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Please note that Wikipedia:Bot requests are sometimes one-time tasks which can be done easily using AWB. Requesting modifications to URLs, such as marking dead or changing to a new domain, use WP:URLREQ. See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia.

Fix "Census" over-capitalization

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We have about 5000 articles with non-piped (visible) links to over-capitalized census redirects such as 2020 United States Census, and lots more with piped links, accounting for the great majority of links listed in the report Wikipedia:Database reports/Linked miscapitalizations. I expect that at least these will be easy to tackle with AWB. Dicklyon (talk) 02:50, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Can you provide a diff with an example edit fixing this error? VanIsaac, GHTV contrabout 08:16, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Here's one. And here's a diff showing 2 fixes, one piped and one not. Dicklyon (talk) 17:16, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I've been working on these issues for some time. I have settings files in AWB that target the capitalized versions of our articles for different countries, and there are a lot of them. Dawnseeker2000 17:25, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed, I see over 22,000 candidates here, and there are lots more. Perhaps best to divide and conquer, as you look pretty fully occupied? And yes I'd be happy to call and chat. Dicklyon (talk) 17:45, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That'd be great! Dawnseeker2000 20:22, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think that is a good search parameter for candidates. If I understand the report correctly, it comes from the link part being incorrectly capitalized, not the text. VanIsaac, GHTV contrabout 00:30, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm sure better searches are possible, but that simple one does find text, not piped links (which would also be worth finding and fixing). Dicklyon (talk) 00:55, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
My initial concern with overfitting the criterion is identifying a link to "Census", which can occur as the initial word of a sentence. Initiating a correction in that instance would be problematic, and I don't know if there are others as well. VanIsaac, GHTV contrabout 02:37, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Well, yes, that's why we review edits in AWB, isn't it? To catch false positives and write better patterns to avoid them recurring, no? On that particular one, I see a few sentences like "Census day was ...", which seems like a peculiar place to link it, so I'd unlink that and link census somewhere else. Dicklyon (talk) 03:10, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Here's another easy batch worth fixing. Dicklyon (talk) 22:34, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Here's a good search that finds about 7600 to fix. Just replace the search regex therein with $1 $2 census{{subst:lc:$3}}. It's US only, but could easily be modified for other country censuses. And if you're good with regexes you'll probably see ways to improve it. Dicklyon (talk) 23:14, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
And here's a search finding nearly 1000 different ones, to be replaced with $1 $2 census|$3census]]. Is there a better way to share patterns that doesn't rely on being able to run AWB or JWB? Dicklyon (talk) 23:31, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Done most (I believe my regex missed some) US censuses from 1790 to 1900 (included). Milo8505 (talk) 19:07, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Milo8505: Thanks for that! Will your process scale to the much larger numbers for more recent censuses? Do you plan to keep at it? Dicklyon (talk) 11:04, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@[[User:Dicklyon|Dicklyon] No, the process is very much manual and requires attention while using AWB. I will keep at it when I have the time (i.e. not now, due to WP:BUSY). Milo8505 (talk) 08:14, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Lowercase "at-large"

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We have a bunch of capitalized "At-large" and even "At-Large" to fix. I tried to address one specific context via a template edit request (Template talk:Infobox officeholder#Edit request 2 December 2024), but the suggestion there was to fix it by AWB instead since there are only about 455 articles like that. Here's a diff that fixed one of those. And here's the more complete diff on that article. Anyone want to help? Dicklyon (talk) 17:32, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Doing... ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 11:53, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Dicklyon  Done This shows ~338 edits done, rest were skipped by AWB as no changes were made (false positives?). Please have a look and let me know. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 14:36, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! Here's a better search, which finds about 40 more that look like they could use the same fix. Dicklyon (talk) 16:14, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Also, in ones like this you could fix the piped link at the same time. Dicklyon (talk) 17:01, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Dicklyon Will do the 40 more in a couple of hours. I didn't get what fix the piped link means. Could you explain? ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 03:31, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
In [[New Hampshire's At-large congressional district|At-large]], the link to New Hampshire's At-large congressional district is piped to "At-large". The first part should avoid the miscapitalized redirect and link directly to New Hampshire's at-large congressional district instead, and be "piped" to the second part, which should be "at-large". Ends up like this with both case fixes: [[New Hampshire's at-large congressional district|at-large]]. Dicklyon (talk) 03:51, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Till now I used a regex which checked after a pipe between [[ and ]]. I thought changing the page name might break some links. Should I lowercase all occurrences of at-large, even in page names? ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 04:05, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Dicklyon if the above proposal is not a problem, I can do it now ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 06:36, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, go ahead, since there was a multi-RM discussion that moved all those "At-large" districts to "at-large". If there are any remaining articles with capitalized "At-large" in their titles, you should be able to find them (and maybe fix them) with this search. I don't see much to worry about, other than At-large itself. Dicklyon (talk) 06:38, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Noting that the replacements I am doing are only inside templates, so as to avoid starting of sentences, At-large and other possible errors. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 06:40, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Dicklyon  Done, 39 more edits ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 08:13, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! If you'd like to do more, with "At-large" in other contexts, take a look at this search, which is mostly in the title bar of infoboxes. Or these in links from templates such as Main and Further. Or these in a common text phrase. Dicklyon (talk) 16:42, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
33 edits for the first search done. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:37, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The second one is also done. For the third, should Large be caps or small, as you have included both in the search? ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:44, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Bunnypranav: Thanks, those look good. Either At-Large or At-large will match, and should be replaced by lowercase at-large. Dicklyon (talk) 16:08, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Dicklyon should at-Large be replaced with at-large? ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 08:10, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, make it all lowercase. By the way, I use the "subscribe" mechanism to keep track of conversations, so you don't need to ping me. Dicklyon (talk) 15:57, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I am done with all three above. The last one below is empty (probably done already). I am not doing the below one due to possible errors. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:23, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Also these, but be careful as a few are in reference titles and such that should be left in title case. Dicklyon (talk) 16:44, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
And these, too. Dicklyon (talk) 17:00, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I know that this splits the discussion, but if possible could you post this on my talk page. I can't do this for a day or two, but will definitely try my best. Thanks! ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 17:32, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Done. No rush. Dicklyon (talk) 19:44, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Dicklyon 38 edits done, waiting for your confirmation on this and this. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 09:22, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Bunnypranav: Thanks for doing those. Note that I've linked about 3 more searches above with similar over-capitalizations. I hope you'll do more. Dicklyon (talk) 16:07, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Dicklyon Sorry for the delay, unfortunately I do not have access to a computer for the next couple of days. I will hopefully do them by the end of this weekend. If anyone else is able to do this, then go ahead. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 10:01, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Have a good break then! Thanks. Dicklyon (talk) 17:16, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Bunnypranav: Here is another batch that should be fixed to "from the at-large district" (about 45 of them). Dicklyon (talk) 23:31, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done 43 edits ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 10:04, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

More "NFL Draft" over-capitalization fixes needed

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This search shows about 157 articles needing more post-move cleanup, particularly needing Draft changed to lowercase draft in the lead sentence, all alike except for punctuation order. Other fixes are likely needed in the same articles, like I did here (or variations thereon). I'm happy to help develop or review regex patterns, though I'm still a relative amateur at such things. Dicklyon (talk) 21:38, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Working ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:04, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Dicklyon  Done 157 edits ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:39, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Many of those have no link to NFL draft. You can link it where you case-corrected it, like I did in the more complete example. Dicklyon (talk) 16:05, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I didn't know that linking it was also requested, as it was not mentioned that clearly in the first post. Will probably do another run soon ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 10:03, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I was pretty ambiguous. Happy with whatever you want to do on this. We can discuss offline, or at your talk page, or whatever, if you want to volunteer to do more. Dicklyon (talk) 06:39, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Dicklyon Discord? ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:03, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Negative good buddy. Dicklyon (talk) 07:21, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ok then, I'll replace players in the NFL draft with players in the NFL draft Sounds good?~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:37, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, thanks. But while you're at it, you might see if there are more related fixes to piped links to do, like I did here. Or whatever else you see, if you have time to spend looking for more things to fix. If not, no worries. Dicklyon (talk) 22:40, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Dicklyon as I am do not have much knowledge in this subject, if you could provide me with searches, I am ready to do the changes. I hope that is not a problem. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 03:34, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You can convert these strings to regular expressions, and downcase Draft in all
  1. (NFL) [[National Football League Draft|Draft]]
  2. The [[NFL Draft#Procedure and rules|draft rules]]
  3. separate [[American Football League Draft|Draft]]
  4. American Football League Draft|
Dicklyon (talk) 04:22, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Bunnypranav: If you're still looking to contribute on this one, the four numbered literal strings above just need to have all occurrences of "Draft" replaced by "draft" (do 3 before 4). Dicklyon (talk) 11:16, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I can't do it for a while (IRL works), sorry! May tackle it afterwards. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 11:17, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
No problem. Take it easy, prioritizing real life. Dicklyon (talk) 11:21, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Linking Uprise RI

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Hi, would it be possible to link instances of "Uprise RI", "UpriseRI", and "upriseri.com" (or "upriseri.com/") within article text and references (website, work, newspaper parameters). At least these searches: [1][2][3]. Thank you! Best, Bridget (talk) 01:16, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Doing... JJPMaster (she/they) 01:31, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Done 43 edits. JJPMaster (she/they) 01:50, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Perfect, thank you JJPMaster! Best, Bridget (talk) 03:08, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Long list of page moves regarding Timor-Leste

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With the recent rename of the article from East Timor at Talk:Timor-Leste#Requested_move_16_December_2024, a very large number of pages need to be moved, sometimes over redirects. For more, please see Special:Search/intitle:"East Timor"

77 articles that are lists or bilateral relations

–LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 03:07, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I also opened Talk:1999_East_Timorese_crisis#Requested_move_24_December_2024 to discuss the demonym "East Timorese". –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 03:16, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
There are a lot more pages than just these; I've been waiting to move the Olympics-related articles for about six years now (and I will be doing them shortly). Primefac (talk) 17:46, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I am moving these 77 pages. – DreamRimmer (talk) 18:35, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Moved 76. East Timor–Russia relations needs to be moved by an admin. It's bedtime; I will do the post-move cleanup tomorrow. – DreamRimmer (talk) 19:04, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
166 articles

– DreamRimmer (talk) 08:09, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Some of these should probably stay at East Timor, as they relate to things from prior to independence or soon after when East Timor was still used. Some also use the demonym, which for the time being seems to be staying at East Timorese (or just Timorese) rather than Timor Lestese or some other form. Things related to the Indonesian invasion and occupation (including the genocide), the UN mission, and International Force should probably stay, as should anything using the adjective. Turnagra (talk) 08:40, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
LaundryPizza03 mentioned Special:Search/intitle:"East Timor", so I listed all the remaining pages for easier tracking. Please feel free to remove any that shouldn't be moved. – DreamRimmer (talk) 08:50, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks - I've gone through the above list and struck out the ones I think probably shouldn't be moved from a cursory look. Turnagra (talk) 09:27, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
We should definitely do the post-2002 years. I opened an RM for 2002 in East Timor, the year the country gained independence. Most of the remaining articles are uncontroversial, with the exception of East Timor independence and some proper names mentioning the country. Still processing the list for uncontroversial ones... –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 22:17, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Here's the short list. For the rest of the uncrossed entries, I opened an RM or, in two cases, nominated for deletion. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 23:00, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
117 articles

I have moved and updated a lot of these, but am putting this on hold pending wikipedia:Move_review#Timor-Leste. – Fayenatic London 17:08, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Still on hold pending relisted Talk:East_Timor#Requested_move_16_December_2024. – Fayenatic London 22:11, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Urgent: Mass CfDS tagging

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I accidentally interrupted the tagging process while using Qwerfjkl's MassCfD tool and need help tagging all the pages I listed at WP:CFDS. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:11, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Doing – DreamRimmer (talk) 04:22, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@LaundryPizza03, Now that I am on PC, could you please share list of categories that still need tagging? It looks like most of the ones I clicked on were already tagged. – DreamRimmer (talk) 05:36, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@DreamRimmer: I don't have the time to check them all — there are over 700 in the affected nomination. It will include every item on the list that doesn't already have a CFDS tag. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 06:40, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
No problem, I will handle it for you. – DreamRimmer (talk) 06:43, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Done 341 pages. – DreamRimmer (talk) 07:55, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
FWIW, you could probably just undo the edits (e.g. using WP:Kill-It-With-Fire) and then redo. Or you could just paste in the remaining categories and repeat the process, and remove the duplicate nomination. User:Anomie/linkclassifier will probably highlight categories that are already tagged. — Qwerfjkltalk 10:27, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Pages using WikiProject banner shell with invalid parameters

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Certain text, most notably "|collapsed=no", is considered redundant in the WikiProject Banner Shell. Can someone please remove this text from the articles in that category? Thanks! - OpalYosutebito (talk) 05:31, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cewbot will handle this. See User:Cewbot/log/20200122/configuration. – DreamRimmer (talk) 14:31, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Got it, good to know. By the way, I plan on re-requesting AutoWikiBrowser privileges the day before my 21st birthday - OpalYosutebito (talk) 15:15, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Good luck! – DreamRimmer (talk) 15:23, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template:SZA songs

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Recently, I split the {{SZA}} navbox by moving all of its song articles to {{SZA songs}}. Now, all of those articles need to have {{SZA}} template replaced with the latter template. Elias 🦗🐜 [Chat, they chattin', they chat] 06:33, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@PSA
Is the list or articles needing changes the ones linked in {{SZA songs}}? ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 06:35, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Bunnypranav, yep, although the discography list already has been changed. Elias 🦗🐜 [Chat, they chattin', they chat] 06:43, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Doing... ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 06:45, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@PSA  Done: 45 edits Please check if I missed something. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:02, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Bunnypranav thanks. Missed a couple but that was because of the redirect links, plus the album articles were not supposed to have the replacements. Other than that, I have checked everything and they're all good. Elias 🦗🐜 [Chat, they chattin', they chat] 07:22, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@PSA Should I change the ones missed, or have you done it already. Thanks for fixing the errors! ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:30, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I already fixed them. Elias 🦗🐜 [Chat, they chattin', they chat] 07:54, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Funny hyphenations need fixing

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This search shows a cluster of about 60 articles with a word-splitting hyphen after a line break, when conventionally the hyphen should be before the line break. Can someone fix? Dicklyon (talk) 23:04, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Remind me if I am missing something, why is the br and hyphen is needed? ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 05:14, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Agreed; these should probably be removed; I see little reason to make a table "skinny" by adding in awkward line breaks. Primefac (talk) 09:57, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Some editor thought it would be good to make the columns less wide, and I wasn't going to argue about that, but it's fine by me if someone wants to fix it by just not doing the break at all. Dicklyon (talk) 09:08, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Many of those same articles also have over-capitalized table headings and such, like I fixed in this one. I'm not sure how consistent the pattern is, but I've seen quite a few like that. Could someone do the case fixing along with the line-break fixing please? Dicklyon (talk) 09:14, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Dicklyon  Done 60 edits. Fixed the case errors in the totals section of the tables based on some sampling of what parameters exist. Random checking afterwards seems to show most of the case fixing is done. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 14:02, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! Dicklyon (talk) 20:52, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Bunnypranav: If you're up for more "Votes" case fixing, look at this search and this one with lots of overcapped headings (example fixes here and here); note lowercase "other" after dash. Dicklyon (talk) 05:00, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
96 edits first one done. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:29, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

adjoing

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Should instances of "adjoing" be "adjoining"? Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 22:16, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

With many typos, you need to look at them one by one to see if some other word was meant or would be a better choice. Since there are only eight instances of "adjoing", I don't think AWB is needed. – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:19, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Spam a template to 300 talk pages

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I'd like {{DSM copyright}} to be posted on about 200–300 talk pages. The articles in question are at List of mental disorders.

Would someone like to do this? And what's the most useful way for me to give you the list of target articles?

WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:42, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@WhatamIdoing: I am happy to help with this. Please share the list of target articles using https://ctxt.io/ and send me the link once it is published. – DreamRimmer (talk) 10:35, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
What do you want on that page? (For example, full URLs, or [[Links]], or ???) WhatamIdoing (talk) 02:36, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Latter. – DreamRimmer (talk) 02:43, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hey DreamRimmer, I saw this so I made the list for you (https://ctxt.io/2/AAB4sW0WEA, it contains the format you wanted, no pipes, without Talk: prefix and only the links to mental disorders on the page) on behalf of WhatamIdoing. Also, I don't believe this a task that necessitates AWB (there shouldn't be a need for a human to review), so I've coded a regular old bot script to do this based on the list (User:MolecularBot One-off Task #3) and will file a BRFA. MolecularPilot 🧪️✈️ 05:32, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I usually file BRFAs for tasks that involve editing at least 700-800 pages. For this task, I did not see a need for a BRFA, so I planned to use AWB or PAWS. Thank you for providing the list. I could have created it myself, but I was not sure if any pages needed to be excluded. I am perfectly fine with you doing this using your bot. – DreamRimmer (talk) 10:44, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Please feel free to run this with AWB as there are only ~300 pages and we tend to not set up bot runs for less than 500. Primefac (talk) 13:22, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Just in case you decide to go the BRFA route, or if someone complains at you, please note that I've pre-acquired evidence of consensus for these edits at WT:MED. (If they complain at you that the DSM's content should be "fair use", send them to me.) WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:43, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, WhatamIdoing and thanks to DreamRimmer for handling this! It's really great to see another editor interested in psychology (it's my favorite class at school, and that's why I made the list for DR, because I know about the DSM). :) MolecularPilot 🧪️✈️ 02:36, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@MolecularPilot, thank you. Also, please put WP:MED and WP:PSYCH on your watchlist, and join any discussions that interest you there. WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:56, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@WhatamIdoing : I'm happy to do this if DreamRimmer doesn't pick up. In either case, would you like to have this prepended before template:Reliable sources for medical articles or somewhere else? NotAGenious (talk) 16:44, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@DreamRimmer Your edits contravene WP:TALKLEAD. NotAGenious (talk) 17:13, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I am aware of TALKLEAD and have just made two edits. I don't see any issue with placing it at the top, but if putting it in the middle of other templates is a better approach, I am happy to do that. – DreamRimmer (talk) 17:26, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Do you think this qualifies as #5 High-importance attention template, or as an addendum to #14 reliable source for medical articles? VanIsaac, GHTV contrabout 18:53, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'd guess that it fits in with #5 ("Notice") or #6 ("Warning"), but I will be satisfied with any location that seems plausible. WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:48, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Already done. – DreamRimmer (talk) 01:46, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"Was" in TV articles

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The following discussion has been moved here from WP:BOTREQ as such a task would require human confirmation and is not appropriate for a bot to do (but is the perfect use case for AWB). Thank you to everyone for your time! :) MolecularPilot 🧪️✈️ 05:18, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm still finding a lot of TV show articles following the format "Name of show was" even though MOS:TV has dictated "Name of show is" for ages. Could a bot be made that can find cases where "was" is still being used? Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 19:13, 28 September 2024 (UTC)

@TenPoundHammer: in theory, yes. A lot of variations of the sentence would have to be considered, but it is possible. A few rare false positives may occur if the show's name was changed. This would make it borderline WP:CONTEXTBOT though. But if we make the bot good enough, then we may be able to run it. —usernamekiran (talk) 21:07, 28 September 2024 (UTC)
I have context concerns as well. This might be better for a database report, if only to see the scale/scope of the issue. Primefac (talk) 13:40, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
@Primefac: can we do that then? Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 18:02, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
I mean, I am not personally going to do it, but "we" as a whole/community can certainly do that. Primefac (talk) 19:34, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
@TenPoundHammer try at WP:SQLREQ if you want some SQL code for the DB report. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:08, 26 November 2024 (UTC)
Sounds like a job for WP:AWB, where each change can be verified by a human before it is made. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:30, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

MolecularPilot 🧪️✈️ 05:18, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder, though: If there are really a lot of these, then that's evidence that the community's practice is different from the guideline – and generally, in such cases, it's the guideline that needs updating. If we had an RFC saying something like "Should television shows that have long since ended be described in the present tense? For example, Captain Kangaroo was broadcast from 1955 to 1992. Should the first sentence say that it 'was' a television show, or that it still 'is' a television show?", I'm not certain that people would say that something that stopped being produced and aired 32 years ago is something that we should still describe in the present tense. WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:00, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
From what I gather from past discussions, as well as my own interpretation of MOS:PRESENT, is that if a show still exists then it "is" a program. I think it's worth checking to see how many of these exist before we start worrying about whether practice has drifted from procedure. Primefac (talk) 09:45, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@MolecularPilot: Could you provide a list of pages where you would like this to be changed? Consider this a QPQ for the AfC bot request you handled yesterday. JJPMaster (she/they) 23:46, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi! Omg thank you, you are soooo nice! :) I'm not entirely sure, I was just clerking WP:BOTREQ yesterday and this one seemed better suited to here, you'll have to ask TenPoundHammer. Thanks again! :) MolecularPilot 🧪️✈️ 02:34, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I disagree with the premise that this needs Human verification on a number of levels. At the most basic level, if we currently have pages that are in error (and we do, as I see these being manually changed and fixed quite often), and even if the bot changes all instances to "is" instead of "was", then that is still more correct than having "was". But we don't need to go that far, if a show is lost, it should be under Category:Lost television shows, so the bot can ignore those pages. If the page isn't there, then we have bigger issues than "is". Since this should not be a one-time run, but at max a weekly run, needing a Human instead of a bot to run this seems counter-productive (and most likely not going to happen). Gonnym (talk) 13:19, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Add navbox template to articles

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Would anyone be able to help add Template:Indigenous peoples in Washington to its respective articles? A few already have it, but most (I think ~70) don't. Thanks! PersusjCP (talk) 20:43, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

To save a click, here is the transclusion check. Primefac (talk) 11:16, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Doing – DreamRimmer (talk) 12:12, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
 Done Edits – DreamRimmer (talk) 12:32, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Appreciate it PersusjCP (talk) 18:10, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Update CfD tags

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I erevised the nomination for Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2025_January_1#Establishments_in_Iran,_pre-1935, and the category tags need to be updated accordingly. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 20:08, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

LaundryPizza03, you also seem to have missed tagging quite a few of the categories. The easiest thing to do would probably be to revert the edits and retag. — Qwerfjkltalk 21:29, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fix transclusions of Template:AFC redirect archive

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I have retargeted the redirect Template:AFC redirect archive (previously redirecting to Template:AfC redirect and category archive) to point to Template:AfC redirect archive instead. Each of the 198 transclusions at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:AFC_redirect_archive&limit=500 should be updated to transclude {{AfC redirect and category archive}} instead of {{AFC redirect archive}}. GTrang (talk) 01:18, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Doing – DreamRimmer (talk) 08:55, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
 Done Edits. – DreamRimmer (talk) 09:48, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! I was legitimately just thinking about doing that when creating the 2025 category archive, checked the history and didn't realize that got fixed today. Appreciate the effort you two! Utopes (talk / cont) 18:12, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A simple case fix in 800 articles

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Would someone please do a quick replace run to downcase "Crash" in links found by insource:/\[\[Wall Street Crash of 1929/ (that is, piped or not)? Dicklyon (talk) 09:49, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Disagree with replacing the piped links as the "offending" text is hidden already. Primefac (talk) 12:42, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The offense is that it shows up in the maintenance report Wikipedia:Database reports/Linked miscapitalizations. If we don't work on reducing these, the report becomes less useful. But most are not piped; I can work on piped ones by hand if someone doesn't want to do them by AWB. Dicklyon (talk) 22:43, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Another simple case fix in 90+ articles

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Quite a few articles have a two-line table heading where the second line is "Votes" and should be "votes" (e.g. for Total votes, Electoral votes, etc.). The pattern insource:/\<br\>Votes/ finds 97 of these. Some may have other related over-capping, but for many, or most, it's just this one error. Oh, and the br tag should have slash in it. Can someone take on replacing these? Dicklyon (talk) 10:20, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Dicklyon: Sure! What do you mean by "related over-capping"? Rusty 🐈 14:44, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
 Done, I just fixed the stuff with the "votes" text. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rusty Cat (talk • contribs) 15:05, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! Dicklyon (talk) 22:43, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Large CfD nomination

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I opened Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2025_January_15#Category:Attacks using the Mass CfD tool, but my browser crashed during the tagging process. Please tag all categories that don't have the tag, and notify all users who created a nominated category. There are 1956 categories in total. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 05:28, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done – DreamRimmer (talk) 13:29, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Over-capped newspaper titles in refs generated by Trove

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We get a lot of auto-generated refs from the Trove newspaper archive, but it capitalizes every word in the newspaper names, including "And". I've fixed at least a hundred of these. Fixing just these two will take several hundred edits:

So that's a quick task for AWB. Going forward, it would be useful if someone would do a run now and then to fix those and all these others (and whichever other ones we might add to the list on discovering them:

In all these the "And" (or two "And"s in couple of them) should be replaced by "and", whether the text is in a link or not. I've linked them here to demonstrate that links won't go red with these changes. Dicklyon (talk) 10:59, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Let me take a look at this...  Working on the first two papers. Geardona (talk to me?) 14:25, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Should be  Done, let me know if anything else crops up Geardona (talk to me?) 15:14, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Geardona: Thanks! That's got most of them. Searching Wikipedia:Database reports/Linked miscapitalizations for " And", I see 4 that still have incoming links. Looks like between us we missed a couple:
And it seems I failed to list these 2 with one incoming link each:
I can fix those by hand, but if you're developing AWB settings that should be able to find and fix these somewhat automatically, you might want to look at these before I make them disappear. Probably there are also more that I don't see right now, as I'm just looking at ones that currently have incoming links. Dicklyon (talk) 12:27, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Fixing now! and yes, I am making a template for this project. Geardona (talk to me?) 15:51, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Certes and Geardona: I see that Certes has a list with a ton more of these Trove newspapers, at User:Certes/Trove/full. Maybe that can be mined to generalize Geardona's fixer settings. Dicklyon (talk) 11:01, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There's also a much bigger generalization of this to redirects with " And " in them. My Quarry query has found over 5000 of them, listed at User:Dicklyon/And. Some of these also have others words over-capitalized (typically "Of", "The", and such). From a quick sample, I'd say most do not have any incoming links, which is good. To find ones that do, it would be useful if each was tagged as "R from miscapitalization". Dicklyon (talk) 10:51, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If an AWB run or genfix is happening, it could also usefully fix certain wikilinks. Trove offers a canned citation template, but it often links to a different newspaper, to an unrelated topic or to a disambiguation page. For example, the wikitext Trove offers for citing id 505 links to Sunday Times (a UK newspaper) rather than The Sunday Times (Sydney). Id 499 links to Referee, enlightening the reader about sporting umpires, rather than The Referee (newspaper). Id 248 links to dab Record rather than The Record (Melbourne). A list of the more common errors is in User:Certes/Trove. Such links added to Wikipedia before June 2024 have almost all been fixed, but new ones will be appearing and I am not aware of any methodical process to catch them. Certes (talk) 17:32, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Dicklyon, my current method for generating the list of fixes is very hard to scale to multiple pages. Could I get a version of https://quarry.wmcloud.org/query/89960 with all of the instances of the problem redirects occurring in plaintext and links? (for example, instead of showing Ashmore And Cartier Islands (the page), it would give me a list of pages that have Ashmore And Cartier Islands (the phrase) on them, etc for all 5057 pages).
As for @Certes, my concern with running any kind of automated or semi-automated editor on that dataset is the same ambiguity that is the problem in the first place, if there is any way to find only the problematic citations, that would work fine. (I hope this isn't misunderstanding the request)
Let me know if none of this makes sense Geardona (talk to me?) 17:53, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I wonder if we could convince the good people at Trove to provide actual good wikilinks, using Certes's table.
I don't know a way to collect all the pages that contain all these strings, other than generating one at a time in JWB. But someone who is good with scripting might be able to augment JWB or AWB to take a list of searches to generate from. Dicklyon (talk) 22:33, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I’ve got an idea to remedy this, however it might not work. (I’m going to try to use this page to skip the UI getting in the way) Geardona (talk to me?) 23:24, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I've tried asking Trove, who politely acknowledged my request but hadn't changed anything last time I looked. The erroneous links are in very specific strings. A typical example newspaper article is here. Click the bookmark icon with hover text "Cite" in the left column, then scroll down to "Wikipedia citation" to see {{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article149498474 |title=SHIPPING. |newspaper=[[Daily Telegraph]] |volume=III, |issue=71 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=18 June 1883 |accessdate=18 January 2025 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}, which our editors copy verbatim. Sadly, this doesn't contain the Trove ID which would distinguish it from other historic Australian papers called Daily Telegraph but the location usually provides a distinctive enough pattern, e.g. \{\{cite news \|url=http://nla\.gov\.au/nla\.news-article[^}]*\|newspaper=\[\[Daily Telegraph\]\][^}]* \|location=Tasmania, Australia[^}]* \|via=National Library of Australia\}\}. In a few awkward cases, the same vague location was used for two distinct papers with different articles. Those require checking the date but are edge cases. It's basically what I used to do manually each day as and when the errors appeared. Certes (talk) 23:33, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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