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This is a rather big and somewhat complex job. Per the RfC, we need to move all articles on individual TV seasons from, e.g., Loki (season 2) titles to "Loki season 2" titles (get rid of the parens and add a DISPLAYTITLE template to maintain the italicization scheme; and add "| italic_title=no" to the television infobox to avoid a conflict). BD2412 T 01:00, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
add a DISPLAYTITLE template to maintain the italicization scheme; and add "I think all of this will eventually be handled on the infobox level, so we shouldn't need a multitude of DISPLAYTITLEs (and thus that parameter in the infobox). - Favre1fan93 ( talk) 18:47, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
|italic_title=no
to the infobox{{
Episode list/sublist|American Idol (season 1)}}
to {{
Episode list/sublist|American Idol season 1}}
. This could be done through a bot or AWB, either works; the latter would need a find-and-replace with (\{\{Episode list\/sublist\|).+
to $1{{subst:BASEPAGENAME}}
(regex enabled).
This was a test edit of exactly that. --
Alex_21
TALK 20:18, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
hastemplate:"Episode list/sublist" insource:/\{\{\s*[Ee]pisode list\/sublist[^}]*\(season/
:
66 hits. Someone with AWB rights?
Wikiwerner (
talk) 17:49, 20 April 2024 (UTC)Could we have a bot to automatically bypass redirects in navboxes? It would simplify part of the
WP:POSTMOVE work that page movers have to perform. –
Hilst
[talk]
00:39, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
Hilst
[talk]
20:18, 13 March 2024 (UTC)Redirect title | Redirect target | {{ R from move}}? | Link text | Change link target? | Change link text? |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Athletes (1977 series) | Athletes (Warhol series) | Yes | Athletes (1977) | ||
Blue Movie (1970 book) | Blue Movie#Aftermath | No | Blue Movie | ||
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1982 painting) | Jean-Michel Basquiat (Warhol) | Yes | Jean-Michel Basquiat | ||
New Andy Warhol Garrick Theatre | Garrick Cinema | No | |||
Olympics (1984 painting) | Olympics (Basquiat and Warhol) | Yes | Olympics |
I'll raise this again, since last time the discussion fizzled out, and was archived without formal action from a BAG member.
The issue is that files in categories are displayed by default, and this violates
WP:NFCC#9 if there are non-free files in the category. They have to be tagged with __NOGALLERY__
if you want to disable display of non-free files in a category. This is an urgent issue, as categories without this tag thatt contain non-free files are everywhere, and because we take copyright very seriously it cannot wait for a human user to find the category and add the __NOGALLERY__
tag, which is why this task requires a bot. Every other routine task involving non-free files, such removing instances without a valid fair use tag, is already handled by a bot.
The previous discussion stalled after a user objected and suggested adding a new feature to MediaWiki to disable category galleries by default, which is less convenient due to requiring WMF action, and it would create the opposite problem: we would need a bot to enable gallery mode on categories that contain only free files. Even though most files hosted locally are non-free, there is no reason why a bot couldn't handle the task of adding necessary __NOGALLERY__
tags at the required scale. Only one other person contributed to the discussion, who objected the suggestion for a new MediaWiki feature because it would hinder navigation of categories specifically for free files, and nothing else happened after that. –
LaundryPizza03 (
d
c̄) 05:58, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
I used to have one but then the toolserver changed and somehow an account isn't easy to come by, now (I posted before, but nothing came of it)... ~ Lofty abyss 03:09, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
So, as I said in Wikipedia talk:Redirect#Deprecation of redirecting the talk page of a mainspace redirect, sometimes the talk page of a redirect is itself a redirect, most commonly after a page move. The problem is that sometimes, like in Acts of God (book) (before I corrected it in [2], 10 years later), someone retargets the redirect but forgets to retarget the talk page redirect, so any editor that tries to discuss the redirect is sent to the wrong place. I think that a bot should exist that retargets the talk page redirect to the talk page of the new target. One more thing that needs to be taken into account is that because of WP:TALKCENT, the bot needs to make sure it doesn't make a double redirect.
Just to be clear, despite what I wrote in the thread linked above, I would be against the bot changing every talk page redirect with {{ talk page of redirect}}. I can explain the reasons why if necessary. Nickps ( talk) 23:43, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
{{
R avoided double redirect|B}}
but not necessarily tagged as such. Talk:B is an actual talk page rather than a redirect to Talk:C. Talk:A should redirect to Talk:B, rather than to Talk:C, even though A redirects to C. Is that correct?
Certes (
talk) 17:15, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
Per this discussion on WikiProject Football, it appears to be the best course of action to edit match report external links to full cited templates because of WP:LINKROT. I am making a request for a bot that could automatically do this, as there are many football pages that use the direct link system. An example of a page that does not is 2024 OFC Nations Cup qualification, while a major page that does use the direct link is the 2022 FIFA World Cup page. Yoblyblob ( Talk) :) 13:01, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi! This is my first request here, so please tell me if I did something wrong. As a part of the California State University task force, I'm looking to add {{WikiProject California|calstate=yes|calstate-importance=low}}
to all of miscellaneous sports seasons' talk pages. The categories below contain the pages I'm looking to add the tag to, the bulk of the pages are from the football programs at each institution.
SammySpartan ( talk) 17:32, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
I've noticed a major past screwup that resulted in a significant number of people using an incorrect infobox for their notability claim.
There was formerly a generic {{ Infobox gridiron football person}}, used on articles about players in gridiron football (NFL, AFL, CFL, etc.) regardless of their league — but because the two major American gridiron football leagues also had their own more specific infobox templates ({{ Infobox NFL biography}}, {{ Infobox AFL biography}}), in 2017 the generic "gridiron" template got unwisely moved to {{ Infobox Canadian Football League biography}} on a faulty assumption that all American football players were using those infoboxes so that only CFL players were still using the generic "gridiron". But that wasn't the case at all, and in actual fact hundreds upon hundreds of NFL or AFL players who never had anything whatsoever to do with the CFL were still using the generic "gridiron" infobox.
I've recreated the generic gridiron template back to what it looked like shortly before the move, which has resolved the issue on some of the articles — however, there are still several hundred other articles where later bot or AWB edits had "genfixed" the template from "gridiron" to "Canadian Football League" despite the person's lack of any affiliation with the CFL. So I wanted to ask if there's a bot that could more or less generate a list of all articles that are using the CFL infobox but cannot be found under Category:Canadian Football League, and then wham through that list flipping {{ Infobox Canadian Football League biography}} (or the {{ Infobox CFL biography}} redirect) back to {{ Infobox gridiron football person}} in those articles. Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 18:55, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
Currently has 1,000 entries. {{ Soft redirect with Wikidata item}} (or its redirect {{ Wikidata item}}) or {{ R with Wikidata item}} should be removed from each of them because it's untrue. * Pppery * it has begun... 02:46, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
{{
Wikidata redirect|Q78588304}}
was added to
Hester Ford in
this edit; but that redirect currently appears in the tracking category, as this connection was never made on Wikidata itself. Simply removing all the templates and losing this information isn't the best thing to do here, in my opinion. All the best, —
a smart kitten[
meow 16:12, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
In this edit I removed a link to http://www.mycoincollection.co.uk, because it's definitely not the intended page. At the top of the page, you can see The domain Mycoincollection.co.uk may be for sale. Click here to inquire about this domain.
Would it be practical to write a bot that examines bulk quantities of external links in some manner, and identifies links that begin with the text "may be for sale" or "is for sale"? I'm thinking of starting with a database dump (partial or complete, who cares), truncating to just the domain names, creating a page with a list of those domain names, and after checking each one, indicating whether it has this text at the top. Bonus points if the bot can be instructed to remove links after human review, e.g. a human checks a batch of links, marks some as "confirmed, rotten", and the bot goes around and removes those links from sections entitled "External links", and marks them with {{ dead link}} if they're anywhere else. Nyttend ( talk) 23:49, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
href="https://www.trifega.com/contact.php?domain=mycoincollection.co.uk">The domain Mycoincollection.co.uk may be for sale. Click here to inquire about this domain.</a>
Since correct placement of stub tags is impossible using the VisualEditor, I've seen a tendency for articles created using VE to exhibit a jumbled mess of stub templates, categories and reference tags at the bottom. This is actually already an AWB genfix, but I wonder if it would be appropriate to have a bot routinely monitor VE edits and implement just this fix, which shouldn't need human supervision. -- Paul_012 ( talk) 09:39, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
Retraction Watch has made their database publicly available. See https://www.crossref.org/blog/news-crossref-and-retraction-watch/. In particular, you can download a CSV file here.
I would like for the bot to compare our citation templates ({{
citation}}, {{
cite xxx}}
, {{
doi}}, {{
doi-inline}}, {{
pmid}}) against the OriginalPaperDOI and OriginalPaperPubMedID columns of the database.
If the RetractionNature column list "Retraction" as the reason, add {{
Retracted|doi=RetractionDOI|pmid=RetractionPubMedID|URLS ''Retraction Watch''}}
as it applies.
If the RetractionNature column lists "Expression of concern" as the reason, instead , add {{
Expression of Concern|doi=RetractionDOI|pmid=RetractionPubMedID|URLS ''Retraction Watch''}}
as it applies.
If the RetractionNature column lists "Reinstatement" as the reason, remove {{
Expression of Concern}}
/{{
Retracted}} entirely.
Lastly, if the DOI/PMID of
{{
Expression of Concern|doi=RetractionDOI|pmid=RetractionPubMedID|URLS ''Retraction Watch''}}
now have a reason of 'Retraction', then change it to {{
Retracted|doi=RetractionDOI|pmid=RetractionPubMedID|URLS ''Retraction Watch''}}
For example, if you find
change it to
The bot could run weekly (or maybe daily if it's a quick task?) in the Main/Draft spaces, possibly others, each time redownloading the CSV. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 19:42, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
I'm writing this from the perspective of a new editor. I've been struggling a lot with the way citations are commonly inserted into articles, and I think it would be a good idea to automatically convert all articles to the list defined references citation standard.
As far as I understand this is only relevant for editors using the source edit mode (?). Here's my perspective: There's two main problems with the inline citation style. 1) It's very difficult to read the text and find the relevant positions in the article, since citations - especially several citations in a row - will create long breaks in the text. 2) The even bigger problem (especially for new editors) is that inserting an already existing citation (or citing something twice) becomes unnecessarily complicated. Finding the original citation in the text, inserting a name-tag, and then using that name-tag in the new citation is confusing and tedious. List-defined-references would alleviate all these problems and make the page source codes more readable and understandable.
I understand that while editing it can be tedious to go down to the ref list, edit that, and then go back to the position in the text. That's why I think a bot would be a good solution, that can clean up articles later without affecting the editors workflow. Apoptheosis ( talk) 16:50, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
Hi! Would someone be able to help implement
Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2024 May 26#Template:AMQ and
Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2024 May 26#Template:FMQ? In a nutshell, this would entail finding {{
AMQ|<callsign>}}
and replacing it with {{
FCC-LMS-Facility|<Facility ID>|<callsign>}}
and friends. There is also
Category:Pages using AM station data without facility ID,
Category:Pages using FM station data without facility ID, and
Category:Pages using LPFM station data without facility ID, which have a similar problem which need a similar solution: replacing e.g. {{
AM station data|<callsign>}}
with {{
AM station data|<Facility ID>|<callsign>}}
.
Luckily, Wikidata has the facility IDs, so it should be a (relatively) simple job. Thanks, House Blaster ( talk · he/they) 02:27, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
I am requesting assistance tagging the talk pages of women's basketball articles with {{
WikiProject Basketball|women=yes}}
and {{
WikiProject Women's sport|basketball=yes}}
if not already tagged.
<removed long list of subcats, see history> Hmlarson ( talk) 16:47, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
A bot currently removes categories from Drafts per WP:NODRAFTCAT, but there is a proposal to handle this in a more user-friendly way. Your feedback would be appreciated at User talk:DannyS712 bot#Task 3 – Draft categories. Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 19:40, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
The width of the birthplace section needs to be widened.
Some text seems to be oddly enlarged than the others needs to be fixed.
Musadiq Mushtaq ( talk) 20:43, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
Commonly Requested Bots |
This is a page for requesting tasks to be done by bots per the bot policy. This is an appropriate place to put ideas for uncontroversial bot tasks, to get early feedback on ideas for bot tasks (controversial or not), and to seek bot operators for bot tasks. Consensus-building discussions requiring large community input (such as request for comments) should normally be held at WP:VPPROP or other relevant pages (such as a WikiProject's talk page).
You can check the "Commonly Requested Bots" box above to see if a suitable bot already exists for the task you have in mind. If you have a question about a particular bot, contact the bot operator directly via their talk page or the bot's talk page. If a bot is acting improperly, follow the guidance outlined in WP:BOTISSUE. For broader issues and general discussion about bots, see the bot noticeboard.
Before making a request, please see the list of frequently denied bots, either because they are too complicated to program, or do not have consensus from the Wikipedia community. If you are requesting that a template (such as a WikiProject banner) is added to all pages in a particular category, please be careful to check the category tree for any unwanted subcategories. It is best to give a complete list of categories that should be worked through individually, rather than one category to be analyzed recursively (see example difference).
Note to bot operators: The {{
BOTREQ}} template can be used to give common responses, and make it easier to keep track of the task's current status. If you complete a request, note that you did with {{
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, and archive the request after a few days (
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This is a rather big and somewhat complex job. Per the RfC, we need to move all articles on individual TV seasons from, e.g., Loki (season 2) titles to "Loki season 2" titles (get rid of the parens and add a DISPLAYTITLE template to maintain the italicization scheme; and add "| italic_title=no" to the television infobox to avoid a conflict). BD2412 T 01:00, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
add a DISPLAYTITLE template to maintain the italicization scheme; and add "I think all of this will eventually be handled on the infobox level, so we shouldn't need a multitude of DISPLAYTITLEs (and thus that parameter in the infobox). - Favre1fan93 ( talk) 18:47, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
|italic_title=no
to the infobox{{
Episode list/sublist|American Idol (season 1)}}
to {{
Episode list/sublist|American Idol season 1}}
. This could be done through a bot or AWB, either works; the latter would need a find-and-replace with (\{\{Episode list\/sublist\|).+
to $1{{subst:BASEPAGENAME}}
(regex enabled).
This was a test edit of exactly that. --
Alex_21
TALK 20:18, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
hastemplate:"Episode list/sublist" insource:/\{\{\s*[Ee]pisode list\/sublist[^}]*\(season/
:
66 hits. Someone with AWB rights?
Wikiwerner (
talk) 17:49, 20 April 2024 (UTC)Could we have a bot to automatically bypass redirects in navboxes? It would simplify part of the
WP:POSTMOVE work that page movers have to perform. –
Hilst
[talk]
00:39, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
Hilst
[talk]
20:18, 13 March 2024 (UTC)Redirect title | Redirect target | {{ R from move}}? | Link text | Change link target? | Change link text? |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Athletes (1977 series) | Athletes (Warhol series) | Yes | Athletes (1977) | ||
Blue Movie (1970 book) | Blue Movie#Aftermath | No | Blue Movie | ||
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1982 painting) | Jean-Michel Basquiat (Warhol) | Yes | Jean-Michel Basquiat | ||
New Andy Warhol Garrick Theatre | Garrick Cinema | No | |||
Olympics (1984 painting) | Olympics (Basquiat and Warhol) | Yes | Olympics |
I'll raise this again, since last time the discussion fizzled out, and was archived without formal action from a BAG member.
The issue is that files in categories are displayed by default, and this violates
WP:NFCC#9 if there are non-free files in the category. They have to be tagged with __NOGALLERY__
if you want to disable display of non-free files in a category. This is an urgent issue, as categories without this tag thatt contain non-free files are everywhere, and because we take copyright very seriously it cannot wait for a human user to find the category and add the __NOGALLERY__
tag, which is why this task requires a bot. Every other routine task involving non-free files, such removing instances without a valid fair use tag, is already handled by a bot.
The previous discussion stalled after a user objected and suggested adding a new feature to MediaWiki to disable category galleries by default, which is less convenient due to requiring WMF action, and it would create the opposite problem: we would need a bot to enable gallery mode on categories that contain only free files. Even though most files hosted locally are non-free, there is no reason why a bot couldn't handle the task of adding necessary __NOGALLERY__
tags at the required scale. Only one other person contributed to the discussion, who objected the suggestion for a new MediaWiki feature because it would hinder navigation of categories specifically for free files, and nothing else happened after that. –
LaundryPizza03 (
d
c̄) 05:58, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
I used to have one but then the toolserver changed and somehow an account isn't easy to come by, now (I posted before, but nothing came of it)... ~ Lofty abyss 03:09, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
So, as I said in Wikipedia talk:Redirect#Deprecation of redirecting the talk page of a mainspace redirect, sometimes the talk page of a redirect is itself a redirect, most commonly after a page move. The problem is that sometimes, like in Acts of God (book) (before I corrected it in [2], 10 years later), someone retargets the redirect but forgets to retarget the talk page redirect, so any editor that tries to discuss the redirect is sent to the wrong place. I think that a bot should exist that retargets the talk page redirect to the talk page of the new target. One more thing that needs to be taken into account is that because of WP:TALKCENT, the bot needs to make sure it doesn't make a double redirect.
Just to be clear, despite what I wrote in the thread linked above, I would be against the bot changing every talk page redirect with {{ talk page of redirect}}. I can explain the reasons why if necessary. Nickps ( talk) 23:43, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
{{
R avoided double redirect|B}}
but not necessarily tagged as such. Talk:B is an actual talk page rather than a redirect to Talk:C. Talk:A should redirect to Talk:B, rather than to Talk:C, even though A redirects to C. Is that correct?
Certes (
talk) 17:15, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
Per this discussion on WikiProject Football, it appears to be the best course of action to edit match report external links to full cited templates because of WP:LINKROT. I am making a request for a bot that could automatically do this, as there are many football pages that use the direct link system. An example of a page that does not is 2024 OFC Nations Cup qualification, while a major page that does use the direct link is the 2022 FIFA World Cup page. Yoblyblob ( Talk) :) 13:01, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi! This is my first request here, so please tell me if I did something wrong. As a part of the California State University task force, I'm looking to add {{WikiProject California|calstate=yes|calstate-importance=low}}
to all of miscellaneous sports seasons' talk pages. The categories below contain the pages I'm looking to add the tag to, the bulk of the pages are from the football programs at each institution.
SammySpartan ( talk) 17:32, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
I've noticed a major past screwup that resulted in a significant number of people using an incorrect infobox for their notability claim.
There was formerly a generic {{ Infobox gridiron football person}}, used on articles about players in gridiron football (NFL, AFL, CFL, etc.) regardless of their league — but because the two major American gridiron football leagues also had their own more specific infobox templates ({{ Infobox NFL biography}}, {{ Infobox AFL biography}}), in 2017 the generic "gridiron" template got unwisely moved to {{ Infobox Canadian Football League biography}} on a faulty assumption that all American football players were using those infoboxes so that only CFL players were still using the generic "gridiron". But that wasn't the case at all, and in actual fact hundreds upon hundreds of NFL or AFL players who never had anything whatsoever to do with the CFL were still using the generic "gridiron" infobox.
I've recreated the generic gridiron template back to what it looked like shortly before the move, which has resolved the issue on some of the articles — however, there are still several hundred other articles where later bot or AWB edits had "genfixed" the template from "gridiron" to "Canadian Football League" despite the person's lack of any affiliation with the CFL. So I wanted to ask if there's a bot that could more or less generate a list of all articles that are using the CFL infobox but cannot be found under Category:Canadian Football League, and then wham through that list flipping {{ Infobox Canadian Football League biography}} (or the {{ Infobox CFL biography}} redirect) back to {{ Infobox gridiron football person}} in those articles. Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 18:55, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
Currently has 1,000 entries. {{ Soft redirect with Wikidata item}} (or its redirect {{ Wikidata item}}) or {{ R with Wikidata item}} should be removed from each of them because it's untrue. * Pppery * it has begun... 02:46, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
{{
Wikidata redirect|Q78588304}}
was added to
Hester Ford in
this edit; but that redirect currently appears in the tracking category, as this connection was never made on Wikidata itself. Simply removing all the templates and losing this information isn't the best thing to do here, in my opinion. All the best, —
a smart kitten[
meow 16:12, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
In this edit I removed a link to http://www.mycoincollection.co.uk, because it's definitely not the intended page. At the top of the page, you can see The domain Mycoincollection.co.uk may be for sale. Click here to inquire about this domain.
Would it be practical to write a bot that examines bulk quantities of external links in some manner, and identifies links that begin with the text "may be for sale" or "is for sale"? I'm thinking of starting with a database dump (partial or complete, who cares), truncating to just the domain names, creating a page with a list of those domain names, and after checking each one, indicating whether it has this text at the top. Bonus points if the bot can be instructed to remove links after human review, e.g. a human checks a batch of links, marks some as "confirmed, rotten", and the bot goes around and removes those links from sections entitled "External links", and marks them with {{ dead link}} if they're anywhere else. Nyttend ( talk) 23:49, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
href="https://www.trifega.com/contact.php?domain=mycoincollection.co.uk">The domain Mycoincollection.co.uk may be for sale. Click here to inquire about this domain.</a>
Since correct placement of stub tags is impossible using the VisualEditor, I've seen a tendency for articles created using VE to exhibit a jumbled mess of stub templates, categories and reference tags at the bottom. This is actually already an AWB genfix, but I wonder if it would be appropriate to have a bot routinely monitor VE edits and implement just this fix, which shouldn't need human supervision. -- Paul_012 ( talk) 09:39, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
Retraction Watch has made their database publicly available. See https://www.crossref.org/blog/news-crossref-and-retraction-watch/. In particular, you can download a CSV file here.
I would like for the bot to compare our citation templates ({{
citation}}, {{
cite xxx}}
, {{
doi}}, {{
doi-inline}}, {{
pmid}}) against the OriginalPaperDOI and OriginalPaperPubMedID columns of the database.
If the RetractionNature column list "Retraction" as the reason, add {{
Retracted|doi=RetractionDOI|pmid=RetractionPubMedID|URLS ''Retraction Watch''}}
as it applies.
If the RetractionNature column lists "Expression of concern" as the reason, instead , add {{
Expression of Concern|doi=RetractionDOI|pmid=RetractionPubMedID|URLS ''Retraction Watch''}}
as it applies.
If the RetractionNature column lists "Reinstatement" as the reason, remove {{
Expression of Concern}}
/{{
Retracted}} entirely.
Lastly, if the DOI/PMID of
{{
Expression of Concern|doi=RetractionDOI|pmid=RetractionPubMedID|URLS ''Retraction Watch''}}
now have a reason of 'Retraction', then change it to {{
Retracted|doi=RetractionDOI|pmid=RetractionPubMedID|URLS ''Retraction Watch''}}
For example, if you find
change it to
The bot could run weekly (or maybe daily if it's a quick task?) in the Main/Draft spaces, possibly others, each time redownloading the CSV. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 19:42, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
I'm writing this from the perspective of a new editor. I've been struggling a lot with the way citations are commonly inserted into articles, and I think it would be a good idea to automatically convert all articles to the list defined references citation standard.
As far as I understand this is only relevant for editors using the source edit mode (?). Here's my perspective: There's two main problems with the inline citation style. 1) It's very difficult to read the text and find the relevant positions in the article, since citations - especially several citations in a row - will create long breaks in the text. 2) The even bigger problem (especially for new editors) is that inserting an already existing citation (or citing something twice) becomes unnecessarily complicated. Finding the original citation in the text, inserting a name-tag, and then using that name-tag in the new citation is confusing and tedious. List-defined-references would alleviate all these problems and make the page source codes more readable and understandable.
I understand that while editing it can be tedious to go down to the ref list, edit that, and then go back to the position in the text. That's why I think a bot would be a good solution, that can clean up articles later without affecting the editors workflow. Apoptheosis ( talk) 16:50, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
Hi! Would someone be able to help implement
Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2024 May 26#Template:AMQ and
Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2024 May 26#Template:FMQ? In a nutshell, this would entail finding {{
AMQ|<callsign>}}
and replacing it with {{
FCC-LMS-Facility|<Facility ID>|<callsign>}}
and friends. There is also
Category:Pages using AM station data without facility ID,
Category:Pages using FM station data without facility ID, and
Category:Pages using LPFM station data without facility ID, which have a similar problem which need a similar solution: replacing e.g. {{
AM station data|<callsign>}}
with {{
AM station data|<Facility ID>|<callsign>}}
.
Luckily, Wikidata has the facility IDs, so it should be a (relatively) simple job. Thanks, House Blaster ( talk · he/they) 02:27, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
I am requesting assistance tagging the talk pages of women's basketball articles with {{
WikiProject Basketball|women=yes}}
and {{
WikiProject Women's sport|basketball=yes}}
if not already tagged.
<removed long list of subcats, see history> Hmlarson ( talk) 16:47, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
A bot currently removes categories from Drafts per WP:NODRAFTCAT, but there is a proposal to handle this in a more user-friendly way. Your feedback would be appreciated at User talk:DannyS712 bot#Task 3 – Draft categories. Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 19:40, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
The width of the birthplace section needs to be widened.
Some text seems to be oddly enlarged than the others needs to be fixed.
Musadiq Mushtaq ( talk) 20:43, 10 June 2024 (UTC)