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There are around 179 redirects to
OmniScriptum that I'd like to nominate at RfD. Is this something that can be done through AWB, if I paste the list and the rationale here? (I'm not entirely sure how this is supposed to work and am going off a
2015 discussion that I never followed up that indicates it's possible.) –
Arms & Hearts (
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19:41, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
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Arms & Hearts: Yes, this can certainly be done. Please create the nomination first (with the list of pages), so that the correct section can be linked to, and then let us know. @
Qwerfjkl, this would probably also include notifying the redirect creator(s).
Tol (
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20:57, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
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Tol: I thought so. I could still probably do it, but I'd rather leave it to someone more experienced in this area. I'll happily do this if there's a low enough number of redirect creators so it can be done manually. ―
Qwerfjkltalk21:00, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
Idea: Floating out a general idea about the topic, would a bot that can routinely do this be helpful? I've seen many similar requests here before.
🐶 EpicPupper(he/him |
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Hmm, perhaps. I think a better solution may be an OAuth tool, so that users can make the edits on their own accounts. If it were a bot, then either the bot operator would have to take requests and run it manually, or the bot
could be run by any user and potentially misused.
Tol (
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contribs) @
01:07, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
Just saw this now, but I have a bot with general approval for addition of XfD notices. Ping me and I can run it whenever. I guess it's possible to do some kind of system to allow others to run it, but that's more effort than I feel like putting in right now. --
Trialpears (
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01:13, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
See
this discussion for more background, but basically I need to check various parameters of an infobox and replace any uses involving {{plainlist}} or <br> with bulleted entries. I've been going back and forth with various coding options to figure this out, and through a combination of lack of time and not really sure what's going wrong I haven't been able to figure it out. I've already got a module setup where I have each param pulled out of the infobox call already, so really it's just a case of finding an AWB-module-style code that checks the parameter value in each KeyValuePair against the requirements listed above. Many thanks for anyone who can help. (please do notping on reply)
Primefac (
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20:56, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
In 2010, 250 pages were generated on Wikipedia relating to dams in India.
https://xtools.wmflabs.org/pages/en.wikipedia.org/Suresh.andhale lines 1 to 252, less a few disambiguation pages, links them. All I have checked so far have transferred cubic volumes from referenced source material to the article incorrectly, changing units of 1000 cubic meters into cubic kilometers. The dams therefore appear in the articles to be larger than they are in fact.
JohnHarris (
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17:49, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
Apologies to followup this request to do the exact opposite, but I just closed the debate as "no consensus". Now these pages need to have the AFD template removed and the talk pages tagged with the following: {{Old XfD multi|date=20 February 2022|result='''no consensus'''|page=Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Index of Abkhazia-related articles}}✗plicit13:09, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
Removing the AFD tags, by any means other than with a bot, would generate a notice, so it's kind of irrelevant (and last I checked I was not a bot ;-) ).
Primefac (
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13:47, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
Module:Location map/data/Sool, Somaliland was renamed to
Module:Location map/data/Sool. 24 items have to correct.
[1] We have to change Infobox settlement parameter "| pushpin_map = Sool, Somaliland" to "| pushpin_map = Sool." Some parameters are complex. For examples, in
Las Anod, "| pushpin_map = Sool, Somaliland#Somaliland#Horn of Africa#Africa" to "| pushpin_map = Sool#Somaliland#Horn of Africa#Africa." Some pages require extended confirmed rights.--
Freetrashbox (
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02:11, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
Note: Templates should replace category content. which means the wikitext of pages should only consist of the category header template. Thank you. --
Jeeputer (
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10:21, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
I just made some very rapid edits that I apologize for; I accidentally held down the save button in JWB and made them too fast. Still doing (but slower)...🐶 EpicPupper(he/him |
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Why do we need Mixed doubles? These are supposed to be short titles and there's no such thing as Mixed singles. I think Singles, Doubles, and Mixed is all we really need.
Fyunck(click) (
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22:33, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
I started doing these since I thought they made sense. Looking at
Mixed doubles, it seems like this is the common term? I'll pause the changes for now pending discussion.
🐶 EpicPupper(he/him |
talk)22:38, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
Yes, "mixed doubles" is the proper term, "mixed" alone is informal. These articles all had either "mixed draw" (which is also informal) or "mixed doubles" until about a week ago, when consensus was found to remove "draw". "Doubles" was also removed from "mixed doubles" (without discussion) from those articles that had it, but I realize now that that was done in error. Wolbo
reverted a change to "mixed" alone with the edit summary "Mixed doubles is the name of the event, mixed is never just in isolation". Do you agree @
Fyunck(click), so this task can be completed?
Letcord (
talk)
22:57, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
To be honest I'm not sure I do agree. I see no reason to use anything but Mixed. I like it much better as we have at
1992 WTA Tour It keeps it a single word like the other two disciplines, at least at the tennis year articles. It's not a big deal but it might be good to hear what tennis editors would like on the chart.
Fyunck(click) (
talk)
23:25, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
The tennis project is currently bogged down with the great "Win–Loss" vs "Win–loss" debate and similarly significant capitalization issues. "Mixed doubles" is the
status quo ante for these articles
[2] and was changed without discussion and then objected to by another editor. Do you feel strongly enough about this one to stand in the way of the reversion, or can you let it slide?
Letcord (
talk)
23:47, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
As shown in my link, it is not the status quo. There were some of "Mixed" and some "Mixed draw", and some "Mixed Doubles." Changing them all to "Mixed doubles" with no discussion seems wrong to me. And remember, Tennis Project as a whole is not bogged down in that debate... that would be tennis vs outside editors. That's fine and dandy and it happens sometimes, but "Mixed" would be more of an internal debate among tennis editors about what works best in the charts we created from scratch. That might not need and RFC but would require at least a little discussion before changing all of the charts to one particular style.
Fyunck(click) (
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00:37, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
"status quo ante" is what I wrote, not "status quo". Please read the definition I linked if you don't understand the difference. My link showed the article you linked before the recent change, which had "Mixed doubles". I am requesting here for an editor to assist getting back to "Mixed doubles". If you obstruct, the only difference is that I'll have to spend an hour reverting the edits manually, which I will do if necessary. You are the sole person standing in the way of this process-abiding change - per
WP:BRD myself/Dicklyon boldly changed to "Mixed", Wolbo then reverted, this task would just complete the reversion, and then changing to "Mixed" can be discussed later. Can you please let this task be completed unopposed? Is that possible?
Letcord (
talk)
01:10, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
Oh, this involves Dicklyon's proposed changes. I filed
a bot request with related (but not identical) changes, which I withdrew. The comments on that page might be helpful.
🐶 EpicPupper(he/him |
talk)01:13, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
For task 2, I've now manually reverted to the status quo ante "Mixed doubles" to complete the R of the
WP:BRD process. Thanks to EpicPupper for the help with task 1, and thanks to Fyunck(click) for the obstructionism.
Letcord (
talk)
11:58, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
If someone could please (regex) replace "(\{(WTA|wta) ?(profile)? *\| *\d+)\/[^\|\}]+(\||\})" with "$1$4" for the articles in
Category:WTA template with ID different from Wikidata, that would be appreciated. Only the numeric part of the WTA IDs has been needed for some time now, and this will bring these few articles with the old ID format in line with their items on Wikidata and the rest of the player articles on Wikipedia, thus clearing this maintenance category. Thanks, --
Letcord (
talk)
11:57, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
@
Qwerfjkl, if you could please re-run this job that would be great, as the category has been re-populated after all IDs were transferred to Wikidata, exposing the last articles still using the old ID format.
Letcord (
talk)
22:11, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
All 1300 articles in
Category:ITF template using numeric ID use obsolete
ITF IDs with
Template:ITF profile. For example,
Justine Henin has {{ITF profile|20010490}} which links to
https://www.itftennis.com/procircuit/players/player/profile.aspx?playerid=20010490, a dead link (HTTP 500 error) that used to redirect to the new profile but does no longer. Fortunately, every article using this old ID format has the new format attached to their Wikidata item, which can be pulled just by using the template without parameters: {{ITF profile}}. I've checked through Wikidata queries that all the new IDs are there and correspond to the old ones currently used in the articles, so all that needs to be done is to replace "\{\{ *[Ii][Tt][Ff]( (fe)?male)?( profile)? *\|[^\}]+\}\}" with "{{ITF profile}}" for all articles in that category. Most players' articles already pull these IDs from Wikidata (
Category:ITF template using Wikidata property P8618), so this is nothing new. Thanks,
Letcord (
talk)
05:11, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
There are about 267 articles in which overcapitalization of "Habsburg Monarchy" is visible in the displayed article, which should eventually be changed to "Habsburg monarchy" per the RM consensus there. Some are plain unpiped links, easy to replace with an explicit pattern, and some are not part of links, and need to be distinguished from occurrences in filenames (e.g.
File:Flag of the Habsburg Monarchy.svg,
File:Habsburg Monarchy 1789.svg, and others) and reference titles (Fall of the Habsburg Monarchy, Reassessing the Habsburg Monarchy, maybe more). They need to be watched carefully for more filenames and ref titles, so not bot-suitable (unless someone is a wiz at regular expressions for such things). A list of candidates can be generated by files linking to
Habsburg Monarchy or
Habsburg monarchy -- and there may be others that use the term without linking. There a few weird cases like
Relief of Cetingrad which has "
Habsburg Monarchy Army" that should be changed to be not a pretend proper name, perhaps as "
Habsburg army". I'm about to go away for a while so won't be able to keep working on this move cleanup.
Dicklyon (
talk)
20:58, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
This proposal is for just the edits that were not objected to; not the changes to piped links that are less visible that you objected to.
Dicklyon (
talk)
15:14, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
[[Good Time (album)|Good Time]] -> [[Good Time (Alan Jackson album)|Good Time (Alan Jackson album)]]. Cleanup after page move. Ten Pound Hammer • (
What did I screw up now?)22:47, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
[[John Berry (singer)|John Berry]] -> [[John Berry (country singer)|John Berry]] Seems piped links were not cleaned up when the page was moved. Ten Pound Hammer • (
What did I screw up now?)03:52, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
Done for the categories mentioned, that lead to 541 total edits. I'm now working on other wrestling categories which I'm finding from the pages that still remain in your search link.
Hey man im josh (
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15:05, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
Done. I created a list from pages which linked to the template and then removed it. I did a second pass through of the list just in case, which was a good idea, because I found several instances where the template was used more than once on a page. Hopefully someone can update
this link soon just so that I can be sure I caught it all.
Hey man im josh (
talk)
19:15, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
@
Hey man im josh, Could you also please write regex to remove empty parameters as well while you're removing bgcolor? :) As I've asked to enable empty invalid parameters tracking as well so that would helpful.
Solidest (
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13:15, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
To be quite honest, I'm not far enough in with AWB to know how to properly do that. I would also argue against removing empty parameters so as to encourage others to fill them in. Many editors aren't aware of all the parameters that each infobox may have.
Hey man im josh (
talk)
13:17, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
Well, as for the benefits – that's debatable. They are not forbidden, but in general their usefulness is questionable. We even have tracking categories for blank parameters:
Category:Pages using infobox event with blank parameters. And many of these parameters will never be filled anyway for 98% of infoboxes (current year portal / subgenreslist / footnotes), so I usually delete them when I edit infoboxes. (And those who don't know about all the parameters would rather use the visual editor, which shows all the existing ones and corrects formatting errors. And those who edit code are more likely to find a complete list of them) Anyway, I ran AWB from A to C myself with removing them, but you took the initiative further, so it's too late to argue anyway :)
Solidest (
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13:33, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
Definitely debatable, as you said. I can see where you're coming from in your stance, and both sides of it, except for 1 point you mentioned regarding the visual editor. I do not use the visual editor and I'd say at least two thirds of my edits are related to the NFL, and at least half may be related to updating the NFL infobox parameters on articles. I still don't know every parameter but I do make the effort to fill blank ones in that I find when I do see them while editing.
As you mentioned there's a maintenance category for the empty parameters, so you can still remove them if you'd like to. It's just not something I'd prefer to do for the reasons I mentioned.
Hey man im josh (
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13:53, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
Tribute to Tradition and A Tribute to Tradition -> [[A Tribute to Tradition]] Introduce wikilinks now that the album has an article. Ten Pound Hammer • (
What did I screw up now?)23:47, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
Done. Sorry EpicPupper, I started this one and forgot to use the Doing... tag. I avoided wikilinking these when they showed up in a cite template. Ended up wikilinking about 20. TenPoundHammer, you may want to spot check and see if we missed any edge cases. For example, if it had weird capitalization. –
Novem Linguae (
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00:17, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
[[Census in Australia#2016|2016 census]] -> [[2016 Australian census|2016 census]]
[[Census in Australia#2016|2016 Census]] -> [[2016 Australian census|2016 census]]
[[Census in Australia#2016|2016]] -> [[2016 Australian census|2016]]
[[census in Australia#2016|2016 census]] -> [[2016 Australian census|2016 census]]
Link to the more specific article instead of a section of the general article. I started fixing these by hand but there are too many of them. —
Mx. Granger (
talk·contribs)
07:07, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
Although I think that most of it has been done or I am just really incompetent when it comes to using AWB. | Zippybonzo |
Talk |
12:22, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
I've tidied up a few others that were slightly different from the strings I posted above. I think that's all of them (correct me if I'm wrong). Thanks for the help, everyone! —
Mx. Granger (
talk·contribs)
11:04, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
Remove parameters from cathead template transclusions
I am making many edits with AWB on one of the projects that are not in the English language. In one of those projects, I realized that the {{PAGENAME}} function—which is used on thousands of pages—doesn't need to keep in the pages, and I removed it as mass. However, this—along with the deletion of the function—resulted in the same templates being left on the pages. I'd like to clean up them.
Are the templates always right next to each other and separated by a line break? Could possibly do a regex replace. Search: /(\{\{([^\}]+)\}\})\n\{\{\2\}\}/, replace with $1. Would need a list of affected pages to plug into AWB though.
RegEx101. –
Novem Linguae (
talk)
08:14, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
I am not sure the exact. I've seen a few revisions that weren't separated by a line break, but it was rare.
Abbreviation redirects for months "month year" format
I've worked on this a little today and quickly realized this is a pretty stupid waste of time for me to do manually when I don't have access to the autowikibrowser. Jan Feb Mar Apr Jun Jul Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec (not including May, since no abbreviation, already 3 letters) then the year do not redirect to the appropriate article in any instance, it seems, based on the few I checked. So now the ones I did today - Jan 1900 to Dec 1902, and only "Jan" - no other months - for years 1903-1949. might be the only ones existing. so there are 119×12=1428 articles that should have these redirects from 1903-2022, minus the Januarys to 1949, so at least 1382 needed. Format "Jan 1950" redirect to article "January 1950", other examples "Oct 1964" "Dec 1979" "Feb 2010" "Sept 1989" "Aug 1990" "Jul 1932" "Jun 1924" "Jan 1974" "Sept 1937" "Mar 1944"
Led8000 (
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03:13, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
Probably. I'm not sure how clever they are about section redirects. But it would be better to get it right first time, if it's wanted at all.
Certes (
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20:39, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
I did say I'd start on this in the morning, but honestly, I think this might be a little much for me to take on. I'm not actually sure how to properly automate this after giving it more thought.
Hey man im josh (
talk)
12:01, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
I think all those links point correctly to the park rather than the neighbourhood, but please feel free to fix them if I'm wrong.
Certes (
talk)
20:14, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
Creating a large number of date redirects in a particular format
Is there any chance that someone with AWB would be able to change all instances of "The Mill" to "the Mill" on pages on
Template:Doctors per
MOS:THECAPS? Or is the change too small to be picked up on the system? I change them as and when I see them, but if it was possible for someone with AWB, it would help a lot. –
Meena •
09:56, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
Hi – "the Mill" or "the Mill Health Centre" would be the appropriate option as it is a building on the series that exists in real life. Think of it as similar to the Eiffel Tower. The the wouldn't be capitalised as it is not strictly part of the name. –
Meena •
17:05, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
I would like to PROD a large number of
Carlossuarez46 (
talk·contribs) articles about villages in Iran that begin with "
PrefixIndex/Chah" or "
PrefixIndex/Chah-e" and do not have geocoordinates, since chah (چاه) means well in Persian and we cannot verify that they are villages. Specifically, the rationale would be:
Mass-created Iran geostub by
User:Carlossuarez46. Name is of a well, and no geocoordinates are given to confirm that this is a populated place.
Category:Gandhians has been recreated per
WP:REFUND and needs to be repopulated. This can be done by reverting every edit by JJMC89 bot III from
this edit (07:39, 4 August) to
this edit (07:48, 4 August) inclusive (232 edits in total). Can this be done using AWB? If a list of articles needs to be provided I can do that. –
Arms & Hearts (
talk)
14:21, 6 August 2022 (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.
I recently adopted ClueBot for old manual talk page archives and I think the reason why the bot isn't archiving correctly, is because my talk page archives are of the form
User:Andrevan/Archive54 but ClueBot wants them to be more like
User talk:Andrevan/Archives/1. Could someone move all my User:Andrevan talk archive pages to User talk:Andrevan with the same number so I can get ClueBot to archive in a way consistent with my old manual archives? Andre🚐05:54, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for the help CX Zoom! I'll clean up and hopefully the bot will be happy. And thanks to everyone who helped figure out what was going on. Andre🚐17:38, 11 September 2022 (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.