User:Mikeblas

Hey! Why did you ping me in an edit summary?
Hi there!

I like to fix referencing errors in Wikipedia. Articles that have referencing can be found by monitoring categories like Category:Pages with citation errors, Category:Pages with broken reference names, Category:Pages with duplicate reference names, and Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors.

When I find referencing errors, I like to notify the editor that created the error so they can double-check the changes that I've made to their work. By collaborating on the fix, I can be sure I'm getting things the right way around and reflecting the intent of that original editor.

Sometimes, fixes are straight forward. But very often, they're ambiguous or unfixable. Tagging the editor helps resolve that ambiguity. If I think the article is better off with the material removed altogether (because the fix doesn't seem at all possible) then it gives the editor a notice that some material was removed or reverted and they have a shot at fixing it.

Indeed, sometimes I incorrectly attribute referencing errors and ping the wrong person. It doesn't happen often because I do my best to get it right. If I've incorrectly pinged you, I'm sorry for that. While it's pretty easy to just ignore the ping, you can also pitch in by double checking my work even if it wasn't your own edit that actually caused the referencing error.

And I'm always happy to answer questions about my fixes or the problems I've found. -- Mikeblas (talk) 19:13, 24 November 2022 (UTC)

Some bookmarks for me

 * User:Mikeblas/Robots Behaving Badly
 * dashboard
 * Category:Pages with citation errors
 * Category:Pages with broken reference names
 * Category:Pages with duplicate reference names
 * Category:Templates that generate named references
 * Category:Pages with missing references list
 * "Bloomberg - Are you a Robot? errors due to a bug in Citoid
 * SFN Errors
 * Category:Harv and Sfn multiple-target errors
 * Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors
 * Category:CS1 errors: missing title
 * Books Project | Unassessed books | WikiProject Books template
 * Computing Project | Unassessed computing | WikiProject Computing template
 * Computer Science Project | Unassessed Computer Science |
 * Electronics Project | Unassessed electronics | WikiProject Electronics template
 * Novels Project | Unassessed novels | WikiProject Novels template


 * Weird little files:
 * User:Mikeblas/vector.css
 * common.js, vector.js
 * the link classifier

Queues
This section helps me keep track of AfD, prods, copyvios, and other "Come back" work I've initiated. Too bad there isn't an automated way to do this in the Wikipedia UI, huh?

AfD queue

 * Current AfDs

Prod queue

 * empty

Speedy queue

 * empty

OR Problems

 * empty

Copyvio queue

 * empty

Notability tags

 * empty

Merge queue

 * MSDE into SQL Server Express

Tools

 * X!'s Edit Counter
 * another tool
 * Edit Summary Counter
 * Edit Summary Searching

Notes to self (and maybe you, too!)

 * Redirect is a handy list of redirect templates
 * tl is a neat way to link to templates without typing a bunch of punctuation
 * Administrators' reading list
 * Category:Administrative backlog
 * WikiProject Disambiguation/Malplaced disambiguation pages
 * Frequently used Templates
 * nofootnote for articles with references but not footnotes
 * Nonspecific for unspecific references that are too broad to verify
 * refimprove improve references
 * Uncited category category without reference