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Would it make sense to remove all the occurrences of Add caption here from articles? -- Leyo 01:53, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
Can someone tag the talk pages of the following files with {{
Oldpuffull|date = 2011-12-4| result = Keep| page = File:Signature of Abhishek Bachchan.svg}}
?
Armbrust
Talk to me
about my edits
review
00:25, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
Plenty of pages transclude {{ Sandbox heading}}, and most of these transclusions shouldn't be there because they're on user pages or other inappropriate places. Could somebody use AWB to go through this list and clean it up? Instances of the template in the user namespace can be replaced with {{ User sandbox}}, if necessary. Thanks! Graham 87 07:35, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
Done
Hazard-SJ
㋡
21:06, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
Would the replacement of external links to ChemIDplus with Template:ChemID ( example) be a feasible task? -- Leyo 10:47, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
Search and replace:
Replace instances of {{Non-free currency}} with {{ir-Money}}{{Non-free currency}}. This is a bold move so that the copyright aspects of currency designs can be split from the anti-counterfeiting considerations. Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 16:23, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
This still needs to be done. Once done, Non-free Currency can be re-written appropriately :) Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 21:21, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Search and replace of {{ KeepLocal}} to {{ Keep local}}, template migration :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sfan00 IMG ( talk • contribs)
See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Timeline of the 2000 Atlantic hurricane season; someone please remove *both* the deletion and the rescue tags and append {{Old AfD multi|page=Timeline of the 2000 Atlantic hurricane season|date=6 January 2012|result='''keep all'''}} to each talk page. Thanks. Hurricanefan25 ( talk · contribs) 16:59, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
Could someone please help me add [[Category:Files by User:Anna Frodesiak]] to the images listed here. Many thanks if you can help. :) Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 07:33, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
We had a lively and productive discussion here in August 2011 (see Archive 4) about "Passed away" and other euphemisms. It looks like we missed "his passing" and "her passing", which have obvious exceptions, such as "known for his passing accuracy". I think that it is uncontroversial to change "On his passing in 1940 he was laid to rest ..." to "On his death in 1940 he was buried ...", and maybe even better to make it "He died in 1940 and was buried ...". I am also catching variations such as "his passing away" and "her passing on". I am doing a metric ton of these, and wouldn't mind some company. There are hundreds of "her passing" and thousands of "his passing", so the sheer number makes AWB the tool of choice. I have a set of about eight F&R rules that work pretty well, and will post them here if requested. A sharp lookout for quotations and false positives is needed, of course. Chris the speller yack 19:42, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
Sure.
\b([Tt])he passing of\b $1he death of
\bpassing on\b(?<=(His|his|Her|her) passing on) death
\bpassing away\b(?<=(His|his|Her|her) passing away) death
\bpassing away\b dying
\bpassing\b(?<=(His|his|Her|her|wife's|husband's|mother's|father's|friend's|[A-Z][a-z]+'s) passing)(?! an\b| a\b| the\b| through\b) death
\bpassed away\b died
\bpassed on\b died
\blaid to rest\b buried
These ain't beautiful, but they work pretty well. There can be a few false positives, such as "He was known for passing on his knowledge", but I'm sure you can handle them. You may have to choose between "death" and "dying" in a few cases where the context gives just a clue whether the process of dying or the instant of death is meant. Have fun! Chris the speller yack 03:06, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Lots of redlinked swimmers, 100% seem to be sourced at Sports-Reference.com. So, can AWB be used to, for each redlinked swimmer:
A search at http://sports-reference.com would be required to obtain the actual URL, even though most are of the form
"
http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/" + $FirstTwoLettersOfLN +"/" + $FirstName + "-" + $LastName + "-1.html"
-- Lexein ( talk) 02:24, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi. {{ Singapore Constitution}} has been incorporated into {{ Singapore legislation}}. Could you please carry out the following replacements?
Thanks! — Cheers, JackLee – talk– 17:04, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Could you also please replace occurrences of {{Singapore Statute}} with {{Singapore legislation}}, and remove the |amdt=
parameter as this no longer exists in {{
Singapore legislation}}? Thanks. — Cheers,
JackLee –
talk–
18:20, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
Replace 'You Tube' with 'YouTube'? I've seen many users do that. As I am never likely going to be accepted for AWB, can someone do it? ~ ⇒TomTom N00 @ 23:40, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
Done. When Batty said he was "fixing some", I think he was fixing a lot. As for AWB not being intuitive, I have never found the need to use F&R Advanced settings, so maybe I have avoided the part that's not intuitive. There's a bit of a learning curve to AWB in general, and I have only tried trickier features when I really felt the need for them, so it has not been overwhelming. I hope most of your experience with AWB is enjoyable and satisfying.
Chris the speller
yack
13:07, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
List of In Our Time programmes
Hi I posted at the HelpDesk about this page, Wikipedia:Help_desk#Some_input_on_redlink_overkill, could some kind soul unredlink all those people and remove all the links to each and every episode of the show? Would be much appreciated. CaptainScreebo Parley! 21:58, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
Would some kind soul kindly AWB all of the redlinks in this article out of existence? It's an eyesore. Cheers! CaptainScreebo Parley! 16:49, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
Please see here:
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Electro hop, so result was delete for a pure OR genre, unfortunately the only person defending it went on a bit of a spree trying to get the cat and the genre on as many wikipages as possible, in the misguided belief that this would save the article from deletion.
As someone posted on my talkpage, these areas need looking at
category:Electro-hop songs,
category:Electro-hop artists,
category:Electro-hop musicians, can you people with AWB just wikiwide delete the mention of electrohop, whether it be the catting or the mention of the genre, then I will nom the cats for deletion? Much appreciated (and I would like to commend you for your fine work, don't have time to get to grips with AWB myself, but believe this page is seriously underused, cheers!)
CaptainScreebo
Parley!
12:34, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
I am working on trimming down the articles that need assessment for WikiProject United States and the projects that it supports and I have a bit of a dilemna. I have already gone through and done the redirects but it took a day and a half for AWB to prescan them. Now I am working on doing the Disambiguous pages, and there are a lot I'm sure. The problem is there are more than 25000 in Category:Unassessed United States articles and about 165000 in Template:WikiProject Disambiguation making the list comparer kinda useless without the NL plugin or admin rights. Can someone please do a compare between these 2 and give me the list of the articles that are common between them? This would save me about a day and a half of processing time to make the list and let me use it for doing the edits instead. Kumioko ( talk) 01:00, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
[[Terry McBride]] -> [[Terry McBride (CEO)|Terry McBride]] Page was moved. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 18:56, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
There is a discussion here for a simple and small task that I think is ok for AWB since there are only about 400 articles affected. I even added some code to make it easier if you want to use it. Basically a WikiProject Template was deprecated and needs to be either removed if the page contains WikiProject Chemistry or replaced with WikiProject Chemistry if it does not. The code is set to replace because the first several I looked at didn't already have Chemistry but some likely do have both. Kumioko ( talk) 18:58, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
On every existing article listed here, could someone change [[Category:Cucujoidea]] to [[Category:Mordellidae]]? Thanks! -- Tomtomn00 ( talk • contributions) 08:47, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
[[Cowboys and Angels]] -> [[Cowboys and Angels (George Michael song)|Cowboys and Angels]] Page was moved. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 05:32, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
Lots of articles with en dash in their titles, like blood–brain barrier, are widely linked by their hyphen redirects, like blood-brain barrier, which means the punctuation/typography is wrong (or not up to the recommendations of WP:MOS at least) in the articles linking them. It seems that it should be easy for AWB or some such tool to identify these cases and fix them. That is, whenever there's a link like love-hate relationship to a redirect to an article whose name differs only in having an en dash where the redirect has a hyphen, the source link should be changed, e.g. to love–hate relationship. There are probably thousands of these waiting to be improved. Dicklyon ( talk) 04:43, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
[[All Summer Long (song)|All Summer Long]] ->[[All Summer Long (Beach Boys song)|All Summer Long]]. Change since this is an ambiguous title; All Summer Long (song) currently points to the dab page All Summer Long. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 03:05, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
Please may someone tag all of the existing
Mordellistena article talk pages with {{WikiProject Insects|class=Stub|importance=Low|needs-photo=yes}}
? Regards,
Thine Antique Pen (
talk •
contributions)
11:16, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
Dan Dugmore -> [[Dan Dugmore]]. Introduce wikilinks now that Dugmore has an article. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 21:26, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
I was looking over the auto-tag features here and it occurred to me that many articles may have obsolete tags. For example, they may be tagged as {{ deadend}} but have actually have wikilinks and no one has bothered to remove the tag. I suggest that AWB be used to take care of this, except for the Orphan tag because IMO it's always good to add more incoming links so it would do more harm than good if removed for a single link or two. I'm currently carefully trying to cut down on the {{ wikify}} backlog, but there are plenty of other tags that AWB can handle automatically. It'd be nice to have some help on the other categories. It's easy enough to do: you load a category like Category:Dead-end pages, click the "Auto change skip options", and only choose "auto tag changes". Then run AWB in pre-parsed mode, make yourself a sandwich or something, and when AWB finishes you should have a list of articles that need a tag change. Jesse V. ( talk) 03:33, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
|reason=
parameter has been added to the template, many editors don't populate this parameter, so a bot can't tell why the tag was added. Even worse, AWB can remove the wikify tag even if the reason parameter says there's another issue. See
Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Archive 23#Wikify tag for a discussion on this. Based on this feedback, I don't do this task via bot.I ran across Category:Pages with DEFAULTSORT conflicts and realized that AWB might be able to help with this. Certainly AWB won't be able to resolve the DEFAULTSORT conflicts automatically, so it's necessary to turn off all the skip options and whatnot. However, it's an important category to resolve, and according to AWB there's only 46 namespace articles that have issues. I'd like to see this taken care of, but it's a bit tricky, and I don't know a lot about DEFAULTSORT, so I need some advice/instructions, or I'd appreciate it if someone more experienced and knowledgeable could help. Remember, articles in this category can sometimes crash AWB; AFAIK that bug still remains. Jesse V. ( talk) 05:35, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
"First and only" -> "Only". "First and only" is redundant. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 15:19, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
Example: [[Wikipedia:IPA for English|IPA]] => [[IPA for English|IPA]].
Just noticed this occurs often on the article
List of Book of Mormon people. Regards,
SunCreator (
talk)
12:26, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
Jay Joyce -> [[Jay Joyce]] Introduce wikilinks now that Jay Joyce has an article. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 22:28, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
[[Homewrecker]] -> [[Homewrecker (TV series)|Homewrecker]]. Change to a piped link to Homewrecker (TV series) since it was moved. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 19:11, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
Is there anyone that can do a comparison between the articlesin Category:Recipients of the Medal of Honor and Category:United States articles by quality and provide a listing of the articles missing from the latter. There are going to be some fictional ones and some oddballs that I can pick out manually but I don't have the access to pull in that many articles without going subcat by subcat which makes it unproductive. Thanks. Kumioko ( talk) 17:01, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
Marv Green -> [[Marv Green]] Introduce wikilinks now that Marv Green has an article. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 00:35, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
Can AWB crawl every diff in my entire contributions history, and generate a list of every http:// or https:// link I've ever added or changed in Wikipedia? My memory of a particular source has failed me, and nothing is jogging my memory, but I'll know it when I see it. The results could be saved under User:Lexein/Allyourbase, or put on Dropbox and the DL link emailed. If not where would I go to request such a tool be created? -- Lexein ( talk) 00:36, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
More wikilink introduction: This time, Angelo Petraglia -> [[Angelo Petraglia]] and Billy Joe Walker, Jr. -> [[Billy Joe Walker, Jr.]] For the latter, you might also wanna do a sweep for any instance of "Billy Joe Walker Jr." minus the comma. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 08:43, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
Here is an example of one getting fixed. I know there are more out there. Is there a way to hunt them down and fix them? Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 23:26, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
More of a question then a task. I'd like to load a list of all the disambiguation pages ( Category:All_disambiguation_pages) into AWB. There are 216 thousand pages. Anyone have any idea? I want to typo check every page but using the load from category I'm limited to only 25,000 pages. Any idea how to get bigger, or get them all in chunkes (i.e 25K a time) Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 00:32, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, could some kind soul with a few minutes go fix the Singles section of the Runrig article? I've basically un-italiced all mentions in the text and put the titles into quotes, same needs doing to this section, figured it would be a breeze for an AWB crack. Cheers! CaptainScreebo Parley! 17:38, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
[[Conestoga Mall]] -> [[Conestoga Mall (Waterloo, Ontario)|Conestoga Mall]] Page was moved since there are two Conestoga Malls. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 19:07, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
Could someone help with the following:
Doctors (2000 TV series) to Doctors (soap opera)
I have recently moved the page after the new name was deemed better to reflect the show and due to lack of other conflicting shows titles. Thanks for your help, which is much appreciated. Adamiow ( talk) 23:04, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
There are about 840 articles with "intermittent freshwater marches", s/b "intermittent freshwater marshes". In fact, some pages have more than one occurrence of "marches", and they should all be changed. I don't have a bot account. This is a very old typo, so it doesn't have to be done today or tomorrow. Chris the speller yack 23:57, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
Links of the form - http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1995/Uksi_19951804_en_2.htm need converting to http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1804/contents/made
Suggesting this could be done with AWB very quickly :) Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 11:37, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
I'd sure appreciate it if someone could run AWB on the Folding@home article. I'm currently pushing through its FA nom, and I think AWB could be helpful to automatically fix minor things (general fixes, etc). I'd do this myself, but I'm running Linux at the moment and for some technical reasons I don't want to boot back into Windows. This shouldn't take very much of your time, but it'd really help me out. :) • Jesse V. (talk) 02:34, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
|title=
field of a reference causes different behavior.
GoingBatty (
talk)
03:04, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
GoingBatty, as it turns out, the proper usage is {{sic|relat|ivly|nolink=1}}, because that renders perfectly. • Jesse V. (talk) 06:01, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
[[You and You Alone]] -> [[You and You Alone (album)|You and You Alone]] Page was moved. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 03:05, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
Please add wikilinks to any instance of "J.T. Corenflos" or "J. T. Corenflos" now that he has an article. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 21:46, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
[[Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye]] -> [[Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (film)|Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye]] Page was moved. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 22:57, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
Much appreciated if someone could use AWB to remove the {{ has-NFUR}} tag from stuff licensed as {{ Non-free audio sample}}
Per a recent TfD an alternative mechanism has been implemented requiring the template to be orphaned.
Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 20:52, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
I'll bite. I read the TfD, but just to be absolutely clear, the bot will:
And this only applies to pages with both {{ has-NFUR}} AND {{ Non-free audio sample}}. Is that right? Braincricket ( talk) 00:52, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
Requesting removal of {{ Mills corp}}. It was suggested to orphan and redirect this template since it heavily overlaps another. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 02:33, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
Not a huge task, about 65 pages. Not an AWB expert but hoping it could be used to tag them all with the same merge template. Code for the merge tag and a list of pages are at User:Beeblebrox/Lego mergers sandbox. Is this something AWB can do? It's not 100% ready, the list will probably need to be modified, but I just wanted to know if this is even doable. Beeblebrox ( talk) 22:31, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
I used to have AWB on my old computer running windows, but haven't installed it on the new machine with linux yet. I'd therefore appreciate if somebody could run AWB on Fujiwara no Hirotsugu Rebellion which I just wrote. Running it with basic improvements would be fine as I am mostly interested in having the reference links sorted numerically. Thank you. bamse ( talk) 22:33, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
Please change all references to " Danish national library", " Danish Royal Library", " National Library of Denmark", " Royal Danish Library" and " Royal Library, Copenhagen" (all redirects) to " The Royal Library, Denmark". Thanks. — Cheers, JackLee – talk– 07:30, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
OK, no problem. Thanks. — Cheers, JackLee – talk– 01:44, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
Could someone with access to AWB look into converting the articlespace links in this :
into proper URLs or Wyaback links? Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 10:47, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
User:Wikilogin123 has made
100 identical additions to Talk pages canvassing for edits. Not sure how many of these should be reverted, per
WP:CANVAS, but some, anyways. --
Lexein (
talk)
16:45, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
Scott Borchetta -> [[Scott Borchetta]] Introduce wikilinks now that he has an article. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 00:44, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
I've created {{ cite CanLII}} which replaces the functionality of three templates: {{ Canlii-fc}}, {{ Canlii-fca}} and {{ Canlii-scc}}. Could you please make the following replacements?
In the above examples, "2012
" is the first parameter ({{{1}}}) and "34
" is the second parameter ({{{2}}}). I don't think any of the other parameters of the templates will require alteration. Thanks. —
SMUconlaw (
talk)
16:48, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
source=scc
" means that the first parameter is now blank. Can you remove the redundant pipe character? Thanks. —
SMUconlaw (
talk)
08:08, 24 October 2012 (UTC)The replacement doesn't have to be reversed, but someone who knows how to operate AWB (I don't) needs to change "{{cite CanLII||...}}" (extra pipe character) to "{{cite CanLII|...}}". Themeparkgc or another editor, could you please oblige? Thanks! — SMUconlaw ( talk) 15:28, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
Do you know someone who has a bot that can substitute and link this name "Schepman" (it is a new article) in the scores of articles where it appears? Here are a few:
That is just the beginning, and there are lots more species. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 12:31, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
[[Mattheus Marinus Schepman|Schepman]]
, right? —
Theo
polisme
22:18, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
Here are some lists containing over 50,000 known articles with a typo according to the existing typos rules.
Please, replace galllery with gallery (and Galllery too). Thx.-- Tomas62 ( talk) 11:34, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
Wendell Mobley -> [[Wendell Mobley]] now that he has an article. Likewise for John Jarrard -> [[John Jarrard]] please. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 05:56, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
[[Where I Come From]] -> [[Where I Come From (Alan Jackson song)|Where I Come From]]. Page moved and I want to make sure all the links are changed. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 20:55, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
On article talk pages that link to User:MiszaBot, replace bot=MiszaBot| with bot=MiszaBot I|. ( Example) MiszaBot was retired and blocked over a year ago, but the archive notices on many many talk pages still say that MiszaBot is archiving the page, instead of MiszaBot I who is really doing the archiving. It's a minor issue, but it had me confused for a minute or two. ~ Adjwilley ( talk) 20:52, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
I'm looking for a tool that can change a few parameters at all article space instances of {{ Infobox sportsperson}}. Please see also Template talk:Infobox sportsperson#Spouse parameter.
{{Infobox sportsperson |partner= }}
→ {{Infobox sportsperson |sports_partner= }}
{{Infobox sportsperson |life-partner= }}
→ {{Infobox sportsperson |life_partner= }}
{{Infobox sportsperson |other-interests= }}
→ {{Infobox sportsperson |other_interests= }}
{{Infobox sportsperson |formerpartner= }}
→ {{Infobox sportsperson |former_partner= }}
De728631 (
talk)
21:14, 26 November 2012 (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 | ← | Archive 3 | Archive 4 | Archive 5 | Archive 6 | Archive 7 | → | Archive 10 |
Would it make sense to remove all the occurrences of Add caption here from articles? -- Leyo 01:53, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
Can someone tag the talk pages of the following files with {{
Oldpuffull|date = 2011-12-4| result = Keep| page = File:Signature of Abhishek Bachchan.svg}}
?
Armbrust
Talk to me
about my edits
review
00:25, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
Plenty of pages transclude {{ Sandbox heading}}, and most of these transclusions shouldn't be there because they're on user pages or other inappropriate places. Could somebody use AWB to go through this list and clean it up? Instances of the template in the user namespace can be replaced with {{ User sandbox}}, if necessary. Thanks! Graham 87 07:35, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
Done
Hazard-SJ
㋡
21:06, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
Would the replacement of external links to ChemIDplus with Template:ChemID ( example) be a feasible task? -- Leyo 10:47, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
Search and replace:
Replace instances of {{Non-free currency}} with {{ir-Money}}{{Non-free currency}}. This is a bold move so that the copyright aspects of currency designs can be split from the anti-counterfeiting considerations. Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 16:23, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
This still needs to be done. Once done, Non-free Currency can be re-written appropriately :) Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 21:21, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Search and replace of {{ KeepLocal}} to {{ Keep local}}, template migration :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sfan00 IMG ( talk • contribs)
See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Timeline of the 2000 Atlantic hurricane season; someone please remove *both* the deletion and the rescue tags and append {{Old AfD multi|page=Timeline of the 2000 Atlantic hurricane season|date=6 January 2012|result='''keep all'''}} to each talk page. Thanks. Hurricanefan25 ( talk · contribs) 16:59, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
Could someone please help me add [[Category:Files by User:Anna Frodesiak]] to the images listed here. Many thanks if you can help. :) Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 07:33, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
We had a lively and productive discussion here in August 2011 (see Archive 4) about "Passed away" and other euphemisms. It looks like we missed "his passing" and "her passing", which have obvious exceptions, such as "known for his passing accuracy". I think that it is uncontroversial to change "On his passing in 1940 he was laid to rest ..." to "On his death in 1940 he was buried ...", and maybe even better to make it "He died in 1940 and was buried ...". I am also catching variations such as "his passing away" and "her passing on". I am doing a metric ton of these, and wouldn't mind some company. There are hundreds of "her passing" and thousands of "his passing", so the sheer number makes AWB the tool of choice. I have a set of about eight F&R rules that work pretty well, and will post them here if requested. A sharp lookout for quotations and false positives is needed, of course. Chris the speller yack 19:42, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
Sure.
\b([Tt])he passing of\b $1he death of
\bpassing on\b(?<=(His|his|Her|her) passing on) death
\bpassing away\b(?<=(His|his|Her|her) passing away) death
\bpassing away\b dying
\bpassing\b(?<=(His|his|Her|her|wife's|husband's|mother's|father's|friend's|[A-Z][a-z]+'s) passing)(?! an\b| a\b| the\b| through\b) death
\bpassed away\b died
\bpassed on\b died
\blaid to rest\b buried
These ain't beautiful, but they work pretty well. There can be a few false positives, such as "He was known for passing on his knowledge", but I'm sure you can handle them. You may have to choose between "death" and "dying" in a few cases where the context gives just a clue whether the process of dying or the instant of death is meant. Have fun! Chris the speller yack 03:06, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Lots of redlinked swimmers, 100% seem to be sourced at Sports-Reference.com. So, can AWB be used to, for each redlinked swimmer:
A search at http://sports-reference.com would be required to obtain the actual URL, even though most are of the form
"
http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/" + $FirstTwoLettersOfLN +"/" + $FirstName + "-" + $LastName + "-1.html"
-- Lexein ( talk) 02:24, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi. {{ Singapore Constitution}} has been incorporated into {{ Singapore legislation}}. Could you please carry out the following replacements?
Thanks! — Cheers, JackLee – talk– 17:04, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Could you also please replace occurrences of {{Singapore Statute}} with {{Singapore legislation}}, and remove the |amdt=
parameter as this no longer exists in {{
Singapore legislation}}? Thanks. — Cheers,
JackLee –
talk–
18:20, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
Replace 'You Tube' with 'YouTube'? I've seen many users do that. As I am never likely going to be accepted for AWB, can someone do it? ~ ⇒TomTom N00 @ 23:40, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
Done. When Batty said he was "fixing some", I think he was fixing a lot. As for AWB not being intuitive, I have never found the need to use F&R Advanced settings, so maybe I have avoided the part that's not intuitive. There's a bit of a learning curve to AWB in general, and I have only tried trickier features when I really felt the need for them, so it has not been overwhelming. I hope most of your experience with AWB is enjoyable and satisfying.
Chris the speller
yack
13:07, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
List of In Our Time programmes
Hi I posted at the HelpDesk about this page, Wikipedia:Help_desk#Some_input_on_redlink_overkill, could some kind soul unredlink all those people and remove all the links to each and every episode of the show? Would be much appreciated. CaptainScreebo Parley! 21:58, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
Would some kind soul kindly AWB all of the redlinks in this article out of existence? It's an eyesore. Cheers! CaptainScreebo Parley! 16:49, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
Please see here:
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Electro hop, so result was delete for a pure OR genre, unfortunately the only person defending it went on a bit of a spree trying to get the cat and the genre on as many wikipages as possible, in the misguided belief that this would save the article from deletion.
As someone posted on my talkpage, these areas need looking at
category:Electro-hop songs,
category:Electro-hop artists,
category:Electro-hop musicians, can you people with AWB just wikiwide delete the mention of electrohop, whether it be the catting or the mention of the genre, then I will nom the cats for deletion? Much appreciated (and I would like to commend you for your fine work, don't have time to get to grips with AWB myself, but believe this page is seriously underused, cheers!)
CaptainScreebo
Parley!
12:34, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
I am working on trimming down the articles that need assessment for WikiProject United States and the projects that it supports and I have a bit of a dilemna. I have already gone through and done the redirects but it took a day and a half for AWB to prescan them. Now I am working on doing the Disambiguous pages, and there are a lot I'm sure. The problem is there are more than 25000 in Category:Unassessed United States articles and about 165000 in Template:WikiProject Disambiguation making the list comparer kinda useless without the NL plugin or admin rights. Can someone please do a compare between these 2 and give me the list of the articles that are common between them? This would save me about a day and a half of processing time to make the list and let me use it for doing the edits instead. Kumioko ( talk) 01:00, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
[[Terry McBride]] -> [[Terry McBride (CEO)|Terry McBride]] Page was moved. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 18:56, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
There is a discussion here for a simple and small task that I think is ok for AWB since there are only about 400 articles affected. I even added some code to make it easier if you want to use it. Basically a WikiProject Template was deprecated and needs to be either removed if the page contains WikiProject Chemistry or replaced with WikiProject Chemistry if it does not. The code is set to replace because the first several I looked at didn't already have Chemistry but some likely do have both. Kumioko ( talk) 18:58, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
On every existing article listed here, could someone change [[Category:Cucujoidea]] to [[Category:Mordellidae]]? Thanks! -- Tomtomn00 ( talk • contributions) 08:47, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
[[Cowboys and Angels]] -> [[Cowboys and Angels (George Michael song)|Cowboys and Angels]] Page was moved. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 05:32, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
Lots of articles with en dash in their titles, like blood–brain barrier, are widely linked by their hyphen redirects, like blood-brain barrier, which means the punctuation/typography is wrong (or not up to the recommendations of WP:MOS at least) in the articles linking them. It seems that it should be easy for AWB or some such tool to identify these cases and fix them. That is, whenever there's a link like love-hate relationship to a redirect to an article whose name differs only in having an en dash where the redirect has a hyphen, the source link should be changed, e.g. to love–hate relationship. There are probably thousands of these waiting to be improved. Dicklyon ( talk) 04:43, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
[[All Summer Long (song)|All Summer Long]] ->[[All Summer Long (Beach Boys song)|All Summer Long]]. Change since this is an ambiguous title; All Summer Long (song) currently points to the dab page All Summer Long. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 03:05, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
Please may someone tag all of the existing
Mordellistena article talk pages with {{WikiProject Insects|class=Stub|importance=Low|needs-photo=yes}}
? Regards,
Thine Antique Pen (
talk •
contributions)
11:16, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
Dan Dugmore -> [[Dan Dugmore]]. Introduce wikilinks now that Dugmore has an article. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 21:26, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
I was looking over the auto-tag features here and it occurred to me that many articles may have obsolete tags. For example, they may be tagged as {{ deadend}} but have actually have wikilinks and no one has bothered to remove the tag. I suggest that AWB be used to take care of this, except for the Orphan tag because IMO it's always good to add more incoming links so it would do more harm than good if removed for a single link or two. I'm currently carefully trying to cut down on the {{ wikify}} backlog, but there are plenty of other tags that AWB can handle automatically. It'd be nice to have some help on the other categories. It's easy enough to do: you load a category like Category:Dead-end pages, click the "Auto change skip options", and only choose "auto tag changes". Then run AWB in pre-parsed mode, make yourself a sandwich or something, and when AWB finishes you should have a list of articles that need a tag change. Jesse V. ( talk) 03:33, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
|reason=
parameter has been added to the template, many editors don't populate this parameter, so a bot can't tell why the tag was added. Even worse, AWB can remove the wikify tag even if the reason parameter says there's another issue. See
Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Archive 23#Wikify tag for a discussion on this. Based on this feedback, I don't do this task via bot.I ran across Category:Pages with DEFAULTSORT conflicts and realized that AWB might be able to help with this. Certainly AWB won't be able to resolve the DEFAULTSORT conflicts automatically, so it's necessary to turn off all the skip options and whatnot. However, it's an important category to resolve, and according to AWB there's only 46 namespace articles that have issues. I'd like to see this taken care of, but it's a bit tricky, and I don't know a lot about DEFAULTSORT, so I need some advice/instructions, or I'd appreciate it if someone more experienced and knowledgeable could help. Remember, articles in this category can sometimes crash AWB; AFAIK that bug still remains. Jesse V. ( talk) 05:35, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
"First and only" -> "Only". "First and only" is redundant. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 15:19, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
Example: [[Wikipedia:IPA for English|IPA]] => [[IPA for English|IPA]].
Just noticed this occurs often on the article
List of Book of Mormon people. Regards,
SunCreator (
talk)
12:26, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
Jay Joyce -> [[Jay Joyce]] Introduce wikilinks now that Jay Joyce has an article. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 22:28, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
[[Homewrecker]] -> [[Homewrecker (TV series)|Homewrecker]]. Change to a piped link to Homewrecker (TV series) since it was moved. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 19:11, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
Is there anyone that can do a comparison between the articlesin Category:Recipients of the Medal of Honor and Category:United States articles by quality and provide a listing of the articles missing from the latter. There are going to be some fictional ones and some oddballs that I can pick out manually but I don't have the access to pull in that many articles without going subcat by subcat which makes it unproductive. Thanks. Kumioko ( talk) 17:01, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
Marv Green -> [[Marv Green]] Introduce wikilinks now that Marv Green has an article. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 00:35, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
Can AWB crawl every diff in my entire contributions history, and generate a list of every http:// or https:// link I've ever added or changed in Wikipedia? My memory of a particular source has failed me, and nothing is jogging my memory, but I'll know it when I see it. The results could be saved under User:Lexein/Allyourbase, or put on Dropbox and the DL link emailed. If not where would I go to request such a tool be created? -- Lexein ( talk) 00:36, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
More wikilink introduction: This time, Angelo Petraglia -> [[Angelo Petraglia]] and Billy Joe Walker, Jr. -> [[Billy Joe Walker, Jr.]] For the latter, you might also wanna do a sweep for any instance of "Billy Joe Walker Jr." minus the comma. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 08:43, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
Here is an example of one getting fixed. I know there are more out there. Is there a way to hunt them down and fix them? Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 23:26, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
More of a question then a task. I'd like to load a list of all the disambiguation pages ( Category:All_disambiguation_pages) into AWB. There are 216 thousand pages. Anyone have any idea? I want to typo check every page but using the load from category I'm limited to only 25,000 pages. Any idea how to get bigger, or get them all in chunkes (i.e 25K a time) Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 00:32, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, could some kind soul with a few minutes go fix the Singles section of the Runrig article? I've basically un-italiced all mentions in the text and put the titles into quotes, same needs doing to this section, figured it would be a breeze for an AWB crack. Cheers! CaptainScreebo Parley! 17:38, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
[[Conestoga Mall]] -> [[Conestoga Mall (Waterloo, Ontario)|Conestoga Mall]] Page was moved since there are two Conestoga Malls. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 19:07, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
Could someone help with the following:
Doctors (2000 TV series) to Doctors (soap opera)
I have recently moved the page after the new name was deemed better to reflect the show and due to lack of other conflicting shows titles. Thanks for your help, which is much appreciated. Adamiow ( talk) 23:04, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
There are about 840 articles with "intermittent freshwater marches", s/b "intermittent freshwater marshes". In fact, some pages have more than one occurrence of "marches", and they should all be changed. I don't have a bot account. This is a very old typo, so it doesn't have to be done today or tomorrow. Chris the speller yack 23:57, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
Links of the form - http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1995/Uksi_19951804_en_2.htm need converting to http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1804/contents/made
Suggesting this could be done with AWB very quickly :) Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 11:37, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
I'd sure appreciate it if someone could run AWB on the Folding@home article. I'm currently pushing through its FA nom, and I think AWB could be helpful to automatically fix minor things (general fixes, etc). I'd do this myself, but I'm running Linux at the moment and for some technical reasons I don't want to boot back into Windows. This shouldn't take very much of your time, but it'd really help me out. :) • Jesse V. (talk) 02:34, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
|title=
field of a reference causes different behavior.
GoingBatty (
talk)
03:04, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
GoingBatty, as it turns out, the proper usage is {{sic|relat|ivly|nolink=1}}, because that renders perfectly. • Jesse V. (talk) 06:01, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
[[You and You Alone]] -> [[You and You Alone (album)|You and You Alone]] Page was moved. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 03:05, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
Please add wikilinks to any instance of "J.T. Corenflos" or "J. T. Corenflos" now that he has an article. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 21:46, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
[[Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye]] -> [[Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (film)|Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye]] Page was moved. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 22:57, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
Much appreciated if someone could use AWB to remove the {{ has-NFUR}} tag from stuff licensed as {{ Non-free audio sample}}
Per a recent TfD an alternative mechanism has been implemented requiring the template to be orphaned.
Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 20:52, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
I'll bite. I read the TfD, but just to be absolutely clear, the bot will:
And this only applies to pages with both {{ has-NFUR}} AND {{ Non-free audio sample}}. Is that right? Braincricket ( talk) 00:52, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
Requesting removal of {{ Mills corp}}. It was suggested to orphan and redirect this template since it heavily overlaps another. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 02:33, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
Not a huge task, about 65 pages. Not an AWB expert but hoping it could be used to tag them all with the same merge template. Code for the merge tag and a list of pages are at User:Beeblebrox/Lego mergers sandbox. Is this something AWB can do? It's not 100% ready, the list will probably need to be modified, but I just wanted to know if this is even doable. Beeblebrox ( talk) 22:31, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
I used to have AWB on my old computer running windows, but haven't installed it on the new machine with linux yet. I'd therefore appreciate if somebody could run AWB on Fujiwara no Hirotsugu Rebellion which I just wrote. Running it with basic improvements would be fine as I am mostly interested in having the reference links sorted numerically. Thank you. bamse ( talk) 22:33, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
Please change all references to " Danish national library", " Danish Royal Library", " National Library of Denmark", " Royal Danish Library" and " Royal Library, Copenhagen" (all redirects) to " The Royal Library, Denmark". Thanks. — Cheers, JackLee – talk– 07:30, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
OK, no problem. Thanks. — Cheers, JackLee – talk– 01:44, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
Could someone with access to AWB look into converting the articlespace links in this :
into proper URLs or Wyaback links? Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 10:47, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
User:Wikilogin123 has made
100 identical additions to Talk pages canvassing for edits. Not sure how many of these should be reverted, per
WP:CANVAS, but some, anyways. --
Lexein (
talk)
16:45, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
Scott Borchetta -> [[Scott Borchetta]] Introduce wikilinks now that he has an article. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 00:44, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
I've created {{ cite CanLII}} which replaces the functionality of three templates: {{ Canlii-fc}}, {{ Canlii-fca}} and {{ Canlii-scc}}. Could you please make the following replacements?
In the above examples, "2012
" is the first parameter ({{{1}}}) and "34
" is the second parameter ({{{2}}}). I don't think any of the other parameters of the templates will require alteration. Thanks. —
SMUconlaw (
talk)
16:48, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
source=scc
" means that the first parameter is now blank. Can you remove the redundant pipe character? Thanks. —
SMUconlaw (
talk)
08:08, 24 October 2012 (UTC)The replacement doesn't have to be reversed, but someone who knows how to operate AWB (I don't) needs to change "{{cite CanLII||...}}" (extra pipe character) to "{{cite CanLII|...}}". Themeparkgc or another editor, could you please oblige? Thanks! — SMUconlaw ( talk) 15:28, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
Do you know someone who has a bot that can substitute and link this name "Schepman" (it is a new article) in the scores of articles where it appears? Here are a few:
That is just the beginning, and there are lots more species. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 12:31, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
[[Mattheus Marinus Schepman|Schepman]]
, right? —
Theo
polisme
22:18, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
Here are some lists containing over 50,000 known articles with a typo according to the existing typos rules.
Please, replace galllery with gallery (and Galllery too). Thx.-- Tomas62 ( talk) 11:34, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
Wendell Mobley -> [[Wendell Mobley]] now that he has an article. Likewise for John Jarrard -> [[John Jarrard]] please. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 05:56, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
[[Where I Come From]] -> [[Where I Come From (Alan Jackson song)|Where I Come From]]. Page moved and I want to make sure all the links are changed. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 20:55, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
On article talk pages that link to User:MiszaBot, replace bot=MiszaBot| with bot=MiszaBot I|. ( Example) MiszaBot was retired and blocked over a year ago, but the archive notices on many many talk pages still say that MiszaBot is archiving the page, instead of MiszaBot I who is really doing the archiving. It's a minor issue, but it had me confused for a minute or two. ~ Adjwilley ( talk) 20:52, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
I'm looking for a tool that can change a few parameters at all article space instances of {{ Infobox sportsperson}}. Please see also Template talk:Infobox sportsperson#Spouse parameter.
{{Infobox sportsperson |partner= }}
→ {{Infobox sportsperson |sports_partner= }}
{{Infobox sportsperson |life-partner= }}
→ {{Infobox sportsperson |life_partner= }}
{{Infobox sportsperson |other-interests= }}
→ {{Infobox sportsperson |other_interests= }}
{{Infobox sportsperson |formerpartner= }}
→ {{Infobox sportsperson |former_partner= }}
De728631 (
talk)
21:14, 26 November 2012 (UTC)