User talk:Citation bot/Archive 34

Handle cite news better
I see that the www.mdpi.com URLs should probably be trusted. Will add. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 14:19, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
 * consider frontiersin.org, plos.org, sciencedirect.com and onlinelibrary.wiley.com as well. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 23:35, 29 October 2022 (UTC)

Bot corrupts characters
I am trying to figure out that. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 00:28, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Temporary fix in place. But it reduces bots powers. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 00:28, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

Stalled job?
Getting "Run blocked by your existing big run" when I try processing in category. Weird because I'm not running anything. --BorgQueen (talk) 02:31, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Should be fixed now. I also think I know why this happens.  AManWithNoPlan (talk) 12:06, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Why does it happen? Something I did? --BorgQueen (talk) 12:08, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Sorry but it's happening again. --BorgQueen (talk) 12:59, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Hmm, it suddenly got unstuck and doing the task now. Interesting. --BorgQueen (talk) 16:28, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
 * That problem seems to be beyond our control, since the servers do what they want to and also run other tasks. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 19:28, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

Is this a bug? I don't know...
In this edit to President's Dining Room, a posted URL in a citation was twice altered from https://books.google.com/books?id=cC4Akk8UKNoC&pg=PA335#v=onepage&q&f=false to https://books.google.com/books?id=cC4Akk8UKNoC&pg=PA335. The issue is that the actual URL is the first one, the one that has "#v=onepage&q&f=false" at the end. If a reader clicks on https://books.google.com/books?id=cC4Akk8UKNoC&pg=PA335, the browser or Google adds on the (now-missing) code of "#v=onepage&q&f=false" before bringing up the cited source...so that URL seems correct to me. Is this a bug? Not really sure so I thought I would post here and ask. Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 14:38, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
 * There are technical reasons to prefer the shorter URLs. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 16:14, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Ok?... But what are they? Is there a "Technical reasons for Dummies" explanation for the non-techie that I am? It just somehow doesn't seem correct to truncate the actual URL... Shearonink (talk) 02:11, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
 * One of the simplest reason is when you print things, shorter urls are much more convenient / less space-y. Another is that pointless clutter is pointless, and it makes the edit window easier to read without a bunch of pointless "#v=onepage&q&f=false" to every url. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 04:44, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
 * So. Even though the "#onepage(etc.)" is what the shorter URL actually resolves to, that doesn't matter because it doesn't matter. (I'm wondering...if it's pointless why does that bit even exist?) I suppose in terms of memory/databases/storage a few bytes of code can add up in an endeavor the size of Wikipedia so we technically prefer the shorter URLs. But the longer URL are not exactly incorrect - We just prefer the shorter ones. Do I have that right? Shearonink (talk) 06:04, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
 * it is not just a preference. It makes editing easier.  It makes printouts better.  The #part is prone to changing over time and is unstable, and thus should not be used.  There is one specific case where stuff after the # does matter and the bot makes sure that it is there (and even adds it back when people have removed it).     AManWithNoPlan (talk) 20:33, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

Removal of blank parameter can't be saved as the only edit, the bot should skip saving
In this edit, the bot only removed an empty parameter which made no visual change to the article. See COSMETICBOT. Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 23:29, 26 October 2022 (UTC)
 * looking at that part of the bot. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 21:21, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
 * some improvements made, so somewhat . AManWithNoPlan (talk) 19:59, 8 November 2022 (UTC)

Work parameter in

 * The solution here is to add the missing newspapers to the list of newspapers. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 00:13, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
 * And to not make a cosmetic edit. --Izno (talk) 01:11, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Given it only happens to The Washington Post (and a few other papers, but I haven't seen them done to other major U.S. dailies), perhaps just removing it from the bot's assignments would be best.  Sounder Bruce  03:34, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
 * If it were done with another edit, I'd be fine with this - but as it stands it is the same issue as "§ Removal of blank parameter can't be saved as the only edit, the bot should skip saving" above. Only edit made was cosmetic without visual change. Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 22:02, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

Bot changing location of comma incorrectly when changing single quotes from curly to straight
Are you sure? I see that the bot changed:
 * to

and changed:
 * to:

I don't see the bot [moving] the comma outside the quotation marks. Perhaps a different article?

—Trappist the monk (talk) 16:00, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Well, this is embarrassing. Debresser (talk) 20:06, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

Addition of dergipark URL
Seems to conflate a book review for the actual book because of bad metadata for the review. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 17:18, 17 November 2022 (UTC)

Edit does nothing but delete a random space between parameters

 * That wasn't a space, that was some invisible control characters (the sequence &amp;#x00e2; &amp;#x0080; &amp;#x0089; apparently). &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 19:18, 19 November 2022 (UTC)

Drop dx.doi.org URLs duplicating DOI
The bot used to do that, got blocked, and now no longer does that. A few people love their title links. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 20:30, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Ok then. I've been mostly running Citation bot on articles from students, who almost certainly don't care and just generated the citations using some other tool, so the fact that this would be controversial didn't occur to me. * Pppery * it has begun... 21:28, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
 * If you're doing a targeted run, you can always use AWB for that.
 * One link we should considered purging is pubmed however. There will never be an article at the end of that link. Might need and RFC for it though. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 02:24, 24 November 2022 (UTC)

Replaces book with review of book
converts book from to journal article review at

Bot completely changed citation from website to a random journal
I can't figure out how to get the right template, but the dif is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aha_(wasp)&diff=prev&oldid=1126514758

It changed the perfectly fine * to *

The citation template was for the Australian Faunal Directory, not the journal entry. Honestly every experience I've seen with this bot changing pages has been negative...it doesn't help that seemingly it doesn't let people review changes before it publishes the edit.

Umimmak (talk) 19:48, 9 December 2022 (UTC)


 * by blocking that website. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 13:05, 11 December 2022 (UTC)

Caps: Rev Sci Tech Off Int Epiz

 * I'm curious: the official title appears to be Revue scientifique et technique (International Office of Epizootics). I don't know why it's bilingual but shouldn't the French part use MOS:FRENCHCAPS conventions? So "Rev sci tech Off Int Epiz", schizophrenic as that looks? —David Eppstein (talk) 05:22, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
 * There's many weird/non-standard ways to abbreviate / refer to this journal, but "Rev Sci Tech off Int Epiz" is never valid, and "Rev Sci Tech Off Int Epiz" is the closest thing that is valid. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 05:24, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
 * The proper title, btw, is simply Revue Scientifique et Technique. The (International Office of Epizootics) part is mostly database garbage/branding/holdover from old days when the Organisation Mondiale de la Santé Animale was the Office International des Épizooties. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 05:36, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

Bot makes cosmetic parameter-name-changing edits

 * This change is not cosmetic for multiple reasons, but there is the obvious one: please reinspect the display with each version. Izno (talk) 18:30, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

Apply capitalization logic to Turkish / Russian languages too.

 * Same for the Greek language. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 02:04, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

Bug when processing pages containing "arXiv"
Citation bot changes "arXiv" to "ar Xiv". See. Janhrach (talk) 19:59, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Specifically this appears to be happening when the title parameter in a citation contains the word "arXiv"; the bot inserts a space and italicizes the last three letters. Very strange. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:29, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

fixed AManWithNoPlan (talk) 22:16, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

What happened to the one-click bug report button?
I went back in time to click it. Is there something wrong with it? - UtherSRG (talk) 14:19, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
 * It got archived by ClueBot III at this edit. Probably shouldn't have happened.
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 14:29, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

Duplications
Right here the bot unnecessarily added extra "Digital Spy" listings to its refs. They only need to be used once per citation. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 21:33, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Digital Spy is not an agency. The correct change would have been moving what's in agency to website or work. Izno (talk) 22:05, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
 * wontfix. Very rare and GIGO.  I manually fixed all pages. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 20:53, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

(question) removed extra whitespace in citation ( url=) only by ara in cite web
only "removed extra whitespace in citation ( url=)" in Cite web by Automatic Referencing Assistant. code copy pasted from Butyrivibrio proteoclasticus. the author of ara.js was last active 2 years ago. i could not find anything in web template talk page. i did run citations and it did not removed white space in source code mode. is removing white space in url correct? <_> jindam, vani (talk) 06:59, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Such clean up is correct in that case, but not something this bot worries about. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 14:01, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
 * ok, why it does not removed for other parameters? i asked here, because both bots are related to citations. <_> jindam, vani (talk) 15:06, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
 * ARA is not a bot. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 15:16, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
 * wontfix rules for tools and bots are not the same. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 20:54, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Converted template from web to news for web-based site
In the Chrysler Falcon page, this bot converted a reference to the Conceptcarz website to a newspaper, when it is a web-based site only. Kumboloi (talk) 16:36, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
 * AManWithNoPlan (talk) 21:29, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

PC Games is not a journal
See. is correct for this outlet. In the same edit, the bot also converted a review to, although it is not a news piece. IceWelder &#91; &#9993; &#93; 08:23, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
 * https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/commit/4a3f83ad3f2a789aeed8e1aa32f74eebe1a704d5 PC Games AManWithNoPlan (talk) 21:25, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Other one https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/commit/0dabf630dc4b4e9b24c4ec30ce86a37dff4b9ab1 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 21:27, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

Link Wikipedia page
Link the word "PubMed" wikipedia page in Function Summary section. Newyog (talk) 09:35, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

Can't leave comment at YouTube site.
Totally unable to leave comment, nothing, no matter what I, or you technicians try. 49.183.23.59 (talk) 09:44, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

citation expander gadget
Since the day before yesterday, I can't use the gadget because the my browser (Chrome and Edge) display that "Error: citations request failed". In usually, after waiting for about an hour, it works fine if I try again, but in this case it doesn't work. thanks ! SilverMatsu (talk) 02:14, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
 * are we back to the old problem of too many batch jobs running at the same time? — Chris Capoccia 💬 03:09, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
 * looking at the contributions page, it looks like possibly SemperIocundus has all the threads occupied with batch jobs — Chris Capoccia 💬 03:14, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Someone with 11 edits? That's a weird MO. Izno (talk) 04:28, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
 * For what it's worth, I checked because of the weirdness Izno mentioned and the possible abuse of automated processes. They haven't logged into their account in at least 90 days. TonyBallioni (talk) 04:44, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I've blocked the account due to the suspect nature since OAuth is used to verify logins, they can explain what's going on in an unblock request. @AManWithNoPlan, can you dump the jobs? Izno (talk) 05:03, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm having this problem too, right now qnd since about the 1st Jan 2023, fails with 503 Service Unavailable. Sciencefish (talk) 09:12, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I have rebooted the bot to kill all running jobs. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 14:19, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Gadget should now run as its own process. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 14:40, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks, appears to be back to normal. Sciencefish (talk) 15:04, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank-you, everyone ! --SilverMatsu (talk) 15:25, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

Death date
Death date show Iqbal Aslam you (talk) 22:18, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Fails to add bibcode

 * There's a per day limit of bibcode lookups I believe. That's probably what you ran into. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 19:06, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

publisher vs. work, and italicization
for cite web, work is the same as website, and Findlaw is definitely a website. Seems like if you're actually trying to cite the court case, a better template would be cite court, maybe something like: undefined — Chris Capoccia 💬 18:49, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

Grove
This is going to end up under "not a bug" because Citation bot is only re-using the Crossref data which incorrectly lists them as editors. Oxford needs to publish correct data so others can use it. — Chris Capoccia 💬 16:22, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

Feature request
Moving identifiers in templates in the 'id' field to a relevant parameter: would turn out to. I hope this isn't a very hard implementation, but it would be very useful! BhamBoi (talk) 00:12, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Is this actually common? AManWithNoPlan (talk) 02:18, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I see it around particularly when there is a cite journal parameter for it but it is not on by default.
 * Cite journal supports  and   if you go into source mode and add them as an undocumented parameter, but some people just add them in a template (e.g  ) in the generic id field because they don't want to go into source mode and add it that way. BhamBoi (talk) 02:27, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Can you point me to an example that the bot does not do at this time? AManWithNoPlan (talk) 20:03, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
 * In this edit, there were some templates that had  that the bot didn't move to  . I think because s2cid doesn't show up as a parameter in the default visual editor interface for cite journal (Though if you add the param in source mode it works as expected), people add it as a template in the default   field. BhamBoi (talk) 20:25, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
 * s2cid and pmc added to list of convertible templates. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 21:59, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
 * It's fairly common yes. 3 doi, 31 hdl, 15 s2cid, ... &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 22:03, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for checking that! BhamBoi (talk) 22:08, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Done. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 19:46, 15 January 2023 (UTC)

URL deleted
Is there a reason the nature.com URL was deleted, such that only the DOI remains? Is the URL not independently valuable, lest the DOI become broken? --Usernameunique (talk) 01:35, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Could you please provide the article name and a link to the bot's edit? Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 01:51, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Sorry, inadvertently removed it before posting. Added it above. --Usernameunique (talk) 01:57, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Not a bug. That Nature url goes to the same place as  and because free, Module:Citation/CS1 auto-links title with the doi url.  The doi is persistent; the url may change at the whim of some web programmer at Nature.
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 14:19, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Why are DOIs necessarily more persistent than URLs? DOIs break too; I've had to email journals before to restore DOIs that I had included in citations, and then became broken. --Usernameunique (talk) 14:29, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
 * DOIs break when the URL changes, and generally even broke DOIs can still be googled. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 15:57, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
 * True, but doesn't the publisher generally fix doi redirects (as I understand it, only they can) when they change source urls? So long as they do that, the doi is more reliable than the value in url which will be broken until some editor discovers that it is in fact broken.  Sure, the publishers don't always get it right so emails to publishers will always be needed.
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 17:09, 16 January 2023 (UTC)

USGS title to chapter change error (Still)
This is still a problem, can you please give more detail on why you feel its not creating an "empty title" error every time it alters USGS citations incorrectly? See 1977 in paleontology REVISION (Wolfe, J.A. (1977) & Wolfe, J.A. (1968)) for one of many other instances, or the citation bot edits to Klondike Mountain Formation REVISION (Berry, E.W. (1929) & Brown, R. W. (1937)), Eocene Okanagan Highlands REVISION (Brown R. 1936), etc.-- Kev min  § 15:55, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Please post a Diff. I have no idea what you are talking about. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 15:32, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I've posted 4 specifically indicating the citations that are problematic, showing that Citation bot altered USGS report reports resulting in empty=Title errors.-- Kev min  § 15:37, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
 * You posted revisions, not diffs. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 20:23, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
 * (Facepalm) Correct, I posted the Revision that Citationbot generated on each of the pages in question, that displays the errors that Citationbot created, as a result of citationbot making incorrect changes. But okay, here they are

Don't add arxiv DOIs

 * Specifically, these are dois that start with &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 09:06, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

Don't convert cite arxiv to cite journals when only preprints exists
Likely triggered by the presence of the arxiv doi. Those with should be ignored. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 09:13, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

431 errors
They are now fixed. Since no one complained - other than the bots logs - I wonder if it was a real person or was it some automated tool like the google web scraper? AManWithNoPlan (talk) 12:46, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

Randomly changed a cite blog
In this diff, citation bot changed a cited blog to 'cite web', even though it it labeled as a blog on the website and has that in the url. BhamBoi (talk) 08:12, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
 * cite blog should not be used. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 12:43, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Cite_blog AManWithNoPlan (talk) 17:26, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Oh I just checked, is it just a duplicate of cite web? BhamBoi (talk) 19:15, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes. It simply exists to catch typos. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 20:02, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

Wrong date parameter

 * So the page has been updated since our editor looked at it. In that case, the tool should report an error. Unless the page in its original form got archived, how can anyone verify that it ever said anything different from what it says now? To fail to report a date is not a solution, it just papers over the crack. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 09:11, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
 * 2017 is not more recent than 2018.
 * Some websites keep changing the date for misguided SEO reasons (because Google gives higher rank to recent pages, until it gets convinced that you're abusing it). Such websites aren't typically reliable sources, so it's good to spot the trend in the references. Nemo 10:20, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Oh, I've just noticed that I misread the year in the date parameter. (I thought it was 2018.) It's my mistake, sorry. Janhrach (talk) 20:06, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

first/last=El/Pais

 * I could've sworn this isn't the first bug report we've had on this specific issue. Whoop whoop pull up Bitching Betty ⚧️ Averted crashes 21:26, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

via=DOI.org (Crossref)
This is useless filler. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 19:22, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

Not a question about Citation bot but I am trying to understand the archiving of this particular page...
ClueBot III always confuses me, I usually use Lowercase sigmabot III. Anyway, in the archiving set-up for this page it states: {{User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis So...what exactly does the age=2160000 mean? At Template:Setup cluebot archiving it states that
 * archiveprefix=User talk:Citation bot/Archive
 * format= %%i
 * maxarchsize=150000
 * minarchthreads=1
 * minkeepthreads=4
 * age=2160000
 * age=

How many days old a thread should be before archiving. Default: 90 But that obviously isn't the case because of the 2160000...I've tried looking everywhere around here so I can understand this but am having no luck. If someone would post what the "age=" parameters are and where I can find an easy-to-understand explanation that would be awesome. Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 22:53, 29 January 2023 (UTC)


 * @Shearonink: According to User:ClueBot_III/ArchiveThis, the {{para|age}} parameter is "the number of hours a thread can go without a reply before it should be archived".  GoingBatty (talk) 23:58, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Ok, yes, I kind of know what is supposed to happen but if that is true then 2160000 hours = 9000 days . And that isn't the archiving at this page, is it? The last 2 times ClueBot III archived this page was today when the bot archived a post that was posted earlier today and then the bot archived a post from January 26th...I just don't understand when and why the bot is archiving and the code that is posted way up there at the top...Teach me your ways O Wiki Mavens & Coders... Shearonink (talk) 02:58, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
 * {{para|archivenow}} is the key. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 03:09, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
 * As AMWNP implies, you can set at least ClueBot up to archive based on wikitext patterns. (I daren't put the specifics in this section lest the bot archive it. :) Izno (talk) 03:27, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
 * AH! THANK YOU...gawd it was driving me crazy!!! I knew I was missing *something*. Geebus... Shearonink (talk) 03:40, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Such as {{tl|notabug}} Now we wait. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 14:30, 30 January 2023 (UTC)

Crashes on large pages fixed
PCRE JIT does not like large pages, so I have disabled that. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 01:09, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
 * fixed - flag to archive next cycle. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 20:48, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

Kalki
When adding Kalki refs via WP:VE, I will use cite journal, cite web, cite book or cite news since cite magazine cannot be normally added via VE. Once the edit is saved, the citation should be changed from whatever it is to cite magazine. Kailash29792 (talk)  15:51, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
 * fixed AManWithNoPlan (talk) 20:41, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

Cosmeticbot "Misc citation tidying"
My watchlist today is clogged by huge numbers of cosmetic edits with the edit summary "Misc citation tidying", "Suggested by AManWithNoPlan", that appear to consist solely of replacing the template alias jstor with JSTOR. Make it stop. This is not what bots are for. —David Eppstein (talk) 01:19, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
 * fixed, so it will not only do that clean-up. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 02:06, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

Link removal
Was nothing wrong with the Shark net link so I reverted Ilenart626 (talk) 01:06, 9 February 2023 (UTC)


 * This is not a bug, the link is fully redundant with the one generated by the template and is not needed. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 01:29, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Compare
 * &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 01:30, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
 * &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 01:30, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
 * &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 01:30, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

Kalki
From my talk page: The magazine's archives are stored here, and example of a link is this. Kailash29792
 * The problem is that there is no way to get a title. All we can get is: AManWithNoPlan (talk) 12:57, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
 * wontfix AManWithNoPlan (talk) 21:58, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

Kalki
From my talk page: The magazine's archives are stored here, and example of a link is this. Kailash29792
 * The problem is that there is no way to get a title. All we can get is: AManWithNoPlan (talk) 12:57, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
 * AManWithNoPlan (talk) 21:58, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

Bot instantly crashes when running from the edit window's citation button?
Am I the only one with this issue? &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 19:24, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
 * There were technical issues https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/cloud-announce@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/3IPA3YL7XVRF5WRF3RG27EKRRU7NBRLR/ Nemo 20:13, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
 * - seemed like it was all down. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 20:42, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

ISBN added to a book that doesn't have one
You can forward SBN to ISBNs. The SBN 460-03804-4 goes to ISBN 978-0-460-03804-1, i.e. ISBN 978-0-460-03804-1. This will take you to the correct book, , etc... &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 01:57, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

Bot adds authors' names to anonymous articles

 * In the html:
 * The more interesting issue to me is why did the bot change to  and website and publisher to newspaper?  But even that is inconsistent; in this diff the bot changed  to  but kept website.  The bot did correctly change the assigned value   to.
 * It seems to me that for these citations, and The Royal Family are correct.  The bot can't really know if the author names are displayed or hidden so that doesn't seem much of a bug to me.  I seem to recall that there was some recent discussion about that on this page...  You might want to look in the archives.
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 16:13, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
 * The website now has extra code to keep it cite web. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 16:53, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 16:13, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
 * The website now has extra code to keep it cite web. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 16:53, 12 February 2023 (UTC)

Archive URL removal

 * Not sure in what sense the archive is invalid: it worked for me, and by clicking the left arrow I reached a perfectly usable archived version. Yes, the web.archive.org could be improved, but removing it is not an improvement. Nemo 13:04, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
 * The link on the page goes to a dead archive page. Anyway, that is not really a 100% bot edit, since that type of edit requires human approval.  While running.  I am doing a multi-month long run where I approve the titles from the archive, or flag them to be deleted.  AManWithNoPlan (talk) 13:07, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
 * These edits flag pages for a human to figure out what the correct answer is, or if all hope is lost. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 16:54, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes but no, it's far more likely that the edit goes unnoticed. I suggest to remove the wayback URL only if it's total garbage, otherwise just comment it. Nemo 20:06, 12 February 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for revisiting! Nemo 17:57, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

Bot adds publication dates to undated material
These dates are stated in the web pages' HTML. You can check with Ctrl-U or other method to view source in your browser. Nemo 21:29, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

The first one is coming from one of the items in the HTML source (Ctrl + U in Firefox):

The second one has similar:

(The bot should probably prefer the modified_time/updated_time if it is the source responsible, and if it's getting it from Citoid or other ext service maybe an upstream notification would be valuable.)

This metadata is deliberately in that location for the purpose of bots and other systems. Izno (talk) 21:31, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Hmmm. Well, this is interesting to me. Chiming in here as the person who originally added the cites to these articles. The dates that the Bot is adding to the cites would appear to be incorrect in that they are not published on the page with the source material. Also, the date that the Bot is finding would appear to be the date that the material was published onto the web but it might not be the actual date the material was written or the date that the material was published in print. In the case of the Archipedia material on the Ramsdell, that information seems to have originally been published in print in 2012. In any case, is a researcher/WP-editor expected or supposed to always to look up the html dates if material is undated on the page? Shearonink (talk) 16:57, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I usually check the date in the HTML if it's not stated, but one can be forgiven for not doing so. The date in cite web is usually the date of the web page itself. If the date of original publication of the work carried by the web page has some significance, you can instead use cite publication or other cite template with the date of the work, indicating that the URL is just one representation.
 * For the sake of WP:RS, I'd expect editors to know whether they're citing a website or some publication of which the website provides a copy, and ideally they'd use citation templates accordingly, but such details can be addressed if/when confusion arises. Nemo 17:21, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I try to be SO scrupulous and careful when citing whatever reference... Does that "Control-U" thingy work with all laptops? (Yay yet another parameter to remember when info or a webpage "appears" to be undated...) I'd never heard about being able to see the date in the html before. Is it something that only works with PCs or Macs/whatever?... Shearonink (talk) 17:42, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
 * On Windows in Firefox: Ctrl + U is how Firefox does it. It should work in other browsers but the specific key combo may be different. A second way: if you right-click on a page, also provides "View page source". The third way is to open console, which is F12 or also right click and select inspect.
 * Other browsers and platforms may have a slightly different way to access the page source. Izno (talk) 18:40, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Chrome uses Ctrl-U for that purpose too (testing with Chrome 109 in Ubuntu 22.04). Whoop whoop pull up Bitching Betty ⚧️ Averted crashes 23:11, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
 * There is no requirement to hunt down information in the page source, it is simply another way to get the date usually since indeed many pages don't have a displayed date (but of course they all have a publication date). I would suggest leaving the dates if Citation bot adds one, so long as you can verify at least in the page source that the date didn't spontaneously poof into thin air. Izno (talk) 18:47, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

Incomplete cite arxiv conversions
Still not fixed. When you have a journal=arxiv..., convert the cite journal to cite arxiv, throw away the journal, get rid of url and all non-arxiv identifiers, then expand from there. I.e.

Instead of going to this Go to this Then expand &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 22:08, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Multi-currency_pricing&diff=prev&oldid=1139112962
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Multi-currency_pricing&diff=prev&oldid=1139195466
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Multi-currency_pricing&diff=next&oldid=1139195466


 * I am well aware of that, but the bot will not dropping the URLs, so we are stuck. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 00:56, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Why not? It should be easy enough to drop an arxiv url when you have journal=arxiv? &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 01:48, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

Bot makes cosmetic parameter-name-changing edits
This doesn't seem harmful to me per se, but it does add a revision to the page history that doesn't actually change anything. BhamBoi (talk) 06:37, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

Another example of this behavior in. Also don't understand why my username is mentioned in the edit summary. GoingBatty (talk) 06:46, 28 January 2023 (UTC)


 * , asked the bot to run on all links found on your user page. He She did the same with me a while back. It's a very weird use of the bot. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 10:55, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
 * That's she to you. Whoop whoop pull up Bitching Betty ⚧️ Averted crashes 23:15, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
 * My bad, fixed. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 23:40, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

PressReader.com titles
Not sure what the best plan is for these URLs, I'd guess they were added by automatic processes potentially including this one, so I think perhaps having the bot nuke the title without an attempted replacement would be preferable, but if Citation bot could actually resolve these to the correct page, that would be best. Izno (talk) 23:26, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
 * The bot already ignores those URLs since the titles are not grab-able. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 01:27, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

Old bug: updates year for arXiv postprint
No idea what kind of bug is this, but that arxiv preprint isn't for that article. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 07:11, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Hmm. That was User:OAbot in 2019, Special:Diff/891676914. But the bad arXiv still shouldn't have triggered a bad year change. —David Eppstein (talk) 07:34, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Sorry for that. Personally I don't expect Citation bot to clean up my mistakes with User:OAbot. :/ That bug had been fixed quite quickly but some broken edits remain. I'm thinking of proposing a new version of OAbot which would identify such metadata inconsistencies. Nemo 18:55, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

ISBN added to a book that doesn't have one
You can forward SBN to ISBNs. The SBN 460-03804-4 goes to ISBN 978-0-460-03804-1, i.e. ISBN 978-0-460-03804-1. This will take you to the correct book, , etc... &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 01:57, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
 * (Unarchived and removed not a bug). THe fact that an SBN can be forwarded to an ISBN does not mean that it is correct to add an ISBN to a citation for a book does not have one. This book has an SBN, which was already in the citation; the duplicative (and borderline erroneous) ISBN should not have been added. --Usernameunique (talk) 22:26, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
 * The book clearly has an ISBN because ISBNs are designed to be forward compatible with SBNs (add a leading 0 to the SBN and you have the 10 digit ISBN). You don't need to have it printed on the book for the book to have an ISBN. All books with SBNs have ISBNs.&#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 00:43, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
 * The SBN identifier in the template literally adds the zero and does an ISBN search. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 13:46, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

Cinemaexpress.com
This is the URL, but adding it using WP:VE or WP:ProveIt renders "The New Indian Express" in the website field instead of "Cinema Express". So whatever's already been added can be changed appropriately? Kailash29792 (talk)  11:56, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

AManWithNoPlan (talk) 13:54, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

Bot removes title with no alternative
The wrong title is replaced with no title, with is less than ideal, but still an improvement. The PressReader title should also be an error. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 17:49, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
 * I agree that the generic title should be an error, but I cannot see how changing it to no title at all is an improvement. The bot feels the need to edit the article but only changes one error to another. IceWelder  &#91; &#9993; &#93; 07:58, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
 * None-the-less, giving no information (with an error message about the lack of information) is still better than confidently giving wrong information. Both are bad though. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 13:52, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
 * A visible error trackable error is better than a silent error that is untracked. Yes it's ugly. That's a good thing because it makes people want to fix it. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 16:07, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
 * I requested this a day or two ago under the same rationale as Headbomb. I'd rather have an error than the previous title, and "no title error" is good enough for me. Izno (talk) 17:30, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

"Rabbi" is a job title, not part of a person's name
I think you meant Special:Diff/1140124897 is what should happen. And I concur: no titles, ranks, degrees, pre- or post-nominals, etc.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 16:00, 18 February 2023 (UTC)


 * Reminds of this classic: A priest, a minister, and a rabbit walk into a bar... The rabbit says, "I think I might be a typo." -- Green  C  17:54, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Hilarious  AManWithNoPlan (talk) 23:29, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

Citation bot inserting pharmaceutical spam into article space

 * That's hardly a bug. This is called GIGO. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 08:42, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
 * I was very clear in my original report that this is not exactly a bug. However, Wikipedia is not a repository for Viagra and essay-writing scams, and turning it into one, however unintentional, is at best unneeded behavior and at worst disruptive editing. Gnomingstuff (talk) 14:56, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Sify
The URL is this. There may be variants, but sify.com has been the most constant throughout history. Because it is a website, not a publisher, Sify or Sify.com should only be in the website field per cite web and cite news. Kailash29792</b> (talk)  11:13, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
 * AManWithNoPlan (talk) 19:10, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

Citation bot on articles with shortened footnotes
The second edit is not a bot edit - that is tool assisted human edit. The first edit problem seems to be the result of a serious case of GIGO with the vcite and cite templates doubling up. I do not know of any way to detect the footnote problem without actually saving the page. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 16:32, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

Work/Publisher/Agency

 * These changes are all changes that should be expected to use the correct field in the respective templates. Izno (talk) 22:09, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Removal of a live link
A girl in Latvia, the edit summary clearly summarizes why it was removed. Izno (talk) 01:48, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

Bad gateway
Bad gateway page after waiting for 30 minutes for Citation bot to chug away. Five times in a row. Cheers! 05:53, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Seems now. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 13:29, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

Gone
Citation bot suddenly disappeared from my list of tools. Why? Comfr (talk) 06:50, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
 * You must have changed skins or modified your config files or settings. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 13:45, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I did not change my skin or settings. My profile continues to have:  Citation expander: automatically expand and format citations using Citation bot. Comfr (talk) 15:38, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I suggest you turn that feature off and back on again. Other than that, you will need to go to the technical town pump. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 19:42, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

Bollywood Hungama
The URL is this. "publisher=Bollywood Hungama" should be replaced with "website=Bollywood Hungama" in accordance with cite web. <b style="color: black;">Kailash29792</b> (talk)  03:31, 1 March 2023 (UTC)


 * AManWithNoPlan (talk) 20:21, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

Bare URL -> CS1/2 for animaldiversityweb.org needs sci names in title italicized
I reported this before and a change was made, but apparently not the right change. -

The bot ignored errors
The pmc value was in the pmid field. The pages and the date fields were wrong for the supplied doi. The bot didn't fix the pmid and pmc to match the doi. It didn't fix the pages or the date.
 * The bot can't magically fix everything. When you've got the wrong identifiers in place, it doesn't know which is correct thus which information to use. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 01:18, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Even so, the bot added a s2cid that matched the doi but did not match the pmid. Should the bot make any changes or additions when there are inconsistencies? The bot could flag fields that don't match the information it retrieves for the pmid and/or doi so others could try to fix the citation. --Whywhenwhohow (talk) 01:24, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Given that it is not out of the question for an article to have two (I have seen up to four) different DOIs, this is hard to police. Also, there is always the problem of (who is right?).  Lastly, pubmed is not queried in these cases anyway, since the citation is completed already.  AManWithNoPlan (talk) 16:10, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
 * There is only one doi in the citation. The bot could verify that the existing fields are congruent before making changes or additions. What does "the citation is completed already" mean? --Whywhenwhohow (talk) 06:59, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
 * "complete" means there is nothing that the search could add, so it is skipped. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 07:47, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
 * "There is only one doi in the citation" that does not matter. There are lots of citations with the wrong DOI in pubmed or five dois for the same article.  How could one reliably determine that a reference is suspect without pissing off an army of editors by adding bullcrap "this citation is probably wrong" flags to pages.  AManWithNoPlan (talk) 14:23, 11 March 2023 (UTC)

The citation was apparently not "complete" since the bot added the s2cid. It looks like it added the s2cid based on the doi. Since it was making changes, why didn't it update the incorrect pages and date to match the doi? --Whywhenwhohow (talk) 05:27, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
 * because there is no way to know what the correct thing to do is. Is the DOI right or the page numbers right?  AManWithNoPlan (talk) 20:56, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Then how does the bot make decisions about what to add, change, or remove? --Whywhenwhohow (talk) 04:17, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Three errors

 * 10.5284/1028203 is blocked. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 23:13, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Verslag caps fixed. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 23:16, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
 * ISBN is not a bug, since it is valid, just like DOIs, PMID, PMC, bibcode, etc that are added post-publication. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 23:18, 11 March 2023 (UTC)

The bot should use cite press release for specific hosts
Businesswire contains press releases. Same for prnewswire, globenewswire, newswire, et al. cite press release should be used for press releases. --Whywhenwhohow (talk) 04:24, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Should the bot go back and fix existing ones? AManWithNoPlan (talk) 15:41, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I don't think that is necessary but it should use press release going forward. Consider using the "via=" parameter for the distribution site instead of work or publisher. --Whywhenwhohow (talk) 01:38, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

timetravel.mementoweb.org
That seems like an outdated archive. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 13:46, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

Is the bot upper-casing Greek letters at the start of a citation title?

 * I will have to see what the meta-data we get actually is. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 16:15, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

2001: A Space Odyssey (film)
The link was invalid and confused the bot. I have fixed the link. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 02:15, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

Plautus citation
The bot's unnecessary change of "vid" to "id" in the URL to MacCary's and Willcock's book in Plautus produced a 404 "page not found" error. I have changed it back twice. Kanjuzi (talk) 19:38, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

fixed - AManWithNoPlan (talk) 20:23, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

Can Citation bot be instructed to avoid making a specific change?
The bot repeatedly adds a bogus "series" parameter almost every time it edits an article, besides adding a modern ISBN to an 1899 work (with different pagination at times). I don't know how many times I've posted this here, but Also known as:Official records of the Union and Confederate armies is not something that's useful for the bot to be adding, and adding the ISBN to a knock-off reprint is potentially causing pagination and verification issues in a number of articles, including good and featured articles. Is there any way to keep the bot from editing citations to this source, since it consistently makes the two same dubious items. I don't want to have to throw in a bot-stopper template in all of these articles because the bot does sometimes make productive changes to other citations. I do wish bot-ops would be a bit more understanding of how frustrating it is to painstakingly make sure everything is properly referenced, and then to see a bot add crap to citation templates and break verifiability. Hog Farm Talk 14:51, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
 * The series is now black-listed. You can specify | isbn = to block a parameter. I have added 9780918678072 to a black-list, since it seems to point to multiple books.  AManWithNoPlan (talk) 15:11, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much! Hog Farm Talk 15:16, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Hog Farm is not the only writer affected by this bot. I use the Official Records often (it has numerous volumes), and have over a dozen articles with changes to the Reference section. TwoScars (talk) 20:41, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
 * See the hatnote at the very top of the page. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 23:47, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

AManWithNoPlan (talk) 12:25, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

replace templates or values if they contain non english numerals
If possible can you find a way to replace parameters [particularly numbers] which are not in english. Please see my recent discussion. రుద్రుడు (talk) 17:55, 15 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Do you have an example? Because in general that seems inadvisable. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 20:28, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
 * This is I think for https://kn.wikipedia.org/ AManWithNoPlan (talk) 20:40, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
 * @Headbomb On kn:ಚದುರಂಗದ ನಿಯಮಗಳು. see sections:
 * ಹೆಚ್ಚಿನ ಮಾಹಿತಿಗಾಗಿ isbn ೦-೫೧೭-೫೩೧೪೬-೧
 * * ಆಕರಗಳು isbn ೯೭೮-೯೦-೫೬೯೧-೧೩೯-೨
 * We can find literally hundreds of articles where kannada numerals are used in infoboxes and cs1/2 templates under "date format in template" of checkwiki. Use of kannada numerals can be discouraged in templates only or we   can search for alternate solutions. From my point of view, i have seen an issue and reported it. If this can be resolved using this gadget, if not, please consider continue this issue at other appropriate place. Meanwhile i will check whether this is limited to kannada wiki or other dravidian or indo-aryan languages. రుద్రుడు (talk) 02:07, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
 * That seems like a better task for a bot other than Citation bot. I would suggest making a WP:BOTREQ so all cases get picked up. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 02:15, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
 * @Headbomb done రుద్రుడు (talk) 09:39, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

❌ AManWithNoPlan (talk) 12:25, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

Single v. multiple authors
Is there a reason we're making a minor edit to citation templates that have a single author? This diff changes a single author parameter to multiple when there is only a single author. Unless there was a discussion I was unaware of (which is certainly possible), the template docs still indicate last/first for a single author. Is there consensus for the bot to be making such a non-substantive change? Because I've been seeing a lot of these in my watchlist. Butler Blog  (talk) 12:33, 19 March 2023 (UTC)
 * In both examples, there are multiple authors. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 14:50, 19 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I think the better answer (though that is one) is that there is a substantive change in this edit. Izno (talk) 19:06, 19 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Whoops!! I guess I wasn't looking far enough down the list of params and missed the first2/last2 in those - disregard my stupid question - it should be first1/last1 in this case.   Butler Blog   (talk) 20:41, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

Problems with thesis
Thank you for providing actual diffs showing the problems. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AAManWithNoPlan%2Fsandbox4&diff=1145573284&oldid=1145573117 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 21:42, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

Religion in Kerala
Hi,

I'm not sure why this edit was made – it creates a CS1 maintenance problem. Please see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Kerala&diff=prev&oldid=1145839937. Is it a bug?

Ira Leviton (talk) 01:23, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
 * That is bad meta-data from crossref for an article with no author. The bot should not add it. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 11:42, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
 * fixed https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/commit/8513cdb387f792b5cb63095c0f07ce7d0f4c2966 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 13:03, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

Why is this bot putting a link to the CERN library catalog into the URL field?
Why is this bot putting a link to a CERN library catalog record into the URL field of a book? For example, see this edit by the bot, from which I removed the URL. The bot shouldn't be doing this. If the cited item is a text, URLs are generally expected to provide the free full text of the cited item unless there is an  parameter that says otherwise. The CERN library catalog record does not provide free full text. There are thousands of library catalogs, there is nothing special about this library catalog that I can see, and anyway a link to a library catalog record doesn't belong in the URL field when it doesn't provide free full text unless the cited item is a unique archival source that is only available in a particular library. There are many citation template parameters that are for library identifiers, such as OCLC (identifier). The example citation already had DOI, ISBN, and OCLC identifiers in the citation, so there were already many ways to get more information about the book. This bot should not be putting a link to a library catalog record into the URL field of books like this. Biogeographist (talk) 13:32, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Bad OpenAccess database entry. I have reported that. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 14:42, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

Mod archive-url
Special:Diff/1145369883/1147251807 shows modifying a webrecorder.io URL that didn't cause a problem. Special:Diff/1146037335/1147255682 is the same for archive.org .. however, I think it would cause breakage for some providers, in particular archive.today .. You might already know this as I can't find any examples of a problem. -- Green  C  19:46, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
 * It was only supposed to be web.archive.org, but that check failed. I have fixed that. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 20:08, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Checked all the changed ones, and fixed the two that were archive.today archives. And yes, that did break.  AManWithNoPlan (talk) 20:45, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

ToolForge is sick right now
The filesystem has gone read-only and the bot is down. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 12:54, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

It doubles data in stead of making (useless) fix
See action at Western Wall:
 * we had |number= 22
 * slightly more accurate would be |volume= 22 (but who t.f. cares?)
 * now we have |volume= 22 |number= 22, so worse than at the start. QED, baaad bot! Unnecessarily pedantic, AND faulty. Arminden (talk) 17:16, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
 * This is the diff in question. And the fix. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 19:39, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
 * notabug - bad data is existing data. All data added by bot was correct.  AManWithNoPlan (talk) 01:36, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

I applaud the trimming of unnecessary fields from Google Books links.
That's all. —Tamfang (talk) 20:41, 19 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes. But please don't (a) change the domain (Google makes its own call on that anyway) or (b) remove the  tag, which is often there for good reason. Ping, who seems to be the active maintainer. Thanks, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:17, 23 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Anyone finding a ulr that should be trimmed, and is not. Let me know here.  Please note that much of the capability is not yet in the main bot source code branch.  So, I can run it, but you cannot. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 14:43, 25 March 2023 (UTC)


 * notabug - flag to archive. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 17:43, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Stalled on dead(?) dois
I tried to get the bot to add citations from two different dois but it never did anything (granted, the dois and their websites are squirrelly). This happened both with the citation expander gadget in the edit window and when trying from the toolbar. I seem to recall that the bot used to time out after 5 minutes. The dois in question are 10.14255/2308-9628/06.21/1 and 10.32999/ksu1990-553X/2021-17-3-1. Abductive (reasoning) 04:48, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Timing out on such things is hard. They point to http://cbj.kspu.edu/images/PDF/2012tom8/2.pdf and http://cbj.kspu.edu/images/PDF/2021/17.3/3.pdf That is based in Kherson.  The website is quite possibly literally burned to the ground.  *.ru DOIs are also having trouble, because of self-imposed isolation.  AManWithNoPlan (talk) 14:59, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Lol, as long as it's not a problem with the bot... Abductive  (reasoning) 18:04, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
 * For those wondering, you can very easily get the final URL at https://hdl.handle.net/ and specify "Don't Redirect to URLs" AManWithNoPlan (talk) 21:00, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

How does it know page numbers
Like, here it added the pages numbers of the cited work. How does it know these and should I be afraid. Herostratus (talk) 22:56, 8 April 2023 (UTC)


 * You can look them up from other metadata. For instance (although I think this is not exactly how the bot does it) you can see the metadata for a doi by using a Unix/MacOS command line like
 * Other sources like the Astrophysics Data System (used for bibcodes) also have their own protocols for extracting reference metadata in a structured form that the bot can read and use. —David Eppstein (talk) 23:42, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Other sources like the Astrophysics Data System (used for bibcodes) also have their own protocols for extracting reference metadata in a structured form that the bot can read and use. —David Eppstein (talk) 23:42, 8 April 2023 (UTC)


 * notabug - flag to archive. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 17:42, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Valid parameters removed (Robert Kraft)

 * Not a bug. The edit was correct – as far as it goes; not all metadata are available to the bot. PressReader.com - Connecting People Through News is a completely bogus title.  Pressreader.com is hardly any better.  The correct citation template should look something like this:
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 13:00, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
 * The bot correctly added PressReader with a capital "R" - see the PressReader article. GoingBatty (talk) 03:43, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 13:00, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
 * The bot correctly added PressReader with a capital "R" - see the PressReader article. GoingBatty (talk) 03:43, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

titles of non-English periodicals
Nice tool, thank you for making it. I use it regularly to check my additions.

For values in "journal" etc, non-English titles wouldn't need to be capitalized like English ones:. In these cases, there should be a value in language= other than "en".

I noticed it also changes deliberate lowercases in English: and doesn't skip acronyms. Is this wanted? Enhancing999 (talk) 14:44, 9 April 2023 (UTC)


 * There is a list of non-standard caps. I have fixed all the above.  AManWithNoPlan (talk) 13:41, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
 * fixed AManWithNoPlan (talk) 17:41, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Sources in Fort Miami (Indiana)
There is a source listed on the article Fort Miami (Indiana) called: “Poinsatte”. To my knowledge “Poinsatte” is a surname. I could not find any documents or sources elsewhere named “Poinsatte”. What does “Poinsatte” mean or refer to? It is a source listed several times as a citation for parts of the article, yet there is no further information on what it is. Thank you, any help is appreciated.

2705noahgilbert (talk) 06:19, 11 April 2023 (UTC)


 * notabug discuss on the pages talk page. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 12:11, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

te wiki: Citebook to cite book, necessary?
This diff te:మూస:Citebook redirects to te:మూస:Cite book. Changing is necessary? రుద్రుడు (talk) 04:57, 31 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Generally yes, since the ration is 20 to 1, and citebook is considered a minor typo. https://templatecount.toolforge.org/index.php?lang=te&namespace=10&name=Citebook#bottom https://templatecount.toolforge.org/index.php?lang=te&namespace=10&name=Cite_book#bottom AManWithNoPlan (talk) 13:45, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Spacing, please
Guys, I know this is a very small thing, but it'd be really nice if the bot could insert a space before the |s2cid= parameter, so we get

abcdefghijklm |s2cid=123456

rather than the squashed-together

abcdefghijklm|s2cid=123456

I'd imagine this involves little more than putting " " somewhere in the script. Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:14, 1 April 2023 (UTC)


 * You are correct, this is very hard to do - which just seems so wrong. I agree completely.  I will not flag as wontfix and will keep open hope to do this.  AManWithNoPlan (talk) 16:50, 2 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Doesn't seem to be specific to s2cid. The bot currently does its best to replicate the field spacing style already in use when it updates any template.  So if you have, for example, , then you'll get an expanded citation with the s2cid spaced as you prefer.  Having the bot force a different style from the one already being used in a template is probably undesirable.  Equally, any mass changes to the styles of existing citations probably isn't warranted, even if some of them form dense blocks of text with line-breaks in odd places or not at all.  Lithopsian (talk) 17:12, 2 April 2023 (UTC)


 * AManWithNoPlan (talk) 15:21, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

Extraneous addition to title
It was already in the title. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 13:04, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

Login
Usually, I have to go to https://citations.toolforge.org/ twice with a page: once to login (there is no login page) and once to run it. Is there a direct page to authorize it? Enhancing999 (talk) 21:41, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
 * No. The login expires over time. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 22:10, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
 * @Enhancing999: See the instructions at User:Citation bot/use to add the citation expander gadget, which makes it easier to use the bot. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 01:37, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Sadly, AManWithNoPlan (talk) 14:52, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

Untitled_new_bug
whats going on whos this — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.149.177.228 (talk) 04:48, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi there! This is a place to report issues with User:Citation bot.  Did you have an issue to report?

edit summary says: 'Upgrade ISBN10 to 13' but did not
It did change spaces to dashes. Which is an ISBN fix. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 14:59, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Yeah, but that does not equate to Upgrade ISBN10 to 13. It did not do that so the edit summary should not say that it did.
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 15:43, 23 April 2023 (UTC)