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AS per this discussion, Inactive Admin Email, it has been suggested that some of the Wild Souls here cold be the best folk to help us get this done. :) - Arcayne (cast a spell) 20:25, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
I just closed this TFD and will probably need some help orphaning it. In many cases it's redundant to coordinates already listed in the infobox. However, in some cases, it may be the only place where the coordinates are listed. In this case, it would be great if it could be converted to {{ coord}} with the "title" option. You can get an idea of what needs to be done to make this conversion if you check the template code. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 21:07, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
Could someone please apply a null edit to all of the pages in Category:ArticleHistory error? I made a small mistake with a template which added hundreds of articles to it, and it is taking a long time to empty which is stopping people from finding the real errors. (I know this category doesn't exist; for some reason they prefer to keep it a redlink.) Thanks — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 09:01, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
Need a bot to move a lot of subpages.
Thank you for your time, Cirt ( talk) 20:12, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
I think this is now Done, thanks! Cirt ( talk) 21:43, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
Template parameters are case sensitive. Users often type them in wrong. I started manually running reports some time ago for individual templates to find where users had simply used the wrong case for a parameter, then I used AWB to correct the case. Eventually I switched to automatically scanning all templates for parameters they accept, then scanning all articles for parameters passed to the templates. Unfortunately AWB by default only fixes the case on parameters for a very small number of templates. I currently have a list of over 45,000 template calls on Wikipedia where the user simply used the wrong case for the parameter. I dumped it as a wikitable, but could make it any format that is easiest for fixing. I can run the software under my bot account, which is already approved for the task (though a new approval may have to be done if AWB is not used). I'm hoping someone here can help in writing an AWB plugin or something. The full list is over 4MB (too big to post to Wikipedia), but I can easily post it on one of my web servers if you'd like to run it under your own account. I'm not looking for "credit" for the edits or anything, I just want the template calls fixed. Thanks! -- Pascal 666 07:18, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
Page | Template | incorrect | correct |
---|---|---|---|
Artificial intelligence | Harvard citation no brackets | ref | Ref |
Alpha decay | SubatomicParticle | Link | link |
Amber | Cite journal | Pages | pages |
Alexander Grothendieck | Persondata | name | NAME |
Arizona Diamondbacks | MLB infobox | Owner | owner |
Ann Widdecombe | When | Date | date |
Abba Arika | Citation | URL | url |
Atari 7800 | Infobox information appliance | gpu | GPU |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation | Infobox broadcasting network | Slogan | slogan |
Benelux | Infobox country | Currency | currency |
Biotechnology | Cite book | Publisher | publisher |
Banshee | Infobox paranormal creature | Image_size | Image_Size |
Lewis Carroll | Infobox writer | Influences | influences |
California | Cite web | Month | month |
Charlotte Brontë | Infobox writer | Spouse | spouse |
Clarence Thomas | Infobox officeholder | President3 | president3 |
Christian views of marriage | Citation | Author-link | author-link |
{{Sample box end}}
This template is currently deprecated and should not be any articles given that {{
Sample box start}} is basically orphaned. I believe that {{Sample box start}}
was converted to {{
Listen}} sometime ago, and the uses of {{
Sample box end}} were never removed in the process.
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk) 23:50, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
See discussion at: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_National_Football_League&oldid=340216721#TEMPLATE_NEEDED:_Pre-draft_measurables
This bot request is to do one thing and possibly two.
Let me know, thanks... Timneu22 ( talk) 23:05, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
This would avoid that recent changes patrollers revert article blankings when it's not vandalism but intended by the creator. I believe I saw such a bot working for some time, but I haven't seen it again. Regards, Anna Lincoln 09:32, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
These templates should be moved thus:
e.g. Usprimary1996NE-d => Nebraska presidential primary 1996 (Democrat)
Short form of the party name seems best.
Rich Farmbrough, 14:03, 6 February 2010 (UTC).
Replacing (<sup>)?[\[(]citation needed[\])](</sup>)?
(or similar pattern) with {{
citation needed}}. I've got a preliminary list of 366 articles if anyone wants it.
OrangeDog (
τ •
ε) 23:05, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
OK, I will take this under a new BRFA I have been planning for this type of fixes, if that's OK. Rich Farmbrough, 16:23, 6 February 2010 (UTC).
Currently there is a nice template message (Imbox style.png) in this category which appears on each image lacking a description and says:
I did this about twice (went to the uploader's talk page and pasted in the template) and then thought "why can't a bot do this for the next 14,579 images?"
Please let me know if you need more info on this idea. Thanks, laurap414 ( talk) 15:44, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
I would think that it would be OK if the bot was 'dumb' and just left a message for each image, the person could just delete the messages if their talk page got overloaded. The first pass would be messy but then perhaps the bot could auto-run daily (or hourly?) & people would get the idea quickly. What do you think? laurap414 ( talk) 19:22, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
A one off run would be easier. Even AWB could avoid multiple post though. Rich Farmbrough, 16:11, 6 February 2010 (UTC).
I recently discovered that lifestyle has three hatnotes and likely a fourth on the way, as an editor at WP:Articles for deletion/Snugger Fit Condoms indicated an interest in creating an article for the eponymous condom company. I created a disambiguation page according to the recommendations at WP:DAB, following the suggestion that it's preferable not to create Lifestyle (disambiguation). In retrospect that would have been a better idea because of the number of links pointing to the article. I've been updating them manually to point to lifestyle (sociology) and will continue to do so, but if a bot could help on this task my fingers would be quite grateful.-- otherl left 18:11, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
Go through all article talk pages looking for the ones that fulfil all of the following
For all the pages that are found with all of the above criteria, the "blp=yes" should be added to {{ WikiProjectBannerShell}}, like so.
Is this a feasible and prudent task for a bot? Gabbe ( talk) 19:37, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
DYK operation has much relied on DYKadminBot ( talk · contribs) which automatically updated the DYK template on the main page and handed out credits. After a recent event, which might be a [[ system-level change in the WP code, the bot stopped functioning and its operator nixeagle ( talk · contribs) is hardly available at all. Would someone be willing to write a replacement bot or fix the code (apparently Ameliorate! hoped for this to happen) and run it themselves?
Another possibility would be to run another bot that could be activated by making an edit to it's userspace and which would then run once and then turn itself off again. Such a set up could be done using a very slightly modified version of the code and might need less work. Such bot would check periodically if a run was requested and run if so. Materialscientist ( talk) 04:49, 17 February 2010 (UTC) (and DYK project)
The url for Spin's digital issues site was moved from http://digital.spin.com/ (which now redirects to a Zinio page) to http://spin-cdnsrc.texterity.com/. An example of the requested edit is my recent edit at the Things Fall Apart (album) article, shown here. I would manually change it, but I searched articles with this url link as a reference, and there are just so many. Dan56 ( talk) 04:24, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
I dunno if this is complicated or easy. There are currently 1,743 disambiguation pages in Category:Disambig-Class National Register of Historic Places articles, each containing one or more National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) entries. I personally created and/or developed most of these dab pages. Of these, many/most contain one or more "red-link NRHP entries", such as this:
which is not in perfect compliance with wp:MOSDAB guideline. The issue which dab-focussed editors bring up from time to time is that for technical compliance with the MOS:DABRL component of MOSDAB, the supporting bluelink, which currently pipelinks to List of RHPs in AR which redirects to National Register of Historic Places listings in Arkansas, should be more precise. At one time the Coca-Cola Building entry probably appeared on the state-wide list-article there, but that has since been split up into county- and city-specific lists. And for expedience I used the "List of RHPs in [STATE]" shortcut when setting up the dab.
For technical compliance, this one should be refined to link more precisely to a county list that has been split out, as in:
To refine these manually takes some bother. One has to look up Morrilton, Arkansas to see which county it is in, discovering that it is in Conway County, then revise the pipelink to point to "National Register of Historic Places in Conway County, Arkansas". Or one could try each of the county lists linked from the statewide list, and discover on which page the "Coca-Cola Building" having "Morrilton" or "Morrilton, Arkansas" in the same row (which would turn out to be "National Register of Historic Places in Conway County" in this case).
In some states there are NRHP entries still at the state-wide location, such as at National Register of Historic Places listings in North Dakota, to which List of RHPs in ND redirects, so in some cases "List of RHPs in [STATE]" where [STATE] is a 2-letter code is okay as is.
A complication is that for some states the county-level lists have been split out, but onto pages having a group of counties, such as for Baker County, Georgia, whose NRHP list appears on National Register of Historic Places listings in Georgia, counties A-B. It would be fine either if the bot could go all the way to figure out that National Register of Historic Places listings in Georgia, counties A-B#Bacon County is the desired pipelink to use; or if the bot could use "National Register of Historic Places listings in Bacon County, Georgia" and identify that a redirect is needed (and possibly create it, i.e. from "National Register of Historic Places listings in Bacon County, Georgia" to "National Register of Historic Places listings in Georgia, counties A-B#Bacon County"); or if the bot could just put in the pipelink to "National Register of Historic Places listings in Bacon County, Georgia|listed on the NRHP in Bacon County, Georgia" and leave it for me and other editors to manually create the necessary redirect.
A further complication is that some city and town lists have been split out of county-level NRHP lists, such as has been done for National Register of Historic Places listings in Suffolk County, New York. But pointing to the Suffolk County NRHP list is better than pointing to the statewide list that List of RHPs in NY redirects to, and would suffice IMO.
Honestly, I don't myself feel that refining all of these supporting bluelink entries is all that important. All of these supporting bluelinks are gradually being eliminated over time, as the NRHP articles are created. And the readers are well enough served, IMHO, by an indication that there exists a Coca-Cola Building that is located in Morrilton and that it is NRHP-listed and more specifics are located on some subpage of the AR state-wide NRHP list. But it is irritating when a dab-focussed editor comes around and deletes all of the red-link NRHP entries, rather than refining them to meet their narrow dab page rules, though. The dab-focussed editor is not all wrong though, they have a point. See User talk:Doncram#Main Street Historic District for a current flareup of this issue. So if a bot could do the refinements, it would be helpful for maintaining relations between groups of editors with different priorities. Would it be possible to program? If it is programmed, the bot should be saved to be re-run again occasionally, as the NRHP list structure gets refined over time. Thanks in advance for your consideration. -- doncram ( talk) 14:53, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
I noticed that there are a lot of pages in the Category namespace which transclude {{ main}} when they probably should be using {{ catmore}}. I was going to fix this myself using AWB but for some reason it won't allow me to make the appropriate list. This is admittedly a minor problem, but I think the catmore template should be used in these categories, because that is what it was designed for. -- Eastlaw talk ⁄ contribs 07:42, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
A bot to copy content from Wikispecies (if there's not already an article on it), convert it to taxobox format, and tag it as a stub? Maybe? Thanks for your input. Cheers!☮ — Ecw.Technoid.Dweeb | contributions | talk | If you reply somewhere other than my talk, please leave me a talkback template. 16:59, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
I noticed that there are some users who may be making typos when adding templates to their own user talk pages. I wouldn't be surprised if you said that a bot just for that would be inefficient, so perhaps it could be added to modify an existing bot? mechamind 9 0 18:06, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
Could a bot please instruct their bot to added classes to the pages in the "Category:Unassessed Massachusetts articles" category? Thanks. Kevin Rutherford ( talk) 02:58, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
Could someone make a list of articles in Category:All unreferenced BLPs that are in no categories when one ignore all maintnance categories, Category:Living people and Cat:XXXX births. Rettetast ( talk) 19:50, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
When uploaders' images are moved to the commons, they likely won't be aware of deletion discussions so they can address fixable issues like lack of sourcing. Sometimes deletion nominators on commons make notifications on en.wiki, but this is generally rare. I'm not sure how easy it would be to detect all images that have been moved to commons, but if a bot could check for deletion nominations at least of the standard CommonsHelper format ones that would be very useful to avoid unnecessary image deletions at commons. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 21:12, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
This is a simple plain-text replacement job, which could be done with WP:AWB.
Category:Football (soccer) logos has been moved to Category:Association football logos, per Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 February 5#Category:Association_football. However it is stuck in the processing queue because it is populated by a template, or rather by a parameter to a template.
Currently it is {{Non-free logo|Football (soccer) logos}}
, but this needs to be changed to {{Non-free logo|Association football logos}}
. (Here's
an example of me doing this manually).
About 1000 pages need to be changed, so a bot is needed. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 11:37, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
There are 971 files in
Category:Football (soccer) logos, which was renamed to
Category:Association football logos. Unfortunately, our standard CfR bot can't handle this one, cause the pages are categorized using {{
non-free logo}}. I believe that these pages should be recategorized by a bot;
this edit shows what needs to be changed, and gives a suggested edit summary.
עוד מישהו
Od Mishehu 04:32, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
Is there a bot that generates a complete list of all pages on the wiki and keeps it up to date? If so, perhaps there can be some collaboration with the bot operator on creating/maintaining/distributing a centralized list as described here. Thanks, Tisane ( talk) 13:49, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
I am looking for a bot to auto-generate a list of Biography of living persons based on the intersection of Category:Unreferenced BLPs articles and a particular wikiproject tag on the talk page of those articles, (i.e. Category:WikiProject London).
User:The-Pope can personally do this for a project one at a time using Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser, so it is possible. The bot will need to be smart because the project categories are on the talk pages, but the unreferenced BLP category is on the article pages.
Then a list like Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/Unreferenced BLPs can be created for wikiprojects. The list would be updated daily.
Example:
This
biography of a living person does not
cite any
references or sources. Please help by adding
reliable sources. Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately. (March 2007) |
Okip (the new and improved Ikip) 18:56, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
Betacommand, I am so excited! I will post this on the Iran project's talk page right now. Okip (the new and improved Ikip) 20:08, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
Wikiproject metal wants to test this bot. [2] Okip (the new and improved Ikip) 11:06, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject_Rugby_union also. [3] Okip (formerly Ikip) 20:06, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
Oh, I thought it had to do with the templates on the article talk pages. I will just do it, as the members have already agreed they want this, and I will let them know, the can always revert me.... Okip (formerly Ikip) 22:48, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
While you are twitting your thumbs waiting for approval betacommand :), can your bot scrape the first one or two sentences of each article in your next scrapes? this way your considerable talent is not completely wasted. :)
I could do this by autohotkey with a lot of help on IRC, but I wouldn't be able to update daily without bot permission. And it would take me one hundred times longer than you could do it in. Okip (formerly Ikip) 19:46, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
Can someone scrape Betacommand's reports and post them on:
Setting up the bot to scrape new reports daily? Okip (formerly Ikip) 07:58, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
I've recently been using {{
sortname}} a lot to make tables sortable. A more complex use might be to change [[First of Lást (disambig)|First of Lást]] to {{
sortname|First of|Lást|First of Lást (disambig)|Last, First Of}}
. In these more complex examples there's more chance of getting this wrong, either in the spelling or the sort order. Would it be possible to design a bot to trawl through, accessing each {{
sortname}}, and cross-checking that to the {{
DEFAULTSORT}} code of the linked article?
Severo
T
C 22:42, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
I'd like to see about a bot that would categorize American journalists by their newspaper.
For instance, it would look at articles in the intersection of Category:American newspaper editors and Category:New York Times people for instances of "editor at The New York Times". For each such article, it would replace those two categories with Category:New York Times editors.
Thanks. Maurreen ( talk) 11:16, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
This is a bot that will (for now) require user account creation rights (editing these pages are temporarily blacklisted). The tasks are relatively simple individual, but they are varied.
{{
WBOOKS|class=template}}
Run this twice a day (to make sure things were not reverted). In addition, the bot should patrol newly created pages to catch the creation of new /print templates (and run this logic again).
Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 18:06, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
{{
WBOOKS|class=template}}
or simply {{
WBOOKS}}
as the class is deduced from the namespace automatically.An Interwiki-bot operator should run his bot and remove interwikis to ngwiki ( which is closed now: bugzilla:20325). List of pages (user ns excluded) with interwiki to ng::
Asia - Bible - Book of Exodus - Book of Genesis - Culture - Duisburg - English language - First Epistle to Timothy - Geography - Ghana - Gospel of Matthew - Ndonga language - Nowy Dwór Królewski - Piacenza - Pigazzano - Republic of China - Turkey - Uetersen - Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Wikipedia - World Championship of Cricket - Wikipedia:Administrators - Wikipedia:Bot policy - Wikipedia:Protected titles - Wikipedia:Statistics - Wikipedia:Village pump - Wikipedia:Vital articles - Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/2 - Template:Deletedpage - Template:User de - Category:Candidates for speedy deletion - Category:Geography - Category:User de - Category:User en - Category:User sk - Category:User sk-N - Category:Wikipedia - Category:Wikipedia administration - Category:Wikipedia articles needing translation
Merl issimo 02:15, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
In WikiProject_Martial_arts, we have accumulated over 2,300 'Stub' and 'Start' articles of dubious notability. Would it be possible to create a bot to generate a list page of articles newly marked with our category? We have an active community of editors: a single page to watch would allow us oversight on the new articles. If there is a conventional way to do something similar, we would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks! jmcw ( talk) 09:14, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
I'm moving about 25.000 files tagged with {{ PBB Image citation}} to Commons. All images include the required source information and can be deleted here at Wikipedia. This is quite a lot of tedious work for our human admins, so it should probably be done by a bot. All files are uploaded to Commons under the same name. Bot should probably be work like this:
Implementation would just be a couple of lines of python + pywikipedia. multichill ( talk) 16:57, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
Do the people who check this page only work with the English project or would anyone here be interested in meeting the challenge of writing a Navajo-specific bot? Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 00:06, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
Replace all tranclusions of Template:Children'sLiteratureWikiProject with Template:WikiProject Children's literature - been renamed for over a year but still have over 7000 pages using the old name. [4] Too many to deal with doing manually with AWB.-- Collectonian ( talk · contribs) 04:11, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
Done This is entirely complete. Finished parsing through it earlier today. tedder ( talk) 06:02, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
A large number of video game screenshots published by Ubisoft have been determined to be no longer free (the justification of their free-ness has recently been proven false). As many of these sit at Commons, we need an automated task that:
The Commons images affected are within a single category there. Any existing bots that can do this one-time batch operation? -- MASEM ( t) 21:13, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
I have very little programming experience, but I have a simple idea for a bot that will be able to churn out autoreview requests much faster than I can:
Should be easy enough. I will alert the relevant administrators/patrollers to this discussion. -- C62 · Talk 16:29, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
This sounds like a job for https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/DBQ Josh Parris 05:33, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
I'd like to request a bot to identify disambiguation pages that have NRHP entries in them, i.e. have "NRHP" or "National Register of Historic Places" in text of the dab page, or which link to any page with either of those strings in the article name, and to add them to WikiProject NRHP, by adding "WikiProject NRHP|class=dab" to their talk pages. There are currently about 1,889 dab pages in Category:Disambig-Class National Register of Historic Places articles where that has been done already. I guess the bot, if it searched all disambiguation pages, would find several hundred more.
This relates to Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 34#NRHP disambiguation refinement, a bot request under development that would do something more complicated editing the supporting bluelinks in the text of many NRHP items on these dab pages. That bot would address all articles in the category. Running this tagging bot first would extend the reach of the other bot, if in fact it materializes, and would help in allowing cleanup campaigns or other maintenance, otherwise.
Also, there is interest by at least one editor to have abbreviations of NRHP expanded in these disambiguation pages, as discussed at User talk:Ipoellet#disambig note, at least for the first instance on a dab page, and perhaps for all instances. And for 2-letter state abbreviations to be spelled out in all instances. Not sure if those edits are suitable to be included into one of these bots. -- doncram ( talk) 16:54, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
I have registered the user WarningBot, because I would like to write my first bot. I am experienced in Java and would like to use the Java API that is offered to make WarningBot.
Look at the user page for details on it's purpose, but in short, this bot will warn vandals when Recent Changes patrollers or casual reverters have forgotten.
Just to clarify, if this is a good idea, I do not want any developers writing this bot for me.
Anyways, I probably won't have trouble (at least not yet) in writing it. What I need help with is making the bot a bot. ?I don't understand the bizarre ritual I have to participate in to ask if the bot is appropriate and useful in ?Wikipedia, register the bot with the admins, and all that other stuff. Where do I post my idea first? I'd really like to get started soon. Awesomeness talk 03:24, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
The functionality of the template {{ DYK talk}} has now been incorporated into {{ ArticleHistory}}. It would be great if an editor could look for article talk pages where both {{ DYK talk}} (or {{ dyktalk}}) and {{ ArticleHistory}} appear, and do the following:
1. If the {{ DYK talk}} template states as follows:
{{DYK talk|3 June|2008|... that in January 2006, [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Paralympic Games|Paralympic]] [[sprint (race)|sprinter]] '''[[John McFall]]''''s racing [[prosthesis]] was stolen, but anonymously returned a week later?|num=219}}
; or{{DYK talk|3 June|2008|entry=... that in January 2006, [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Paralympic Games|Paralympic]] [[sprint (race)|sprinter]] '''[[John McFall]]''''s racing [[prosthesis]] was stolen, but anonymously returned a week later?|num=219}}
,|dykdate = 3 June 2008
|dyklink = 219
|dykentry = ... that in January 2006, [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Paralympic Games|Paralympic]] [[sprint (race)|sprinter]] '''[[John McFall]]''''s racing [[prosthesis]] was stolen, but anonymously returned a week later?
2. Then delete the {{ DYK talk}} template.
Thanks! — Cheers, JackLee – talk– 18:53, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
Anyone? — Cheers, JackLee – talk– 20:10, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
Due to a somewhat recent change which removed the automatic linking if the article existed (this feature was removed to reduce alleged server load), we now have many anime-related articles with no links to the voice actor articles. We need a bot to go through articles (only in article space, not in any other namespace) in this list (just under 1100 articles) and replace instances like {{Anime voices|Some Name}} or {{Anime voices|Some Name|Some Other Name}} with {{Anime voices|[[Some Name]]}} or {{Anime voices|[[Some Name]]|[[Some Other Name]]}} (respectively). Anyone up to doing that? ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 19:01, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
BRFA filed: Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TedderBot 4 tedder ( talk) 04:51, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
I'm doing some print cleanup, and I found a category in which all templates should be excluded from print: Category:"Part of a series on" templates
To exclude them from print, simply add <noinclude>[[:Category:Exclude in print]]</noinclude> add the bottom of these templates, or <includeonly>[[:Category:Exclude in print]]</includeonly> in their documentation page. However, since there are a bazillion of those (aka more than 100), it would be nice if someone could code a bot (or who's got superior AWB skills than I) could do this.
Obviously, if the template is already in Category:Exclude in print, then nothing needs to be done. Thanks. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 04:15, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
Inspired by WP:Administrator inactivity, I think that a bot should maintain categories like Category:Wikipedia administrators who will provide copies of deleted articles or Category:Wikipedia administrators willing to grant rollback requests, i.e. categories likely to be queried by new users, by removing inactive administrators from them.
It won't be trivial to automatically remove the inactive (by some criterion) admins from the categories if the category is transcluded from userboxes or user subpages, in a first step it would certainly be sufficient to maintain a list of such admins that needs to be processed manually (if the inactivity criterion isn't too sharp that list should be short, after the first cleanup). We already have bots maintaining lists of active admins (e.g. User:Rick Bot), where it should be easy to extend their functionality to check the inactive ones against a list of categories. Spewing out a list into userspace wouldn't even require a BRFA.
Any comments? Would some friendly bot op consider doing that?
Thanks, and cheers, Amalthea 00:09, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
Hello all, User:WolterBot has not run since mid December. It generates cleanup listings for wikiprojects, which is a useful thing particularly for the less active ones, providing new content in terms of To Do tasks. The bot's owner hasn't been around since early January. Is there any other bot doing something similar? Could someone else take over the bot (might need source code requesting from the operator, it doesn't seem to be public)? Rd232 talk 10:18, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
Can someone make, or help me learn to make, a bot that replaces the word " subconscious" with " unconscious?" The subconscious does not exist and it's used in many articles. The only article that actually needs that word is subconscious. The less it is used on commonly accessed websites like Wikipedia, the less people will say it and make asses out of themselves. PÆonU ( talk) 06:22, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
Subconscious#The_.27Subconscious.27_and_Psychoanalysis
Unconscious_mind#Freud_and_the_psychoanalytic_unconscious PÆonU ( talk) 06:52, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
Go right ahead. You will need to point to the consensus in your WP:BRFA; details for bot development are at the top of this page. Josh Parris 07:57, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
Can we get a bot to change the
I just noticed this discussion. Reading the TfD I also concluded we had to do some replacements. I did otheruses3 to otheruses. otheruses2 is a different template and should not be replaced. I started otheruses4 since I though it would be completely uncontroversial but I was stopped. I think we have to finish moving otheruses4 to otheruses and then move otheruses5 to otheruses3 and otheruses6 to otheruses4. At the moment, we have 1,2,5 and 6 working which makes it impossible for new editors to use these templates. Many editors use plain text instead of dablinks which make it more difficult to locate articles with dablinks, programm bots to fix, etc. Adding a feature to AWB is a bit risky because these templates, from my experience, change names from time to time. At them moment AWB replaces "2otheruses" to "two other uses" and moves all dablinks on the top. PS I just sent unused otheruses8 to TfD. --
Magioladitis (
talk) 07:20, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
I this the right place to discuss a resume of the process? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:10, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
I think we can use a bot who will, on a regular basis (I would say weekly), maintain a list of all pages which were categorized for over a month in any of the following categories:
While rarely this may be because the discussion is open for that long, usually it's because the nomination wasn't completed, or because of a partial closure of it. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 21:15, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
"Articles for deletion" used to be called "Votes for deletion". And a lot of old debates resulted in "delete" and the page was subsequently re-created. Or the debate resulted in "keep" but there were subsequent debates that had different results. Or the page was renamed and re-listed under a different title. Lots of things to consider here. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 02:13, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
I just came across User:Drilnoth/assessortags.js which is a user script to make tagging with project banners easy. However the list of projects is hardcoded; and the creator has been absent a while. I see that User:Ais523/stubtagtab2.js does a similar job for stubs, taking its data from Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting. I wonder could someone adapt the assessor script in a similar way to use the wikiproject data at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Compact? I think such a tool could be widely advertised to wikiprojects and to RC patrol; better project tagging of new pages would enhance the usefulness of Article Alerts for pages getting prodded/AFD'd. Rd232 talk 09:10, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
Because I have just changed the WP:WP redirect to redirect to a different place to help prevent confusion (this is because Wikipedia:Wikipedia redirects to Wikipedia:About, therefore, when WP:WP redirects to a different place, it creates confusion because "WP" is considered [on Wikipedia] to have the same meaning as "Wikipedia"), we need a bot to change any WP:WP backlinks to link directly to Wikipedia:List of shortcuts to prevent this from creating even further confusion (as some links intending to point to Wikipedia:List of shortcuts will instead point to Wikipedia:About). Please note to leave the link title the same (the bot should change the links to where they look the same, but have a different target). -- IRP ☎ 04:03, 17 March 2010 (UTC), modified 04:07, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
I'm interested in gathering statistical information about which sites/sources are most commonly referenced on Wikipedia, in order to gain a better understanding of Wikipedia's systemic bias. The only such statistics I have been able to find are these, which are very outdated (Nov. 2006).
Essentially, the questions I'm looking to answer right now are the following:
I've got a bit of PHP and Javascript experience, but would need technical assistance getting a bot put together to do this, since I've never written a WP bot before. So that I'm not reinventing the wheel, can anyone recommend bots that someone has created that do things similar to the above that I could modify, and/or people who I might go to with questions?
Thanks -- Jrtayloriv ( talk) 18:54, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
Currently {{
Infobox settlement}} has two methods for generating coordinates parameters for {{
Coord}}: either it uses {{
CountryAbbr}} or else it uses a coordinates_type=
parameter. Due to limitations of the first method,
Andrwsc and I would like a bot to transition enwiki over to the second method. This would involve finding transclusions of {{
Infobox settlement}} and
its many synonyms in namespaces other than
Template:. If the coordinates_type=
parameter is already defined and not blank, do nothing. Otherwise add (or replace, if blank) the parameter with the result of the first method, basically: type:city{{#if:{{{population_total|}}}|{{#iferror:{{#expr:{{{population_total}}}+1}}||({{{population_total}}})}}|}}{{#if:{{{subdivision_name|}}}|_region:{{CountryAbbr|{{{subdivision_name|}}}|{{{subdivision_name1|}}}}}}}
. One or more additional iterations of this process will probably be needed at some point in the future. --
Stepheng3 (
talk) 05:35, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
type:city(pop)
. What happens when subdivision_name1 is blank or missing is determined by the logic of {{
CountryAbbr}}. I'm guessing the "new trick" might have something to do with subst-ing {{
CountryAbbr}}. Am I right? --
Stepheng3 (
talk) 00:21, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
coordinates_type=
. Wouldn't it be better to pass the parameter? –
xeno
talk 20:57, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
← When CountryAbbr expansion fails this is the result. – xeno talk 20:52, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
| coordinates_type = type:city
" would be a more desirable result. --06:36, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
_region:
wouldn't actually break anything, as far as I know. It'd be equivalent to what's in the Infobox right now, of course. So rather than making a second edit to remove the _region:
, I'd prefer to leave it for a human editor to (probably me!) to correct at some later date. --
Stepheng3 (
talk) 16:44, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
If anyone could take care of this, it would greatly help WP:JOURNALS.
Steps
|cover=
, but they could be elsewhere too).{{
WP Journals}}
.And that's pretty much it. This will help monitor deletion discussions through WP:AALERTS. There will be a few false hits, but these can be removed manually. WP:JOURNALS has been notified of this request. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 03:41, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
He said to point you to WP:DDR. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 06:14, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people#Badly tagged unreferenced BLPs
Can a bot generate a daily list of articles that are tagged, but are suspected to have at least some references.
All articles with the Category:Unreferenced BLPs and the text: http:// in them? (indicating an external link) Okip 02:57, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
In the quest to reference all biographies of living people, editors are deleting large portions of text.
I suggest creating a bot which does the following:
Okip 03:03, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
I need a bot for WP:ESSAY C/C to crawl pages tagged with our project banner {{essaysort}} and autoassess the article importance based on how many incoming wikilinks the article has. Essays linked to by 1000 other pages, for example, are seen as higher importance than essays linked to by 50 other pages (which can pretty much be accomplished through good category placement). Contact me with questions. Thanks! ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 05:46, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
Can someone with a bot prepend {{ FS-talk}} to the talk pages of pages using {{ Football squad start}}. Relevant discussion .Thanks Gnevin ( talk) 13:42, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
Perhaps we could do a limited bot run, top 100 clubs? With a request for feedback ? Gnevin ( talk) 16:34, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
Please see the link; there's a request to remove a certain cat from the talk pages of users who have been blocked, and I think this request is uncontroversial, straightforward, and bot-friendly. - Dank ( push to talk) 14:35, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
So first see: [5] and [6] for background to my bot request. As indicated on Raul's page, I am now requesting a bot (or several?) to:
I know I might be asking for quite a lot (and I hope my "computer language concepts can be turned into a reality") but any help/info/tips/advice would be appreciated. Calaka ( talk) 09:28, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
Can someone tell me how many mainspace articles do not have a talk page- a percentage or an absolute number is fine. tedder ( talk) 16:29, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM page WHERE page_namespace = 0 AND page_is_redirect=0; 3255520 SELECT COUNT(*) FROM page p1 LEFT JOIN page p2 ON p1.page_title=p2.page_title AND p2.page_namespace=1 WHERE p1.page_namespace = 0 AND p1.page_is_redirect=0 AND p2.page_id IS NULL; 377981
Almost all pages that wikilink to The Heat Is On (The Isley Brothers album) are redirected from The Heat Is On (Isley Brothers album). Dan56 ( talk) 00:21, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
I added forced italicisation to {{ Infobox grape variety}}, and now need someone to kindly remove it from instances in articles, as in this edit, please. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 23:15, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
When articles are saved by moving them to the Wikia, they often end up with a lot of red links. I tried eliminating the red links by linking them to their proper Wikipedia article, by changing all [[ into [[Wikipedia: but then you have the word Wikipedia before the link most of the time. If there was a | in the link, then it works just fine. I made an example on the Wikia to illustrate what I am talking about. [8] Notice how if it had a | in it, it looks fine, but if not, it appears with Wikipedia in front of the name of the link. It says Wikipedia:Jesus instead of just Jesus. Can someone make a bot for this? I figure it shouldn't take someone too long who knows how to program. Just scan the page until it finds double brackets, and then scan until it finds the two closing brackets, and if there is no | there, then copy the word and put it there behind a |. Then go through and add the word Wikipedia after the opening brackets, so that the link will point to the proper page. For a Wikia dedicated to list, linking back to Wikipedia for anyone interested in the things on the list, be it books, or whatever, is rather important. Dream Focus 08:40, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
Some days ago a new tool was explained at the Village Pump, that will generate a list of articles from Category:Unreferenced BLPs within the project scope. I proposed this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Argentina a week ago, a nobody is against the use (nobody else supports it either, but being an uncontroversial request perhaps there's no much need for it anyway). This project would seek intersections between CAT:BLP and articles with the wikiproject tag, so I would need to request that {{ WikiProject Argentina}} (and perhaps {{ WPBiography}}) be added into the articles in the following categories. As requested at the top, it's the complete list, there's no need to work at subcategories. To reduce a bit of bot work, I have skipped from here some categories unrelated with this specific task (such as fictional argentines), or whose people can only be deceased people (such as soldiers from XIX century wars)
MBelgrano ( talk) 00:38, 23 March 2010 (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 30 | ← | Archive 32 | Archive 33 | Archive 34 | Archive 35 | Archive 36 | → | Archive 40 |
AS per this discussion, Inactive Admin Email, it has been suggested that some of the Wild Souls here cold be the best folk to help us get this done. :) - Arcayne (cast a spell) 20:25, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
I just closed this TFD and will probably need some help orphaning it. In many cases it's redundant to coordinates already listed in the infobox. However, in some cases, it may be the only place where the coordinates are listed. In this case, it would be great if it could be converted to {{ coord}} with the "title" option. You can get an idea of what needs to be done to make this conversion if you check the template code. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 21:07, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
Could someone please apply a null edit to all of the pages in Category:ArticleHistory error? I made a small mistake with a template which added hundreds of articles to it, and it is taking a long time to empty which is stopping people from finding the real errors. (I know this category doesn't exist; for some reason they prefer to keep it a redlink.) Thanks — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 09:01, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
Need a bot to move a lot of subpages.
Thank you for your time, Cirt ( talk) 20:12, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
I think this is now Done, thanks! Cirt ( talk) 21:43, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
Template parameters are case sensitive. Users often type them in wrong. I started manually running reports some time ago for individual templates to find where users had simply used the wrong case for a parameter, then I used AWB to correct the case. Eventually I switched to automatically scanning all templates for parameters they accept, then scanning all articles for parameters passed to the templates. Unfortunately AWB by default only fixes the case on parameters for a very small number of templates. I currently have a list of over 45,000 template calls on Wikipedia where the user simply used the wrong case for the parameter. I dumped it as a wikitable, but could make it any format that is easiest for fixing. I can run the software under my bot account, which is already approved for the task (though a new approval may have to be done if AWB is not used). I'm hoping someone here can help in writing an AWB plugin or something. The full list is over 4MB (too big to post to Wikipedia), but I can easily post it on one of my web servers if you'd like to run it under your own account. I'm not looking for "credit" for the edits or anything, I just want the template calls fixed. Thanks! -- Pascal 666 07:18, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
Page | Template | incorrect | correct |
---|---|---|---|
Artificial intelligence | Harvard citation no brackets | ref | Ref |
Alpha decay | SubatomicParticle | Link | link |
Amber | Cite journal | Pages | pages |
Alexander Grothendieck | Persondata | name | NAME |
Arizona Diamondbacks | MLB infobox | Owner | owner |
Ann Widdecombe | When | Date | date |
Abba Arika | Citation | URL | url |
Atari 7800 | Infobox information appliance | gpu | GPU |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation | Infobox broadcasting network | Slogan | slogan |
Benelux | Infobox country | Currency | currency |
Biotechnology | Cite book | Publisher | publisher |
Banshee | Infobox paranormal creature | Image_size | Image_Size |
Lewis Carroll | Infobox writer | Influences | influences |
California | Cite web | Month | month |
Charlotte Brontë | Infobox writer | Spouse | spouse |
Clarence Thomas | Infobox officeholder | President3 | president3 |
Christian views of marriage | Citation | Author-link | author-link |
{{Sample box end}}
This template is currently deprecated and should not be any articles given that {{
Sample box start}} is basically orphaned. I believe that {{Sample box start}}
was converted to {{
Listen}} sometime ago, and the uses of {{
Sample box end}} were never removed in the process.
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk) 23:50, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
See discussion at: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_National_Football_League&oldid=340216721#TEMPLATE_NEEDED:_Pre-draft_measurables
This bot request is to do one thing and possibly two.
Let me know, thanks... Timneu22 ( talk) 23:05, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
This would avoid that recent changes patrollers revert article blankings when it's not vandalism but intended by the creator. I believe I saw such a bot working for some time, but I haven't seen it again. Regards, Anna Lincoln 09:32, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
These templates should be moved thus:
e.g. Usprimary1996NE-d => Nebraska presidential primary 1996 (Democrat)
Short form of the party name seems best.
Rich Farmbrough, 14:03, 6 February 2010 (UTC).
Replacing (<sup>)?[\[(]citation needed[\])](</sup>)?
(or similar pattern) with {{
citation needed}}. I've got a preliminary list of 366 articles if anyone wants it.
OrangeDog (
τ •
ε) 23:05, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
OK, I will take this under a new BRFA I have been planning for this type of fixes, if that's OK. Rich Farmbrough, 16:23, 6 February 2010 (UTC).
Currently there is a nice template message (Imbox style.png) in this category which appears on each image lacking a description and says:
I did this about twice (went to the uploader's talk page and pasted in the template) and then thought "why can't a bot do this for the next 14,579 images?"
Please let me know if you need more info on this idea. Thanks, laurap414 ( talk) 15:44, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
I would think that it would be OK if the bot was 'dumb' and just left a message for each image, the person could just delete the messages if their talk page got overloaded. The first pass would be messy but then perhaps the bot could auto-run daily (or hourly?) & people would get the idea quickly. What do you think? laurap414 ( talk) 19:22, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
A one off run would be easier. Even AWB could avoid multiple post though. Rich Farmbrough, 16:11, 6 February 2010 (UTC).
I recently discovered that lifestyle has three hatnotes and likely a fourth on the way, as an editor at WP:Articles for deletion/Snugger Fit Condoms indicated an interest in creating an article for the eponymous condom company. I created a disambiguation page according to the recommendations at WP:DAB, following the suggestion that it's preferable not to create Lifestyle (disambiguation). In retrospect that would have been a better idea because of the number of links pointing to the article. I've been updating them manually to point to lifestyle (sociology) and will continue to do so, but if a bot could help on this task my fingers would be quite grateful.-- otherl left 18:11, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
Go through all article talk pages looking for the ones that fulfil all of the following
For all the pages that are found with all of the above criteria, the "blp=yes" should be added to {{ WikiProjectBannerShell}}, like so.
Is this a feasible and prudent task for a bot? Gabbe ( talk) 19:37, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
DYK operation has much relied on DYKadminBot ( talk · contribs) which automatically updated the DYK template on the main page and handed out credits. After a recent event, which might be a [[ system-level change in the WP code, the bot stopped functioning and its operator nixeagle ( talk · contribs) is hardly available at all. Would someone be willing to write a replacement bot or fix the code (apparently Ameliorate! hoped for this to happen) and run it themselves?
Another possibility would be to run another bot that could be activated by making an edit to it's userspace and which would then run once and then turn itself off again. Such a set up could be done using a very slightly modified version of the code and might need less work. Such bot would check periodically if a run was requested and run if so. Materialscientist ( talk) 04:49, 17 February 2010 (UTC) (and DYK project)
The url for Spin's digital issues site was moved from http://digital.spin.com/ (which now redirects to a Zinio page) to http://spin-cdnsrc.texterity.com/. An example of the requested edit is my recent edit at the Things Fall Apart (album) article, shown here. I would manually change it, but I searched articles with this url link as a reference, and there are just so many. Dan56 ( talk) 04:24, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
I dunno if this is complicated or easy. There are currently 1,743 disambiguation pages in Category:Disambig-Class National Register of Historic Places articles, each containing one or more National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) entries. I personally created and/or developed most of these dab pages. Of these, many/most contain one or more "red-link NRHP entries", such as this:
which is not in perfect compliance with wp:MOSDAB guideline. The issue which dab-focussed editors bring up from time to time is that for technical compliance with the MOS:DABRL component of MOSDAB, the supporting bluelink, which currently pipelinks to List of RHPs in AR which redirects to National Register of Historic Places listings in Arkansas, should be more precise. At one time the Coca-Cola Building entry probably appeared on the state-wide list-article there, but that has since been split up into county- and city-specific lists. And for expedience I used the "List of RHPs in [STATE]" shortcut when setting up the dab.
For technical compliance, this one should be refined to link more precisely to a county list that has been split out, as in:
To refine these manually takes some bother. One has to look up Morrilton, Arkansas to see which county it is in, discovering that it is in Conway County, then revise the pipelink to point to "National Register of Historic Places in Conway County, Arkansas". Or one could try each of the county lists linked from the statewide list, and discover on which page the "Coca-Cola Building" having "Morrilton" or "Morrilton, Arkansas" in the same row (which would turn out to be "National Register of Historic Places in Conway County" in this case).
In some states there are NRHP entries still at the state-wide location, such as at National Register of Historic Places listings in North Dakota, to which List of RHPs in ND redirects, so in some cases "List of RHPs in [STATE]" where [STATE] is a 2-letter code is okay as is.
A complication is that for some states the county-level lists have been split out, but onto pages having a group of counties, such as for Baker County, Georgia, whose NRHP list appears on National Register of Historic Places listings in Georgia, counties A-B. It would be fine either if the bot could go all the way to figure out that National Register of Historic Places listings in Georgia, counties A-B#Bacon County is the desired pipelink to use; or if the bot could use "National Register of Historic Places listings in Bacon County, Georgia" and identify that a redirect is needed (and possibly create it, i.e. from "National Register of Historic Places listings in Bacon County, Georgia" to "National Register of Historic Places listings in Georgia, counties A-B#Bacon County"); or if the bot could just put in the pipelink to "National Register of Historic Places listings in Bacon County, Georgia|listed on the NRHP in Bacon County, Georgia" and leave it for me and other editors to manually create the necessary redirect.
A further complication is that some city and town lists have been split out of county-level NRHP lists, such as has been done for National Register of Historic Places listings in Suffolk County, New York. But pointing to the Suffolk County NRHP list is better than pointing to the statewide list that List of RHPs in NY redirects to, and would suffice IMO.
Honestly, I don't myself feel that refining all of these supporting bluelink entries is all that important. All of these supporting bluelinks are gradually being eliminated over time, as the NRHP articles are created. And the readers are well enough served, IMHO, by an indication that there exists a Coca-Cola Building that is located in Morrilton and that it is NRHP-listed and more specifics are located on some subpage of the AR state-wide NRHP list. But it is irritating when a dab-focussed editor comes around and deletes all of the red-link NRHP entries, rather than refining them to meet their narrow dab page rules, though. The dab-focussed editor is not all wrong though, they have a point. See User talk:Doncram#Main Street Historic District for a current flareup of this issue. So if a bot could do the refinements, it would be helpful for maintaining relations between groups of editors with different priorities. Would it be possible to program? If it is programmed, the bot should be saved to be re-run again occasionally, as the NRHP list structure gets refined over time. Thanks in advance for your consideration. -- doncram ( talk) 14:53, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
I noticed that there are a lot of pages in the Category namespace which transclude {{ main}} when they probably should be using {{ catmore}}. I was going to fix this myself using AWB but for some reason it won't allow me to make the appropriate list. This is admittedly a minor problem, but I think the catmore template should be used in these categories, because that is what it was designed for. -- Eastlaw talk ⁄ contribs 07:42, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
A bot to copy content from Wikispecies (if there's not already an article on it), convert it to taxobox format, and tag it as a stub? Maybe? Thanks for your input. Cheers!☮ — Ecw.Technoid.Dweeb | contributions | talk | If you reply somewhere other than my talk, please leave me a talkback template. 16:59, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
I noticed that there are some users who may be making typos when adding templates to their own user talk pages. I wouldn't be surprised if you said that a bot just for that would be inefficient, so perhaps it could be added to modify an existing bot? mechamind 9 0 18:06, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
Could a bot please instruct their bot to added classes to the pages in the "Category:Unassessed Massachusetts articles" category? Thanks. Kevin Rutherford ( talk) 02:58, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
Could someone make a list of articles in Category:All unreferenced BLPs that are in no categories when one ignore all maintnance categories, Category:Living people and Cat:XXXX births. Rettetast ( talk) 19:50, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
When uploaders' images are moved to the commons, they likely won't be aware of deletion discussions so they can address fixable issues like lack of sourcing. Sometimes deletion nominators on commons make notifications on en.wiki, but this is generally rare. I'm not sure how easy it would be to detect all images that have been moved to commons, but if a bot could check for deletion nominations at least of the standard CommonsHelper format ones that would be very useful to avoid unnecessary image deletions at commons. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 21:12, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
This is a simple plain-text replacement job, which could be done with WP:AWB.
Category:Football (soccer) logos has been moved to Category:Association football logos, per Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 February 5#Category:Association_football. However it is stuck in the processing queue because it is populated by a template, or rather by a parameter to a template.
Currently it is {{Non-free logo|Football (soccer) logos}}
, but this needs to be changed to {{Non-free logo|Association football logos}}
. (Here's
an example of me doing this manually).
About 1000 pages need to be changed, so a bot is needed. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 11:37, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
There are 971 files in
Category:Football (soccer) logos, which was renamed to
Category:Association football logos. Unfortunately, our standard CfR bot can't handle this one, cause the pages are categorized using {{
non-free logo}}. I believe that these pages should be recategorized by a bot;
this edit shows what needs to be changed, and gives a suggested edit summary.
עוד מישהו
Od Mishehu 04:32, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
Is there a bot that generates a complete list of all pages on the wiki and keeps it up to date? If so, perhaps there can be some collaboration with the bot operator on creating/maintaining/distributing a centralized list as described here. Thanks, Tisane ( talk) 13:49, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
I am looking for a bot to auto-generate a list of Biography of living persons based on the intersection of Category:Unreferenced BLPs articles and a particular wikiproject tag on the talk page of those articles, (i.e. Category:WikiProject London).
User:The-Pope can personally do this for a project one at a time using Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser, so it is possible. The bot will need to be smart because the project categories are on the talk pages, but the unreferenced BLP category is on the article pages.
Then a list like Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/Unreferenced BLPs can be created for wikiprojects. The list would be updated daily.
Example:
This
biography of a living person does not
cite any
references or sources. Please help by adding
reliable sources. Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately. (March 2007) |
Okip (the new and improved Ikip) 18:56, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
Betacommand, I am so excited! I will post this on the Iran project's talk page right now. Okip (the new and improved Ikip) 20:08, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
Wikiproject metal wants to test this bot. [2] Okip (the new and improved Ikip) 11:06, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject_Rugby_union also. [3] Okip (formerly Ikip) 20:06, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
Oh, I thought it had to do with the templates on the article talk pages. I will just do it, as the members have already agreed they want this, and I will let them know, the can always revert me.... Okip (formerly Ikip) 22:48, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
While you are twitting your thumbs waiting for approval betacommand :), can your bot scrape the first one or two sentences of each article in your next scrapes? this way your considerable talent is not completely wasted. :)
I could do this by autohotkey with a lot of help on IRC, but I wouldn't be able to update daily without bot permission. And it would take me one hundred times longer than you could do it in. Okip (formerly Ikip) 19:46, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
Can someone scrape Betacommand's reports and post them on:
Setting up the bot to scrape new reports daily? Okip (formerly Ikip) 07:58, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
I've recently been using {{
sortname}} a lot to make tables sortable. A more complex use might be to change [[First of Lást (disambig)|First of Lást]] to {{
sortname|First of|Lást|First of Lást (disambig)|Last, First Of}}
. In these more complex examples there's more chance of getting this wrong, either in the spelling or the sort order. Would it be possible to design a bot to trawl through, accessing each {{
sortname}}, and cross-checking that to the {{
DEFAULTSORT}} code of the linked article?
Severo
T
C 22:42, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
I'd like to see about a bot that would categorize American journalists by their newspaper.
For instance, it would look at articles in the intersection of Category:American newspaper editors and Category:New York Times people for instances of "editor at The New York Times". For each such article, it would replace those two categories with Category:New York Times editors.
Thanks. Maurreen ( talk) 11:16, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
This is a bot that will (for now) require user account creation rights (editing these pages are temporarily blacklisted). The tasks are relatively simple individual, but they are varied.
{{
WBOOKS|class=template}}
Run this twice a day (to make sure things were not reverted). In addition, the bot should patrol newly created pages to catch the creation of new /print templates (and run this logic again).
Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 18:06, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
{{
WBOOKS|class=template}}
or simply {{
WBOOKS}}
as the class is deduced from the namespace automatically.An Interwiki-bot operator should run his bot and remove interwikis to ngwiki ( which is closed now: bugzilla:20325). List of pages (user ns excluded) with interwiki to ng::
Asia - Bible - Book of Exodus - Book of Genesis - Culture - Duisburg - English language - First Epistle to Timothy - Geography - Ghana - Gospel of Matthew - Ndonga language - Nowy Dwór Królewski - Piacenza - Pigazzano - Republic of China - Turkey - Uetersen - Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Wikipedia - World Championship of Cricket - Wikipedia:Administrators - Wikipedia:Bot policy - Wikipedia:Protected titles - Wikipedia:Statistics - Wikipedia:Village pump - Wikipedia:Vital articles - Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/2 - Template:Deletedpage - Template:User de - Category:Candidates for speedy deletion - Category:Geography - Category:User de - Category:User en - Category:User sk - Category:User sk-N - Category:Wikipedia - Category:Wikipedia administration - Category:Wikipedia articles needing translation
Merl issimo 02:15, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
In WikiProject_Martial_arts, we have accumulated over 2,300 'Stub' and 'Start' articles of dubious notability. Would it be possible to create a bot to generate a list page of articles newly marked with our category? We have an active community of editors: a single page to watch would allow us oversight on the new articles. If there is a conventional way to do something similar, we would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks! jmcw ( talk) 09:14, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
I'm moving about 25.000 files tagged with {{ PBB Image citation}} to Commons. All images include the required source information and can be deleted here at Wikipedia. This is quite a lot of tedious work for our human admins, so it should probably be done by a bot. All files are uploaded to Commons under the same name. Bot should probably be work like this:
Implementation would just be a couple of lines of python + pywikipedia. multichill ( talk) 16:57, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
Do the people who check this page only work with the English project or would anyone here be interested in meeting the challenge of writing a Navajo-specific bot? Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 00:06, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
Replace all tranclusions of Template:Children'sLiteratureWikiProject with Template:WikiProject Children's literature - been renamed for over a year but still have over 7000 pages using the old name. [4] Too many to deal with doing manually with AWB.-- Collectonian ( talk · contribs) 04:11, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
Done This is entirely complete. Finished parsing through it earlier today. tedder ( talk) 06:02, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
A large number of video game screenshots published by Ubisoft have been determined to be no longer free (the justification of their free-ness has recently been proven false). As many of these sit at Commons, we need an automated task that:
The Commons images affected are within a single category there. Any existing bots that can do this one-time batch operation? -- MASEM ( t) 21:13, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
I have very little programming experience, but I have a simple idea for a bot that will be able to churn out autoreview requests much faster than I can:
Should be easy enough. I will alert the relevant administrators/patrollers to this discussion. -- C62 · Talk 16:29, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
This sounds like a job for https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/DBQ Josh Parris 05:33, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
I'd like to request a bot to identify disambiguation pages that have NRHP entries in them, i.e. have "NRHP" or "National Register of Historic Places" in text of the dab page, or which link to any page with either of those strings in the article name, and to add them to WikiProject NRHP, by adding "WikiProject NRHP|class=dab" to their talk pages. There are currently about 1,889 dab pages in Category:Disambig-Class National Register of Historic Places articles where that has been done already. I guess the bot, if it searched all disambiguation pages, would find several hundred more.
This relates to Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 34#NRHP disambiguation refinement, a bot request under development that would do something more complicated editing the supporting bluelinks in the text of many NRHP items on these dab pages. That bot would address all articles in the category. Running this tagging bot first would extend the reach of the other bot, if in fact it materializes, and would help in allowing cleanup campaigns or other maintenance, otherwise.
Also, there is interest by at least one editor to have abbreviations of NRHP expanded in these disambiguation pages, as discussed at User talk:Ipoellet#disambig note, at least for the first instance on a dab page, and perhaps for all instances. And for 2-letter state abbreviations to be spelled out in all instances. Not sure if those edits are suitable to be included into one of these bots. -- doncram ( talk) 16:54, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
I have registered the user WarningBot, because I would like to write my first bot. I am experienced in Java and would like to use the Java API that is offered to make WarningBot.
Look at the user page for details on it's purpose, but in short, this bot will warn vandals when Recent Changes patrollers or casual reverters have forgotten.
Just to clarify, if this is a good idea, I do not want any developers writing this bot for me.
Anyways, I probably won't have trouble (at least not yet) in writing it. What I need help with is making the bot a bot. ?I don't understand the bizarre ritual I have to participate in to ask if the bot is appropriate and useful in ?Wikipedia, register the bot with the admins, and all that other stuff. Where do I post my idea first? I'd really like to get started soon. Awesomeness talk 03:24, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
The functionality of the template {{ DYK talk}} has now been incorporated into {{ ArticleHistory}}. It would be great if an editor could look for article talk pages where both {{ DYK talk}} (or {{ dyktalk}}) and {{ ArticleHistory}} appear, and do the following:
1. If the {{ DYK talk}} template states as follows:
{{DYK talk|3 June|2008|... that in January 2006, [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Paralympic Games|Paralympic]] [[sprint (race)|sprinter]] '''[[John McFall]]''''s racing [[prosthesis]] was stolen, but anonymously returned a week later?|num=219}}
; or{{DYK talk|3 June|2008|entry=... that in January 2006, [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Paralympic Games|Paralympic]] [[sprint (race)|sprinter]] '''[[John McFall]]''''s racing [[prosthesis]] was stolen, but anonymously returned a week later?|num=219}}
,|dykdate = 3 June 2008
|dyklink = 219
|dykentry = ... that in January 2006, [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Paralympic Games|Paralympic]] [[sprint (race)|sprinter]] '''[[John McFall]]''''s racing [[prosthesis]] was stolen, but anonymously returned a week later?
2. Then delete the {{ DYK talk}} template.
Thanks! — Cheers, JackLee – talk– 18:53, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
Anyone? — Cheers, JackLee – talk– 20:10, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
Due to a somewhat recent change which removed the automatic linking if the article existed (this feature was removed to reduce alleged server load), we now have many anime-related articles with no links to the voice actor articles. We need a bot to go through articles (only in article space, not in any other namespace) in this list (just under 1100 articles) and replace instances like {{Anime voices|Some Name}} or {{Anime voices|Some Name|Some Other Name}} with {{Anime voices|[[Some Name]]}} or {{Anime voices|[[Some Name]]|[[Some Other Name]]}} (respectively). Anyone up to doing that? ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 19:01, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
BRFA filed: Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TedderBot 4 tedder ( talk) 04:51, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
I'm doing some print cleanup, and I found a category in which all templates should be excluded from print: Category:"Part of a series on" templates
To exclude them from print, simply add <noinclude>[[:Category:Exclude in print]]</noinclude> add the bottom of these templates, or <includeonly>[[:Category:Exclude in print]]</includeonly> in their documentation page. However, since there are a bazillion of those (aka more than 100), it would be nice if someone could code a bot (or who's got superior AWB skills than I) could do this.
Obviously, if the template is already in Category:Exclude in print, then nothing needs to be done. Thanks. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 04:15, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
Inspired by WP:Administrator inactivity, I think that a bot should maintain categories like Category:Wikipedia administrators who will provide copies of deleted articles or Category:Wikipedia administrators willing to grant rollback requests, i.e. categories likely to be queried by new users, by removing inactive administrators from them.
It won't be trivial to automatically remove the inactive (by some criterion) admins from the categories if the category is transcluded from userboxes or user subpages, in a first step it would certainly be sufficient to maintain a list of such admins that needs to be processed manually (if the inactivity criterion isn't too sharp that list should be short, after the first cleanup). We already have bots maintaining lists of active admins (e.g. User:Rick Bot), where it should be easy to extend their functionality to check the inactive ones against a list of categories. Spewing out a list into userspace wouldn't even require a BRFA.
Any comments? Would some friendly bot op consider doing that?
Thanks, and cheers, Amalthea 00:09, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
Hello all, User:WolterBot has not run since mid December. It generates cleanup listings for wikiprojects, which is a useful thing particularly for the less active ones, providing new content in terms of To Do tasks. The bot's owner hasn't been around since early January. Is there any other bot doing something similar? Could someone else take over the bot (might need source code requesting from the operator, it doesn't seem to be public)? Rd232 talk 10:18, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
Can someone make, or help me learn to make, a bot that replaces the word " subconscious" with " unconscious?" The subconscious does not exist and it's used in many articles. The only article that actually needs that word is subconscious. The less it is used on commonly accessed websites like Wikipedia, the less people will say it and make asses out of themselves. PÆonU ( talk) 06:22, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
Subconscious#The_.27Subconscious.27_and_Psychoanalysis
Unconscious_mind#Freud_and_the_psychoanalytic_unconscious PÆonU ( talk) 06:52, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
Go right ahead. You will need to point to the consensus in your WP:BRFA; details for bot development are at the top of this page. Josh Parris 07:57, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
Can we get a bot to change the
I just noticed this discussion. Reading the TfD I also concluded we had to do some replacements. I did otheruses3 to otheruses. otheruses2 is a different template and should not be replaced. I started otheruses4 since I though it would be completely uncontroversial but I was stopped. I think we have to finish moving otheruses4 to otheruses and then move otheruses5 to otheruses3 and otheruses6 to otheruses4. At the moment, we have 1,2,5 and 6 working which makes it impossible for new editors to use these templates. Many editors use plain text instead of dablinks which make it more difficult to locate articles with dablinks, programm bots to fix, etc. Adding a feature to AWB is a bit risky because these templates, from my experience, change names from time to time. At them moment AWB replaces "2otheruses" to "two other uses" and moves all dablinks on the top. PS I just sent unused otheruses8 to TfD. --
Magioladitis (
talk) 07:20, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
I this the right place to discuss a resume of the process? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:10, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
I think we can use a bot who will, on a regular basis (I would say weekly), maintain a list of all pages which were categorized for over a month in any of the following categories:
While rarely this may be because the discussion is open for that long, usually it's because the nomination wasn't completed, or because of a partial closure of it. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 21:15, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
"Articles for deletion" used to be called "Votes for deletion". And a lot of old debates resulted in "delete" and the page was subsequently re-created. Or the debate resulted in "keep" but there were subsequent debates that had different results. Or the page was renamed and re-listed under a different title. Lots of things to consider here. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 02:13, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
I just came across User:Drilnoth/assessortags.js which is a user script to make tagging with project banners easy. However the list of projects is hardcoded; and the creator has been absent a while. I see that User:Ais523/stubtagtab2.js does a similar job for stubs, taking its data from Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting. I wonder could someone adapt the assessor script in a similar way to use the wikiproject data at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Compact? I think such a tool could be widely advertised to wikiprojects and to RC patrol; better project tagging of new pages would enhance the usefulness of Article Alerts for pages getting prodded/AFD'd. Rd232 talk 09:10, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
Because I have just changed the WP:WP redirect to redirect to a different place to help prevent confusion (this is because Wikipedia:Wikipedia redirects to Wikipedia:About, therefore, when WP:WP redirects to a different place, it creates confusion because "WP" is considered [on Wikipedia] to have the same meaning as "Wikipedia"), we need a bot to change any WP:WP backlinks to link directly to Wikipedia:List of shortcuts to prevent this from creating even further confusion (as some links intending to point to Wikipedia:List of shortcuts will instead point to Wikipedia:About). Please note to leave the link title the same (the bot should change the links to where they look the same, but have a different target). -- IRP ☎ 04:03, 17 March 2010 (UTC), modified 04:07, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
I'm interested in gathering statistical information about which sites/sources are most commonly referenced on Wikipedia, in order to gain a better understanding of Wikipedia's systemic bias. The only such statistics I have been able to find are these, which are very outdated (Nov. 2006).
Essentially, the questions I'm looking to answer right now are the following:
I've got a bit of PHP and Javascript experience, but would need technical assistance getting a bot put together to do this, since I've never written a WP bot before. So that I'm not reinventing the wheel, can anyone recommend bots that someone has created that do things similar to the above that I could modify, and/or people who I might go to with questions?
Thanks -- Jrtayloriv ( talk) 18:54, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
Currently {{
Infobox settlement}} has two methods for generating coordinates parameters for {{
Coord}}: either it uses {{
CountryAbbr}} or else it uses a coordinates_type=
parameter. Due to limitations of the first method,
Andrwsc and I would like a bot to transition enwiki over to the second method. This would involve finding transclusions of {{
Infobox settlement}} and
its many synonyms in namespaces other than
Template:. If the coordinates_type=
parameter is already defined and not blank, do nothing. Otherwise add (or replace, if blank) the parameter with the result of the first method, basically: type:city{{#if:{{{population_total|}}}|{{#iferror:{{#expr:{{{population_total}}}+1}}||({{{population_total}}})}}|}}{{#if:{{{subdivision_name|}}}|_region:{{CountryAbbr|{{{subdivision_name|}}}|{{{subdivision_name1|}}}}}}}
. One or more additional iterations of this process will probably be needed at some point in the future. --
Stepheng3 (
talk) 05:35, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
type:city(pop)
. What happens when subdivision_name1 is blank or missing is determined by the logic of {{
CountryAbbr}}. I'm guessing the "new trick" might have something to do with subst-ing {{
CountryAbbr}}. Am I right? --
Stepheng3 (
talk) 00:21, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
coordinates_type=
. Wouldn't it be better to pass the parameter? –
xeno
talk 20:57, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
← When CountryAbbr expansion fails this is the result. – xeno talk 20:52, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
| coordinates_type = type:city
" would be a more desirable result. --06:36, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
_region:
wouldn't actually break anything, as far as I know. It'd be equivalent to what's in the Infobox right now, of course. So rather than making a second edit to remove the _region:
, I'd prefer to leave it for a human editor to (probably me!) to correct at some later date. --
Stepheng3 (
talk) 16:44, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
If anyone could take care of this, it would greatly help WP:JOURNALS.
Steps
|cover=
, but they could be elsewhere too).{{
WP Journals}}
.And that's pretty much it. This will help monitor deletion discussions through WP:AALERTS. There will be a few false hits, but these can be removed manually. WP:JOURNALS has been notified of this request. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 03:41, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
He said to point you to WP:DDR. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 06:14, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people#Badly tagged unreferenced BLPs
Can a bot generate a daily list of articles that are tagged, but are suspected to have at least some references.
All articles with the Category:Unreferenced BLPs and the text: http:// in them? (indicating an external link) Okip 02:57, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
In the quest to reference all biographies of living people, editors are deleting large portions of text.
I suggest creating a bot which does the following:
Okip 03:03, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
I need a bot for WP:ESSAY C/C to crawl pages tagged with our project banner {{essaysort}} and autoassess the article importance based on how many incoming wikilinks the article has. Essays linked to by 1000 other pages, for example, are seen as higher importance than essays linked to by 50 other pages (which can pretty much be accomplished through good category placement). Contact me with questions. Thanks! ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 05:46, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
Can someone with a bot prepend {{ FS-talk}} to the talk pages of pages using {{ Football squad start}}. Relevant discussion .Thanks Gnevin ( talk) 13:42, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
Perhaps we could do a limited bot run, top 100 clubs? With a request for feedback ? Gnevin ( talk) 16:34, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
Please see the link; there's a request to remove a certain cat from the talk pages of users who have been blocked, and I think this request is uncontroversial, straightforward, and bot-friendly. - Dank ( push to talk) 14:35, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
So first see: [5] and [6] for background to my bot request. As indicated on Raul's page, I am now requesting a bot (or several?) to:
I know I might be asking for quite a lot (and I hope my "computer language concepts can be turned into a reality") but any help/info/tips/advice would be appreciated. Calaka ( talk) 09:28, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
Can someone tell me how many mainspace articles do not have a talk page- a percentage or an absolute number is fine. tedder ( talk) 16:29, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM page WHERE page_namespace = 0 AND page_is_redirect=0; 3255520 SELECT COUNT(*) FROM page p1 LEFT JOIN page p2 ON p1.page_title=p2.page_title AND p2.page_namespace=1 WHERE p1.page_namespace = 0 AND p1.page_is_redirect=0 AND p2.page_id IS NULL; 377981
Almost all pages that wikilink to The Heat Is On (The Isley Brothers album) are redirected from The Heat Is On (Isley Brothers album). Dan56 ( talk) 00:21, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
I added forced italicisation to {{ Infobox grape variety}}, and now need someone to kindly remove it from instances in articles, as in this edit, please. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 23:15, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
When articles are saved by moving them to the Wikia, they often end up with a lot of red links. I tried eliminating the red links by linking them to their proper Wikipedia article, by changing all [[ into [[Wikipedia: but then you have the word Wikipedia before the link most of the time. If there was a | in the link, then it works just fine. I made an example on the Wikia to illustrate what I am talking about. [8] Notice how if it had a | in it, it looks fine, but if not, it appears with Wikipedia in front of the name of the link. It says Wikipedia:Jesus instead of just Jesus. Can someone make a bot for this? I figure it shouldn't take someone too long who knows how to program. Just scan the page until it finds double brackets, and then scan until it finds the two closing brackets, and if there is no | there, then copy the word and put it there behind a |. Then go through and add the word Wikipedia after the opening brackets, so that the link will point to the proper page. For a Wikia dedicated to list, linking back to Wikipedia for anyone interested in the things on the list, be it books, or whatever, is rather important. Dream Focus 08:40, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
Some days ago a new tool was explained at the Village Pump, that will generate a list of articles from Category:Unreferenced BLPs within the project scope. I proposed this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Argentina a week ago, a nobody is against the use (nobody else supports it either, but being an uncontroversial request perhaps there's no much need for it anyway). This project would seek intersections between CAT:BLP and articles with the wikiproject tag, so I would need to request that {{ WikiProject Argentina}} (and perhaps {{ WPBiography}}) be added into the articles in the following categories. As requested at the top, it's the complete list, there's no need to work at subcategories. To reduce a bit of bot work, I have skipped from here some categories unrelated with this specific task (such as fictional argentines), or whose people can only be deceased people (such as soldiers from XIX century wars)
MBelgrano ( talk) 00:38, 23 March 2010 (UTC)