartSE (talk) 22:29, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

@Smartse Yeah I started with AWB but then as you had warned there was some content that was mixed in so I felt better just doing it manually with the keyboard shortcuts. I should finish it up tonight but I'll update you when it's done or if I run into issues. Dr vulpes ^{(💬 • 📝)} 22:37, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

@Smartse Done. Let me know if I messed anything up or if you find more spammy content that needs to be removed. Dr vulpes ^{(💬 • 📝)} 03:33, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

IMPORTANT (apparently, only for me...)

Not a TASK issue. Advice on gaining AWB for personal use has been given. Primefac (talk) 13:14, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

It's a pity that there is so much confusion in italics in the articles "Via Aemilia" and "Via Flaminia". The question is: should they be written in italics? Both articles are both italicised and not. Consistency in the same article is very important (remember, if you decide for italics or not, to do the same with all other pages that use these terms, otherwise there is no point). In short, I ask you whether these two terms should be italicised or not. In either case, and here you cannot refuse, you need a bot to write in italics or remove the italics from the thousands of pages containing these terms. JackkBrown (talk) 16:58, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Consistency in the same article is ~~very important~~ pretty nice... In either case, ~~and here you cannot refuse, you need a bot~~ sure would be convenient if a bot could.... FTFY. Folly Mox (talk) 17:18, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Importance is a matter of opinion. Wikipedia may be in need of other improvements that the volunteers who use AWB consider more pressing than whether a couple of perfectly legible words are in italics. Certes (talk) 17:26, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

@JackkBrown: You already received multiple answers to your question at Wikipedia:Help desk#"Via Emilia" and "Via Flaminia" pages. There are editors who volunteer for tasks on this page who are not bot operators. Anyone can refuse to respond to a request posted here. If it isn't IMPORTANT enough for you to update these two articles, you'll have a hard time convincing others of the importance of updating thousands of articles. GoingBatty (talk) 17:40, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

I work a lot on this encyclopaedia, do you think it's conceivable to work on more than 5,000 articles (for this problem)? It would take me a year. JackkBrown (talk) 18:13, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

JackkBrown, the problem is you haven't come here with a concrete request, and you seem to want someone to sort this out for you. You should at least have discussed whether italics are desirable or not. — Qwerfjkl talk 19:48, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

@JackkBrown: You have definitely worked a lot on this encyclopedia! Have you considered requesting AWB access, so you could quickly make these edits yourself? GoingBatty (talk) 21:31, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

@GoingBatty: can you tell me how I can do this? JackkBrown (talk) 21:39, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

@JackkBrown: Sure! The information you need is on the Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser page. GoingBatty (talk) 21:43, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Category:Legion of Super-Heroes members

I need to add the following articles to Category:Legion of Super-Heroes members. This was accepted through WP:AFCRC but the reviewer neglected to populate it.

–LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 04:25, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

@LaundryPizza03 ok give me a second and I'll give it a shot. Dr vulpes ^{(💬 • 📝)} 04:30, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

@LaundryPizza03 Done! Let me know if there are any problems. Dr vulpes ^{(💬 • 📝)} 04:40, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

@Dr vulpes: There were 51 requested additions, but only 38 were actually added. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 04:41, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

Oops my bad, sorry @LaundryPizza03 it's been a long day. I had "follow redirects" turned off in AWB, I'll make sure to check that next time! I checked the request at WP:AFCRC and it only has 49 entries. Dr vulpes ^{(💬 • 📝)} 04:57, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

MOS:FLAGICON

Hi, User:Bazza 7 has removed the flags from the Bari page. My request is as follows: since all (really all) pages of Italian cities have flags in the "International relations" paragraph, it doesn't make sense to remove them only in one page and leave them in all the others; User:Bazza 7 claims that the MOS:FLAGICON is being violated. Let's agree and decide whether to remove (via bot, of course) the flags from all Italian cities or, for consistency, add them to the Bari page as well, because it makes no sense to have a single Italian city page without flags in the encyclopaedia. JackkBrown (talk) 13:41, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

JackkBrown, please discuss this with Bazza 7 first and reach a consensus before coming here. — Qwerfjkl talk 15:22, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

@JackkBrown: After gaining consensus, I suggest using WP:Bot requests when you want a bot and this page when the edits require a human to review each edit. Did you request AWB access so you can complete tasks like this? GoingBatty (talk) 16:27, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Not just for this exercise but for anyone reading this thread and requesting AWB access: please ensure that all edits comply with WP:AWBRULES, such as seeking consensus before making controversial edits. Certes (talk) 18:54, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Links to General Land Office

Hello, I recently closed an RM that moved the "General Land Office" article to United States General Land Office. To clean up from this move, I'd like the article-space links to General Land Office (347 of them, at my time of writing) to be retargeted to United States General Land Office. This would be essentially a preemptive move to prevent cleanup from being necessary if a DAB page is created at the General Land Office title; such a DAB doesn't currently exist, so I suspect the risk of false positives is relatively low. If anyone is able/willing to do an AWB run for this, it would be greatly appreciated. ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 16:52, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Hey @ModernDayTrilobite, I’ll take a look at this when I get off work. Dr vulpes (Talk) 20:32, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Technically, the links are NOTBROKEN and someone might invoke COSMETICBOT, but the change may be worth making because the term is ambiguous with general land offices in other jurisdictions such as Texas and, erm, White Pigeon. Certes (talk) 20:40, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

The COSMETICBOT question is definitely a fair point. I personally lean in the direction of these edits being useful since, because of the ambiguities you mention, I think the NOTBROKEN links have a fair likelihood of breaking in the future - but certainly no hard feelings if people decide otherwise. ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 21:02, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Yeah that was the only reason I volunteered to do it, after reviewing the pages and seeing that there could be some confusion with State and Federal general land offices. Dr vulpes (Talk) 04:16, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Done, let me know if anything else comes up. Dr vulpes (Talk) 04:17, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Forgot to ping @ModernDayTrilobite Dr vulpes (Talk) 04:17, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 06:03, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Fix redirect link: Saint Francis University

(moved from Wikipedia:Bot requests)

I just moved Saint Francis University to Saint Francis University (Pennsylvania), because there will be a university also named Saint Francis University in Hong Kong (Caritas Institute of Higher Education acquires university title, Government of Hong Kong Press Release). The page "Saint Francis University" will be a redirect to University of Saint Francis. Before doing so I need to fix all pages with link to [[Saint Francis University]] and replace it with [[Saint Francis University (Pennsylvania)|Saint Francis University]] (or, if the link is [[Saint Francis University|something else]], just replace the link itself, not description), which I found hundreds. Is there anyone that can do this task for me? Leeyc0 (Talk) 12:25, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Fewer than 300, not worth a bot. See you have done some, i'll do a few. Neils51 (talk) 20:28, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Partly done: I've done the direct links, but I couldn't figure out how to retarget the templates such as in 1972–73 Baltimore Bullets season. —Panamitsu (talk) 00:12, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Leeyc0 I don't believe this should be done. Saint Francis University (and the ones that have been moved to Saint Francis University (Pennsylvania)) have over 400 links, Caritas Institute of Higher Education only has 110. I disagree with the move of Saint Francis University to Saint Francis University. Naraht (talk) 00:28, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

I have no objection if the changes should be reverted, let's see more comments from the community. --Leeyc0 (Talk) 04:00, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

The disambiguation makes sense to me. It's basically sorted and will prevent future issues. Neils51 (talk) 08:58, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

It appears that there is one template Template:College that contains the link (St. Francis (PA)), but it is locked. However, as mentioned before there is at least one objection. Seems need to escalate the case to proper channel, but I am not sure which is the proper channel. --Leeyc0 (Talk) 07:21, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

I just found that I can request a change by leaving a message in it's talk page. --Leeyc0 (Talk) 11:56, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Change of URL for Lawfare

Not relevant here.

The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.

There is also a change of URL from lawfareblog.com to lawfaremedia.org. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 05:47, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Valjean, see WP:URLREQ. — Qwerfjkl talk 08:58, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll take my request there. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 16:27, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Update links from Lawfare (blog) to Lawfare (website)

These old links need to be updated to Lawfare. Note the italics. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 00:31, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

@Valjean: Since Lawfare (blog) is a reditrec to Lawfare (website), could you please help us understand why the links need to be updated? See WP:NOTBROKEN. GoingBatty (talk) 04:02, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

I was under the impression, apparently wrongly, that we should fix such links, and was informed that this was a task normally performed by this bot. Sorry for bothering you. Is it made clear somewhere that the bot is not supposed to be used for this task? -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 04:44, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

GoingBatty, this change is not unimportant. It will clear up a serious misunderstanding that disadvantages the website. It started as a blog, and we tend to look down on using blogs as sources. It has not been a blog for many years, so the name change is important, also for editors. We need to fix this injustice, and since this type of change is not forbidden, please help with this. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 04:50, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

@Valjean: Note that AutoWikiBrowser is a piece of software used by human editors and bots. The requests on this page are usually performed by human editors using the software, because there are typically WP:CONTEXTBOT issues. We ask questions to avoid WP:COSMETICBOT issues. GoingBatty (talk) 04:55, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Does that mean someone will help with this matter since it isn't merely a cosmetic issue? -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 04:57, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Happy to do a few a day. Neils51 (talk) 11:52, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Neils51, thank you. Also see the next section. Isn't this bot something that can be given a list which it then zips right through in a few seconds? (I obviously don't know how this works.

) -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 16:25, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

@Valjean: Bots typically edit once every 10 seconds for non-urgent tasks like these, per WP:BOTPERF. GoingBatty (talk) 18:54, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Looks like only around 100 articles? I picked a couple at random to ascertain the requirements and was lead up the garden path by one. Looking closer though that may have been an error on the part of the editor who made the original edit. GIGO. Make the URL request, probably a useful experience. Neils51 (talk) 20:27, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Category:Judges of the Supreme Court of Appeal (South Africa)

Hello, I've just created Category:Judges of the Supreme Court of Appeal (South Africa) and I'm hoping there's an easy way to add all of the judges to it. The judges are:

TYIA! Jlalbion (talk) 11:07, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

Doing. – DreamRimmer (talk) 11:10, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

@Jlalbion, Done – DreamRimmer (talk) 11:44, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

That's fantastic, thank you! Jlalbion (talk) 12:41, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

Add Template:Old AfD multi to talk pages

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of television programmes broadcast by TVB (2nd nomination) was closed as withdrawn. {{Old AfD multi |date=26 January 2024 |result='''keep''' |page=List of television programmes broadcast by TVB (2nd nomination)}} was added to the talk page of one of the articles but not to the talk pages of the 49 other articles that had been nominated for deletion. Would an editor add the {{Old AfD multi}} template to the talk pages of those articles? Thank you, Cunard (talk) 00:22, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

And

Done Van Isaac, GHTV^cont_WpWS 00:24, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

Thank you so much, Vanisaac (talk · contribs)! Cunard (talk) 00:37, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

Template change

Please refer to this discussion on the bot request page: here

And this is the list:

456legend (talk) 12:20, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

So, I would just like to request for the template placement. Putting this again here for reference: [2] 456legend (talk) 12:25, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

@456legend, Could you please provide all the party names so that I can help with this? – DreamRimmer (talk) 12:29, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

@DreamRimmer relevant to most of the following articles:

Indian National Congress

Bhartiya Janata Party

Communist Party of India (Marxist)

Communist Party of India

Andhra Pradesh specific:

Telugu Desam Party

Telangana Rashtra Samithi

Praja Rajyam Party

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen

Lok Satta Party

Karnataka specific:

Janata Dal (Secular)

Kannada Nadu Party

Republican Party of India

Tamil Nadu sepcific:

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Pattali Makkal Katchi

Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi

Bihar sepcific:

Lok Janshakti Party

Rashtriya Lok Samata Party

Hindustani Awam Morcha

Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation

Jharkhand sepcific:

Jharkhand Mukti Morcha

Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik)

All Jharkhand Students Union

Jharkhand Party

Jai Bharat Samanta Party

Uttar Pradesh sepcific:

Apna Dal (Sonelal)

NISHAD Party

Samajwadi Party

Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party

Rashtriya Lok Dal

Odhisha sepcific:

Biju Janata Dal

Puducherry specific:

All India N.R. Congress

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Punjab specific:

Shiromani Akali Dal 456legend (talk) 13:02, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

@456legend You want to make adjustments in only 'Results by constituency' sections of all these article, right? – DreamRimmer (talk) 13:09, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

@DreamRimmer yes 456legend (talk) 13:15, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi @DreamRimmer, I would like to know if you are working on this request or not. If not, then I will try doing it manually since no other user is willing to do an AWB for this. 456legend talk 17:44, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

@456legend did you need any more assistance with this? Philipnelson99 (talk) 16:19, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Philipnelson99, my request isn't addressed yet. I have done one of the article for myself but that took lot of time and I stopped working on the rest. If you are willing to help me then I would be thankful for that. 456legend talk 18:14, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

@456legend I'll take a look at it in an hour or so and let you know if it's something that I'll be able to do! Philipnelson99 (talk) 18:17, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

@456legend I took a closer look and this doesn't seem like a good fit for an AWB task because it requires the change to happen in a specific section of these articles. I'm sorry about that, I can try to manually help if I get time but as of right now I don't think AWB will be able to help here. Philipnelson99 (talk) 20:38, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

@Philipnelson99 fine. No worries. I thank you for looking into it and responding. Thank you 456legend talk 02:57, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Errors on a mass message I just sent

Thank you Jonesy95 for pointing out that there are multiple syntax errors (Linter errors including obsolete tags and inline tags wrapping block content). They suggested I ask someone here to fix the error (which went to the 465 people on the LA mailing list). Thank you! JSFarman (talk) 22:20, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Do you have the list of users handy @JSFarman? Happy to do this. Philipnelson99 (talk) 22:23, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Doing... Nevermind, I've got it. Philipnelson99 (talk) 22:25, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Done @JSFarman let me know if I missed any! Philipnelson99 (talk) 22:58, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

@Philipnelson99, thank you thank you! JSFarman (talk) 23:07, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you both. With more than 3.4 million Linter errors still out there, the 3,000 or so errors in these mass messages were taking us in the wrong direction. I wish there were a better way for the system to prevent these errors from being saved to pages in the first place. – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:38, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Well, if I can ever help, just let me know, @Jonesey95! Philipnelson99 (talk) 02:40, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Simple find and replace

Given a recent template move about 82 project-space pages need updating from {{Community feature requests}} to {{Wikipedia:Community feature requests/Header template}}

Only transclusions in the WhatLinksHere need to be fixed. Example diff of what needs to be done. Cheers --Commander Keane (talk) 22:21, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Looking at it now, think I can do this! Philipnelson99 (talk) 22:23, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Doing... Philipnelson99 (talk) 22:27, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Done @Commander Keane. Hopefully that helps! Philipnelson99 (talk) 22:30, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

@Philipnelson99. Excellent, and quickly done too! Definitely don't fix it on these edits (no need) but for next time try to make sure there aren't any extra spaces when you replace things. In this diff you can see extra space before the header trasnclusion markup.--Commander Keane (talk) 22:55, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

I've goofed

This evening I have done some 500 edits using WP:JWB removing Portal|World War II from Category pages. Unfortunately I didn't clear the replace box first so I have added a vertical bar in its place. Can it be resolved anyway? I'm quite happy to have them all reverted if that is the simplest answer. I do apologise for making this mistake Lyndaship (talk) 18:37, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Can you save the list of pages you've edited? I think it would be best to just do a regex replace of the pipe with a newline - should be something like "/|/n". A single pipe on its own line is pretty easy to hit as long as you aren't running through pages with a bunch of tables with empty cells. Van Isaac, GHTV^cont_WpWS 00:11, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks that was sufficient for me to correct the error. they are all sorted now Lyndaship (talk) 10:41, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

MOS:TM

Could someone replace all instances of "GRAMMY" or "GRAMMY®" in visible text with "Grammy"? Mach61 19:26, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Searching for "GRAMMY" returns 4,964 results before timing out. That probably needs a bot to fix, if it can be accurate enough (unsure of that). Working on "GRAMMY®". Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 19:33, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Stopped for now. Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 19:45, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

If there are 5k+ uses, I can put in a bot run; I don't see converting GRAMMY -> Grammy to be overly controversial. Primefac (talk) 19:59, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Some may be accurate quotes, e.g. {{Cite whatever|title=Smith wins GRAMMY®}} or [https://example.com Smith wins GRAMMY®]. See also Emmy® and Award® (e.g. Academy Award®, but also many more obscure gongs). I just fixed a dozen which were similar but not quite regular enough for the proposed task/bot to catch (spaces before ®, ™ or © instead, etc.) I was surprised not to find many more; someone seems to have their eye on this ball. Certes (talk) 20:04, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Hrm, that might put it into CONTEXTBOT territory. Primefac (talk) 20:20, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

This search is almost useful but fails to find articles which use GRAMMY® both in a legitimate quote and in running prose, where just the latter would require attention. It still includes false positives, so is fodder for AWB rather than a bot. Certes (talk) 20:31, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure we still reduce it to title case and remove the trademark symbol when it's in a title. Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 20:33, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

MOS:TM says Do not use the ™ and ® symbols, or similar, in either article text or citations. I'm unsure exactly what that means but it may well cover title= and similar uses, in which case there are a lot to fix (as the original poster implies). Certes (talk) 20:47, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

It means remove those symbols unless the sentence is specifically explaining the branding, like "Grammy is often branded as 'GRAMMY®', including the registered trademark symbol." We remove the symbol and the excessive capitalization otherwise, unless removing the symbol would break something technical; I'm seeing it in one dead URL, but I can't tell if it is valid. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:04, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Removing category name containing mandal for petscan query result

The articles that are the result of petscan query are articles of villages, towns, or cities that should not be part of categories of mandals. Hence those categories need to be removed. As an example, for Pulivendula, Category:Mandals in Kadapa district should be removed and for P._Gannavaram, Category:Mandals in Konaseema district and Category:Mandals in Andhra Pradesh should be removed. Arjunaraoc (talk) 12:38, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

@Arjunaraoc, are the articles in this query not about mandals? I'm asking because when I searched for Pulivendula on Google, I found many results mentioning Pulivendula Mandal. – DreamRimmer (talk) 12:57, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

@DreamRimmer, There are mandals with same name, but separate mandal articles need to be created. So mandal categories are to be removed from these. Arjunaraoc (talk) 13:08, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

That makes sense. – DreamRimmer (talk) 13:09, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

@DreamRimmer, I found my bot account ( Arjunaraocbot ) originally used on tewiki working on enwiki. Hence I updated the articles myself. Arjunaraoc (talk) 01:41, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

@Arjunaraoc, please don't run unapproved bot. You must first get it approved to run on the English Wikipedia. This type of small task can be done with your main account using AWB. – DreamRimmer (talk) 01:54, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

@DreamRimmer As I use Linux as my desktop, I can't run AWB. Now I will file request for bot. Arjunaraoc (talk) 03:49, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

@Arjunaraoc: You may be interested in reading Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Mono and Wine to see how to run AWB on Linux. GoingBatty (talk) 04:39, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

@DreamRimmer, My bot request for info.--Arjunaraoc (talk) 04:17, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Could AWB go through this list?

Wikipedia:Database reports/Long stubs OrdinaryGiraffe (talk) 01:35, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

~~Reasons: cricket is getting nearly 150 hits, almost all of which I had stub applied in a boilerplate way long ago.~~

~~Same for 20, which turns up 20xx years. They are getting almost 500 hits.~~ OrdinaryGiraffe (talk) 01:42, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

~~Note: Category:Cricket season stubs only has 300 articles, and Category:Cricket competitions only 150, so this is pretty significant. Alternatively, I could ask the WikiProject to look into this.~~ Never mind, the list got updated, but it would still be nice for AWB to deal with it. OrdinaryGiraffe (talk) 01:49, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

What are you looking for us to do; get rid of the stub templates? Geardona (talk to me?) 06:22, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

As long as it's more than the AWB soft limit of 500 words exculding templates and tables, yes. OrdinaryGiraffe (talk) 15:52, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

So remove stub templates from those articles, consider me

Working on it. Geardona (talk to me?) 17:31, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

P.S. Is their a policy discussion about rating articles like this one? ~~Less than 20~~ around 40 words, but 101KB size. OrdinaryGiraffe (talk) 18:04, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

I would say that is list class. Geardona (talk to me?) 18:16, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

Note that this is still being worked on. Geardona (talk to me?) 06:21, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Could AWB fix the list class (but tagged stub class in Talk) less than 500 words ones as well? Or would that require a bot? OrdinaryGiraffe (talk) 20:38, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

I’m not sure that’s possible in any way but manual, I can try to spin up some regex. But it really does not sound possible. As for the bot question, I don’t think that’s possible either. Geardona (talk to me?) 20:47, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Events at the European Track Championships‎

Please could somebody tag and list Category:Events at the European Track Championships‎ and its 25 subcats for speedy renaming to "UEC European Track Championships‎" under C2D? – Fayenatic London 11:57, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

@Fayenatic london, I'm happy to assist with tagging, but I'm not quite sure how to go about listing them at WP:CFDS. Would you be able to take care of that part? – DreamRimmer (talk) 12:12, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you – yes, I'll be happy to do that. I'd paste the current names into Excel and use text formulas to create the nomination lines. – Fayenatic London 12:15, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Tagging – DreamRimmer (talk) 12:29, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

@Fayenatic london, done – DreamRimmer (talk) 12:50, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks very much – now listed at WP:CFDS. – Fayenatic London 13:27, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

False last and first names in references

Could someone run AWB to remove the name "Bureau, US Census" from "cite web" references? I see it as "last1=Bureau" and "first1=US Census", or maybe "last=Bureau" and "first=US Census". Kk.urban (talk) 01:20, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Working on some REGEX for this, will post here because page list looks huge. Geardona (talk to me?) 01:34, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

REGEX (replace with nothing) [lL]ast=Bureau|[fF]irst=US Census|[lL]ast\d=Bureau|[fF]irst\d=US Census Geardona (talk to me?) 01:39, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Support Sounds fun! Chaotıċ Enby (talk · contribs) 01:50, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

How big is huge, Geardona? If it's >500 pages it might be worth a bot. (please do not ping on reply) Primefac (talk) 12:26, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Could be about 7,000 - there are some false positives. -- GreenC 14:56, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

@GreenC: Including an insource search for |first[0-9]?= shrinks the results to less than 4,500. GoingBatty (talk) 14:17, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

I think there is some process already in place for removing "Writer, Staff", "Correspondent, Own" and other proforma names. Sadly, I can't recall exactly who or what does this and how often but, if someone can track them down, we may be able to add the prolific Mr. Bureau to an existing list of unwelcome authors. Certes (talk) 16:57, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

@GoingBatty and BattyBot: I think. Neils51 (talk) 05:05, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

@Certes: Another option could be to request that "Bureau" be added to the list of unwelcome authors in Category:CS1 errors: generic name. GoingBatty (talk) 14:22, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

The |website=, |work=, |publisher= fields need normalization, but that is a very big job for census.gov probably 100s of thousands of pages. They should probably be set to United States Census Bureau. It might need to be done incidentally, with other work, to avoid lighting up watchlists too fast eg. every small town in America. -- GreenC 15:14, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

@GreenC: Maybe you could ask Ohconfucius to include this in their Fix SOURCES script. GoingBatty (talk) 14:11, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

I was looking in JWB and it maxed out at 1500. Geardona (talk to me?) 23:31, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

@Kk.urban: I think a bot should only remove the name "Bureau, US Census" if some form of "US Census Bureau" is included in one of the other parameters. What do you think? GoingBatty (talk) 14:10, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

Yes, good idea. Kk.urban (talk) 15:20, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

@Kk.urban and Geardona: - I thought Gerdona's "Working.." icon above meant they were doing to do this, but maybe they were just creating a regex to find the pages. In which case, it doesn't look like anyone has volunteered to do this. -- GreenC 01:22, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

I am currently working on it, but have been stuck on mobile for a few days. I can keep going in a little bit. I also paused for the bot discussion. Geardona (talk to me?) 01:28, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. -- GreenC 01:31, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

@Geardona: Did you really mean to remove 100k of text from Kentucky? I tried to restore it, but I can't because of certain sources appear to be censored. @Kk.urban, GreenC, GoingBatty, and Certes: --David Tornheim (talk) 05:30, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Im well aware of the issue, I don't think theres anything I can do, its all reverted now (thanks discord people) but I have diff max size set to 150, so Im not sure if this is possible. Geardona (talk to me?) 05:34, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Glad it's fixed. I hated to tag so many editors over this, but I wanted to be sure it got corrected ASAP, since I couldn't do it. --David Tornheim (talk) 05:36, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Just noting I am still working through the list, although would appreciate bot help as soon as possible/practical. Geardona (talk to me?) 16:16, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

Remove external-links entry for druginfo (dead site)

Per Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine#druginfo.nlm.nih.gov is dead (and antecedent discussions linked therein), 'druginfo.nlm.nih.gov' is permanently dead, but is listed in (quick guestimate) several hundred External Links sections. The task is to remove those entries altogether from pages where the infobox already has a link to the replacement site. JWB is flaky for me and I can't use AWB, hence this request. The specific edit is to delete lines of this form:

* {{cite web | url = https://druginfo.nlm.nih.gov/drugportal/name/cocaine | publisher = U.S. National Library of Medicine | work = Drug Information Portal | title = Cocaine }}

where the underlined strings could vary, in pages that contain the regexp:

/\|\s*PubChem\s*=\s*\d/

that is, a |PubChem= template field that has a numerical value. DMacks (talk) 21:21, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

@DMacks: wait, if it's external links sections that are the problem, why are we deleting citation templates? Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 00:37, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

It indeed was noted in the discussion I linked that they should not have been formatted as citations in the first place. The items to remove are bullet-list, not footnote or any sort of named ref. Once these are gone, we plan to manually deal with the cases that are actually used as refs. DMacks (talk) 02:33, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

I've made a regex, and that's all I have time for tonight.

\n\* ?\{\{[cC]ite web *\| *url *= *https?://druginfo.nlm.nih.gov/drugportal/name/(.+) *\| *publisher *= *U\.S\. National Library of Medicine *\| *work *= *Drug Information Portal *\| *title *= * (.+) *\}\}

If someone decides to finish this for me:

Nest that in adv. settings under the pubchem regex. Remove the forward slashes at the beginning and end.
Generate the list with insource:https://druginfo.nlm.nih.gov/drugportal/name/

I'll have this done sometime tomorrow night probably. Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 04:12, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Done Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 20:04, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for working on that! Any idea why it didn't pick up Phencyclidine? DMacks (talk) 10:04, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

It doesn't have the pubchem parameter filled in the infobox. Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 15:38, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Here is around line 50:

| ATC_prefix = None
| PubChem = 6468
| DrugBank_Ref = {{drugbankcite|correct|drugbank}}

DMacks (talk) 15:59, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

I... don't know. Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 19:28, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Adding Author Links

I have created two articles recently of sportswriters widely cited on Wikipedia: Cliff Christl and Bud Lea. I was wondering if someone could query any instance of:

| last = Christl | first = Cliff within any {{Cite}} template (such as {{Cite web}} or {{Cite news}}) and then add in | author-link = Cliff Christl to the template
| last = Lea | first = Bud within any {{Cite}} template (such as {{Cite web}} or {{Cite news}}) and then add in | author-link = Bud Lea to the template

There is also one other I run into a lot:

| last = Daley | first = Art within any {{Cite}} template (such as {{Cite web}} or {{Cite news}}) and then add in | author-link = Art Daley to the template

Thank you for any assistance. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 16:04, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

Done Okay, I'm checking on something at Wikipedia Talk:CITE before I actually start making the full run on this. I made the first edit, but with somewhere around 159 citations of Cliff Christl in that single article, I wanted to check whether we should be linking all of them, or just the first instance. VanIsaac, GHTV^cont_WpWS 01:16, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks Vanisaac, I should've mentioned Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame in my request. It is unique and I wouldn't expect anything anywhere close to that moving forward. When I did some Bud Lea ones by hand, the most I got was 4 or 5 in an article. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 15:01, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
Looks like any concerns are minor. I'll start up again and skip any pages that are problematic. Van Isaac, GHTV^cont_WpWS 00:37, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Task is complete, with 296 edits. Van Isaac, GHTV^cont_WpWS 01:29, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you Vanisaac! Is there any way you could check one more for me? Lee Remmel? « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 16:13, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

@Gonzo fan2007, check here. – DreamRimmer (talk) 17:20, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Do you need help adding the author link? – DreamRimmer (talk) 17:27, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

If that's all of them, then I got'em all! Thanks :) « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 17:29, 1 April 2024 (UTC)