User talk:Quuux

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Re: Manual DOI Source?
Thank you for your work with OAbot. I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to do, but the answer is that at the moment we do not allow to select from the queue. We'd like to have such a feature but that would need some clarity on the use cases and some change to the backend: T173169.

If you want to select some (kind of) DOIs to work on, I can help with some semi-manual work. For context, this is the list of the top suggested DOIs in the suggestion queue (some are actually bad so I'll remove them now): 862	10.1111/cla.12182 269	10.3897/zookeys.2.3 204	10.1016/j.sajb.2013.05.001 123	10.1006/geno.2002.6830 119	10.1016/j.cell.2005.08.029 97	10.1016/j.cell.2005.08.029 66	10.1038/nature02399 62	10.1016/j.cub.2004.07.051 52	10.1016/j.cub.2004.07.051 43	10.1371/journal.pone.0010388 40	10.1037/1089-2680.6.2.139 36	10.1071/IT9960663 35	10.1093/dnares/9.3.99 32	10.1093/glycob/cwx089 31	10.1007/s13225-013-0259-0 30	10.4289/0013-8797.119.1.90 30	10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61728-0 30	10.1016/j.simyco.2016.10.001 28	10.1007/s10764-008-9317-y 27	10.1093/dnares/5.3.169 25	10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3537[1:TNGOOR]2.0.CO;2 25	10.11646/zootaxa.3683.4.1 25	10.1111/boj.12047 24	10.3390/land8050082 24	10.1093/glycob/cwx089 23	10.1086/368241 23	10.1016/j.erss.2018.10.018 23	10.1007/978-3-642-27875-4 22	10.1051/0004-6361/200810788 22	10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61728-0 Nemo 08:05, 22 August 2019 (UTC)


 * What I mean is an option to just paste a DOI into the OAbot page and have it find the URL, rather than using it on a wikipedia page. I edit pages that have a DOI and i want to find links without saving the page each time to run it.
 * Quuux (talk) 08:08, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
 * That's what Unpaywall and Dissemin are for, OAbot is only a reuser of their data. You can resolve the DOI like this: https://oadoi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2005.08.029, https://dissem.in/10.1016/j.cell.2005.08.029 . Nemo 09:16, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

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Yo AWB
Please stop making any sort of mass automated change per WP:COSMETICBOT. This didn't seem to actually be a substantive edit.

,, or whomever- please review. I have to sleep now to get up for school tomorrow. &#8211; MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 05:28, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry,, trying to fix spurious characters in citations, and didnt have the regexp right. Quuux (talk) 05:31, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
 * for Category:CS1_errors:_invisible_characters Quuux (talk) 05:36, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Actually, no, you should stop a sizeable portion of your edits. Making the changes I'm seeing right now are likely to get people yelling at you (and I'm not happy about 2 of the 3 changes of whitespace-only). E.g. in this edit, it is:
 * More-or-less inappropriate to remove the block spacing in the infobox. I don't have personal issue with it, but it is a) a whitespace-only change and b) likely to get someone else unhappy with you.
 * Stop changing &lt;br> to &lt;br />. Both are valid HTML and wikitext.
 * Stop changing  to reflist. That is also valid wikitext and has other benefits as well, namely that it integrates better with VisualEditor.
 * Please remove those changes from your F+R set. --Izno (talk) 05:41, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
 * No problems, I've updated my code. Quuux (talk) 05:44, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I've trimmed it down to just looking for zero width and replacement characters in templates, plus newlines inside parameters (split titles etc.) and will closely watch the diffs. Quuux (talk) 05:58, 7 September 2019 (UTC)

[Thank you for the ping] Quuux, I'm glad that you still have access to WP:AWB. When I finish with class, I'm going to give you some good advice about how best to use it. It's a really powerful tool, and it isn't standard for newbies to get access. &#8211; MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 12:32, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I am mainly interested in fixing citations, so I was thinking the extra cosmetic stuff was a bonus, and didn't realise it would be contentious. I'll stay in my lane :) Quuux (talk) 01:36, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Nah nah nah. Don't be like that Quuux. Where you went wrong was just not running general fixes but instead making your own thing. For the most part, you can always run general fixes if you make a non-cosmetic change, plus it has the added support of the software and pre-established consensus that those changes are normally okay (again only if they come with non-cosmetic ones). Fixing citation errors is a noble goal, and you should take pride in upholding one of Wikipedia Five pillars through your work (namely WP:Verifiability). Just test your regex patterns out a bunch of times and be cautious you are always making non-cosmetic changes with your cosmetic ones. You'll do great! :D &#8211; MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 04:11, 8 September 2019 (UTC)

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citation template errors at Circus Maximus
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Hello Izno, I'm sending you this in the hope you'll know what to do about it. A bit of a cheek on my part but I saw your name on User talk:Quuux. Quuux doesn't seem to be around on any regular basis (to judge by their contribs list). You seem like you'd know what to do. Copy follows. Haploidavey (talk) 06:30, 4 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi Quuux, I just noticed a problem with some refs templates at the above article. I've no idea what it is or how to fix it. It seems to have originated with changes you made, way back - and has carried through. I thought it possible that some aspect of the templates you used has been changed since then. I have almost zero capacity (the most dangerous capacity of all!) to deal with templates in any way that doesn't cause ructions or break the Wiki, which is why I avoid using them whenever possible. Could you please help out and fix the problem? Thankee! Haploidavey (talk) 08:38, 3 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Just in case you're not around (per your contribs list, you might well not be), I'll post a copy of this to User talk:Izno, who confesses gnomishness and might be able or willing to help. It also occurs to me that other articles might need looking at for similar problems. Haploidavey (talk) 06:13, 4 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Quuux, I guess you're familiar with Citation templates but even if so, please note the following extract: Because templates can be contentious, editors should not add citation templates, or change an article with a consistent citation format to another, without gaining consensus; see WP:CITECONSENSUS and WP:CITEVAR. You didn't seek consensus for the use of a citation template at Circus Maximus. If you'd asked, I would have objected, for the reasons I've given above. Haploidavey (talk) 07:52, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

Now fixed. Cheers Haploidavey (talk) 15:15, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

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