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Happy editing! Adakiko ( talk) 08:16, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
Your link redirects internally and has a "[table “” not found /]" message. Might be a temporary problem with the website.
Please avoid
wp:BAREURLS (reasoning given on that page). It is best (in my opinion) to use the
wp:template
template:cite web. See
help:referencing for beginners and
wp:citing sources. Cheers
Adakiko (
talk)
08:21, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
The word you're looking for is Deprecated, not "Bogus", while fixing the LinT errors. It once was a thing, now it's not. Happy editing! GenQuest "scribble" 08:04, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
Hello and best wishes for 2021. You recently made an edit to the page Loggetta del Sansovino. As a result, the two galleries are no longer centred (nor are they flush left). Can you please take a look at the coding and make whatever adjustments are necessary so that the galleries are centred on the page? Thank you. Venicescapes ( talk) 11:38, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
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Thanks for the repetitive and often overlooked gnomish-type of edits you do. The work is much appreciated! GenQuest "scribble" 23:24, 2 January 2021 (UTC) |
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Hi ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ, I invite you to engage in a discussion at Talk:Calvin Coolidge#"Served as" vs. "was" to avoid further ping-pong on this choice of language. Let's see if we can develop a consensus through discussion. Cheers, HopsonRoad ( talk) 22:29, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
Hello. I created account now!. so please don't delete my account. I want to read about Wikipedia English. so please wait. and I'm active in a Persian Wikipedia. and please don't delete my account. thank you. If you can help me, please help me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MasoudMalekzadeh ( talk • contribs) 16:49, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
Hello MR ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ. How are you? I join now to English Wikipedia. And I cant do my works good. I'm active in Persian Wikipedia. someone told you that delete my account. He/She said true. I know but I join now and I don't know anything. Please don't my account. I will try to know it. Please don't delete my account. If you can help me, please help me to growing in Wikipedia. Thank you very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MasoudMalekzadeh ( talk • contribs) 19:07, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
Hello and with regards. you told admin that he delete my sand box or my account? and when you said my account what I must do to come back my account? please help me. what I must do? I'm a new user. thank you very much. sincerely yours. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MasoudMalekzadeh ( talk • contribs) 19:22, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
OK. Thank you very much for guidance me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MasoudMalekzadeh ( talk • contribs) 11:55, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
Hello — Preceding unsigned comment added by Soumili Ghosh ( talk • contribs) 05:09, 4 April 2021 (UTC)
This edit is from 13 April, so you may have fixed it by now, but you might need to check your script. It left a bunch of errors. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 15:16, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
If you have a regex pattern for User:1111tomica's signature, please add this change. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 14:30, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
<p>
tag left, I'll fix it. Some of the font tags are too complex for my scripts, so I leave them for a second round (or for you!). –
Jonesey95 (
talk)
19:01, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
I fixed many hundreds of Linter errors in userboxes way back in mid-2018 by looking through lists of userboxes, but there are many that are not listed anywhere. I just stumbled across a page that had a hundred or so userboxes on it, and there were a few dozen Linter errors. By opening all of the transcluded userboxes, I was able to fix the Linter errors on that page and on any other page that trancludes those boxes. If you look at User:Nutcracker100, for example, you will see 27 errors from userboxes.
We know that Template space is clean now, so you only have to look at userboxes that live in User space. As a place to start, there are 8,700 userboxes listed on this page.
One tip: to center the text in |info=
in a userbox, use |info-op=text-align: center
–
Jonesey95 (
talk)
16:17, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
If you want to continue to make bulk changes to user signatures, you should probably use a bot account and request a bot flag at WP:BRFA. There are also already several bots that already do this, or are working on doing it that you may be able to just give the parameters too (for example see Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DoggoBot in progress). — xaosflux Talk 11:07, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
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The Original Barnstar |
Thank you for fixing obsolete center tags. Grimes2 ( talk) 12:45, 11 July 2021 (UTC) |
Hey ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ. Thanks for the editing assists at American Revolutionary War. Last post you mentioned a "Lint Report"? I understand from its Wiki page write up that the report includes who does what wrong how often. I'd like to a) lend a hand making some corrections, and b) figure out what my errors may be so I can stop heedlessly proliferating them across the Encyclopedia in my contributions -- several candidates at Norman K. Risjord, lately. Thanks for any assist in advance. s/ TheVirginiaHistorian ( talk) 19:34, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
<center>...</center>
for centering image captions. Center tags are obsolete in HTML5, which means popular web browsers are going to drop support for it in future. Replacing them now will make sure pages continue to display properly when that happens. So everytime center tags are added to an article, it shows up in
Special:LintErrors/obsolete-tag. To prevent that, you can center captions using {{
center}}. {{center|caption}}
instead of <center>caption</center>
.To get started on helping fix Lint errors, I would recommend obsolete tags as the easiest one. You can see
WP:HTML5 for search links and instructions on how to replace them. There are many other types of Lint errors which can be seen in
Special:LintErrors.
ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (
talk)
03:46, 13 July 2021 (UTC)Hi, ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ, thanks for fixing the < center > tags on the articles about Canadian appeals to the JCPC. When I did those tables, I knew it was an obsolete code, but no matter how many times I tried using the new codes, the formatting for the tables went wonky. (I am not a computer-literate person, if that wasn't already obvious.) So I used the obsolete code, hoping someone who knew coding better would come along at some point and fix it. Sorry to put you to the trouble; much appreciated! Mr Serjeant Buzfuz ( talk) 22:25, 25 July 2021 (UTC)
I see your bot has nearly finished task 3. I was just having a look at the html5-misnesting lint issues and spotted a few that you might want to consider for your next bot task. -- WOSlinker ( talk) 11:26, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
Text | Search |
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<sub><span style="text-shadow:#ffd700 0.14em 0.14em 0.14em"><font color="black">[[User talk:Sven Manguard|'''Talk''']]</font></sub></span>
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999 items |
<center><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt"><font size="18">'''[[WP:IND|WikiProject India]]'''</center></font></span>
|
668 items |
<center><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt"><font size="18">'''[[Mole Day|Happy Mole Day]]'''</center></font></span>
|
80 items |
<sub>[[User talk:You Can Act Like A Man|<span style="color:orange">'''Feudalist''' </span></sub>]]
|
195 items |
The bot edited Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Discoveries/Log/2007/October to remove a single error. With a few more regular expressions already suggested at User:MalnadachBot/Signature submissions, it could have fixed the rest of the errors in a single edit. Please consider this possibility so that the bot does not have to revisit these pages. Thanks for running the bot! – Jonesey95 ( talk) 17:21, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
\<font colou*r\=\"\#[a-fA-F0-9]+\"\>
. You could also replace named colors with the patterns listed at "font color starting with g–z" and "all-alpha font color where second letter is not a–f". Those should not result in any false positives, if I have the logic right. –
Jonesey95 (
talk)
13:36, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
Jonesey95: I checked the regexes in User:Jonesey95/AutoEd/doi.js without any modification here. As noted above, hex codes with 4, 5 and 8 digits cause false positives. Other false positives with colors are hex codes without # symbol, color names like jade that aren't valid in CSS.
For nested font tags like [[User:Abc|<font color="green">A<font color"green">b</font>c</font>]]
, only the inner font tag was replaced. For font tag both inside and outside a link such as <font color="green">[[User:Abc|<font face="Arial">Abc</font>]]</font>
, only the tag inside the link was replaced. Misnested tags such as [[User:Abc|<font face="Arial">'''Abc</font>''']]
which was replaced with [[User:Abc|<span style="font-family:'Arial';">'''Abc</span>''']]
. These do not cause new errors but would need a further fix.
Then there are many cases that are skipped. I am not worried about whole signatures that are skipped, my concern is when individual signatures are partially replaced. For example <font color="green">[[User:Abc|Abc]]</font> <font color="green"><sup>[[User talk:Abc|talk]]</sup></font>
would get replaced with [[User:Abc|<span style="color:green;">Abc</span>]] <font color="green"><sup>[[User talk:Abc|talk]]</sup></font>
.
ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (
talk)
16:03, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
If you ever run out of things for your bot to fix, I've got a lint error on quite a few "Articles for deletion" pages, where they are missing the closing italics from the footer. Doing a search for this gave over 300k results. So, only really a task to consider when you've got nothing better for your bot to do. -- WOSlinker ( talk) 14:03, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
Please see Maile66/RFA. This was my user sub page from my 2016 RFA. And the bot says it "Fixed Lint errors in signatures". This is not the first time I noticed this bot reaching back years to correct something on my user sub pages. Why does the bot need to fix what it sees as signature errors that happened years ago? This seems like a non-productive use of the bot's reach. Also, I'm wondering why the bot needs to be concerning itself with any user's sub page, other than perhaps the current user talk page. — Maile ( talk) 18:19, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
<font color="green">[[User:Maile66|— Maile ]]</font>
[[User:Maile66|<span style="color:green;">— Maile </span>]]
If someone's signature stops looking the way it was intended because that "no longer works with the new Remex renderer", the problem is with the renderer failing to faithfully produce the original author's intent. It's a loss of fidelity. Having your bot blunder around like this in ancient pages is "fixing" the problem by mangling the historic record. Fixing markup errors that prevent a page from being readable at all is reasonable, but swapping font tags for styles en masse is not.
You should exclude it from trying to edit anything in my user space, because if it touches my old user talk pages I will revert it every time, as I have several times already. — Scott • talk 22:37, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
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Brilliant job fixing the table codes and lint errors at List of K-pop songs on the Billboard charts. Makes editing a lot easier!-- Bonnielou2013 ( talk) 23:50, 18 August 2021 (UTC) |
Thanks for your answer, keep up the good work!-- Bonnielou2013 ( talk) 08:28, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
Hello, thanks for getting the bot to fix my signature ... it did interesting things to my watchlist but that's OK. Is there a reason you leave behind a few instances of the bad signatures? Like my search result list and NuclearWarfare's? Is it about the "roughly 100 instances" limit, or something else? Graham 87 13:34, 22 August 2021 (UTC)

will replace the character (I can't know for sure since it doesn't display in my device).
ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (
talk)
12:42, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
Once the existing run is complete, I think you'll need some further runs with different regexs for pages such as User talk:Erfankhan. -- WOSlinker ( talk) 20:17, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
<!-- Bug -->
tag. --
WOSlinker (
talk)
12:07, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
class="MainPageBG"
. I've listed a few examples at
User:WOSlinker/MainPageBG but there's probably more. --
WOSlinker (
talk)
06:54, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
'''<tt>{{helpme}}</tt>'''
, which can be replaced with {{tlc|helpme|bold=on}}
. This would be a task for after higher priority errors are fixed.
ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (
talk)
14:05, 28 September 2021 (UTC)Flexible-fuel vehicle has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Chidgk1 ( talk) 09:25, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
... at Talk:Mario Andretti/Archive 1? I've just created it out of the old page history and there are probably quite a few Lint errors there. Thanks! Graham 87 10:15, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
Hi ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ, hope all is well with you. Thanks for your work on MalnadachBot. The arbitration clerk team has a system that reports all edits to arbitration-related pages to certain clerks and arbitrators, including me. While MalnadachBot does important work by removing lint errors, every edit that it makes on arbitration-related pages is reported in real time to a number of people, and it can drown out others' edits. One possible solution: would it be possible to "batch" all of the bot's edits on pages starting with "Wikipedia:Arbitration" or their associated talk pages, so we only have one day where the bot floods the feed (and then it's over)? As it is now, every day for weeks the bot has been flooding the tracking feed. KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 17:33, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello! I'm an admin on SqWiki and lately was trying to lower a bit the number of lint errors we have on our community. I asked around and was told that your bot was one of the bots helping in that aspect here. Would your bot be able to help in our community? If yes, would you consider making a request there so it gets flagged and starts working? (I can help with the process.) Thanks in advance! :)) - Klein Muçi ( talk) 23:53, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
Regarding
your edit of 14:39, 1 October 2021 of
MediaWiki talk:Ipboptions/Archive 1, the <tt>
and <samp>
tags are not equivalent. As explained at
mw:Help:Lint errors/obsolete-tag, <samp>
is for computer output. For general use, use the template {{mono}}
. —
Anomalocaris (
talk)
18:41, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
<span style="font-family: monospace, monospace;">...</span>
instead.
ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (
talk)
03:21, 12 October 2021 (UTC)On 1 November 2021, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Puneeth Rajkumar, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Step hen 00:33, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
If you are interested, User:UzEE/db-welcome has a lot of lint errors and has been used on about 150 user talk pages. -- WOSlinker ( talk) 11:00, 10 November 2021 (UTC)
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Please update Wikipedia 2601:647:8001:5C00:E0E3:8196:B8B3:856B ( talk) 21:31, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
I just saw a whole lot of edits like https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia%3AArticles_for_deletion%2FList_of_suicide_crisis_lines&type=revision&diff=1067835592&oldid=791938938 This is on a page which has "The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. " Please don't modify closed AfD debates. Stuartyeates ( talk) 09:55, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
Consensus for a bot to make any particular cosmetic change must be formalized in an approved request for approval.– Jonesey95 ( talk) 16:07, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
Regarding edits like this where a redundant table param is removed; what are these edits giving us? Are those redundant params hurting anything (i.e., WP:NOTBROKEN)? I ask because suddenly my Watchlist is full of these edits, which makes it a little challenging to check to see if the previous edit to an article was unconstructive. OhNoitsJamie Talk 14:34, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
border
, cellpadding
and cellspacing
table attributes are obsolete in
WP:HTML5. If there are valid uses, I would replace them. However I have been removing them when they are used with wikitable class, which cause them to have no effect on page rendering. Replacing / removing these will make pages more compliant with HTML 5, which improves accessibility. So they do have positive effect. (By the way
WP:NOTBROKEN is about redirects, which is unrelated to this)
ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (
talk)
15:05, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
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Archive 1 | Archive 2 | Archive 3 |
Hi ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ! I noticed your contributions and wanted to welcome you to the Wikipedia community. I hope you like it here and decide to stay.
As you get started, you may find this short tutorial helpful:
Alternatively, the contributing to Wikipedia page covers the same topics.
If you have any questions, we have a friendly space where experienced editors can help you here:
If you are not sure where to help out, you can find a task here:
Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date.
Happy editing! Adakiko ( talk) 08:16, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
Your link redirects internally and has a "[table “” not found /]" message. Might be a temporary problem with the website.
Please avoid
wp:BAREURLS (reasoning given on that page). It is best (in my opinion) to use the
wp:template
template:cite web. See
help:referencing for beginners and
wp:citing sources. Cheers
Adakiko (
talk)
08:21, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
The word you're looking for is Deprecated, not "Bogus", while fixing the LinT errors. It once was a thing, now it's not. Happy editing! GenQuest "scribble" 08:04, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
Hello and best wishes for 2021. You recently made an edit to the page Loggetta del Sansovino. As a result, the two galleries are no longer centred (nor are they flush left). Can you please take a look at the coding and make whatever adjustments are necessary so that the galleries are centred on the page? Thank you. Venicescapes ( talk) 11:38, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
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The Technology Barnstar | |
Thanks for the repetitive and often overlooked gnomish-type of edits you do. The work is much appreciated! GenQuest "scribble" 23:24, 2 January 2021 (UTC) |
-- 06:05, Friday, January 15, 2021 ( UTC)
Mission 1 | Mission 2 | Mission 3 | Mission 4 | Mission 5 | Mission 6 | Mission 7 |
Say Hello to the World | An Invitation to Earth | Small Changes, Big Impact | The Neutral Point of View | The Veil of Verifiability | The Civility Code | Looking Good Together |
Hi ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ, I invite you to engage in a discussion at Talk:Calvin Coolidge#"Served as" vs. "was" to avoid further ping-pong on this choice of language. Let's see if we can develop a consensus through discussion. Cheers, HopsonRoad ( talk) 22:29, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
Hello. I created account now!. so please don't delete my account. I want to read about Wikipedia English. so please wait. and I'm active in a Persian Wikipedia. and please don't delete my account. thank you. If you can help me, please help me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MasoudMalekzadeh ( talk • contribs) 16:49, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
Hello MR ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ. How are you? I join now to English Wikipedia. And I cant do my works good. I'm active in Persian Wikipedia. someone told you that delete my account. He/She said true. I know but I join now and I don't know anything. Please don't my account. I will try to know it. Please don't delete my account. If you can help me, please help me to growing in Wikipedia. Thank you very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MasoudMalekzadeh ( talk • contribs) 19:07, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
Hello and with regards. you told admin that he delete my sand box or my account? and when you said my account what I must do to come back my account? please help me. what I must do? I'm a new user. thank you very much. sincerely yours. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MasoudMalekzadeh ( talk • contribs) 19:22, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
OK. Thank you very much for guidance me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MasoudMalekzadeh ( talk • contribs) 11:55, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
Hello — Preceding unsigned comment added by Soumili Ghosh ( talk • contribs) 05:09, 4 April 2021 (UTC)
This edit is from 13 April, so you may have fixed it by now, but you might need to check your script. It left a bunch of errors. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 15:16, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
If you have a regex pattern for User:1111tomica's signature, please add this change. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 14:30, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
<p>
tag left, I'll fix it. Some of the font tags are too complex for my scripts, so I leave them for a second round (or for you!). –
Jonesey95 (
talk)
19:01, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
I fixed many hundreds of Linter errors in userboxes way back in mid-2018 by looking through lists of userboxes, but there are many that are not listed anywhere. I just stumbled across a page that had a hundred or so userboxes on it, and there were a few dozen Linter errors. By opening all of the transcluded userboxes, I was able to fix the Linter errors on that page and on any other page that trancludes those boxes. If you look at User:Nutcracker100, for example, you will see 27 errors from userboxes.
We know that Template space is clean now, so you only have to look at userboxes that live in User space. As a place to start, there are 8,700 userboxes listed on this page.
One tip: to center the text in |info=
in a userbox, use |info-op=text-align: center
–
Jonesey95 (
talk)
16:17, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
If you want to continue to make bulk changes to user signatures, you should probably use a bot account and request a bot flag at WP:BRFA. There are also already several bots that already do this, or are working on doing it that you may be able to just give the parameters too (for example see Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DoggoBot in progress). — xaosflux Talk 11:07, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
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The Original Barnstar |
Thank you for fixing obsolete center tags. Grimes2 ( talk) 12:45, 11 July 2021 (UTC) |
Hey ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ. Thanks for the editing assists at American Revolutionary War. Last post you mentioned a "Lint Report"? I understand from its Wiki page write up that the report includes who does what wrong how often. I'd like to a) lend a hand making some corrections, and b) figure out what my errors may be so I can stop heedlessly proliferating them across the Encyclopedia in my contributions -- several candidates at Norman K. Risjord, lately. Thanks for any assist in advance. s/ TheVirginiaHistorian ( talk) 19:34, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
<center>...</center>
for centering image captions. Center tags are obsolete in HTML5, which means popular web browsers are going to drop support for it in future. Replacing them now will make sure pages continue to display properly when that happens. So everytime center tags are added to an article, it shows up in
Special:LintErrors/obsolete-tag. To prevent that, you can center captions using {{
center}}. {{center|caption}}
instead of <center>caption</center>
.To get started on helping fix Lint errors, I would recommend obsolete tags as the easiest one. You can see
WP:HTML5 for search links and instructions on how to replace them. There are many other types of Lint errors which can be seen in
Special:LintErrors.
ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (
talk)
03:46, 13 July 2021 (UTC)Hi, ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ, thanks for fixing the < center > tags on the articles about Canadian appeals to the JCPC. When I did those tables, I knew it was an obsolete code, but no matter how many times I tried using the new codes, the formatting for the tables went wonky. (I am not a computer-literate person, if that wasn't already obvious.) So I used the obsolete code, hoping someone who knew coding better would come along at some point and fix it. Sorry to put you to the trouble; much appreciated! Mr Serjeant Buzfuz ( talk) 22:25, 25 July 2021 (UTC)
I see your bot has nearly finished task 3. I was just having a look at the html5-misnesting lint issues and spotted a few that you might want to consider for your next bot task. -- WOSlinker ( talk) 11:26, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
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<sub><span style="text-shadow:#ffd700 0.14em 0.14em 0.14em"><font color="black">[[User talk:Sven Manguard|'''Talk''']]</font></sub></span>
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<center><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt"><font size="18">'''[[WP:IND|WikiProject India]]'''</center></font></span>
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<center><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt"><font size="18">'''[[Mole Day|Happy Mole Day]]'''</center></font></span>
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<sub>[[User talk:You Can Act Like A Man|<span style="color:orange">'''Feudalist''' </span></sub>]]
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The bot edited Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Discoveries/Log/2007/October to remove a single error. With a few more regular expressions already suggested at User:MalnadachBot/Signature submissions, it could have fixed the rest of the errors in a single edit. Please consider this possibility so that the bot does not have to revisit these pages. Thanks for running the bot! – Jonesey95 ( talk) 17:21, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
\<font colou*r\=\"\#[a-fA-F0-9]+\"\>
. You could also replace named colors with the patterns listed at "font color starting with g–z" and "all-alpha font color where second letter is not a–f". Those should not result in any false positives, if I have the logic right. –
Jonesey95 (
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13:36, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
Jonesey95: I checked the regexes in User:Jonesey95/AutoEd/doi.js without any modification here. As noted above, hex codes with 4, 5 and 8 digits cause false positives. Other false positives with colors are hex codes without # symbol, color names like jade that aren't valid in CSS.
For nested font tags like [[User:Abc|<font color="green">A<font color"green">b</font>c</font>]]
, only the inner font tag was replaced. For font tag both inside and outside a link such as <font color="green">[[User:Abc|<font face="Arial">Abc</font>]]</font>
, only the tag inside the link was replaced. Misnested tags such as [[User:Abc|<font face="Arial">'''Abc</font>''']]
which was replaced with [[User:Abc|<span style="font-family:'Arial';">'''Abc</span>''']]
. These do not cause new errors but would need a further fix.
Then there are many cases that are skipped. I am not worried about whole signatures that are skipped, my concern is when individual signatures are partially replaced. For example <font color="green">[[User:Abc|Abc]]</font> <font color="green"><sup>[[User talk:Abc|talk]]</sup></font>
would get replaced with [[User:Abc|<span style="color:green;">Abc</span>]] <font color="green"><sup>[[User talk:Abc|talk]]</sup></font>
.
ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (
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16:03, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
If you ever run out of things for your bot to fix, I've got a lint error on quite a few "Articles for deletion" pages, where they are missing the closing italics from the footer. Doing a search for this gave over 300k results. So, only really a task to consider when you've got nothing better for your bot to do. -- WOSlinker ( talk) 14:03, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
Please see Maile66/RFA. This was my user sub page from my 2016 RFA. And the bot says it "Fixed Lint errors in signatures". This is not the first time I noticed this bot reaching back years to correct something on my user sub pages. Why does the bot need to fix what it sees as signature errors that happened years ago? This seems like a non-productive use of the bot's reach. Also, I'm wondering why the bot needs to be concerning itself with any user's sub page, other than perhaps the current user talk page. — Maile ( talk) 18:19, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
<font color="green">[[User:Maile66|— Maile ]]</font>
[[User:Maile66|<span style="color:green;">— Maile </span>]]
If someone's signature stops looking the way it was intended because that "no longer works with the new Remex renderer", the problem is with the renderer failing to faithfully produce the original author's intent. It's a loss of fidelity. Having your bot blunder around like this in ancient pages is "fixing" the problem by mangling the historic record. Fixing markup errors that prevent a page from being readable at all is reasonable, but swapping font tags for styles en masse is not.
You should exclude it from trying to edit anything in my user space, because if it touches my old user talk pages I will revert it every time, as I have several times already. — Scott • talk 22:37, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
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Brilliant job fixing the table codes and lint errors at List of K-pop songs on the Billboard charts. Makes editing a lot easier!-- Bonnielou2013 ( talk) 23:50, 18 August 2021 (UTC) |
Thanks for your answer, keep up the good work!-- Bonnielou2013 ( talk) 08:28, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
Hello, thanks for getting the bot to fix my signature ... it did interesting things to my watchlist but that's OK. Is there a reason you leave behind a few instances of the bad signatures? Like my search result list and NuclearWarfare's? Is it about the "roughly 100 instances" limit, or something else? Graham 87 13:34, 22 August 2021 (UTC)

will replace the character (I can't know for sure since it doesn't display in my device).
ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (
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12:42, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
Once the existing run is complete, I think you'll need some further runs with different regexs for pages such as User talk:Erfankhan. -- WOSlinker ( talk) 20:17, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
<!-- Bug -->
tag. --
WOSlinker (
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12:07, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
class="MainPageBG"
. I've listed a few examples at
User:WOSlinker/MainPageBG but there's probably more. --
WOSlinker (
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06:54, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
'''<tt>{{helpme}}</tt>'''
, which can be replaced with {{tlc|helpme|bold=on}}
. This would be a task for after higher priority errors are fixed.
ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (
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14:05, 28 September 2021 (UTC)Flexible-fuel vehicle has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Chidgk1 ( talk) 09:25, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
... at Talk:Mario Andretti/Archive 1? I've just created it out of the old page history and there are probably quite a few Lint errors there. Thanks! Graham 87 10:15, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
Hi ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ, hope all is well with you. Thanks for your work on MalnadachBot. The arbitration clerk team has a system that reports all edits to arbitration-related pages to certain clerks and arbitrators, including me. While MalnadachBot does important work by removing lint errors, every edit that it makes on arbitration-related pages is reported in real time to a number of people, and it can drown out others' edits. One possible solution: would it be possible to "batch" all of the bot's edits on pages starting with "Wikipedia:Arbitration" or their associated talk pages, so we only have one day where the bot floods the feed (and then it's over)? As it is now, every day for weeks the bot has been flooding the tracking feed. KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 17:33, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello! I'm an admin on SqWiki and lately was trying to lower a bit the number of lint errors we have on our community. I asked around and was told that your bot was one of the bots helping in that aspect here. Would your bot be able to help in our community? If yes, would you consider making a request there so it gets flagged and starts working? (I can help with the process.) Thanks in advance! :)) - Klein Muçi ( talk) 23:53, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
Regarding
your edit of 14:39, 1 October 2021 of
MediaWiki talk:Ipboptions/Archive 1, the <tt>
and <samp>
tags are not equivalent. As explained at
mw:Help:Lint errors/obsolete-tag, <samp>
is for computer output. For general use, use the template {{mono}}
. —
Anomalocaris (
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18:41, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
<span style="font-family: monospace, monospace;">...</span>
instead.
ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (
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03:21, 12 October 2021 (UTC)On 1 November 2021, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Puneeth Rajkumar, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Step hen 00:33, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
If you are interested, User:UzEE/db-welcome has a lot of lint errors and has been used on about 150 user talk pages. -- WOSlinker ( talk) 11:00, 10 November 2021 (UTC)
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Please update Wikipedia 2601:647:8001:5C00:E0E3:8196:B8B3:856B ( talk) 21:31, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
I just saw a whole lot of edits like https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia%3AArticles_for_deletion%2FList_of_suicide_crisis_lines&type=revision&diff=1067835592&oldid=791938938 This is on a page which has "The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. " Please don't modify closed AfD debates. Stuartyeates ( talk) 09:55, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
Consensus for a bot to make any particular cosmetic change must be formalized in an approved request for approval.– Jonesey95 ( talk) 16:07, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
Regarding edits like this where a redundant table param is removed; what are these edits giving us? Are those redundant params hurting anything (i.e., WP:NOTBROKEN)? I ask because suddenly my Watchlist is full of these edits, which makes it a little challenging to check to see if the previous edit to an article was unconstructive. OhNoitsJamie Talk 14:34, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
border
, cellpadding
and cellspacing
table attributes are obsolete in
WP:HTML5. If there are valid uses, I would replace them. However I have been removing them when they are used with wikitable class, which cause them to have no effect on page rendering. Replacing / removing these will make pages more compliant with HTML 5, which improves accessibility. So they do have positive effect. (By the way
WP:NOTBROKEN is about redirects, which is unrelated to this)
ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (
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15:05, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
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