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You seem to be going about fastidiously making small corrections in the ways in which names of journals are abbreviated. But the only reason for abbreviating at all does not apply to Wikipedia. It's a practice introduced for journals printed on paper. There's no reason for not spelling out the name of a journal completely. Nobody will fail to understand which journal it is as a result of its being spelled out completely rather than being abbreviated. Michael Hardy ( talk) 04:37, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
[[Journal of Polymer Science Part A|J. Polym. Sci. A]]
I consider this the best compromise for brevity, readability (those familiar know the short forms) and yet clarity without having to navigate off the page. I would be most unhappy to see a 'bot removing either half of this, or converting full names to abbreviations alone.
Andy Dingley (
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10:10, 22 October 2017 (UTC)In this edit your bot changed a hyphen in a page number to a dash. The hyphen was correct because the publication used hyphenated page numbers (specifically, the chapter number, a hyphen, and the page within the chapter). Another editor reverted the change and I added a nobot template to prevent your bot from editing the page in the future. Jc3s5h ( talk) 15:18, 20 October 2017 (UTC)
What happened here: [2]?
I can't see any other cases, but if this is ever likely, a 'bot ought to check that it isn't saving an empty page. Can you re-bot that page, and see if it was random or if something on that page triggers it repeatedly? Andy Dingley ( talk) 10:12, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
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In Special:Diff/807549337, the bot altered a direct quote containing the name of a journal (not part of any citation) to use a cleaned-up version of the journal name. It should not ever do that. If the bot cannot distinguish between journal names in citations and journal names in other parts of article text, it should not be running in automated mode. — David Eppstein ( talk) 18:02, 28 October 2017 (UTC)
I've just noticed the bot changing "Plos One" to "PLoS ONE". But the journal itself no longer uses the "PLoS ONE" styling (in favour of "PLOS ONE") and, moreover, we shouldn't be obligated to follow the publisher's typographical branding here on Wikipedia. Following a recent move, our article is titled PLOS One and I think, if anything, that should be the preferred version. – Joe ( talk) 18:30, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
What on Earth is this bot programmed to do? Apart from make invisible changes to articles on my Watchlist? Graham Beards ( talk) 21:07, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
What happened with this edit? -- .ResonantWin. ( talk) 20:20, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
One of the recent trawls by this bot appears to have been to capitalize all principal words in French journal titles, so that e.g. Annales scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure becomes Annales Scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure. This is wrong (and smacks of cultural imperialism). French practice, followed by Wikipedia ( WP:FRENCHNAMES), is to capitalize only the first word and proper nouns, and to leave other words in lower case. Similarly in other languages: Annali di Matematica pura ed applicata NOT Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata. GrindtXX ( talk) 12:33, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
The Annales de la Société entomologique de France, existing since 1832, is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality, [...]. That page also has a cover with a lowercase "e" from 2017. See also the title on Taylor & Francis Online [4], and the Biodiversity Heritage library [5]. Umimmak ( talk) 08:54, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
Thanks much for having this fix [English-language] journal titles to title case, per MOS:TITLES. The comment way up top is correct that journal titles should not be abbreviated here. It's a "reader-hateful" practice. It's done in citation in journals because the people reading them already know what they mean, and the journal publisher is trying to save paper. Doing it on WP is against MOS:ABBR and MOS:JARGON. PLOS One should definitely be rendered PLOS One, per MOS:ABBR as to both parts of that name. We'd permit the minor stylization variance "PLoS" if the publisher insisted on it (since lower-casing minor words in acronyms is a recognized though decreasingly common style), but they no longer use that style and others who were mimicking it have dropped it. We would never permit "ONE" because it's not an acronym; that's just "marketing caps", exactly like "SONY ONE" for Sony One; see also MOS:TM on this. And the thread immediately above this is correct that French titles should not be capitalized to English norms (same goes for many other languages); also covered at MOS:TITLES. If it's not English, and it's not been mis-copypasted in ALL-CAPS, just leave it as-is; if there's something wrong with any of those, it'll take clueful human interact to fix it. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 19:08, 17 December 2017 (UTC)
|lang=
or |language=
in the citation template). Given that 99.9+ percent of our citations are to English-language sources, it is better for the bot to "guess English"; we can manually patch up any French or whatever titles that the bot "Anglo-capped" and add the missing lang markup. That's far less manual e-labor (orders of magnitude less) than having to fix all the miscapitalized English-language titles if this bot stops auto-fixing those. Also, if the bot is going to look for |lang=
and |language=
, it can auto-remove any instances with a value of "en" or "en-SOMETHING", since English is the default presumption at en.wiki. —
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@ Headbomb: is it necessary for this bot to add a space between the end of the content in one section and the beginning of the next? The spaces that were added in this edit affected how these sections rendered in the 3 articles where those sections are transcluded. A full line of vertical white space was added to the end of the sections in the articles that receive transclusions of those sections.
Please let me know if you intend to keep this functionality for the bot; I'll need to add {{
bots|deny=JCW-CleanerBot}}
in this article if so.
Seppi333 (
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{{#Section-h:Amphetamine|Section name}}
will cause that section to render with an added line break at the end of the section on the page that receives that transclusion. That's an issue caused by how that parser function was coded; the only way to circumvent that problem is to ensure that the source page has no additional empty lines in its markup at the end of "Section name".
Seppi333 (
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05:21, 15 January 2018 (UTC)Just to clarify, what's happening on the source and target pages of a selective transclusion with that syntax is as follows:
Example of the problem
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If the source page's section is marked up as: ===Section heading=== Text space ===Next section=== And the target page is marked up as: ===1st section heading=== {{#Section-h:Source page|Section heading}} space ===2nd section heading=== Then what is actually being rendered on the target page is: ===1st section heading=== Text space (from source page) space (from target page) ===2nd section heading=== As I'm sure you already know, placing 2 empty lines (i.e., the "space" from above) back-to-back in the source generates an empty line in the rendered page. |
Seppi333 ( Insert 2¢) 05:40, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
@
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solution. Put the {{#section-h}}
inside a {{
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Adderall will render as intended.
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{{
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Seppi333 (
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{{
transcluded section}}
and added the trim template around the selective transclusion template(s) on those pages; almost all of the pages I edited had a line break after the transclusion which was removed by the trim template. {{
Events by year for decade}}
and {{
Events by year for decade BC}}
, which are templates that loop over the set of years in a decade and selectively transclude a section of the articles on each corresponding year into a section of another article (e.g.,
10 BC→
10s BC.
11 BC→
10s BC,
12 BC→
10s BC, etc.), displayed 8 line breaks between each selective transclusion in the loop; adding the trim template to those 2 loop templates removed all of those line breaks in all 100+ articles where those 2 templates are transcluded (e.g., the
10s BC and
1200s (decade) articles – prior to fixing this, there was a line break at the end of every level 3 section for a year in those articles).See here, I'm concerned this could happen repeatedly if the bot logic applies to the whole citation/whole text rather than being specific to the journal/work/periodical parameters? Thanks Rjwilmsi 09:08, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi, why was the journal title shortened as it happened here? Regards, AFBorchert ( talk) 08:12, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
|journal=Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Section C:<!--Intentionally long title--> Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics, Literature
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The following 3 edits should have been made under my personal account or User:CitationCleanerBot
The malfunction has been solved, so no need to report it. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 21:20, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
Please disable the moving of short description templates to below hatnotes. There are good reasons for having short description as the first item in an article. Please refer to Wikipedia:Short description for more information and the rationale. If you disagree, please discuss on Wikipedia talk:Short description before continuing the change. Cheers, · · · Peter (Southwood) (talk): 19:56, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi, thanks (mostly) for the fixes ( [11]). Hyphenation of page numbers: good. "Matematische" to "Mathematische": good. "Annalen" to "Annalenn": however, seems to be a mistake. (Changing "Annale" to "Annalen", as the edit comment indicates, would of course be good, but only if "Annale" is not already part of "Annalen".) I'll fix this one article, but I also wanted to let you know what happened. Cheers, Eleuther ( talk) 06:43, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
@ Headbomb: JCW-CleanerBot has been tagging all the thousands of stubs created by Qbugbot with {{ Underlinked}}, for example, Zornella armata. If you look at that stub, it has a dozen links to other articles, including two in the body (which only consists of two sentences). I don't really think it's useful to tag that as "underlinked" (and if it is underlinked, the problem should be addressed by Qbugbot, not by mass tagging). Thoughts? Kaldari ( talk) 18:14, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
Dropped a }
editing an infobox on
Levocetirizine
Tyler Szabo 05:24, 4 June 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tyler.szabo ( talk • contribs)
Headbomb. I think the bot may be making a minor error with the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. It is currently doing this but according to the Royal Anthropological Institute the name is JRAI Incorporating MAN or Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (formerly MAN) or probably more commonly Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 09:41, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
Hi, in
this edit the BOT moved a year from the |journal=
field into a |year=
field when there is already a populated |date=
field. In this case the moved year causes a conflict with the date field.
Keith D (
talk)
19:27, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
You changed “Pseudorca crassidens,” the scientific name of the false killer whale, to “Pseudorca Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciencessidens” User:Dunkleosteus77 | push to talk 04:11, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi, in this edit the bot replaced "International Defense Review" with "International Defence Review". WorldCat has an entry International defense review from Jane's Information Group with dates from 1968 - 1995. WorldCat has another entry for IHS Jane's international defence review with dates from 2012 on. For SAGE, the citation in question may be found at page 316 of Schaffel:
39 R. D. M. Furlong, "NORAD—A Study in Evolution," International Defense Review, 7 no. 3 (Jun 1974), 317—19
Is there a chance that the periodical's name was spelled as Defense until some time when it was changed to Defence? Searching Google Scholar for "International Defense Review" shows about 6000 hits from the 80's and 90's. Searching for ""International Defence Review" returns 1820 hits, mostly more modern than the 80's. No big deal on this, I'm just curious about how to handle the names of publications that have possibly changed. Cxbrx ( talk) 17:35, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi, in this edit the BOT appears to have added an unnecessary "SEL" to the Journal name. Keith D ( talk) 11:58, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
@ Headbomb: I don't know if your change is semi-auto or full auto, but [12] et al are leaving behind "date and year" maintenance messages. If it's semi-auto, can you take a look around the relevant citation for those? -- Izno ( talk) 14:01, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
@ Headbomb:, I have corrected the bot's edit of Junior Common Room (Jesus College Record) back to Junior Common Room (JCR). I think this shows that a human review of the bot's corrections is useful. TSventon ( talk) 12:30, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
What is the justification for the change of journal title you made here? The journal name was as displayed at the time the article was published as shown by the relevant IEEE database entry. Spinning Spark 22:25, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
[[IEEE Foobar|Barfoo, IEEE]]
). I assumed a leading IEEE would cancel the ending IEEE, but didn't do a full string check. Now fixed.
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I have reverted your mangling of the clade diagram. You _can not_ replace )) with }} inside a template! 76.127.20.109 ( talk) 21:32, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
See line 2581 of Special:Diff/896386180. One citation used a citation template correctly, and the other used a idiosyncratic no-template form. It seems that the bot moved everything after the comma into the beginning of the nearest "journal" field, even though that field was in a different ref tag.
I found this error perusing through WP:JCW/Invalid. It might be useful to borrow some logic from User:JL-Bot to guard against introducing something like this in the future. Vahurzpu ( talk) 18:12, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
I would like the bot to edit this draft. QuackGuru ( talk) 11:58, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
The other bot made a human error. Acts like human. QuackGuru ( talk) 03:26, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
ArtLies was the name of an art periodical published in Houston Texas during the early 2000s. The journal was not named Art Lies (Art_Lies), but: ArtLies. Please reprogram not to keep changing this name to a proper grammatical form — Preceding unsigned comment added by Camo1955 ( talk • contribs)
Hey Bot! :) This article appeared on the dead-end list which I keep en eye on, and when I went to take a look, turns out you had blanked it. Am I missing something? DoubleGrazing ( talk) 15:13, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
— Trappist the monk ( talk) 13:59, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
This edit at Angioplasty was weird; I undid it. Cheers! Jessicapierce ( talk) 03:31, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
This bot just changed "Earth, Moon and Planets" to "Earth, Moon, and Planets" (adding a comma) in a reference in the Tholin article. I believe either punctuation is accpeted. But, more to the point, the referenced article and journal do not use the extra comma. I don't think a bot should make punctuation changes which differ from the source's usage. Fcrary ( talk) 22:05, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Draft%3AMurfee&type=revision&diff=966259930&oldid=963739978
Changed display title of People (Magazine) to NBC and then repeated that sentence/citation (minus "NBC"). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Antialiased ( talk • contribs) 11:56, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
The short description is supposed to be first WP:ORDER. -- Whywhenwhohow ( talk) 00:34, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
Namely, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Lascar&diff=979276629&oldid=978499551. I'm guessing the bot isn't supposed to do that? Thegreatluigi ( talk) 21:07, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
The bot's use of AWB is still moving SD below hats, in violation of MOS:ORDER (a few cases in the past few hours). I see this comment was made in 2018 and again recently. Yes, it's an AWB bug and yes, I've been banging on the maintainers recently. They fixed it in source last November, shortly after releasing 6.1.0.1, but haven't seen fit to make a new binary. See Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser for rationale (topic started 23 Aug). Is it possible for you to build from the latest source and use that? If not, I have a build you can download if you trust it. David Brooks ( talk) 02:26, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
This bot added some errant nbps's after protein names here. Not quite sure how it did that. Maneesh ( talk) 19:27, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
p.<!--AWB, this is not a page-->V281L
will prevent all AWB-bots (and low-attention span AWB editors) from making that mistake again.
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There has been an edit war between User:JCW-CleanerBot and User:Citation Bot over at Effectiveness of Alcoholics Anonymous:
I have added a comment to the journal name asking Citation Bot to please stop changing the name so this edit war stops. This is the second Citation Bot bug I have had to deal with over at Effectiveness of Alcoholics Anonymous SkylabField ( talk) 18:53, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
The bot added a second, unnecessary "</ref>" tag the Donanemab article on 14:23, 22 June 2021. Wikipedialuva ( talk) 02:26, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
This bot seems to also do de-duplication as part of its task 2 (I got curious why it removed 751 bytes): [13]. I think that ought to be noted on its user page. Psiĥedelisto ( talk • contribs) please always ping! 10:58, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
Hello, the BOT keeps moving date information from the journal name and placing it in a |year=
field even when there is already a |date=
field present.
Keith D (
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14:25, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
The page Suzanne Crowe is in Irish English/Hiberno-English but the bot changed paediatric anaesthesia (Irish spelling) to pediatric anesthesia (American spelling). See diff: [14] -- GeneralBelly ( talk) 22:27, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
I think this edit makes an error. As you can see from the Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences wiki page, there are a confusing number of different titles for the journal at different periods of time, and I believe the version before your diff was the correct one for the article/time in question. It is the same as the journal title on the linked gallica website, and also matches the name on indexing website mathscinet. Gumshoe2 ( talk) 18:18, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
Hey, your bot changed Romania Libera to România Literară, when it should in actuality be România Liberă. Please check and revert any other such edits, thanks. Mr.choppers | ✎ 20:43, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
The bot is changing from one incorrect title to another - see [15] "m (→Further reading: task, replaced: Flying magazine → Flying Magazine)" - the magazine is actually called Flying - not Flying Magazine - and the associated article is at Flying (magazine). Similarly here - "m (→Passengers and crew: task, replaced: Flight magazine → Flight Magazine)" - the magazine was called Flight - not Flight Magazine at the time. Please stop giving false titles for references. This only interferes with verifiability. Nigel Ish ( talk) 08:26, 30 July 2022 (UTC)
See Special:Diff/1100635266. What made it insert "atw" at the top? Ovinus ( talk) 22:22, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
In this edit, the hanote was broken due to an AWB problem. AWB does not know about {{ hatnote group}}. There is a phab ticket open on this, but until that is resolved, users have to watch for this an undo the fix. MB 15:03, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
Your to Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco blanked the page. — Ost ( talk) 17:32, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
In
Special:Diff/1166940873, there was a situation where someone had somehow put almost the whole content of the section inside the |date=
parameter of a maintenance tag. This bot strangely lowercased everything in that content and removed all the commas. WTF?
Anomie
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11:29, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
Two issues really, on this edit. For one, its edit summary suggested it was removing a full-stop from a journal name (I think), but its actual change didn't involve that reference. Instead it tried to condense a repeated ref by replacing the duplicate with a named ref. That would've been helpful, except the ref name it picked, "ReferenceA", doesn't actually exist on the page. -- Fyrael ( talk) 19:34, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
Hello – looks like this has blanked a page, see Special:Diff/1186424381. Tollens ( talk) 02:01, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
![]() | This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 |
You seem to be going about fastidiously making small corrections in the ways in which names of journals are abbreviated. But the only reason for abbreviating at all does not apply to Wikipedia. It's a practice introduced for journals printed on paper. There's no reason for not spelling out the name of a journal completely. Nobody will fail to understand which journal it is as a result of its being spelled out completely rather than being abbreviated. Michael Hardy ( talk) 04:37, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
[[Journal of Polymer Science Part A|J. Polym. Sci. A]]
I consider this the best compromise for brevity, readability (those familiar know the short forms) and yet clarity without having to navigate off the page. I would be most unhappy to see a 'bot removing either half of this, or converting full names to abbreviations alone.
Andy Dingley (
talk)
10:10, 22 October 2017 (UTC)In this edit your bot changed a hyphen in a page number to a dash. The hyphen was correct because the publication used hyphenated page numbers (specifically, the chapter number, a hyphen, and the page within the chapter). Another editor reverted the change and I added a nobot template to prevent your bot from editing the page in the future. Jc3s5h ( talk) 15:18, 20 October 2017 (UTC)
What happened here: [2]?
I can't see any other cases, but if this is ever likely, a 'bot ought to check that it isn't saving an empty page. Can you re-bot that page, and see if it was random or if something on that page triggers it repeatedly? Andy Dingley ( talk) 10:12, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
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In Special:Diff/807549337, the bot altered a direct quote containing the name of a journal (not part of any citation) to use a cleaned-up version of the journal name. It should not ever do that. If the bot cannot distinguish between journal names in citations and journal names in other parts of article text, it should not be running in automated mode. — David Eppstein ( talk) 18:02, 28 October 2017 (UTC)
I've just noticed the bot changing "Plos One" to "PLoS ONE". But the journal itself no longer uses the "PLoS ONE" styling (in favour of "PLOS ONE") and, moreover, we shouldn't be obligated to follow the publisher's typographical branding here on Wikipedia. Following a recent move, our article is titled PLOS One and I think, if anything, that should be the preferred version. – Joe ( talk) 18:30, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
What on Earth is this bot programmed to do? Apart from make invisible changes to articles on my Watchlist? Graham Beards ( talk) 21:07, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
What happened with this edit? -- .ResonantWin. ( talk) 20:20, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
One of the recent trawls by this bot appears to have been to capitalize all principal words in French journal titles, so that e.g. Annales scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure becomes Annales Scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure. This is wrong (and smacks of cultural imperialism). French practice, followed by Wikipedia ( WP:FRENCHNAMES), is to capitalize only the first word and proper nouns, and to leave other words in lower case. Similarly in other languages: Annali di Matematica pura ed applicata NOT Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata. GrindtXX ( talk) 12:33, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
The Annales de la Société entomologique de France, existing since 1832, is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality, [...]. That page also has a cover with a lowercase "e" from 2017. See also the title on Taylor & Francis Online [4], and the Biodiversity Heritage library [5]. Umimmak ( talk) 08:54, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
Thanks much for having this fix [English-language] journal titles to title case, per MOS:TITLES. The comment way up top is correct that journal titles should not be abbreviated here. It's a "reader-hateful" practice. It's done in citation in journals because the people reading them already know what they mean, and the journal publisher is trying to save paper. Doing it on WP is against MOS:ABBR and MOS:JARGON. PLOS One should definitely be rendered PLOS One, per MOS:ABBR as to both parts of that name. We'd permit the minor stylization variance "PLoS" if the publisher insisted on it (since lower-casing minor words in acronyms is a recognized though decreasingly common style), but they no longer use that style and others who were mimicking it have dropped it. We would never permit "ONE" because it's not an acronym; that's just "marketing caps", exactly like "SONY ONE" for Sony One; see also MOS:TM on this. And the thread immediately above this is correct that French titles should not be capitalized to English norms (same goes for many other languages); also covered at MOS:TITLES. If it's not English, and it's not been mis-copypasted in ALL-CAPS, just leave it as-is; if there's something wrong with any of those, it'll take clueful human interact to fix it. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 19:08, 17 December 2017 (UTC)
|lang=
or |language=
in the citation template). Given that 99.9+ percent of our citations are to English-language sources, it is better for the bot to "guess English"; we can manually patch up any French or whatever titles that the bot "Anglo-capped" and add the missing lang markup. That's far less manual e-labor (orders of magnitude less) than having to fix all the miscapitalized English-language titles if this bot stops auto-fixing those. Also, if the bot is going to look for |lang=
and |language=
, it can auto-remove any instances with a value of "en" or "en-SOMETHING", since English is the default presumption at en.wiki. —
SMcCandlish
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@ Headbomb: is it necessary for this bot to add a space between the end of the content in one section and the beginning of the next? The spaces that were added in this edit affected how these sections rendered in the 3 articles where those sections are transcluded. A full line of vertical white space was added to the end of the sections in the articles that receive transclusions of those sections.
Please let me know if you intend to keep this functionality for the bot; I'll need to add {{
bots|deny=JCW-CleanerBot}}
in this article if so.
Seppi333 (
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04:24, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
{{#Section-h:Amphetamine|Section name}}
will cause that section to render with an added line break at the end of the section on the page that receives that transclusion. That's an issue caused by how that parser function was coded; the only way to circumvent that problem is to ensure that the source page has no additional empty lines in its markup at the end of "Section name".
Seppi333 (
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05:21, 15 January 2018 (UTC)Just to clarify, what's happening on the source and target pages of a selective transclusion with that syntax is as follows:
Example of the problem
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If the source page's section is marked up as: ===Section heading=== Text space ===Next section=== And the target page is marked up as: ===1st section heading=== {{#Section-h:Source page|Section heading}} space ===2nd section heading=== Then what is actually being rendered on the target page is: ===1st section heading=== Text space (from source page) space (from target page) ===2nd section heading=== As I'm sure you already know, placing 2 empty lines (i.e., the "space" from above) back-to-back in the source generates an empty line in the rendered page. |
Seppi333 ( Insert 2¢) 05:40, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
@
Seppi333: I found the
solution. Put the {{#section-h}}
inside a {{
trim}}, and it'll remove both leading and trailing whitespace, and
Adderall will render as intended.
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{{
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and added the trim template around the selective transclusion template(s) on those pages; almost all of the pages I edited had a line break after the transclusion which was removed by the trim template. {{
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and {{
Events by year for decade BC}}
, which are templates that loop over the set of years in a decade and selectively transclude a section of the articles on each corresponding year into a section of another article (e.g.,
10 BC→
10s BC.
11 BC→
10s BC,
12 BC→
10s BC, etc.), displayed 8 line breaks between each selective transclusion in the loop; adding the trim template to those 2 loop templates removed all of those line breaks in all 100+ articles where those 2 templates are transcluded (e.g., the
10s BC and
1200s (decade) articles – prior to fixing this, there was a line break at the end of every level 3 section for a year in those articles).See here, I'm concerned this could happen repeatedly if the bot logic applies to the whole citation/whole text rather than being specific to the journal/work/periodical parameters? Thanks Rjwilmsi 09:08, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi, why was the journal title shortened as it happened here? Regards, AFBorchert ( talk) 08:12, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
|journal=Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Section C:<!--Intentionally long title--> Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics, Literature
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The following 3 edits should have been made under my personal account or User:CitationCleanerBot
The malfunction has been solved, so no need to report it. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 21:20, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
Please disable the moving of short description templates to below hatnotes. There are good reasons for having short description as the first item in an article. Please refer to Wikipedia:Short description for more information and the rationale. If you disagree, please discuss on Wikipedia talk:Short description before continuing the change. Cheers, · · · Peter (Southwood) (talk): 19:56, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi, thanks (mostly) for the fixes ( [11]). Hyphenation of page numbers: good. "Matematische" to "Mathematische": good. "Annalen" to "Annalenn": however, seems to be a mistake. (Changing "Annale" to "Annalen", as the edit comment indicates, would of course be good, but only if "Annale" is not already part of "Annalen".) I'll fix this one article, but I also wanted to let you know what happened. Cheers, Eleuther ( talk) 06:43, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
@ Headbomb: JCW-CleanerBot has been tagging all the thousands of stubs created by Qbugbot with {{ Underlinked}}, for example, Zornella armata. If you look at that stub, it has a dozen links to other articles, including two in the body (which only consists of two sentences). I don't really think it's useful to tag that as "underlinked" (and if it is underlinked, the problem should be addressed by Qbugbot, not by mass tagging). Thoughts? Kaldari ( talk) 18:14, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
Dropped a }
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Tyler Szabo 05:24, 4 June 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tyler.szabo ( talk • contribs)
Headbomb. I think the bot may be making a minor error with the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. It is currently doing this but according to the Royal Anthropological Institute the name is JRAI Incorporating MAN or Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (formerly MAN) or probably more commonly Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 09:41, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
Hi, in
this edit the BOT moved a year from the |journal=
field into a |year=
field when there is already a populated |date=
field. In this case the moved year causes a conflict with the date field.
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You changed “Pseudorca crassidens,” the scientific name of the false killer whale, to “Pseudorca Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciencessidens” User:Dunkleosteus77 | push to talk 04:11, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi, in this edit the bot replaced "International Defense Review" with "International Defence Review". WorldCat has an entry International defense review from Jane's Information Group with dates from 1968 - 1995. WorldCat has another entry for IHS Jane's international defence review with dates from 2012 on. For SAGE, the citation in question may be found at page 316 of Schaffel:
39 R. D. M. Furlong, "NORAD—A Study in Evolution," International Defense Review, 7 no. 3 (Jun 1974), 317—19
Is there a chance that the periodical's name was spelled as Defense until some time when it was changed to Defence? Searching Google Scholar for "International Defense Review" shows about 6000 hits from the 80's and 90's. Searching for ""International Defence Review" returns 1820 hits, mostly more modern than the 80's. No big deal on this, I'm just curious about how to handle the names of publications that have possibly changed. Cxbrx ( talk) 17:35, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi, in this edit the BOT appears to have added an unnecessary "SEL" to the Journal name. Keith D ( talk) 11:58, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
@ Headbomb: I don't know if your change is semi-auto or full auto, but [12] et al are leaving behind "date and year" maintenance messages. If it's semi-auto, can you take a look around the relevant citation for those? -- Izno ( talk) 14:01, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
@ Headbomb:, I have corrected the bot's edit of Junior Common Room (Jesus College Record) back to Junior Common Room (JCR). I think this shows that a human review of the bot's corrections is useful. TSventon ( talk) 12:30, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
What is the justification for the change of journal title you made here? The journal name was as displayed at the time the article was published as shown by the relevant IEEE database entry. Spinning Spark 22:25, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
[[IEEE Foobar|Barfoo, IEEE]]
). I assumed a leading IEEE would cancel the ending IEEE, but didn't do a full string check. Now fixed.
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I have reverted your mangling of the clade diagram. You _can not_ replace )) with }} inside a template! 76.127.20.109 ( talk) 21:32, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
See line 2581 of Special:Diff/896386180. One citation used a citation template correctly, and the other used a idiosyncratic no-template form. It seems that the bot moved everything after the comma into the beginning of the nearest "journal" field, even though that field was in a different ref tag.
I found this error perusing through WP:JCW/Invalid. It might be useful to borrow some logic from User:JL-Bot to guard against introducing something like this in the future. Vahurzpu ( talk) 18:12, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
I would like the bot to edit this draft. QuackGuru ( talk) 11:58, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
The other bot made a human error. Acts like human. QuackGuru ( talk) 03:26, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
ArtLies was the name of an art periodical published in Houston Texas during the early 2000s. The journal was not named Art Lies (Art_Lies), but: ArtLies. Please reprogram not to keep changing this name to a proper grammatical form — Preceding unsigned comment added by Camo1955 ( talk • contribs)
Hey Bot! :) This article appeared on the dead-end list which I keep en eye on, and when I went to take a look, turns out you had blanked it. Am I missing something? DoubleGrazing ( talk) 15:13, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
— Trappist the monk ( talk) 13:59, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
This edit at Angioplasty was weird; I undid it. Cheers! Jessicapierce ( talk) 03:31, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
This bot just changed "Earth, Moon and Planets" to "Earth, Moon, and Planets" (adding a comma) in a reference in the Tholin article. I believe either punctuation is accpeted. But, more to the point, the referenced article and journal do not use the extra comma. I don't think a bot should make punctuation changes which differ from the source's usage. Fcrary ( talk) 22:05, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Draft%3AMurfee&type=revision&diff=966259930&oldid=963739978
Changed display title of People (Magazine) to NBC and then repeated that sentence/citation (minus "NBC"). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Antialiased ( talk • contribs) 11:56, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
The short description is supposed to be first WP:ORDER. -- Whywhenwhohow ( talk) 00:34, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
Namely, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Lascar&diff=979276629&oldid=978499551. I'm guessing the bot isn't supposed to do that? Thegreatluigi ( talk) 21:07, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
The bot's use of AWB is still moving SD below hats, in violation of MOS:ORDER (a few cases in the past few hours). I see this comment was made in 2018 and again recently. Yes, it's an AWB bug and yes, I've been banging on the maintainers recently. They fixed it in source last November, shortly after releasing 6.1.0.1, but haven't seen fit to make a new binary. See Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser for rationale (topic started 23 Aug). Is it possible for you to build from the latest source and use that? If not, I have a build you can download if you trust it. David Brooks ( talk) 02:26, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
This bot added some errant nbps's after protein names here. Not quite sure how it did that. Maneesh ( talk) 19:27, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
p.<!--AWB, this is not a page-->V281L
will prevent all AWB-bots (and low-attention span AWB editors) from making that mistake again.
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There has been an edit war between User:JCW-CleanerBot and User:Citation Bot over at Effectiveness of Alcoholics Anonymous:
I have added a comment to the journal name asking Citation Bot to please stop changing the name so this edit war stops. This is the second Citation Bot bug I have had to deal with over at Effectiveness of Alcoholics Anonymous SkylabField ( talk) 18:53, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
The bot added a second, unnecessary "</ref>" tag the Donanemab article on 14:23, 22 June 2021. Wikipedialuva ( talk) 02:26, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
This bot seems to also do de-duplication as part of its task 2 (I got curious why it removed 751 bytes): [13]. I think that ought to be noted on its user page. Psiĥedelisto ( talk • contribs) please always ping! 10:58, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
Hello, the BOT keeps moving date information from the journal name and placing it in a |year=
field even when there is already a |date=
field present.
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14:25, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
The page Suzanne Crowe is in Irish English/Hiberno-English but the bot changed paediatric anaesthesia (Irish spelling) to pediatric anesthesia (American spelling). See diff: [14] -- GeneralBelly ( talk) 22:27, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
I think this edit makes an error. As you can see from the Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences wiki page, there are a confusing number of different titles for the journal at different periods of time, and I believe the version before your diff was the correct one for the article/time in question. It is the same as the journal title on the linked gallica website, and also matches the name on indexing website mathscinet. Gumshoe2 ( talk) 18:18, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
Hey, your bot changed Romania Libera to România Literară, when it should in actuality be România Liberă. Please check and revert any other such edits, thanks. Mr.choppers | ✎ 20:43, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
The bot is changing from one incorrect title to another - see [15] "m (→Further reading: task, replaced: Flying magazine → Flying Magazine)" - the magazine is actually called Flying - not Flying Magazine - and the associated article is at Flying (magazine). Similarly here - "m (→Passengers and crew: task, replaced: Flight magazine → Flight Magazine)" - the magazine was called Flight - not Flight Magazine at the time. Please stop giving false titles for references. This only interferes with verifiability. Nigel Ish ( talk) 08:26, 30 July 2022 (UTC)
See Special:Diff/1100635266. What made it insert "atw" at the top? Ovinus ( talk) 22:22, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
In this edit, the hanote was broken due to an AWB problem. AWB does not know about {{ hatnote group}}. There is a phab ticket open on this, but until that is resolved, users have to watch for this an undo the fix. MB 15:03, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
Your to Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco blanked the page. — Ost ( talk) 17:32, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
In
Special:Diff/1166940873, there was a situation where someone had somehow put almost the whole content of the section inside the |date=
parameter of a maintenance tag. This bot strangely lowercased everything in that content and removed all the commas. WTF?
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Two issues really, on this edit. For one, its edit summary suggested it was removing a full-stop from a journal name (I think), but its actual change didn't involve that reference. Instead it tried to condense a repeated ref by replacing the duplicate with a named ref. That would've been helpful, except the ref name it picked, "ReferenceA", doesn't actually exist on the page. -- Fyrael ( talk) 19:34, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
Hello – looks like this has blanked a page, see Special:Diff/1186424381. Tollens ( talk) 02:01, 23 November 2023 (UTC)