User talk:A930913/BracketBotArchives/ 16

BracketBot – Emmetrigg
User:A930913, User:Dru_of_Id, User:Bgwhite yes

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Emmetrigg (talk) 04:35, 23 April 2016 (UTC) Thanks I got that but the picture is not up there i'm not sure what happen I just edited the genres?
 * It seems you forgot a closing bracket, and a closing < tag. That broke the infobox. The page has since been repaired. Huon (talk) 22:33, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – Arturolorioli
User:A930913, User:Dru_of_Id, User:Bgwhite yes

Page: Battle of Adwa

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Comment/question: Alleged broken link, I can't find anything wrong. Let me know what did you spot. Thanks --Arturolorioli (talk) 14:51, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Arturolorioli (talk) 14:51, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
 * The bot gave a list of unpaired brackets which proved accurate enough. Fixed. Huon (talk) 22:33, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Chaya5260
User:A930913 yes

Dog#Inbreeding depression

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Comment/question: Could not find the broken reference referred to. Chaya5260 (talk) 18:40, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Chaya5260 (talk) 18:40, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Auric fixed the issue. Huon (talk) 20:41, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – ComposerInUK
User:A930913, User:Dru_of_Id, User:Bgwhite yes

Page: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Diff: 3rd Orchestral Suite

Comment/question: This is the link that should be displayed there https://tchaikovskylifeandworks.wordpress.com/category/works/ This is a direct link to the piece in question rather than just the site. Could you possibly help me out...? Thank you so much :)

Michael Paul Smith (talk) 09:16, 1 May 2016 (UTC)


 * This looks like your personal blog. I rather don't think that's an appropriate external link for Wikipedia, particularly not for a Featured Article. No disrespects, but I'm sure you'll acknowledge the article wouldn't be improved if every fan of Tchaikovsky added their personal blog, and thus we'll have to draw the line at no such links being appropriate. See also WP:ELNO for details. Huon (talk) 12:52, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – Lisaloo7
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Lisaloo7 (talk) 17:04, 5 May 2016 (UTC) I have begun an edit, and the parts I added are not linking my cited sources from my sandbox. This is the first time I am transferring information. I did a copy from my sandbox and pasted to the article. I tried to delete the original definition and replace with a more thorough definition. Please let me know what to do fix this problem Lisaloo7 (talk) 17:04, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Answered at User talk:Lisaloo7. Keri (talk) 18:56, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – Auric
User:A930913, User:Dru_of_Id, User:Bgwhite yes

Page:  Publix

Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=718951209

Comment/question:  My edit was to add a title to a cite. The title contained a smiley, which consists of a semicolon and an unpaired right parenthesis. This is not an error, but an emoticon, which the bot should be trained to recognize.

Auric   talk  17:20, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Smileys in encyclopedia articles are very rare, and there's a very wide variety of smileys. Training the bot to recognize them all would be rather inefficient. I think we'll have to live with a few false positives. Huon (talk) 12:31, 7 May 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – Geke
User:A930913, User:Dru_of_Id, User:Bgwhite yes

Page: Apostrophe

Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Apostrophe&oldid=719209549

Comment/question: Thanks for the notice, but the unpaired bracket ] is really correct in this case.

Geke (talk) 10:19, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes. I don't see how this false positive could have been avoided, though. Huon (talk) 22:27, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Whydah Pirate Museum Docent
User:A930913 yes

Page: Samuel Bellamy

Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=685772042

'''Comment/question: I'm afraid that I don't understand what the problem is; your ReferenceBot did not say what precisely it disagreed with, it just highlighted EVERY one of my entries for Samuel Bellamy. I am Dr. Jim Cunningham, the manager, docent and historian for the Whydah Pirate Museum, having succeeded the late great historian Kenneth J. Kinkor; my employer, underwater explorer Barry Clifford, discovered and is the sole owner of, by court order, the entire wreck and all contents of the pirate commodore Samuel Bellamy's flagship Whydah Gally, and it is currently the only fully authenticated pirate shipwreck on earth. Our Expedition Whydah was approved and authorized by the Massachusetts State Board of Underwater Archaeological Resources which also called us a model of private underwater archaeology, and has been sponsored by, and presented in multiple documentaries by, National Geographic Society, Discovery Channel, History Channel, History II Channel, BBC and PBS, as well as every major publication in the world; we were also the only Nautical museum to be named in New York Times' list of top museums in America. We also have two traveling exhibits under the auspices of National Geographic and are right now constructing another major exhibit in Yarmouth Cape Cod. Our Team has written a number of historical books on the subject, we have worked in conjunction with some of the foremost pirateologists and historians in the world, we are the creator of the Whydah Source Book [WSB] containing nearly forty years of archival research with records from England, Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and the American colonial states, including thousands of Source Document Manuscripts, which includes the entire seven month court trial of the Whydah survivors, and the logs of the ships captured by Samuel Bellamy, eye witness testimonies, government reports, even a letter from the Whydah's original owner to the governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony discussing the Whydah and the pirates - much of which has never even been published before. Our team is much sought after for lectures on the Golden Age of Piracy at schools, religious venues, government venues, museums and historical conventions. Barry Clifford himself is an official orator for National Geographic Society and a member of The Explorers Club. We are the world's historical experts on the issue of Samuel Bellamy and the Whydah Galley; and quite frankly, we ourselves are the reference for the data in the Samuel Bellamy page. I have put references on the page, but it cannot possibly be expected for us to just freely list all of the thousands of documents that make up the whole picture of the story of Samuel Bellamy which we have painstakingly gathered at great cost (both financially and in blood, sweat and tears), from which we composed the data on the Samuel Bellamy page. If there is something in particular that we have posted that you would like clarification on, I would be glad to respond to it. In the mean time, kindly restore the data I have posted for Samuel Bellamy. And in fact, we formally request exclusive editing access for the Samuel Bellamy, Whydah Gally, and Barry Clifford pages and for them to be locked to outside tampering, as it is not humanly possible for anyone else to have superior data on these subjects, and any outside data would probably be repeatedly debunked pirate myth anyway. PS... This contact form requested, above, that I give the link to the "diff". I haven't the slightest clue what that means, and I really wish Wikipedia was a little more self explanatory. Not knowing what diff is, I posted the link to the page from your ReferenceBot that shows my edits to the Samuel Bellamy page. Thank you for your attention to this important matter. I may be contacted at BellamyCay@yahoo.com, at our museum phone (508) 487-8899, or my direct line(954) 324-5071. (For the record, I am a monthly financial contributor to Wikipedia.)'''

Whydah Pirate Museum Docent (talk) 18:21, 8 May 2016 (UTC)


 * I'll reply in more detail on your talk page. Huon (talk) 22:27, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – KenJacowitz
User:A930913 yes

Page: First Folio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Folio

Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Folio

Comment/question: I did create a sub-section, specifically "Lost Editions of The First Folio". But what I can see from referencebots notification., someone else's edit that has nothing to do with me is the only highlighted. Not fully understanding, I left it to the other wiki editor if the First Folio to create. Perhaps I fail to see my own error?

KenJacowitz (talk) 19:38, 10 May 2016 (UTC)


 * If you check the diff the bot gave you, you'll find that you didn't just add the section but also changed one reference parameter in the preceding section. Becky Sales fixed those parameters. Huon (talk) 22:12, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Sflip123
User:A930913 yes

Page: Charmion Von Wiegand

Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charmion_Von_Wiegand

Comment/question: HI, sorry, I'm not sure which 'redundant parameter' was the problem. It said it would be highlighted but it's not.

Sflip123 (talk) 00:05, 14 May 2016 (UTC)


 * If you check the diff the bot gave you, at the very bottom of the page you'll find that highlighted error message; you used both the "page=" and the "pages=" parameters, but they serve the same purpose, and only one of them should be used ("pages" is for, say "pages 3–5", not for "the work has 62 pages in total"). Naraht fixed that. Huon (talk) 22:31, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – 24.185.99.169
User:A930913, User:Dru_of_Id, User:Bgwhite yes

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Comment/question: My revision of Adalbert Of Prague having a school named after him in Port Richmond, Staten Island, New York was correcting something erroneous in the article of which I am certain to be accurate.

24.185.99.169 (talk) 17:38, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately you're wrong. While there is a church named after Adalbert in Port Richmond, Staten Island, New York, there's also one in Port Richmond, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Since we don't have articles on either, I have removed them both. Huon (talk) 22:06, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – Vicedomino
User:A930913, User:Dru_of_Id, User:Bgwhite yes

Page:Jean du Bellay

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'''Comment/question: No comment, no question. You made a mistake, you dumb robot. Single brackets are allowed in a quotation when you are supplying words necessary for understanding which are not actually in the quote.'''

Vicedomino (talk) 02:55, 17 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Single brackets are allowed, but if the opening bracket is a square bracket, the closing one shouldn't be a curly bracket. You fixed that after the bot's notification. Maybe you owe the dumb robot an apology... Huon (talk) 22:14, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
 * My apologies. Sometimes it's hard to parse robot-speak.  Maybe somebody should work on that. --Vicedomino (talk) 22:19, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – Rikoshaprl
User:A930913, User:Dru_of_Id, User:Bgwhite yes

Page: Missing bracket in the inventor's page for Richard Cannon

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Comment/question:

Rikoshaprl (talk) 01:20, 18 May 2016 (UTC) It appears someone fixed the bracket problem you notified me about. Thank you.
 * You're welcome, happy editing! Huon (talk) 20:28, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – Koplins
User:A930913, User:Dru_of_Id, User:Bgwhite yes

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Comment/question: hey can you help me by fixing the editing problem i caused because i dont know how to do it
 * Your edit has been reverted, fixing the problem. You removed sourced content and did not provide a better source of your own. Huon (talk) 20:28, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – Sarahashipp
User:A930913, User:Dru_of_Id, User:Bgwhite yes

Page: Concerto in F(Gershwin)

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Comment/question: Where is the edit I need to fix? I'm not sure where to put the parenthesis back into the article. Sarahashipp (talk) 15:37, 18 May 2016 (UTC)Sarahashipp
 * It seems you found the surplus parenthesis. Huon (talk) 20:28, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – TheMightyMan
User:A930913, User:Dru_of_Id, User:Bgwhite yes

Page: Nora Springs Iowa

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Comment/question: I don't know how to fix it. TheMightyMan (talk) 19:08, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
 * It seems you figured it out yourself. Thanks. Huon (talk) 20:28, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Robert McClenon
User:A930913 yes

Draft:Henry Alan Green

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft%3AHenry_Alan_Green&type=revision&diff=721579449&oldid=721579321

'''I don't see an error. Is this a false positive? I wasn't editing manually at all. I made an Articles for Creation comment that spanned multiple lines, which might have confused the bot, but I have done that before.'''

Robert McClenon (talk) 02:10, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Not the most helpful bot message, but the script did break a reference. I have left a note at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation/Helper script. Possibly the consequence of an edit conflict. -Huon (talk) 00:24, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

Georg Hamilton edit
User:A930913, User:Dru_of_Id, User:Bgwhite yes

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Comment/question: Hi, I'm rather new at this and only today saw I had a message. I've actually forgotten my edit but assure you I did so in good conscience and with intent of clarity and readability and nothing more. Will get back with you and thanks for the message. joe Stokes, Idaho Falls
 * Your edits definitely improved readability, and the mismatched bracket has long since been fixed. Thanks! Huon (talk) 00:24, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – RobbertMacGreighgor
User:A930913, User:Dru_of_Id, User:Bgwhite yes

Gypsy Rose Lee:'

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Comment/question: Only wanted to say thank you for such a useful (and friendly!) bot!! What a treat, as I am a huge fussbudget about such fastidiousness and would have been disappointed in myself if that typographical error hadn't been caught! ;-) RobbertMacGreighgor (talk) 04:29, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
 * You're welcome, thanks for the positive feedback! Huon (talk) 00:24, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot - Shillog
User:A930913, User:Dru_of_Id, User:Bgwhite yes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maythil_Radhakrishnan:

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'''Maythil's contributions to ethology are not described in the article. The relevant papers, written in 1979, were recently found in an online archive kept by the Amateur Entomological Society (UK). I am not familiar with the format of putting stuff under References with corresponding superscripts in the body of the article. Can you help me, please? Thanks. Regards.'''

Shillog 08:58, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
 * I'll leave a note on your talk page. Huon (talk) 00:24, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Auric
User:A930913 yes

Page:  2014 Jos bombings

Diff:  https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=722342610

Comment/question: My edit did not cause the error, I simply revealed it, when I incorporated the ISSN into the reference. I cannot fix it.

Auric   talk  00:30, 28 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Since The Punch doesn't seem to have an ISSN, I have removed it altogether. Huon (talk) 18:35, 29 May 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – 92.226.249.123
User:A930913, User:Dru_of_Id, User:Bgwhite yes

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92.226.249.123 (talk) 20:30, 28 May 2016 (UTC) Thanks for your comment, I'm from Germany and very interested in Native Americans as well as First Nations. My English - to be correct British English (BE) - is based on the English that I learned at school. Then I consumed only books on Indians - most of them in AE, some in BE or CanE. I just want to give some of my interests and knowledge of the peoples I'm interested in to other people round the world. I'm editing both in the German Wikipedia as well (to a lesser degree) in the English version.

Thanks and best regards Yours sincerely Petra from Nuremberg in Franconia


 * This is not an issue of spelling or of American English versus British English, but of mismatched parentheses. Fixed. Huon (talk) 18:35, 29 May 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – RandomScholar30
User:A930913, User:Dru_of_Id, User:Bgwhite yes

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Comment/question: I didn't make any errors to the Pat Buchanan article. The bot is wrong. RandomScholar30 (talk) 19:24, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, you did, RandomScholar30, and the bot is right. Leaving an unclosed bracket (the red [ character in BracketBot's message to you) is an error. I've removed it. Bishonen &#124; talk 19:43, 29 May 2016 (UTC).

BracketBot – MrsKrishan
User:A930913, User:Dru_of_Id, User:Bgwhite yes

Page: Arcadia

Diff: correction to unpaired parentheses )

'''Comment/question: Thx so much! MrsKrishan (talk) 01:01, 5 June 2016 (UTC)'''

MrsKrishan (talk) 01:01, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. Huon (talk) 00:12, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – Agnes1914
User:A930913, User:Dru_of_Id, User:Bgwhite yes

Page: My edit to the Kennedy Family

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Comment/question: Bracketbot. SNUGGUMS. deleted my edit and all i was doing was adding the names of the Kennedy Family because they were on there last year and the years before and i did not add them but i was was just going to ad them back were somebody took them of and i had all the names written down all the way to the great grand children and great- great grand children of Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr but if that is they way i am going to be treated the i will not use Wikipedia again i refuse to use.

Agnes1914 (talk) 04:02, 6 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Hello Agnes1914. As the message SNUGGUMS left at your talk page says, your additions were reverted because you did not provide a reliable source. Please also note that the article already contained a family tree that provided much of the same information in a more easily readable format. Huon (talk) 00:12, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – 71.192.197.161
User:A930913, User:Dru_of_Id, User:Bgwhite yes

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71.192.197.161 (talk) 23:42, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Hello, I received a message stating I made an error in editing a link on Muhammad Mahmood Alam. I have never edited a page on wiki. I do not know why it showed as my IP Address. Thank you.


 * If you check the date, you'll find that message is from 2014. Likely back then someone else was assigned the IP address you are now using. Huon (talk) 22:25, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – Ceeforcat
User:A930913, User:Dru_of_Id, User:Bgwhite yes

Page: Claire Forlani

Diff: unpaired bracket s "Hot 100 Babes". In 2003, she co-starred with Jackie Chan in The Medallion, in 2005 "Green Street]" with [[Charlie Hunnam and Elijah Wood. In 2007's "Hallam Foe" she

Comment/question: I'm sorry that I missed out that bracket - I was having a lot of trouble trying to make sense of the many and varied mistakes in the information in the paragraphs that I must have overlooked that bracket. I don't know who it was who composed the page/information but it was a total mish- mash of the most awful errors I've ever seen on a Wikipedia page. Even after I corrected my bracket error, I saw several more glaring mistakes which I hope I have correctly corrected. Having looked at the text again, it seems to me that the previous typing had been done by someone even less experienced at editing than myself because there were several instances of quotation marks being used instead of double apostrophes; some actors and films didn't have brackets round their names, even though they all have Wikipedia pages and some of the dates were incorrect and some of the information was out of order, time-wise.

Please excuse my lengthy reply but I felt I had to try to justify my omission of one bracket. regards Julie Ceeforcat (talk) 18:49, 13 June 2016 (UTC)


 * No apology necessary; thank you for fixing the issue! Reminding editors of such possible mistakes is what the bot is for. Huon (talk) 19:50, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

API change will break your bot
I noticed that BracketBot has been using http:// to access the API, rather than https://  This is going to break soon, because of changes to the API. You can find more information in this e-mail message. If you need help updating your code to use https://, then you might be able to find some help at w:en:Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard or on the mailing list. Good luck, Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:35, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – Vkjoshi123
User:A930913, User:Dru_of_Id, User:Bgwhite yes

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I can't see the material I have created about 'Suraiya' on logging out anymore. I can only see the old material, on which I did editing. I am depressed after my hard work Please revert the material I created. THANKS. vKJ123 (VK JOSHI) Comment/question:

Vkjoshi123 (talk) 17:45, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Apparently the content you wrote was reverted because it was not backed up by reliable sources. Huon (talk) 22:21, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – Zmattu
User:A930913, User:Dru_of_Id, User:Bgwhite yes

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Comment/question:

Zmattu (talk) 08:15, 21 June 2016 (UTC) I have edited the link

Thanks


 * That link was blatant spam and has been removed. Huon (talk) 22:21, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – Adekande
User:A930913, User:Dru_of_Id, User:Bgwhite yes

Bola Akande

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Are you content with the external links added now?:

Adekande (talk) 23:54, 23 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Personally I'm not, but that should be discussed at WP:Articles for deletion/Bola Akande, not here. Huon (talk) 23:49, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – WurmWoode
User:A930913 yes

Page: Ornstein%E2%80%93Zernike_equation

Diff: My edit

Comment/question: 1) first, and foremost, since your bot provided this info to me, why couldn't it, within the message it provided, have a link to here with bookmarklet scripting to pre-fill the informatons up above (half kidding/half serious) ??

2) I left a question as to how to better handle the scenario that caught your bot's attentions at the helpdesk, basicly regarding using "archive-url" versus "pre-internet" material and "url"

See wp:Help_desk

 WurmWoode  T   01:17, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Because it's a ReferenceBot, not a FalsePositiveReportBot. The backlink provided already is rather intricate; adding some rather complex script functionality to pre-fill diffs would not be a good investment of the programmer's time.
 * Trappist the monk has answered your question. I'm not sure why you informed the bot operator of it since it's not related to the bot's performance. Huon (talk) 01:43, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Laladio
User:A930913 yes

Page: BaDoinkVR

Diff: I fixed the problem

Comment/question: Why is it not showing that it has been corrected?

Laladio (talk) 14:55, 28 June 2016 (UTC)


 * The purpose of the bot is to notify users of possible reference problems - no more. When you have resolved the issue the bot pointed out, you are welcome to remove the notification yourself; the bot does not keep a list of past notifications and does not check whether issues it once pointed out have subsequently been fixed. Huon (talk) 23:49, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – Tantek
User:A930913, User:Dru_of_Id, User:Bgwhite yes

Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ATantek&action=historysubmit&type=revision&diff=727562519&oldid=726110731

Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=727561215

Comment/question:

BracketBot had a false positive error detection 'broken the syntax by modifying 3 ""s', for the text in a reference I added: "Sections 5.2.1.3 d), e), and f), is permitted" due to that numbering style of d, e, f, which is a direct quote from vCard RFC 6350.

Hope that helps!

Tantek (talk) 00:06, 30 June 2016 (UTC)


 * This is a false positive, but not one the bot has a realistic chance of possibly avoiding. Huon (talk) 21:58, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Ussr 1991
User:A930913 yes

Page:R-27 Zyb

Diff:https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=727474819

'''Comment/question:I am trying to link a phrase to a Wikipedia article called BM25 Musudan. However, the missile is commonly known as Musudan while presently the BM25 is rarely used if at all. That article itself has a Talk section whereby user have been suggesting to rename the page as well.'''

Sam 14:54, 1 July 2016 (UTC)


 * The bot notified you because when you copied content from the BM25 Musudan article to the R-27 Zyb article you copied only a part of one footnote, leaving it half-broken. I have fixed that. Regarding the proper title of the Musudan article, there currently doesn't seemt to be a consensus, with yourself arguing that it should be named something else entirely. I don't think moving the article somewhere else without an agreement on the most appropriate title will help; it's better to wait and establish consensus first. Huon (talk) 20:44, 2 July 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Chilichoke
User:A930913 yes

Page: Xenbase

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Comment/question: The highlighted sections of my edit (the reference to Model Organism Databases, as well as the publication reference) seem to be working fine. Not sure what may have triggered the ReferenceBot's message. Thanks.

Chilichoke (talk) 22:09, 7 July 2016 (UTC)


 * If you check the "References" section in the diff provided by the bot, you'll find a big red error message: "Cite error: A list-defined reference named "Xenbase" is not used in the content". That's because in your edit you removed the part of the article where that list-defined reference was used, but didn't remove the reference along with its only use. That was in 2014; the error has long since been fixed. Huon (talk) 23:38, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – Movieman2
User:A930913, User:Dru_of_Id, User:Bgwhite yes

Page: Academy Award for Best Original Score

Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Original_Score

Comment/question: Sorry about that, I was saving them in order to try and double-check whether or not I was doing it right in order to match the listing with the later sections (1980's - 2016, the current year), and then going back if I had some mistakes to correct them. You were right about messaging me about this, but since this is a compliation list of all the winners of this prestigious award I just wanted to double-check in order to check if I was doing the list in an accurate and acceptable manner. I did the 1930s section, and will do the rest at a later date. Movieman2 (talk) 17:49, 8 July 2016 (UTC)


 * No need to apologize; the bracket issues have since been fixed. You can use the preview to check your edits without saving them, if you want to - but remember to save them when you're done. Huon (talk) 23:38, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – 49.145.101.101
User:A930913, User:Dru_of_Id, User:Bgwhite yes

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Comment/question:

49.145.101.101 (talk) 06:55, 9 July 2016 (UTC)sorry i dont know how to edit


 * You may want to try the tutorial for a general introduction to Wikipedia. Huon (talk) 23:38, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – 85.115.52.201
User:A930913 yes

Page:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SThree

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'''Comment/question:I don't believe my changes were copyrighted material, all references are included. Can you please provide more information'''

85.115.52.201 (talk) 08:15, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Whether the references are included is irrelevant to whether or not the content violates those references' copyright. Do not copy-paste non-free content from elsewhere to Wikipedia. See WP:Copyright for more details. Huon (talk) 23:38, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Sad9721
User:A930913 yes

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I'm not able to fix references 46 and 47 in a perfect way i the article"List of european countries by average wages"Sad9721 (talk) 08:03, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

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Comment/question:

Sad9721 (talk) 08:03, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
 * See WP:Referencing for beginners on how to easily create nicely-formatted footnotes. I tried but failed to find the specific IStat web page that gives the figures you used. Huon (talk) 23:38, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – 81.157.210.40
User:A930913 yes

Page: no idea but i have not edited any wikipedia pages and you have said i had, so please explain

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Comment/question: i have not edited any wikipedia pages and you have said i had, so please explain why you think i have?

81.157.210.40 (talk) 11:49, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Someone from your IP address has edited Wikipedia; likely the message was meant for that person. IP addresses tend to get re-assigned, so it's entirely possible that you now use an address that belonged to someone else previously. Huon (talk) 23:38, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

Presumably Political sociology
Hi, Thank you - but the wording does not appear to be something I added? 129.63.122.12 (talk) 16:10, 21 June 2016 (UTC)


 * If this is about the Political sociology article, your edit started with a square bracket and ended with a parenthesis, creating a mismatch. If that's not it, you'll need to point out what article you are referring to. Huon (talk) 22:21, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Riverside2016
User:A930913 yes

Page: cj werleman

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Comment/question: I included links to all edits but it deleted my edits.

Riverside2016 (talk) 22:15, 20 July 2016 (UTC)


 * The links you included were not reliable sources or weren't independent of Werleman. There also was quite a bit of duplicated content; I have removed that. Huon (talk) 22:43, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – Azam1993
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http&#58;//www.limitlessreferrals.info (talk) 23:25, 21 July 2016 (UTC) I want to ask what is wrong with this link. Why this link is inappropriate. I have added a useful link as it contains all the info about studienkolleg. How can you say that it is inappropriate.


 * That is, by its own admission, a "Seo and Money Making Hub". It is not a reliable source subject to editorial oversight. Huon (talk) 01:08, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Bender235
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Page: Battle of Flamborough Head

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Comment/question: I don't see any error that fits the description here.

bender235 (talk) 13:30, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
 * The problem is the archive URL of the sixth reference, https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.yorkshirehistory.com/flam/convoy_list.doc That URL does not point to a specific archived copy. Fixed. Huon (talk) 02:21, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Ynhockey
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Page: Jezreel Valley railway

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Comment/question: The bot had this to say about the above edit. I don't see any problem with the refs, and when I click 'Fix', the bot suggest no modifications to the article. The only reason I can think of was that when I put August 2 as the access date, it was August 2 in my time zone, but August 1 in the bot's, so it thought the date was in the future. The other possible reason: the ref had no title in this diff (indeed a problem), but this was fixed 3 minutes later. If the bot caught that I think it should say so, but also give a grace period of at least ~15 minutes-ish.

Ynhockey (Talk) 07:39, 2 August 2016 (UTC)


 * If you check the references section in the diff above you will find a red error message that says, "Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)". Both issues have since been fixed, but the "month" issue persisted for longer than the bot's grace period of about 10 minutes. The bot's "Fix" link just opens the page for editing without suggesting specific changes because the bot isn't smart enough to figure out how to fix the problems it notifies human editors about. Huon (talk) 22:20, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

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Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Alaadeen

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Comment/question: I own the copyrighted material that I posted on this page. I own the website.I have included the following on the web page in which the text was taken:++The text of this page is available for modification and reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License  and the GNU Free Documentation License  (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts).

Fannyalaadeen (talk) 16:27, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
 * This is not a ReferenceBot issue. Please note that while Wikipedia cannot accept non-free content, being freely licensed is not a guarantee that the content is appropriate for Wikipedia. Rather, Wikipedia content should be a summary of what reliable third-party sources such as newspapers or reputable magazines have reported about Alaadeen. You may also want to take a look at our guideline on conflicts of interest. Huon (talk) 22:20, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

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Cbgrfwiki (talk) 12:29, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

Don't understand all this. What am I supposed to have done?


 * I replied on your talk page. Koala Tea Of Mercy ( KTOM's Articulations &amp; Invigilations ) 18:18, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – 64.151.29.40
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Page:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Alaadee

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'''I'm at a loss as to how to fix this. It's gone from bad to worse. '''

64.151.29.40 (talk) 21:44, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
 * It seems other editors fixed the page already. Huon (talk) 13:20, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

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Page: Kirov-class battlecruiser

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'''Comment/question: What is wrong here? Pressing the fix button on my talk page does not change anything.'''

Redalert2fan (talk) 09:19, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
 * When you unified the references, you fixed the reference name in only one place and left it in another place where it was also used. Fixed. The "Fix" button just lets you immediately edit the page, but the bot is not smart enough to suggest how you can fix the issue. Otherwise it would simply fix it on its own instead of notifying a human. Huon (talk) 13:20, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Saemikneu
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'Page:'Lady_in_Gold_(album)

'Diff:'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lady_in_Gold_%28album%29&type=revision&diff=733162184&oldid=731942817

'Comment/question:'author is a nick name (no real names provided on source)

Saemikneu (talk) 21:55, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
 * The problem the bot notified you about wasn't the names of the authors but that you used the "coauthors" parameter; that's a historical relic that should no longer be used. If you want to give multiple authors you can give parameters such as "author1=...", "author2=..." and so on. For dicsogs there's not much of a purpose to listing the contributors' usernames, though. Huon (talk) 22:14, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Dr.saze
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Page: A Day at the Races (1937 film)

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Comment/question: Hi. I thought my reference to AFI's 100Years...100 Laughs and to 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes were alright because it is equal as my other similar edits. But I do not still understand û the ų is. I still think it is just as it should be. Dr.saze (talk) 12:08, 08 August 2016 (UTC)

Dr.saze (talk) 10:09, 8 August 2016 (UTC)


 * The problem wasn't with the references you added but with those you removed; they were still listed in the list of references but not used any more, prompting the error message the bot notified you about. Fixed. Huon (talk) 22:14, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Yelekam
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Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Fairbank

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Comment/question: The think sent an alert to me saying there was a site error report from one of my edits. But as far as I can see their is no issue with it.

Yelekam (talk) 23:01, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
 * You removed the ">" from a  tag, thereby breaking that reference. Bgwhite fixed that. Huon (talk) 01:23, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Haploidavey
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Page: Toga

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Comment/question: Linked diff shows my changes to one set of refs; there is another set, which refbot hasn't notified. In each case, changes give credit to individual authors in a collection of essays; possibly not in the best possible way per MOS, but not an error in either case

Haploidavey (talk) 08:11, 13 August 2016 (UTC)


 * There was a stray  tag causing the error; Bgwhite  fixed that. Huon (talk) 14:54, 13 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Oh, righty. Thanks for that. Haploidavey (talk) 15:56, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – NachoVeiga
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Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_A%C3%B1os_(Gian_Marco_album)

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Comment/question: I can't find anything wrong, i checked the template for Track listings (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Track_listing) and it's the same. Could you check it out please? maybe i overlooked it. Best Regards.

NachoVeiga (talk) 13:11, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
 * You used quite a few Spanish template parameters that were not recognized on the English Wikipedia. Auric translated those parameters, resolving the problem. Huon (talk) 23:22, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – CitroenLover
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Page: List of Naruto: Shippuden episodes (season 3)

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Comment/question: Bogus warning was sent to my talkpage about a reference error, but it does not apply because the reference that was added appears correctly on the transcluded page.

CitroenLover (talk) 16:11, 23 August 2016 (UTC)


 * I see a big red "Cite error" at the bottom of the page in the diff highlighted by the bot. Maybe you call that bogus because you see the list only as a building block of something else, but I do think we should fix the list itself, too. Done. Huon (talk) 23:22, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Prometheus Unbound
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Page:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Go-Betweens

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'''Comment/question:This is my first edit and it looked all right on preview and on the page. I just copied previous references. If it is in error I do not know how to fix it. I will give it another go. '''

Prometheus Unbound (talk) 12:59, 25 August 2016 (UTC)


 * If you check the bottom of the page in the diff the bot gave you, you will find a big red error message that says: "Cite error: A list-defined reference named "Dowling" is not used in the content (see the help page)." This edit fixed the error, but I have to agree with the editors who removed the content that unless a third-party source discusses Dowling's use of the band in his novel, that's probably not a significant aspect of the band in the first place, and not an improvement to the article. Huon (talk) 01:12, 26 August 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – Whitemount
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Whitemount (talk) 15:50, 25 August 2016 (UTC) I am sight impaired and it takes forever to do anything. I wounder if you could make the error changes and email me with the results for my approval. I am doing this for the numeral requests to be placed on the Woodsville Nh Notable pages as I am the most prolific author from Woodsville and proof is on the 100's of books of mine published oby Amazons Create Space.... Thanks Jim


 * The messages by BracketBot were left in 2015; the errors have long since been fixed. That said, writing about yourself on Wikipedia is not a good idea due to the inherent conflict of interest. Huon (talk) 01:12, 26 August 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – ManosHacker
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Comment/question: This is a preload page for a new article. Visual Editor cannot detect grouping in references unless it meets at least one group reference, so I introduce an empty one to trigger detection and allow usage of notes instead of only citations, in VE, without having to turn to source editor. This should be reported on VE, however, instead of tricking the system. I will make such a report asap.

ManosHacker (talk) 14:15, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

Reporting one.--ManosHacker (talk) 14:47, 28 August 2016 (UTC)


 * ReferenceBot is working as intended. Whatever that is, it's not something that should make its way into articlespace. Huon (talk) 18:42, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Fabartus
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Page: Tamaqua, Pennsylvania - Edit which adds Notes and Source Sections, notelist and Cited 'History of Schuylkill County' inside the source edits. These old referenced books often have a variety of subtitles, chapter titles and whatnot, Addresses of editors, street addresses of publishers, etc.

Diff: Sorry, my cut buffer is occupied during this interruption of my several ongoing edits.

Comment/question: bad parameter checking is over the top obnoxious. There are reasons to bury a data item in a misnamed parameter, so at least allow us to have the placeholder parameters (1=, 2=, 3= etc.) to not print data, yet keep complete information in the cite templates.

Fra nkB 01:04, 10 September 2016 (UTC)


 * I don't see the purpose of storing invisible information. If that's important to the citation, our readers should be able to see it. If it isn't, why keep it? In this particular case, authors varying by chapter is the default expectation for books where only the editor's name is given; there's no need to point it out separately. Huon (talk) 13:03, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – HyapatiaLee
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Page: Hyapatia Lee

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Comment/question: I am Hyapatia Lee and I am trying to correct errors to the page about me. I got a message that it was edited back to what it was before and I don't understand why or what I can do to correct these multiple errors.

HyapatiaLee (talk) 14:47, 10 September 2016 (UTC)
 * There are several issues here. First of all you may want to send an email to info-en@wikimedia.org to provide proof of your identity. I'm sorry for that hassle, but you'll surely understand that it would be very unfortunate if we didn't check and allowed someone to impersonate you.
 * Secondly, Wikipedia content should be based on reliable published sources. For example, Indianapolis Monthly gave your husband's name as "Jack". While that might have been an invented name to protect his privacy, we should not change it into something else without some evidence to confirm that the other information is correct. Huon (talk) 21:22, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – GoOKC
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Page: Christo Landry

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Comment/question: This is a false positive that an edit performed by you may have introduced errors in referencing.

GoOKC (talk) 21:18, 12 September 2016 (UTC)


 * If you look at reference 53 in the diff the bot linked you to, you'll find a big red error message. Fixed with this edit, not a false positive. Huon (talk) 23:03, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Medmyco
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Page:Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Toronto/HMB436H Medical and Veterinary Mycology (Fall)

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'''Comment/question: This page is actually edited through the wikiedu dashboard editor which provides only a very rudimentary editor. Although there is a provision to differentiate code, it screws up the formatting for lines longer than the default width of the window. Because of this glitch, there are a number of place where I was unable to properly mark code.'''

Medmyco (talk) 17:35, 3 September 2016 (UTC)


 * It seems I cannot edit that page so that my edits will stick; thus I'll just leave a couple of remarks here:
 * You will want to make use of the template to have templates you write about properly displayed. For example, you'll note that you often advise people to add "the following code to the list in your  template", but the  part is not displayed. If you write   instead, what will be displayed is this:
 * The same goes for . Make that , and you'll get:
 * To display the citation template code, you may want to try  tags. Just make sure to add a closing.
 * What triggered ReferenceBot was the entry for the Kwon-Chung book; there you gave both  and   parameters; that's redundant.
 * I have made some changes to the course page here, but I think they'll soon be overwritten by the dashboard again. Still you may want to take a look at what I did there. Huon (talk) 18:42, 3 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Huon, thanks for picking up the issue with the Kwon-Chung reference - I'll correct that, but you should be aware that the page is not intended to display through the link you're using, the active link is here. Medmyco (talk) 20:21, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – RayPointer
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Page: The Rotoscope

Diff: Not applicaple

Comment/question: The reference to an alleged "copyright violation" for quotations posted by someone from "Finding Ko-Ko" are from my own writing, but not referenced. Further, the vast majority of information being posted has been paraphrased or incorrectly phrased by amateur researches in an effort to avoid "plagiarism" and are also not properly referenced.

As the originator of the text in question, I have the right to post the correct content from my own sources and knowledge of this subject. For the record, I have a forthcoming book due out the end of the year, "The Art and Inventions of Max Fleischer: American Animation Pioneer" that should be the most comprehensive information source ever published. And any references from it should surely set a higher standard for the benefit of Wikipedia and those doing serious research. I look forward to your reply.

RayPointer (talk) 13:53, 18 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Firstly, this is not a ReferenceBot issue but appears to be about something that happened in 2008 or 2009. This may not be the best venue to discuss those events. Secondly, you would need to provide evidence that you are indeed the copyright holder of that content and are willing to release it under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License. To us you're just someone who happens to have chosen "RayPointer" as their Wikipedia username; we'll need evidence that you really are Ray Pointer. See Donating copyrighted materials for details. I apologize for the inconvenience, but you'll appreciate that we are only trying to save you from possible impostors. Thirdly, you may want to check out WP:Identifying reliable sources and WP:SELFCITE. I'm not particularly familiar with the website where your text was originally published, but I rather don't think it was subject to the editorial oversight Wikipedia would require of reliable sources, and it did not cite any references of its own. Merely basing content on your personal experiences would be considered original research, and Wikipedia is the wrong venue for that. Huon (talk) 20:03, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Medmyco
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Page:Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Toronto/HMB436H Medical and Veterinary Mycology (Fall)

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'''Comment/question: This page is actually edited through the wikiedu dashboard editor which provides only a very rudimentary editor. Although there is a provision to differentiate code, it screws up the formatting for lines longer than the default width of the window. Because of this glitch, there are a number of place where I was unable to properly mark code.'''

Medmyco (talk) 17:35, 3 September 2016 (UTC)


 * It seems I cannot edit that page so that my edits will stick; thus I'll just leave a couple of remarks here:
 * You will want to make use of the template to have templates you write about properly displayed. For example, you'll note that you often advise people to add "the following code to the list in your  template", but the  part is not displayed. If you write   instead, what will be displayed is this:
 * The same goes for . Make that , and you'll get:
 * To display the citation template code, you may want to try  tags. Just make sure to add a closing.
 * What triggered ReferenceBot was the entry for the Kwon-Chung book; there you gave both  and   parameters; that's redundant.
 * I have made some changes to the course page here, but I think they'll soon be overwritten by the dashboard again. Still you may want to take a look at what I did there. Huon (talk) 18:42, 3 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Huon, thanks for picking up the issue with the Kwon-Chung reference - I'll correct that, but you should be aware that the page is not intended to display through the link you're using, the active link is here. Medmyco (talk) 20:21, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – RayPointer
User:A930913 yes

Page: The Rotoscope

Diff: Not applicaple

Comment/question: The reference to an alleged "copyright violation" for quotations posted by someone from "Finding Ko-Ko" are from my own writing, but not referenced. Further, the vast majority of information being posted has been paraphrased or incorrectly phrased by amateur researches in an effort to avoid "plagiarism" and are also not properly referenced.

As the originator of the text in question, I have the right to post the correct content from my own sources and knowledge of this subject. For the record, I have a forthcoming book due out the end of the year, "The Art and Inventions of Max Fleischer: American Animation Pioneer" that should be the most comprehensive information source ever published. And any references from it should surely set a higher standard for the benefit of Wikipedia and those doing serious research. I look forward to your reply.

RayPointer (talk) 13:53, 18 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Firstly, this is not a ReferenceBot issue but appears to be about something that happened in 2008 or 2009. This may not be the best venue to discuss those events. Secondly, you would need to provide evidence that you are indeed the copyright holder of that content and are willing to release it under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License. To us you're just someone who happens to have chosen "RayPointer" as their Wikipedia username; we'll need evidence that you really are Ray Pointer. See Donating copyrighted materials for details. I apologize for the inconvenience, but you'll appreciate that we are only trying to save you from possible impostors. Thirdly, you may want to check out WP:Identifying reliable sources and WP:SELFCITE. I'm not particularly familiar with the website where your text was originally published, but I rather don't think it was subject to the editorial oversight Wikipedia would require of reliable sources, and it did not cite any references of its own. Merely basing content on your personal experiences would be considered original research, and Wikipedia is the wrong venue for that. Huon (talk) 20:03, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – 108.226.40.215
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Page:

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Comment/question:

Hi - I am not very sophisticated with the Wikipedia code. I copy and paste and then check the result. The edit to this page, where I added episodes which were not yet included, seemed to work for me. I apologize. Perhaps you can have a look and let me know what I did incorrectly so I won't repeat the mistake.

108.226.40.215 (talk) 20:35, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
 * If this is about this edit, that has since been fixed. Otherwise I unfortunately cannot tell what it's supposed to be about. Huon (talk) 23:59, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Wiki9900999
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Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_M._Brown

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Comment/question: The bot has noted a broken link (thanks, bot!) but the page is under review because of copyright infringement, so I'm waiting for to resolve before moving on to links. Thanks! Wiki9900999 (talk) 16:17, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

Wiki9900999 (talk) 16:17, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
 * OK. Huon (talk) 23:59, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Marica Massaro
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Page: Avezzano

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--Marica Massaro (talk) 07:02, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks for fixing it. Huon (talk) 20:19, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Floridaboy321
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Major_Arena_Soccer_League Page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=741094464 Diff:

don't understand what is wrong to fix, would fix if i could, as rio grande valley flash 2012-2013 should be there Comment/question:

Floridaboy321 (talk) 03:02, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Lourdes fixed it with this edit. I have to note the article is rather short on references, though. Huon (talk) 20:19, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – 95.67.105.58
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_photography

Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_photography

Comment/question:

How to fix an issue? Help me please

95.67.105.58 (talk) 09:43, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
 * I have reverted the edit. The source was someone's personal blog, and the point doesn't seem to improve our readers' understanding of stock photography but to drop the name of a comparatively insignificant company. Huon (talk) 20:19, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – 130.225.68.149
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Comment/question: Butler Island page has been vandalized on the edit of 18 September 2016. I'm unable to revert the editing.

130.225.68.149 (talk) 15:05, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Thanks for bringing it up. Huon (talk) 22:42, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Chaya5260
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Page: On the Horizontal gene transfer page, your edit caused an unsupported parameter error

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Comment/question: My changes were quite long on the page Horizontal gene transfer, and I cannot find the parameter error

Chaya5260 (talk) 20:02, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
 * The unknown parameter was "month=" in reference 48. Fixed by Jonesey95. Huon (talk) 22:42, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – BelBivDov
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Page:Hellman & Friedman

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Comment/question:There is no broken links, the previous editor set up a note in the reference format that is already in the body of the entry

BelBivDov (talk) 20:25, 6 October 2016 (UTC)


 * You removed the section displaying the note, but you didn't remove the note itself. Fixed. Huon (talk) 20:55, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Kacser
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One Thousand Children

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'''I can't find the error, & have left the page alone. the error(??) was not highlighted'''

Kacser (talk) 20:05, 8 October 2016 (UTC)
 * If you check the diff the bot gave you on your talk page (namely this), you'll find a big red error message in the section on "Research and discovery" that says, " Cite error: A (see the help page). " Fixed by Magioladitis. Huon (talk) 14:27, 9 October 2016 (UTC)

DefconBot down
hasn't edited since September 2, 2016. — k6ka  🍁 ( Talk ·  Contributions ) 16:51, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Chaya5260
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Page: On the Horizontal gene transfer page, your edit caused an unsupported parameter error

Diff: I could not find the unsupported parameter error Chaya5260 (talk) 02:12, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

Comment/question:
 * Thanks for the fixChaya5260 (talk) 18:42, 9 October 2016 (UTC)

Chaya5260 (talk) 02:12, 8 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Chaya5260, as I said previously, in the diff the bot gave you, there's a "Unknown parameter |month= ignored" error in reference 48. Fixed by Jonesey95. Huon (talk) 09:51, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – MaggotSupremacy555
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Page: Secondhand Serenade

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Comment/question: The page shows the error, but in the editor everything seems fine.

MaggotSupremacy555 (talk) 09:58, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
 * BGwhite added the missing tag. Huon (talk) 03:52, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Chaya5260
User:A930913 yes

Page: On the Horizontal gene transfer page, your edit caused an unsupported parameter error

Diff: I could not find the unsupported parameter error Chaya5260 (talk) 02:12, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

Comment/question:
 * Thanks for the fixChaya5260 (talk) 18:42, 9 October 2016 (UTC)

Chaya5260 (talk) 02:12, 8 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Chaya5260, as I said previously, in the diff the bot gave you, there's a "Unknown parameter |month= ignored" error in reference 48. Fixed by Jonesey95. Huon (talk) 09:51, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – MaggotSupremacy555
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Page: Secondhand Serenade

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Comment/question: The page shows the error, but in the editor everything seems fine.

MaggotSupremacy555 (talk) 09:58, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
 * BGwhite added the missing tag. Huon (talk) 03:52, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Tony1
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Page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=745620915

'''I'm technically clueless, sorry. I've tried fixes, but nothing seems to work. The anomie bot came in after my original edit, but didn't seem to fix it.'''

Tony  (talk)  10:07, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
 * You changed the minus sign into a dash within the reference names, and - not sure whether that was a side effect of your edit or not - some referece names spelled "Encyclopaedia" with a ligature "æ" while others just had "e". Since those names are invisible to the reader and since dashes and ligatures tend to be rather difficult to type, I have removed those special characters from the reference names. Huon (talk) 01:15, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
 * —thanks for sorting this out! Can't recall whether script or manual edits, both or one or neither. But I'm pinging my script guru, who's around occasionally. Tony   (talk)  02:29, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately a ping will only work if the signature and the ping template are added in the same edit. Still, may want to take a look; the edit in question indeed was script-assisted. Huon (talk) 02:37, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Quetzal1964
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Page:West Coast National Park

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Comment/question:The ref is not correct but I can't see how, can you fix it?

Quetzal1964 12:20, 24 October 2016 (UTC)


 * The problem was that the URL contains a space. Wikipedia is not equipped to deal with such URLs in its external links, and the link did not point to the intended target page because the part after the space was ignored. It took some digging, but Help:URL provided a solution: Replace the space by "%20" (without the quotation marks). Done. Huon (talk) 01:15, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Tony1
User:A930913 yes

Page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=745620915

'''I'm technically clueless, sorry. I've tried fixes, but nothing seems to work. The anomie bot came in after my original edit, but didn't seem to fix it.'''

Tony  (talk)  10:07, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
 * You changed the minus sign into a dash within the reference names, and - not sure whether that was a side effect of your edit or not - some referece names spelled "Encyclopaedia" with a ligature "æ" while others just had "e". Since those names are invisible to the reader and since dashes and ligatures tend to be rather difficult to type, I have removed those special characters from the reference names. Huon (talk) 01:15, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
 * —thanks for sorting this out! Can't recall whether script or manual edits, both or one or neither. But I'm pinging my script guru, who's around occasionally. Tony   (talk)  02:29, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately a ping will only work if the signature and the ping template are added in the same edit. Still, may want to take a look; the edit in question indeed was script-assisted. Huon (talk) 02:37, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Quetzal1964
User:A930913 yes

Page:West Coast National Park

Diff:https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=West_Coast_National_Park&diff=prev&oldid=745830758

Comment/question:The ref is not correct but I can't see how, can you fix it?

Quetzal1964 12:20, 24 October 2016 (UTC)


 * The problem was that the URL contains a space. Wikipedia is not equipped to deal with such URLs in its external links, and the link did not point to the intended target page because the part after the space was ignored. It took some digging, but Help:URL provided a solution: Replace the space by "%20" (without the quotation marks). Done. Huon (talk) 01:15, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

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89.204.137.57 (talk) 03:04, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, but there's no way to tell what issue this may refer to. Thus we cannot do anything about it. Huon (talk) 11:07, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

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89.204.137.57 (talk) 03:04, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, but there's no way to tell what issue this may refer to. Thus we cannot do anything about it. Huon (talk) 11:07, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

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89.204.137.57 (talk) 03:04, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, but there's no way to tell what issue this may refer to. Thus we cannot do anything about it. Huon (talk) 11:07, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Golly58
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Jared Stine (talk) 00:22, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Huon (talk) 19:12, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – ThomasEdistar
User:A930913 yes

Page: Rudolf Otto

Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=746018506

Comment/question: The bot says the reference I added produced an unnamed parameter error. However, I only used the parameters in the basic "Cite Web" template and the page is not displaying an error. I believe the bot reported a false positive and I'm reporting it because it asked that I do so, but no action is needed.

ThomasEdistar (talk) 17:21, 1 November 2016 (UTC)


 * ThomasEdistar, if you check the diff the bot gavve you, the third reference in the "references" section has a red "Text " German philosopher and theologian" ignored" error message because one of the template's parameters itself contained a pipe, which led to everything afterwards being mis-interpreted ass a new, unnamed parameter. Fixed by Quebec99. Huon (talk) 00:54, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – 67.149.169.109
User:A930913, User:Dru_of_Id, User:Bgwhite yes

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jeanne_Crain&action=submit

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I'm not sure what change I made that violated the protocol

67.149.169.109 (talk) 15:07, 2 November 2016 (UTC)


 * If you check what the bot highlighted in its message on your talk page, you'll see that the brackets at the end of the "Thunder in the Valley" link are opening brackets, not closing brackets. That was back in December 2015; the issue has long since been fixed. Huon (talk) 22:05, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – TonyTheTiger
User:A930913 yes

Page: 2016–17 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team

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Comment/question: False positive --TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 15:52, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 15:52, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
 * , not a false positive. If you check the last reference in the reference list in the diff the bot gave you, you'll find that the URL is missing the http:// at the beginning. Fixed. Huon (talk) 21:25, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of User talk:109.255.193.50


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ReferenceBot – 2600:8803:7A00:19:105E:D7AC:BF4D:6047
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Comment/question: I Tried to do the ref the right way but I Made A Mistake.2600:8803:7A00:19:105E:D7AC:BF4D:6047 (talk) 00:36, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

2600:8803:7A00:19:105E:D7AC:BF4D:6047 (talk) 00:36, 13 November 2016 (UTC)


 * You may want to take a look at WP:Referencing for beginners. Finnusertop fixed that reference. Huon (talk) 15:56, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – J.T.W.A.Cornelisse
User:A930913 yes

Page: Monotype typefaces

Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=750389946

Comment/question: "1961for" should be "1961 for" but was not inside a refname, the bot however detected it,

in the other refnames the word "corrporation" was misspelled, and it was used twice...

best wishes J.T.W.A.Cornelisse (talk) 07:32, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for fixing that. Huon (talk) 12:58, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Nannadeem
User:A930913 yes

Page: Hassan Sadpara

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Comment/question: I have checked and found no mistake in ref and contents

Nannadeem (talk) 17:45, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
 * In the edit the bot pointed out, you changed a minus sign in one URL to a space. Fixed. Huon (talk) 23:46, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – RolandJackson
User:A930913 yes

'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice'''

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Comment/question: I haven't vandalized anything I just corrected the order to how it should be

RolandJackson (talk) 18:35, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
 * RolandJackson, then you should explain on the articles' talk pages (such Talk:Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice) why your edits that others disagree with improve those articles. Huon (talk) 23:46, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Israeltefera12
User:A930913 yes

Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_Donald_Trump

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Comment/question: Need help.

Israeltefera12 (talk) 13:21, 5 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Apparently you removed some references that were used elsewhere too. A bot rescued them from an earlier version of the page and fixed the issue. Huon (talk) 23:44, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – AndyFielding
User:A930913 yes

Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_Love_of_Spock

Diff: Sorry, I have no idea what that means.

Comment/question: I have no idea why I received the note, or what it means... Wish I had time to find out, and I'm sorry if I created any problems.

AndyFielding (talk) 07:35, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
 * You removed - likely by accident - the  at the end of a   tag. It was since fixed by a bot. Huon (talk) 13:07, 11 December 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Andria411
User:A930913 yes

Page: References I added to the page to provide more references for the content in the article.

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Comment/question: The references highlighted by the reference bot are not wrong. I added them to because of a request for more references to support the content on the page. The references are legitimate news organizations that refer to the Yvette Simpson, a politician in Cincinnati.

Andria411 (talk) 19:34, 12 December 2016 (UTC)


 * When you check the diff the bot gave you, you'll find a big red "cite error" error message. So there was indeed something wrong; apparently the URL and the tag got mixed up, breaking the tag. Fixed. You may want to take a look at WP:Referencing for beginners; the video at that page explains how to easily create nicely-formatted footnotes without bothering with the code at all. Huon (talk) 00:51, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Supergodzilla123
User:A930913 yes

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Supergodzilla123 (talk) 03:04, 13 December 2016 (UTC) I don't know how my edit was wrong about Beauty and The Beast 2017. Because Adrian Schiller has been cast as Monsieur D'Arque. If you don't believe me, look on IMDB, his name is on there as Monsieur D'Arque. I was just telling the truth there. I was not making false edits.
 * As a reference for that information you added the code . That code is meant to create a footnote that links again to a reference named "SchillerCast" defined elsewhere in the article. However, the article didn't have any other reference of that name; thus the code you added couldn't work and just led to a red warning message in the references section. Fixed. Huon (talk) 00:51, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Sirmylesnagopaleentheda
User:A930913 yes

Tabbouleh

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Sirmylesnagopaleentheda&diff=755055252&oldid=750821451

ReferenceBot pointed out an error in referencing. In fact I noticed the error as soon as it was made and corrected it.

Sir Myles na Gopaleen (the da) (talk) 09:50, 16 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Unfortunately your repair still left a space within the URL, thus not repairing it entirely. Fixed. Huon (talk) 00:51, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Elinruby
User:A930913 yes

Caifanes:

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unable to find the broken reference:

Elinruby (talk) 06:05, 17 December 2016 (UTC) I'm not quite sure what happened in your edit, but you effectively added a second copy of the entire article, with minor differences. If you scroll down to the very bottom you'll find the red error message the bot notified you about. That was implicitly fixed when Bgwhite reverted the duplication. Huon (talk) 00:51, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – 178.39.122.125
User:A930913 yes

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I made a change to the Fentanyl page.I removed a reference that did not support the statement that it was attached to. The sentence was "The fentanyl patch is one of a small number of drugs that may be especially harmful, and in some cases fatal, with just one dose, if used by someone other than the person for whom the drug was prescribed." The reference is to an advice webpage at http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/BuyingUsingMedicineSafely/EnsuringSafeUseofMedicine/SafeDisposalofMedicines/ucm186187.htm that includes the statement "There is a small number of medicines that may be especially harmful and, in some cases, fatal with just one dose if they are used by someone other than the person for whom the medicine was prescribed."

There was no mention *whatsoever* of fentanyl anywhere on that webpage.

The reference seems to be there only in connection with copying the words nearly verbatim (while changing them enough to say something different!), but it does *not* support the statement. So the statement still needs a proper citation.

178.39.122.125 (talk) 21:38, 17 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Strange. To me the source says: "For example, patients in assisted living communities using fentanyl patches for pain should immediately flush their used or unneeded patches...", giving them as an example of those especially harmful medications. Seems relevant enough. Huon (talk) 00:51, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Docolusanya
User:A930913 yes

Page: Corruption in Canada

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Comment/question: The section was extermely biased, so I deleted it. I do not see where I may have caused a referencing error.

Docolusanya (talk) 00:27, 18 December 2016 (UTC)


 * When you removed that section, you also used the single place where a list-defined reference was used. That produced an error message because it left the article with a list-defined reference that wasn't used anywhere any more. Fixed. Huon (talk) 00:51, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – JGabbard apparent false positive
User:A930913 yes

Page:Don't Stop (Fleetwood Mac)

Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=755883612

Comment/question: The link contains what looks like two URLs combined in error, but both are required to reach the target page.

JGabbard (talk) 02:00, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
 * What you gave as an URL was " http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.5502a&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.5502a.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.5502a Bac-lac.gc.ca ". The problem is the space near the end and the part following it. I don't think that's actually part of the URL; it's not needed, and it causes that error message. Fixed. Huon (talk) 00:51, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

Reference errors on 1 December
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 * On the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin page, [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=752467134 your edit] caused an unsupported parameter error (help) . ([ Fix] | [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Help_desk&action=edit&section=new&preload=User:ReferenceBot/helpform&preloadtitle=Referencing%20errors%20on%20%5B%5BSpecial%3ADiff%2F752467134%7CSocialist Unity Party of West Berlin%5D%5D Ask for help])


 * Hello, ReferenceBot. I have fixed it now, thanks. 86.126.9.183 (talk) 11:16, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Tappinen
User:A930913 yes

Page:Independence of Finland

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Comment/question: I changed a redirect to a real page (following a separation we made in fi-wiki) and I think bot got confused. --Tappinen (talk) 06:26, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

Tappinen (talk) 06:26, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
 * No. The issue the bot pointed out was this. Huon (talk) 02:32, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Nyc2cents
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Thomas H. Stix page: saying edited material is copyrighted material. Some of the material is from a PR release, which by its nature is in the public domain. Please read the edits. If necessary, I can get permission from Princeton University, it is their PR release about Thomas H. Stix, upon his death. He was a preeminent professor at Princeton for over 40 years. Thank you. Susan Stix Fisher susanhome@gmail.com (edited under my account, nyc2cents@gmail.com) Page:

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Nyc2cents (talk) 00:23, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I think you misunderstand the term "public domain", which has a specific meaning in copyright law. It's not "has been published". That said, press releases are not appropriate references for biographical content anyway. Huon (talk) 02:32, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Desidynamite
User:A930913 yes

Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:5_Weddings

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Comment/question: Some links were broken which I fixed

Desidynamite (talk) 06:44, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I've turned some of the references into inline citations. Personally I doubt the film is notable yet, and I'd really like to know how you could tell the plot of an as yet unreleased movie in that much detail. Not from the sources, that's for sure. Huon (talk) 19:51, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – 2604:2000:DDD4:AD00:789C:B1C7:C3CF:8710
User:A930913 yes

Page: Haplogroup T-M184

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Comment/question: How can I prove it's West Asia not North of the Aldine Belt

2604:2000:DDD4:AD00:789C:B1C7:C3CF:8710 (talk) 01:03, 1 January 2017 (UTC)


 * That should be discussed at the article's talk page. ReferenceBot notified you (whoever of the edit-warring parties you are) because in the process of that edit-war, various problems with references emerged. They all have been fixed by now. Huon (talk) 03:22, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Activist
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Page: United States House Committee on Ethics

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Comment/question: I didn't modify the highlighted URL. However, after receiving your notification, I did go to Common Cause, and using their website's search engine, determined that the URL did not produce a story: It no longer existed on their site, though the phrase "DeLay's transgressions" was contained twice in other stories. So the problem is a dead link with which I had nothing to do. Activist (talk) 02:39, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

I see. Thanks for catching that. Not sure how I managed to do it. Activist (talk) 05:16, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

Activist (talk) 02:39, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Activist, if you check the diff again, you'll find that you added a line break within the URL, something you fixed in your next edit a day later. Huon (talk) 02:06, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

BracketBot
What happened to BracketBot? I miss the little bugger. Yngvadottir (talk) 18:15, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
 * And here I was wondering why there were so few BracketBot-related messages... Unfortunately only A930913 themselves can re-start the bot, and they're not particularly active any more. Huon (talk) 00:51, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – 82.38.106.207
User:A930913 yes

Page:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruithof_curve

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'''Comment/question: Reference 12 has an error code. I can not see the reason why - the reference is correct and the DOI links to the correct article'''

82.38.106.207 (talk) 00:25, 17 January 2017 (UTC)


 * There was a strange character before "http://". Fixed. Huon (talk) 00:08, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Quisqualis
User:A930913 yes

Page: Baruch Samuel Blumberghttps://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=760298045

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Comment/question: I broke the ref syntax, could not fix. Asked for help on article talk page. Help accepted. Thanks.

Quisqualis (talk) 02:24, 17 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Fixed. See talk page. Huon (talk) 00:08, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

BracketBot – Newyears
User:A930913, User:Dru_of_Id, User:Bgwhite yes

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Newyears (talk) 21:20, 19 January 2017 (UTC)Why did you delete my add? Who are you anyway? Tim Berners Lee is a personal friend and was an honoree at the Telluride Tech Festival in 2002. I have added this before and it also disappeared. Tim, Nancy and Ben spent three days in Telluride with us and it was a wonderful experience and I have stayed in touch with Tim for years. Vinton Cerf was also an honoree that year as was Noble Prize winner Murray Gell-Mann. My name is Scott Brown and my email is scottvanbrown@gmail.com I am the founder and Chairman of the Telluride Tech Festival. Scott V. Brown


 * Firstly, BracketBot is an automated program that notified you more than a year ago because your edits caused mismatched brackets (and parentheses. The bot did not revert your changes; that was done by Loriendrew and Fountains of Bryn Mawr. They gave the reason as "OR", which is short for "original research", something Wikipedia does not allow. This is an encyclopedia, not a personal journal or group blog, and we cannot just rely on your personal recollections of that wonderful experience. You will need to provide reliable published sources for your additions that allow our readers to verify the content on their own. Huon (talk) 19:29, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – The Master
User:A930913 yes

Knoxville College:



'''ReferenceBot left a notice on my talk page that the above edit introduced a URL error, but I can't figure out what the error is. I added three references using the standard template, the URLs as entered all seem to work just fine and I'm not sure what's up:'''

The Master ---)Vote Saxon(--- 04:14, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
 * The Master, if you check the diff the bot gave you, you'll see a red error message in the references section, reference 17, because the URL lacks the "http://" prefix. Fixed. Huon (talk) 19:29, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
 * OK, got it. Thanks! The Master ---)Vote Saxon(--- 22:51, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – RocketDwiki
User:A930913 yes

Page:Joy-Ann_Reid

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Comment/question:don't see how this created a URL error, I added non-URL text outside of any URL tags

RocketDwiki (talk) 06:59, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I'll fix the error you introduced and comment on your user talk page. Huon (talk) 11:18, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
 * John of Reading already did both. Huon (talk) 11:52, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Thalterman
User:A930913 yes

Page: Highlands County, Florida

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Comment/question: On the Highlands County, Florida page, your edit caused an unnamed parameter error according to ReferenceBot. I (Thalterman) checked and rechecked the site several times and my edit was not an unnamed parameter error as it was referenced appropriately. This must be a false positive reported to you from ReferenceBot. I'm reporting this to you per ReferenceBot's instruction. My apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused you.

Thalterman (talk) 04:13, 30 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Thalterman, if you check the diff the bot gave you, you'll find a big red error message in the "References" section caused by your edit. You did add a URL, but did not name the parameter. You may want to take a look at WP:Referencing for beginners on how to easily creating nicely-formatted footnotes. Fixed by Jonesey95. Huon (talk) 23:28, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – 22nd Century and Beyond
User:A930913 yes

They are requesting all of my year pages to be deleted. I am wanting to contribute to Wikipedia and give information about as many years that are not listed as possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:22nd_Century_and_Beyond

'''Comment/question:There is no vandalism going on here. But people think that my articles should be deleted.'''

22nd Century and Beyond (talk) 00:22, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Firstly, this is not a ReferenceBot issue. Secondly, it has been discussed in excessive detail on your talk page already. Huon (talk) 19:55, 2 February 2017 (UTC)