Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks/Archive 10

AWB Request
Hi, don't know much about AWB. Could it be programmed to automatically go through Category:Orphaned articles from February 2009, which has about 9000 articles and remove the orphan tag, including from multiple issues templates, from articles that have at least one incoming link from a mainspace article including lists but not redirects or disambig pages, thanks Atlantic306 (talk) 14:06, 6 May 2018 (UTC)


 * , I do this periodically (about once/week) for articles with 3 or more incoming mainspace links excluding redirects. 1 is a very low bar that doesn't fulfill the spirit of WP:ORPHAN, that is, building the web. So I think a good compromise/first step is using 2 or more links and seeing what's left, based on WP:ORPHAN "Although a single, relevant incoming link is sufficient to remove the tag, three or more is ideal and will help ensure the article is reachable by readers.[1]", where [1] links to this discussion advocating for at least 1 incoming link.   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  15:21, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Preliminary stats: of the ~8900 pages currently in Category:Orphaned articles from February 2009, there are ~3000 with 1 or more incoming links, and only 83 with 2 or more.
 * I've notified Wikipedia talk:Orphan & Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Orphanage.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  16:29, 6 May 2018 (UTC)


 * thanks, so do you count disambig pages as a link? Atlantic306 (talk) 16:30, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Disambiguation pages do not count for the purposes of de-orphaning. I don't know if there's a way to automatically exclude them from counting as incoming links, but if there isn't, I would suggest that this not be done. (To be perfectly honest I would suggest this not be done automatically anyway; many orphan-tagged articles are deletion-or-mergeworthy and should be checked out by humans to assess that.) &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 18:05, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks thats what I thought about disambig pages, automation would need to discount them, not sure if that is possible, id prefer to reduce the category to 6000 for checking but it needs consensus, thanks Atlantic306 (talk) 11:24, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm able to ignore pages with incoming DABs and SIAs via Category:All disambiguation pages and Category:All set index articles, which brings that ~3000 figure down to ~1500.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  13:50, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Indexes generally count. All that being said, I still think it's not a great idea to do automatically; some of these articles have little other reason to be visible to humans and will survive as non-notable, promotional, or even copyvios for years to come without humans having a reason to check on them. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 14:22, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I want to +1 PMC's reservations on this, its better for someone to go through and delete poor articles from the olden days, or make serious attempts to figure out if they are worth putting in context, rather than machine removal -- otherwise they might drift unseen without any backlog catching them. Sadads (talk) 22:35, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your research Tom, and thats interesting that indexes count but there isn't agreement at this time for automation of the early deorphaning. Although perhaps it could be done from the other end starting with the most recent orphans and back a few years where the articles supposedly have been more reviewed, thanks Atlantic306 (talk) 20:16, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

AWB request
Hello, has to be merged into  per the recent consensus. But that would require adding Islam as religion to all the pages using Infobox Muslim leader. Can anyone please help in the same? Capankajsmilyo(Talk 02:20, 29 April 2018 (UTC) You can use for assistance. Capankajsmilyo(Talk 02:26, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
 * AWB requests belong at AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:11, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
 * , before I start doing this - let me get this straight. So, with Infobox Muslim leader, there is no religion parameter - because it is ALWAYS set to Islam. However, with Infobox religious biography, the religion parameter must be specified. What I don't quite get is, do you want me to replace all pages using with  or do that later and just add the religion parameter for now? I'm asking this because you didn't specify in the request.--SkyGazer 512  What will you say? / What did I do? 13:18, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
 * That's not necessary though I'd prefer that. If theres no consensus required for it, go for it please. Otherwise, adding religion will be sufficient. Thanks. Capankajsmilyo(Talk 14:11, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
 * A consensus would be required, but didn't the community come to a consensus here? I would assume that if the decision was to merge, then it would be okay to replace it with the new infobox template name. Are there any other parameters besides the religon that are present in one infobox but not the other?--SkyGazer 512 What will you say? / What did I do? 14:38, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
 * None that can delay the merger. Capankajsmilyo(Talk 03:25, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Details would probably be useful anyway. For example, if one has mosque= but the other has place_of_worship= then this could be changed at the same time. Certes (talk) 15:15, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
 * No such differences. Capankajsmilyo(Talk 02:16, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

It's been a long time. Is anyone working on this? Thanks Capankajsmilyo(Talk 03:37, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
 * ? Capankajsmilyo(Talk 02:06, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the ping - I'll probably be able to get to this tomorrow if nobody else has already. Sorry for the late reply - I've kind of been busy with other things (mostly editing other wikis =)) and completely forgot about this.-- SkyGazer 512 Oh no, what did I do this time? 02:09, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

Edit some templates
Would anyone like to make edits in the same vein as on all the templates in Category:Rail transport accident templates? — This, that and the other (talk) 12:19, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ Certes (talk) 12:52, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

Tagging categories for CfD discussion
For this CfD discussion, would someone be willing to copy the tag that is already in Category:Graphs by automorphisms to all other nominated categories? Thanks in advance. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:02, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 08:11, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

Tagging categories for CfD discussion (2)
For this CfD discussion, would someone be willing to copy the tag that is already in Category:Sinhalese academics to all other nominated categories? Thanks in advance. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:07, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 04:46, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

Doctors (BBC TV series)
Links that currently go to Doctors (BBC TV series), which I redirected back to Doctor (disambiguation) yesterday, need to be re-targeted to Doctors (2000 TV series). Thanks. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 15:19, 28 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Yes, they do (per WP:FIXDABLINKS) but each link needs to be checked manually in case it was intended for another series. I'll have a go with WP:DisamAssist. Certes (talk) 15:55, 28 July 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅: mostly already done, only about a dozen fixes needed plus some for the 1952 series. Certes (talk) 16:03, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

The Café (TV series)
I have moved The Café (TV series) to The Café (UK TV series) for necessary disambiguation from other TV programmes with this title. It would be good if all of the links currently pointing to The Café (TV series) could be updated to point to The Café (UK TV series), so that The Café (TV series) can be converted to a redirect back to Cafe (disambiguation)... Thanks! --IJBall (contribs • talk) 16:02, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅, and redirect retargetted. Certes (talk) 21:24, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Sunrise (TV program)
I have moved Sunrise (TV program) to Sunrise (Australian TV program) for necessary disambiguation from Sunrise (New Zealand TV programme). I would like to request that all of the links currently pointing to Sunrise (TV program) be updated to point to Sunrise (Australian TV program), so that Sunrise (TV program) can be converted to a redirect back to Sunrise (disambiguation)... Thanks! --IJBall (contribs • talk) 20:38, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 21:58, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

Mass changes to misspellings of Lieutenant
Just what can be done with mass changes for those misspellings?2605:E000:9149:A600:6891:3BC3:1FEC:41B4 (talk) 05:26, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks; good catch! I see that you've found and fixed several typos such as Lieutenatn, lieutennat and lieutennat lietuenant and Luietenant.  AWB could fix them but it might be hard to do a search for such a variety of spellings.  I'll alert the typo team.  They already have a fix for some misspellings of Lieutenant and may be able to add your findings to the pattern.  Certes (talk) 11:07, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

move categories to target article
all articles listed at Category:Mexican Navy ship names are redirect pages. please, someone, move the category to the target article. also, it will be a great help if by a query we can list this type category and move them to the target page.Yamaha5 (talk) 18:16, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Do we really want to do this?  was a Mexican Navy ship; USS Harlequin (AM-365) wasn't.  Certes (talk) 21:07, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
 * The United States sold (often at prices not much more than they would have gotten for the ship as scrap metal) WWII ships to just about every country in the world that was some level of non-communist ally and wanted them.Naraht (talk) 13:54, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

Tagging categories for CfD discussion (3)
For this CfD discussion, would someone be willing to copy the tag that is already in Category:1000 in politics to all other nominated categories? Thanks in advance. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:06, 11 August 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 09:00, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

Primetime (TV series) and Prime Time
I have moved Primetime (TV series) to Primetime (U.S. TV program) for necessary disambiguation other series with this title (see: Prime time (disambiguation) – I don't believe WP:SMALLDETAILS is enough here). I would like to request that all of the links currently pointing to Primetime (TV series) be updated to point to Primetime (U.S. TV program), so that Primetime (TV series) can be converted to a redirect back to Prime time (disambiguation)...

Similarly, I have moved Prime Time to Prime Time (Irish TV programme) for similar reasons. I would like to request that all of the links currently pointing to Prime Time be updated to point to Prime Time (Irish TV programme), so that Prime Time can be converted to a redirect back to Prime time (disambiguation) (which it should, under R from other capitalisation...).

Thanks! --IJBall (contribs • talk) 23:24, 12 August 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ You may also want to move Prime Time (TV series) — Certes (talk) 00:45, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ – moved to Prime Time (Australian TV series). Thanks for the heads up on that. I'll retarget all of these back to the disambiguation page shortly... --IJBall (contribs • talk) 00:48, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Replace mention of MiszaBots in Template:Auto archiving notice and other similar templates with lowercase sigmabot III
I'd like somebody with AWB or a bot to go through the pages tagged with Auto archiving notice (and perhaps its redirects) above their first header and replace "MiszaBot I", MiszaBot II", and "MiszaBot III" with Lowercase sigmabot III. the MiszaBots are so 2013 and lowercase sigmabot III is the current replacement for them. Such a process shouldn't edit beyond the first heading to prevent cases like this. Thanks! Graham 87 09:01, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
 * And I've just realised that archives and archive box have a bot parameter. Hmmm. I think User:MiszaBot/config is one thing, but having names of unused bots prominently displayed on talk pages doesn't give off a good impression. Graham 87 09:21, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Europe Today
After a requested move discussion, Europe Today has been moved to Europe Today (radio programme). I have just converted Europe Today into a disambiguation page, but there are a number of links pointing to Europe Today that need to be retargeted to Europe Today (radio programme) – so I am hoping the AWB Masters can help out with this task! Thanks! --IJBall (contribs • talk) 17:09, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅: mostly World Service but one for the play. Certes (talk) 17:18, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

Tagging categories for CfD discussion (4)
For this CfD discussion, would someone be willing to copy the tag that is already in Category:1000s establishments in Italy to all other nominated categories? Thanks in advance. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:58, 26 August 2018 (UTC)


 * ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 19:32, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  20:33, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

Tagging redirects for RfD
Please can someone copy the RfD tag at Dervish Movement (1899-1920) (as they all redirect to the same target you can just copy and replace the entire content of the page) to all the redirects listed below, thanks:



Please can you leave a comment at Redirects for discussion/Log/2018 September 9 when the task is complete. Thank you. Thryduulf (talk) 11:03, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ Thine Antique Pen (talk) 11:21, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

Godzilla: The Original Animated Series
Godzilla: The Original Animated Series is R from incorrect name, so all incoming links need to be retargeted to the corrected title: Godzilla (1978 TV series). TIA. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 15:56, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
 * – BrandonXLF   (t@lk)  01:37, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ – BrandonXLF   (t@lk)  01:48, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Change signature on AFD pages
I would like to change my signature on AFD pages from User:Tyw7/t to User talk:Tyw7. The old link was not being counted properly on the AFD stats. --Tyw7 (🗣️ Talk) — If (reply) then (ping me) 16:07, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 04:06, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I think my votes are now being counted properly. Weird bug with AFD stats that won't count votes without links to the talk page. --Tyw7 (🗣️ Talk) — If (reply) then (ping me) 04:09, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
 * As a side note, next time the AfD stats tool isn't picking up someone's signature, an alternative method is pinging me to get the tool fixed. Enterprisey (talk!) 04:44, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

Tagging categories for CfD discussion (5)
For this CfD discussion, would someone be willing to copy the tag that is already in Category:1000 establishments in France to all other nominated categories? Thanks in advance. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:12, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 03:22, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Meera (TV series)
I requested a WP:AWB'er to do this move at WP:RM/TR, but it looks like it didn't happen... I'm requesting all links currently pointing to Meera (TV series) be updated to point to Meera (2009 TV series), so that Meera (TV series) can be redirected back to Meera (disambiguation) as per WP:INCDAB. TIA. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 15:00, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 03:41, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Tagging categories for CfD discussion (6)
For this CfD discussion, would someone be willing to copy the tag that is already in Category:1st-millennium BC conflicts to all other categories nominated for renaming? I have already manually done the ones nominated for merging so these can be skipped. Thanks in advance. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:44, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
 * ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 11:12, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  11:25, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Tagging categories for CfD discussion (7)
For this CfD discussion, would someone be willing to copy the tag that is already in Category:1014 in Ireland to all other categories nominated for merging; and copy the tag that is in Category:1010s in Ireland to all categories nominated for deletion? Thanks in advance. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:44, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
 * ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 14:52, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅. 5 dups found - Category:1497 in Ireland, Category:1264 in Ireland, Category:1244 in Ireland, Category:1268 in Ireland, Category:1200s in Ireland.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  15:20, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

Give Us This Day
I have just moved Give Us This Day to Give Us This Day (1949 film), as this is basically a WP:NOPRIMARY situation, and a WP:DABPAGE needs to be created at the base title (as there are at least 5 other articles to which this title could refer). Before that can happen, all of the incoming links to Give Us This Day need to be retargeted to Give Us This Day (1949 film). TIA! --IJBall (contribs • talk) 15:52, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Similarly, everything that points to Give Us This Day (film) needs to be retargeted to Give Us This Day (1943 film) (though much of that may come from a template navbox that I just updated...). Thanks! --IJBall (contribs • talk) 15:56, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ with the first. Nothing to do for the second. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 18:15, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

One Fine Day (TV series)
One Fine Day (TV series) was insufficiently disambiguated from One Fine Day (U.S. TV series), so I have moved it to One Fine Day (South Korean TV series). However, a number of links currently pointing to One Fine Day (TV series) need to be updated to One Fine Day (South Korean TV series), before One Fine Day (TV series) can be retargeted to the disambiguation page (One Fine Day), as per WP:INCDAB. TIA! --IJBall (contribs • talk) 00:04, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 04:46, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

The Mint (game show)
The Mint (game show) was insufficiently disambiguated (from The Mint (Australian game show)), so I have moved it to The Mint (UK game show). However, many links currently pointing to The Mint (game show) need to be updated to The Mint (UK game show), before The Mint (game show) can be retargeted to the disambiguation page, as per WP:INCDAB. TIA! --IJBall (contribs • talk) 22:45, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
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 * ✅ Certes (talk) 14:26, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

John Ireland (priest)
John Ireland (priest) was insufficiently disambiguated from John Ireland (theologian), so it has been moved to John Ireland (Anglican priest). However, a number of links currently pointing to John Ireland (priest) need to be updated to John Ireland (Anglican priest), before John Ireland (priest) can be retargeted to the disambiguation page (John Ireland), as per WP:INCDAB. Thanks, 142.160.89.97 (talk) 21:57, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ I think? But, can someone check? This is my first disambiguation, and I don't want to mess anything up. --DannyS712 (talk) 18:12, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

James Martin (priest)
James Martin (priest) was insufficiently disambiguated from James A. Martin, so it has been moved to James Martin (priest, born 1960). However, a number of links currently pointing to James Martin (priest) need to be updated to James Martin (priest, born 1960), before James Martin (priest) can be retargeted to the disambiguation page (James Martin), as per WP:INCDAB. Thanks, 142.160.89.97 (talk) 04:56, 19 October 2018 (UTC)


 * ✅ Certes (talk) 23:37, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Crossfire (TV series)
Crossfire (TV series) was moved to Crossfire (U.S. TV program) back in August after a WP:RM. But it looks like none of the links incoming to Crossfire (TV series) were updated to point towards Crossfire (U.S. TV program). (In addition, these links will need to be checked, to confirm that none of them should be pointing to Crossfire (Canadian TV program) or Crossfire (UK TV programme) instead...) Once that is done, Crossfire (TV series) needs to redirect back to Crossfire (disambiguation) as per WP:INCDAB. Thanks in advance!! --IJBall (contribs • talk) 18:58, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Actually, this may be an issue with the CNN – I've updated the link there, so we'll have to see what's left after this clears through the cache... --IJBall (contribs • talk) 19:22, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ and redirects changed. It wasn't just the template; there were 100 articles, including a few links to, , ,  and  which had a similar problem.  All links referred to the U.S. program. Certes (talk) 19:54, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Intersection of descent and occupation
For this category nomination, would someone be willing to tag all listed categories with a Cfm or Cfd template?
 * The first category of the list, Category:American academics of Chinese descent already has a Cfm template so this can be copied to all categories nominated for merger.
 * Much further down the list, Category:Academics of Iranian descent is the one category that already has a Cfd template so this can be copied to all further categories nominated for deletion.

Thanks in advance! Marcocapelle (talk) 17:40, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 00:44, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Kenny Beard
Kenny Beard -> Kenny Beard Introduce wikilinks now that he has an article. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 22:00, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ Certes (talk) 19:15, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Too much non-free content
Hello, could someone run through Category:All articles with improper non-free content and remove non-free from articles that have no non-free content whatsoever, like ? If it's not practical for AWB to check licenses for images, please let me know and I'll go to WP:BOTR. Nyttend (talk) 00:03, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Text can also be non-free, so checking for non-free files is insufficient. I'm assuming that tagged your example because of the excessive quotations. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 19:58, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Moving a subset of pages to a sub-category
Would it be possible to move all pages in Category:Television articles with incorrect naming style with an "(anime)" disambiguation to Category:Anime film and television articles using incorrect naming style? Thanks. --Gonnym (talk) 22:13, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅. I skipped JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (1993 anime series), which you may want to recategorise manually. Certes (talk) 19:33, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you! --Gonnym (talk) 10:58, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

Tagging categories nominated for CFD
Would someone be willing to add a CFD tag to the category pages that are nominated in this discussion? The first three categories and the last three categories have already been tagged, all remaining categories should get a CFD template on their page like the first three. Thank you in advance! Marcocapelle (talk) 07:32, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 15:31, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  15:50, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * The following 13 were not tagged for Dec 2nd due to an existing CfD tag for Nov 30th (Categories for discussion/Log/2018 November 30).

• # Category:Hinduism in Trincomalee

• # Category:Hinduism in Point Pedro

• # Category:Hinduism in Negombo

• # Category:Hinduism in Matale

• # Category:Hinduism in Jaffna

• # Category:Buddhism in Trincomalee

• # Category:Buddhism in Polonnaruwa

• # Category:Buddhism in Matara, Sri Lanka

• # Category:Buddhism in Kandy

• # Category:Buddhism in Kalutara

• # Category:Buddhism in Galle

• # Category:Buddhism in Colombo

• # Category:Buddhism in Anuradhapura
 * ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 15:57, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Fixing dates in Old prod templates
Can someone go through Template:Old prod/Pages with malformed date and fix the nomdate parameter so that it's in a form acceptable to the #time parser function? Most of the time, it's junk markup that would need to removed from the nomdate field. Occasionally, dates of the form "2000 January 1" may need to be converted to some other date-format since that particular format isn't accepted by #time for whatever reason. This would facilitate improvements in the Old prod template, described here. SD0001 (talk) 03:08, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
 * I've started going through these but have a couple of questions.
 * The main cause seems to be a left-to-right mark at the end of the date, which #time doesn't handle. Removing this invisible character fixes things.  I can continue to remove them, but it looks as if some tool[a] is adding them automatically.  Example (fixed): Talk:Ace Cafe.  Do we need to do something to prevent future occurrences, such as fixing a tool (which one?) or having Old prod strip out that character before passing the string to #time?  If the latter, is it worth bothering to fix existing problems?
 * Several pages such as Talk:Africa Theological Journal use dates complicated with HTML tags or template syntax. What should be done here?
 * [a] "tool" in the sense of "automated editing gadget" rather than "unhelpful person", I hope!
 * — Certes (talk) 11:37, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for working on this. Really a strange character, that! This template is always added manually, there are no tools for adding it. But you an interesting suggestion - do you know how to strip out the character from the template code? I guess Module:String could be used but am not sure how. Regarding #2, just remove 'em, leaving only the raw date if present. They are caused due to accidental substitution of ISO date (back in the days when that template wasn't subst-proof). BTW no need to do anything about condate and declinedate fields, if they are additional trouble - only the nomdate needs to purified. SD0001 (talk) 13:59, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Something like {{#invoke:String|replace|{{{nomdate}}}|‎}} should work. There is an invisible left-to-right marker after the final |, which I don't like because it will confuse people and get edited out at some point.  In theory we should be able to use a visible Lua pattern such as \226\128\142 but I can't get that to work in practice, even setting plain_flag to 0. Certes (talk) 14:24, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Mostly ✅. I've fixed the obvious date format errors.  If I missed a few then they should be easily mended once the change has been made and we have an error list. Certes (talk) 16:48, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
 * It looks as if all timestamps in page history end with the left-to-right marker. So people who copy the date from there would inadvertently leave this character behind. I've incorporated your fix into the template, with a hidden comment to hopefully prevent people from editing it out. SD0001 (talk) 12:18, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I've accidentally introduced invisible characters in other contexts after copying (in the Ctrl-C sense) from Wikipedia, for example pasting names from the subcategory tree when diffusing a category, so they do appear on some report pages.  They're also difficult to search for: I don't know a way to reliably find them all.  The best solution would be if #time ignored them; next best is what you've done. Certes (talk) 12:38, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Add short descriptions
Could someone add""to all the articles linked from Ohio County Courthouses and Illinois county courthouses? Please skip the links in the headers, of course, and any page with an existing short description should also be skipped. Thank you. Nyttend (talk) 02:08, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ Certes (talk) 16:20, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

Requesting mass change of links
Hi, I've been working on the Unisound and Unisound Studios pages and currently, albums produced by Unisound Studios link to the Unisound page incorrectly.

Based on Special:WhatLinksHere every page except the following should change from Unisound --> Unisound Studios.

The only ones that link correctly are:


 * List of unicorn startup companies
 * Unisound Studios

Thanks, Redwards21 (talk) 09:57, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
 * We may want to wait for the AfD to close before doing that. If it survives then it should probably be renamed to something like Unisound (studio).  There may also be a case for making Unisound a dab rather than parachuting a new primary topic onto an existing title.  Certes (talk) 12:26, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Update: now redirects to Unisound Studios and the voice AI company has moved to Draft:Unisound, but this may change.  Except from List of unicorn startup companies, links currently lead to the right article, so it's probably best to leave them until the dust settles.  There are also a few dud links to Unisound Records.  Certes (talk) 23:14, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Further update: both company articles have now been removed from mainspace.,  and  now redirect to Dan Swanö.  That's probably the best target for all of the wikilinks except the one in List of unicorn startup companies, which I've unlinked.  Job done, until Draft:Unisound gets moved into mainspace. Certes (talk) 02:46, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I have made a Technical request regarding moving Draft:Unisound into mainspace. Redwards21 (talk) 08:18, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
 * I don't think that was an "uncontroversial technical request", as the page has not changed since it was moved to draft as "not ready" last week. The draft has now moved into mainspace but it may be best to wait before changing the links in case it moves back.  There is also the issue of deciding the best title, as Wikipedia has information on another topic (the recording studio) which is also called Unisound. Certes (talk) 11:05, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
 * My understanding was it got moved to draft because of the disambiguation issue hence the technical request to move it back after the AfD. Thanks for helping me work through all this, I've requested a peer review of the article :) Redwards21 (talk) 10:29, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ I've changed the links. Certes (talk) 11:21, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

Creating discussion pages a year ahead
Can AWB be used to create CfD pages a year ahead? I created this one manually but I am guessing there should be more efficient ways. The pages used to be created by User:ProveIt who built a special tool for it, but it seems they are currently not active. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:15, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
 * should create logs as part of the CFDClerk task. Based on the other clerk tasks, I would guess that it would occur about an hour before it is needed. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 07:35, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Not inactive, just busy and sometimes (rarely) forgetful. Prove It (talk) 05:07, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

Fix Wall Street Journal links
Could somebody change Wall Streett Journal links in the form https://www.wsj.com/news/articles/... to https://www.wsj.com/articles/... ? There are 1109 of them in all namespaces, but probably only links in the main namespace (and perhaps the draft namespace) need to be fixed. Thanks! Graham 87 14:36, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Also, relevant archive links (e.g. from the Wayback Machine) will probably have to be taken into account or removed. Graham 87 14:45, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
 * just to confirm, it's just the removal of the /news/ structure in the address? I tally 1,080 in the mainspace, insofar as Wayback, I'll queue up IABot after the AWB run.  Ping me in your reply and I'll get going!  Best,   SITH   (talk)   20:39, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks very much! Yes, that's correct. Graham 87 01:42, 13 January 2019 (UTC)
 * My bot can also handle this task if you would like. I have time so I can open another BRFA to fix all these links. Pkbwcgs (talk) 11:50, 13 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Sure, that sounds good too. I don't mind who fixes the links, just as long as they're fixed. If your bot would be easier, then go ahead if you like. Graham 87 11:59, 13 January 2019 (UTC)
 * . Pkbwcgs (talk) 13:10, 13 January 2019 (UTC)
 * and, sorry, I went on a wikibreak, FWIW a bot would probably be easier if the framework is already there.   SITH   (talk)   17:52, 8 February 2019 (UTC)

List of suspect typos
Hi guys, I made a list of suspect typos: User:Uziel302/sandbox
 * newest list: User:Uziel302/AWB cleanup

Based on the idea that many typos are a result of double letter, missing letter and switched letter, I took a list of 3000 popular words and made all the doubling, removing and switching possible, then searched for the results on part of Wikipedia I downloaded from dumps.

Words like amd (that should be and) maintennance (maintenance) forrest (Forrest/forest) programm (programme/program) etc. ordered by occurrence in checked part of Wikipedia.

Am I in the right place to ask for help correcting those typos?

Should I make adjustments to the list to be more useful? Uziel302 (talk) 23:24, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi and thanks for the useful list. The WP:Typo Team do good work fixing spellings.  AWB can also mend typos whilst it is doing other work, and WT:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos is a good place to discuss adding common errors.  Hope that helps, Certes (talk) 01:38, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Beware that a few spellings on your list may be legitimate. For example, a search for wwe (eliminating capital WWE, wrestling articles, wwe.com and click.here/for-wwe-news type URLs) doesn't show any obvious errors.  But I'm sure there are still lots of genuine problems in there waiting to be fixed. Certes (talk) 01:51, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Certes, the list is done automatically and many of the reccurring strings appear a lot for a reason. But there are many real typos too and the list can help find them.Uziel302 (talk) 09:18, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Certes, since the context is crucial to judge whether it's a typo or not, I added some context to the list.Uziel302 (talk) 20:15, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, context is crucial. The main false positives are foreign words, proper nouns and initialisms.  I'd say about 10% of that list are typos, which is still a significant improvement to Wikipedia (as long as we identify the right 10%!)  Can you limit the search to mainspace text displayed in articles?  It looks as if there is other stuff in there: some of the excerpts read like talk page chat, and entries such as "contol" seem to be edit summaries.  Then we may have a useful input for the typo teams but they will still need manual checking.  For example, your section for aand looks like six typos for and and one piece of correct Afrikaans. Certes (talk) 22:06, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Certes, thanks a lot for your feedback. I updated the list to test new settings so it's not a complete list. I narrowed the search for words longer than 3 characters to ignore most initialisms. I limited the search to mainspace text, without edit summaries. Of course correcting typos requires manual checking, but in many cases you can see from the context it is plain English typo and go ahead to fix it.Uziel302 (talk) 08:57, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for fixing these. It's comforting that all of the very few entries with 5+ occurrences look like false positives so, whilst it's a very useful one-off exercise, I don't think we need add any to the automated fix list. Certes (talk) 19:13, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Certes, I did fix all hundreds of occurrences of "collpase" and haven't found any false positive, how do I add it to automated fix list? Uziel302 (talk) 19:58, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
 * A good way is to amend the entry for Collapse in AutoWikiBrowser/Typos. An expert such as  may be able to help with writing an efficient regex. Certes (talk) 20:26, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Added regex by myself.Uziel302 (talk) 12:11, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
 * If you want to post an updated list, I'm happy to help work through it. Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 19:29, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
 * GoingBatty, I started working on this list: User:Uziel302/AWB list, you are welcome to join. Most frequent issues are capitalization issues, you can scroll down to find more obvious errors. Thanks. Uziel302 (talk) 09:27, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
 * GoingBatty, just removed capitalization issues from the list. Any feedback much appreciated. Uziel302 (talk) 21:52, 13 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Looks like there are still capitalization issues on the list (e.g. espn, worldcat, itunes, wordpress, pubmed, ncaa) GoingBatty (talk) 21:57, 13 January 2019 (UTC)
 * I added a new WP:AWB/T rule to change "sqaud" to "squad" and fixed over 32 articles. GoingBatty (talk) 02:18, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Other comments:
 * I cleaned up "whoe" as well - some to "who" and some to "whose". However, many instances are articles quoting older text where this isn't a misspelling.
 * I expanded the WP:AWB/T "Article" rule to also fix "artciles", and I fixed those.
 * There is already a rule to change "burried" to "buried", and I fixed those. GoingBatty (talk) 03:17, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
 * GoingBatty, thank you very much for your great work. I removed the capitalization issues using Wiktionary list of words and just capitalized first letter and checked if it's there, I understand it doesn't filter all the issues. Is there a reason capitalization issues aren't treated in AWB typo project? Is there a rule of how frequent the typo should be to be added to WP:AWB/T? Thanks again, Uziel302 (talk) 06:28, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
 * See AutoWikiBrowser/Typos and AutoWikiBrowser/Typos for lots of capitalization rules. There's isn't a rule of how frequent the typo should be to be added, but several discussions about it on the talk page.  GoingBatty (talk) 02:03, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
 * More work today:
 * Added new rule to change "helding" to "holding" and fixed those.
 * Changed "(Ad/E/Inter/O/…)Mission" to also fix "misson" and fixed those. GoingBatty (talk) 04:06, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
 * GoingBatty, thanks a lot. Uziel302 (talk) 06:24, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Today's work included:
 * Updated the "Affiliate" rule to also fixed "unaffliated" and "disaffliated", and fixed all tenses.
 * Added new rule to change "facilties" to "facilities", and fixed both plural and singular. GoingBatty (talk) 05:50, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Continued work included:
 * Added new rule to change "profle" to "profile", and fixed both singular and plural.
 * Updated the "Consensus" to also fix "consenus", and fixed these.
 * Added new rule to change "galery" to "gallery", and fixed both singular and plural. GoingBatty (talk) 02:56, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Today's work included:
 * Added new rule to change "propse" to "propose", and fixed various tenses.
 * Added new rule to change "propsect/propser" to "prospect/prosper", and fixed various tenses. GoingBatty (talk) 05:22, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
 * In today's episode:
 * Added new rule to change "enterpreneur" to "entrepreneur", and fixed various tenses.
 * Added new rule to change "prosecuter" to "prosecutor", and fixed various tenses. GoingBatty (talk) 19:56, 26 January 2019 (UTC)
 * One more: Added new rule to change "sherriff" to "sheriff", and fixed both singular and plural. GoingBatty (talk) 06:05, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
 * , thanks for all the work, can you update the list here: User:Uziel302/AWB cleanup.Uziel302 (talk) 12:01, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
 * I've been working off User:Uziel302/AWB list and have done entries 100-186. GoingBatty (talk) 02:35, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
 * I've now completed entries 100-300, and added/expanded more rules at WP:AWB/T. GoingBatty (talk) 21:14, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I've now completed entries 100-350, and added/expanded more rules at WP:AWB/T. GoingBatty (talk) 04:20, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
 * GoingBatty, thanks a lot! Is there any feedback for my next list? Uziel302 (talk) 07:13, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
 * - Feedback added to User:Uziel302/AWB cleanup. I'll start working on that list.  GoingBatty (talk) 14:25, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I see you added ✔️ to many list items, as I have. What I meant by ✔️ is that AWB already fixes those typos, but this doesn't appear to be the case for your tags. Perhaps we need to distinguish them to avoid confusion.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  15:21, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I quickly changed all mine from ✔️ to ✅, but that might not be right either. Guess we need to define what the goal is here.  I was indicating which typos I had run through AWB and did my best to clean up each article.  GoingBatty (talk) 15:34, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
 * To be less ambiguous, I also changed my instances of ✔️ to ✔️.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  16:40, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

Goal of the suspected typo list
I thought the goal of this was to determine which typos were suitable for inclusion in AWB. If a particular typo is 1) unambiguous/doesn't produce false positives, 2) is found in the wild several times, and 3) there's already an exiting rule that can get tweaked to include the listed typo, then it should definitely be included in AWB. Whether or not to create a new rule (still assuming no ambiguities, FPs, etc.) I'd leave to the discretion of the evaluator, but I would tend to lean towards creation, unless it was very implausible. What has everyone else been doing?  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  16:40, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I've been working through the top of User:Uziel302/AWB cleanup (non-words occurring 30+ times), fixing articles where feasible and marking those fixes which I think should be considered for AWB. Certes (talk) 00:43, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

Let's use the typo lists for tracking as well?
This is clearly going to take a while, and I think editors (myself included) will be more willing to work on this knowing they won't first have to sort out what has/n't been done. , would you mind if these pages be used as a project page of sorts, so that we can all easily see what has been and needs to get done? This has worked well in the past for large to-do lists, for example here & here. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 03:37, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Tom.Reding, thanks for your offer, I created a shortlist of typos appearing at least 10 times, and updated the items User:GoingBatty done. Everyone is welcome to work on it and add a note on what's done.Uziel302 (talk) 07:58, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
 * I've had a quick look and marked a few of the top offenders as false positives. Next on the list is womens. My search times out after 12,000 of those, mainly in URLs (smith-wins-womens-final.html) and I'm not sure how to filter this down to the 87 needing attention. Certes (talk) 15:50, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Certes, thanks a lot for your help. It makes sense the list contains false positives, many words don't appear on Wiktionary. Please add spaces when the query has false positive as part of other words/urls. You can search insource:/ womens / and after you find out its OK in template (Template:Infobox athletic conference) narrow it down like this: insource:/[^\|] womens / Thanks again. Uziel302 (talk) 16:22, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
 * I've worked through womens. I don't think that fix should be automated: there are a lot of quotes and titles (Gloucestershire County Womens Football League) to leave alone and, whilst most errors are possessive (womens → women's or womens' → women's), some are simple plurals (womens → women). Certes (talk) 18:46, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

Level-1 sections in Talk pages
Talk page sections should be Level-2 ( == vs. = ). Occasionally someone makes a typo and creates a Level-1 section. This causes subsequent Level-2 sections to be 'children' of a higher-up Level-1 section. The below list are talk pages that have Level-1's that (probably) want conversion to Level-2. OR convert the Level-1 to a Level-2 and any legit sub-sections to Level-3. -- Green  C  03:18, 22 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Talk:2013–14 Manchester City F.C. season
 * Talk:.223 Remington
 * Talk:Acinetobacter
 * Talk:Afro Turks
 * Talk:Akai
 * Talk:Alan A. Stone
 * Talk:Albanian communities in Greece
 * Talk:Anglican Church Grammar School
 * Talk:Anisotropic filtering
 * Talk:Anti-Mexican sentiment
 * Talk:Apollo Global Management
 * Talk:Ares Galaxy
 * Talk:Athabaskan languages
 * Talk:Baladi-rite prayer
 * Talk:+/- (band)
 * Talk:Banjara
 * Talk:Bartle taxonomy of player types
 * Talk:Batak massacre
 * Talk:Battle for Hill 3234
 * Talk:Battle of the North Inch
 * Talk:Baylor College of Medicine
 * Talk:BC548
 * Talk:Benvenuto di Giovanni
 * Talk:Beretta M1923
 * Talk:Blood stripe
 * Talk:Bobby London
 * Talk:Border of Granada
 * Talk:Broken escalator phenomenon
 * Talk:Cannabis classification in the United Kingdom
 * Talk:Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg
 * Talk:Chauncey Bailey
 * Talk:Circassian beauties
 * Talk:Clarksburg, Maryland
 * Talk:Commission on the Future of Higher Education
 * Talk:Community archives
 * Talk:Comparison of vector graphics editors
 * Talk:Compressed air car
 * Talk:Courtship display
 * Talk:Das Bus
 * Talk:Deadlift
 * Talk:Deliv
 * Talk:Donald C. Winter
 * Talk:Double layer (plasma physics)
 * Talk:Earth's crustal evolution
 * Talk:Eastern Anatolia Region
 * Talk:Eben Moglen
 * Talk:Egon Zehnder
 * Talk:Electricity retailing
 * Talk:Elect'road
 * Talk:Eli Elezra
 * Talk:Elmyr de Hory
 * Talk:Epicyclic gearing
 * Talk:Eros Ramazzotti discography
 * Talk:Eugene L. Grant
 * Talk:Filiberto Ojeda Ríos
 * Talk:Flag of Gloucestershire
 * Talk:Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
 * Talk:Funny Lady
 * Talk:Fuss–Catalan number
 * Talk:Gay bathhouses in the United Kingdom
 * Talk:Germany–Turkey relations
 * Talk:Gold Coast Coastal Cycle Route
 * Talk:G-quadruplex
 * Talk:Gwynne Dyer
 * Talk:Hansard
 * Talk:Harry Sassounian
 * Talk:Harvey Skinner
 * Talk:HLA-DQ
 * Talk:Human ethology
 * Talk:Hunger in the United States
 * Talk:Identity management theory
 * Talk:Indian coal allocation scam
 * Talk:Institute of Higher Nervous Activity
 * Talk:International reactions to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
 * Talk:IPass
 * Talk:Isospin
 * Talk:Issyk-Kul
 * Talk:Japanese gazelle
 * Talk:Jason Whitlock
 * Talk:JCube
 * Talk:John Otho Marsh Jr.
 * Talk:Joss Stone discography
 * Talk:Kahramanmaraş
 * Talk:Kalari
 * Talk:Kangal Shepherd Dog
 * Talk:Kaymaklı Monastery
 * Talk:Kolhapur
 * Talk:Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union
 * Talk:Laboratory glassware
 * Talk:Last Life in the Universe
 * Talk:Learning analytics
 * Talk:Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust
 * Talk:Liminal being
 * Talk:List of equipment of the Russian Ground Forces
 * Talk:List of express bus routes in New York City
 * Talk:List of institutions of higher education in Kerala
 * Talk:List of Prime Ministers of Turkey
 * Talk:Liu Xianbin
 * Talk:Lloyd V. Berkner High School
 * Talk:Los Gatos, California
 * Talk:Louis the Pious
 * Talk:M8 motorway (Ireland)
 * Talk:Main Directorate of State Security
 * Talk:Maiwand
 * Talk:Mary Kay
 * Talk:Maywand District
 * Talk:Missing women of China
 * Talk:Mount Nemrut
 * Talk:Movement for Rights and Freedoms
 * Talk:Multiply-with-carry pseudorandom number generator
 * Talk:Murad IV
 * Talk:National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences
 * Talk:Niflheim
 * Talk:Nvidia Optimus
 * Talk:Oh Eun-sun
 * Talk:Operation Hammer (1997)
 * Talk:Operation Steel
 * Talk:Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan
 * Talk:Pantsir missile system
 * Talk:Parser combinator
 * Talk:Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
 * Talk:Pesticide residue
 * Talk:Polarizability
 * Talk:Porsche 930
 * Talk:Primitive culture
 * Talk:Psychagogy
 * Talk:Quoridor
 * Talk:Regulatory T cell
 * Talk:Rodion Raskolnikov
 * Talk:Rolfe Kanefsky
 * Talk:Round-trip translation
 * Talk:San Bruno Education Foundation
 * Talk:Santa Clara County, California
 * Talk:Smokers Die Younger
 * Talk:Social media and television
 * Talk:Social psychology (sociology)
 * Talk:St Aloysius' College, Glasgow
 * Talk:State–action–reward–state–action
 * Talk:Submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy
 * Talk:SUHA (computer science)
 * Talk:Swarmcast
 * Talk:Tarzan of the Apes
 * Talk:Tectonic evolution of the Barberton greenstone belt
 * Talk:Telecommunications in Canada
 * Talk:The Casualties
 * Talk:The Humanitarian Coalition
 * Talk:The Once and Future King
 * Talk:The People Walker
 * Talk:The Sorceress (Di Kishefmakhern)
 * Talk:Theta criterion
 * Talk:Traffic analysis
 * Talk:Translation (relic)
 * Talk:Troll A platform
 * Talk:Typha
 * Talk:University of the Aegean
 * Talk:USS Bataan (LHD-5)
 * Talk:USS Halibut (SS-232)
 * Talk:Valley of the Wolves (TV series)
 * Talk:Veterans Day
 * Talk:Victorian Railways X class (diesel)
 * Talk:Vietnamese martial arts
 * Talk:Wonder Man (Fox Publications)

Add Template:Reflist-talk
Each of the below talk pages is in need of a, in one or more of the sections. -- Green  C  03:35, 22 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Talk:1513 papal conclave
 * Talk:1-800-GET-THIN
 * Talk:2008 United States presidential debates
 * Talk:2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism
 * Talk:.5: The Gray Chapter
 * Talk:Adequality
 * Talk:AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs
 * Talk:African savanna hare
 * Talk:Aharonov–Bohm effect
 * Talk:Alemannic German
 * Talk:An Alpine Symphony
 * Talk:Anger function
 * Talk:Aquatic locomotion
 * Talk:Armenians in the Ottoman Empire
 * Talk:Arthur–Merlin protocol
 * Talk:Automatic transmission
 * Talk:Azmi Bishara
 * Talk:Baden-Powell Scouts' Association
 * Talk:Battle of Baghdad (2003)
 * Talk:Battle of Tientsin
 * Talk:Bender, Moldova
 * Talk:Bending
 * Talk:Bicentric quadrilateral
 * Talk:Bi-isotropic material
 * Talk:Bisection method
 * Talk:Black–Scholes model
 * Talk:Blue Monday (date)
 * Talk:Boiled leather
 * Talk:Borel set
 * Talk:Burmese kyat
 * Talk:Campbell's theorem (probability)
 * Talk:Canoe paddle strokes
 * Talk:Capital asset pricing model
 * Talk:Cardinal function
 * Talk:Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora
 * Talk:Castor (star)
 * Talk:Catherine Breillat
 * Talk:Characteristic function (probability theory)
 * Talk:Chord progression
 * Talk:Cipolla's algorithm
 * Talk:Circular convolution
 * Talk:Classification of discontinuities
 * Talk:Clearance (pharmacology)
 * Talk:Coefficient of determination
 * Talk:Coherent duality
 * Talk:Coherent risk measure
 * Talk:Collision theory
 * Talk:Compact operator on Hilbert space
 * Talk:Comparative statics
 * Talk:Comparison of file comparison tools
 * Talk:Compound of two snub cubes
 * Talk:Conservative vector field
 * Talk:Context-free grammar
 * Talk:Covariance matrix
 * Talk:Cross-ratio
 * Talk:CSPD (molecule)
 * Talk:Curium(III) oxide
 * Talk:Dairy farming
 * Talk:Daniel Kahneman
 * Talk:Decidability (logic)
 * Talk:Deep foundation
 * Talk:Diagonal lemma
 * Talk:Esperanza de Sarachaga
 * Talk:Euler's factorization method
 * Talk:Evelio Arias Ramos
 * Talk:Even and odd functions
 * Talk:Exponential object
 * Talk:Feel Good Drag
 * Talk:Formula One car
 * Talk:Förster resonance energy transfer
 * Talk:Four-gradient
 * Talk:Fuel economy in automobiles
 * Talk:Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant
 * Talk:Function approximation
 * Talk:Gaussian integral
 * Talk:Gaussian units
 * Talk:Gelfand pair
 * Talk:George Kollias (biologist)
 * Talk:Green Mountain Energy
 * Talk:Green's function
 * Talk:Harmonic mean
 * Talk:Harrop formula
 * Talk:Hausdorff distance
 * Talk:Health care in the United Kingdom
 * Talk:Helmholtz decomposition
 * Talk:Holographic principle
 * Talk:H-theorem
 * Talk:Hunting weapon
 * Talk:Huthur
 * Talk:Immigration to Pakistan
 * Talk:Improper integral
 * Talk:Indiana Wesleyan University
 * Talk:Integrability conditions for differential systems
 * Talk:International rankings of Italy
 * Talk:Ising model
 * Talk:Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing
 * Talk:Jaccard index
 * Talk:Jacobi elliptic functions
 * Talk:Jayalalithaa
 * Talk:Jazz-funk
 * Talk:J. B. Gunn
 * Talk:Jensen–Shannon divergence
 * Talk:Jerzy the Giant
 * Talk:Jones calculus
 * Talk:Julie Power
 * Talk:Kaʻiulani
 * Talk:Kepler-186f
 * Talk:Kernel (operating system)
 * Talk:Laguerre polynomials
 * Talk:Law of large numbers
 * Talk:Likelihood function
 * Talk:List of downloadable songs for the Rock Band series
 * Talk:List of impact craters on Earth
 * Talk:List of Microsoft Office programs
 * Talk:List of NCAA Division I FBS football stadiums
 * Talk:Loop space
 * Talk:Lorenz gauge condition
 * Talk:Low-density parity-check code
 * Talk:Lucian Croitoru
 * Talk:Magnification
 * Talk:Mark and recapture
 * Talk:Massimo Bottura
 * Talk:Mathematical constant
 * Talk:Matthew Baillie Begbie
 * Talk:Maximum score estimator
 * Talk:Median
 * Talk:Metropolis–Hastings algorithm
 * Talk:Michaelis–Menten kinetics
 * Talk:Miller–Rabin primality test
 * Talk:Modal μ-calculus
 * Talk:Molality
 * Talk:Moon Impact Probe
 * Talk:MPEG transport stream
 * Talk:Multimodal distribution
 * Talk:Multiple sex partners
 * Talk:Multiplicative calculus
 * Talk:Musical isomorphism
 * Talk:Nathan Lewin
 * Talk:Needham–Schroeder protocol
 * Talk:Neutral particle oscillation
 * Talk:Nez Perce people
 * Talk:Nicholas I of Russia
 * Talk:One-state solution
 * Talk:Pair production
 * Talk:Pakistan Army
 * Talk:PAL
 * Talk:Panama City, Florida
 * Talk:Persistent homology
 * Talk:Phase-contrast X-ray imaging
 * Talk:Phase correlation
 * Talk:Post-creole continuum
 * Talk:Proof that π is irrational
 * Talk:Propagation constant
 * Talk:Qatar–Russia relations
 * Talk:Quantum eraser experiment
 * Talk:Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School
 * Talk:Rankit
 * Talk:Regina Rams
 * Talk:Ring of Fire (song)
 * Talk:RL circuit
 * Talk:Sense (molecular biology)
 * Talk:Separable extension
 * Talk:Shannon–Hartley theorem
 * Talk:Shapiro time delay
 * Talk:Sigma Draconis
 * Talk:Sigmoid function
 * Talk:Skype security
 * Talk:Solifugae
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 * Talk:Special folder
 * Talk:State of nature
 * Talk:Steve Bucknor
 * Talk:Stirling cycle
 * Talk:Stokes flow
 * Talk:Sufficient statistic
 * Talk:Superior Court of the District of Columbia
 * Talk:Syntactic sugar
 * Talk:Talat Farooq
 * Talk:Tamil cuisine
 * Talk:TD-Gammon
 * Talk:Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan
 * Talk:Texas Longhorns
 * Talk:Theil index
 * Talk:The Lizzie Bennet Diaries
 * Talk:Thermodynamic potential
 * Talk:Thermogravimetric analysis
 * Talk:Theta representation
 * Talk:Thiruvalluvar
 * Talk:Time constant
 * Talk:TO-220
 * Talk:Toroidal ring model
 * Talk:Trap Lord
 * Talk:Universal enveloping algebra
 * Talk:Waco Aircraft Company
 * Talk:Waling-waling
 * Talk:Wario Land: Shake It!
 * Talk:WASP-11b/HAT-P-10b
 * Talk:Watts–Strogatz model
 * Talk:Wave equation
 * Talk:Wheelie
 * Talk:Wilcoxon signed-rank test
 * Talk:Wishart distribution
 * Talk:Y8
 * Talk:Yang–Mills theory

"... is the name given to ..."
Would a bot operator please remove the words "the name given to" from the 250-odd articles that have in their first sentence the phrase "Xxx Church is the name given to a religious building..." This phrasing goes against the recommendation at WP:REFERS Bhunacat10 (talk),  10:09, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

Removal of all 3 informal references to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Hello there! The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has formally requested that all references to the Mormon Church, LDS Church, and Mormonism be discontinued by all users in all media outlets including Wikipedia. It would be astronomically easier to make this change via AWB rather than manually search out and make every single change.

This request is complicated by two items: (1) no formal replacement for these 3 informal references has been provided by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which will affect how the AWB algorithm needs to work; (2) the name of a volume of this church's scripture is 'The Book of Mormon', and eliminating all references to the 'Mormon Church' or 'Mormonism' without editing all references to 'The Book of Mormon' may be difficult for AWB.

I'm not an AWB user. Would someone please help me address this?

--Dpammma (talk) 07:32, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I replied to Dpamma at WP:BOTREQ, but for any other AWB users watching this page, be aware of the current discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Latter Day Saints and that the current consensus does not support such a change --DannyS712 (talk) 07:40, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

CfD tagging
Good morning! Would someone be willing to copy CfD tags by means of AWB? It is about this CfD nomination. The request is to copy the delete tag in Category:People by country of descent and occupation to all other categories listed in group 1 of the nomination; and to copy the merge tag in Category:American academics of Chinese descent to all other categories listed in group 2 and 3 of the nomination. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:41, 16 March 2019 (UTC)


 * ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 11:29, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅. FYI there was 1 duplicate entry on the list - Category:American novelists of Indian descent.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  11:53, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

Check all members of a category
Category:Mythological Greek characters has been proposed for merger with Category:Characters in Greek mythology, and I'm confident it will happen, as the concepts almost completely overlap. However, the Aeneid is a Roman myth that has a number of unique Greek characters, e.g. Entellus, and such characters would fit in "Mythological Greek characters" but not "Characters in Greek mythology". Could someone go through each article in the "Mythological Greek characters", find the articles with strings  or   (case-insensitive, of course), and dump a list of positives onto the category talk page? No other edits should be made, particularly as a number of articles about characters from Greek mythology will mention their appearances in the Aeneid; the point is to provide a list of articles for human review. Nyttend (talk) 20:48, 23 March 2019 (UTC)
 * done. -- Green  C  21:53, 23 March 2019 (UTC)

Removal of WikiProject HBO template
Can a bot please remove all transclusions of ? The parent project was deleted. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 02:13, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
 * --DannyS712 (talk) 02:17, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ --DannyS712 (talk) 02:22, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

Articles with no talk page
Could a hidden category be created to include all articles that are missing their corresponding talk pages? That is excluding redirects and disambiguation pages. Category:Articles with no talk pape --- Coffee  and crumbs  14:44, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
 * creating such a widespread category should probably be done by a bot, but has there been any discussion of this? --DannyS712 (talk) 18:42, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Not yet. I agree this needs discussion first. Can you tell how many articles currently meet the criterion? Is it 100? 1,000? 10,000? or 100,000+?


 * In the absence of an RFC with an overwhelming consensus that it would be desirable (which is vanishingly unlikely to happen), I'll instantly block anyone I see trying this, to prevent further disruption. Such a category would be a honeypot for good-faith newbies who would try to "fix" the pages in question by creating talkpages, which in turn would have to be deleted, wasting everyone's time and potentially discouraging all those new editors who thought they were being helpful. &#8209; Iridescent 18:49, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Easy, I was not planning on mass creation of talk pages using a bot. Ok, no category. I just need a list for myself. I was interested in see how many pages currently lack any WikiProject classification? Iridescent, are you against someone going one by one and creating a proper talk page with WikiProject templates? What is the harm in that? --- Coffee  and crumbs  18:56, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
 * See query/33797 - excludes all redirects and disambiguation pages, lists pages without talk pages --DannyS712 (talk) 19:07, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Very helpful. I apologize if this was the wrong place to ask.--- Coffee  and crumbs  19:46, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
 * No problem. Let me know if there are any false positives and I'll fix accordingly --DannyS712 (talk) 20:54, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Also, note that it excludes set indexes --DannyS712 (talk) 21:13, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Actually, I forked it to do the same thing before you added an exclusion for set indexes. It was very effective. --- Coffee  and crumbs  06:34, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Well if you want to use my syntax, using the IN statement means that only 1 subquery in needed for the categorylinks table --DannyS712 (talk) 07:41, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Nice, I am finetuning it some more. This version excludes a lot more pages that probably don't need a WikiProject template anyway. What is left is a lot stubs (many of them not tagged as stubs and even worse also untagged orphans). A lot of pages just lost in the database.--- Coffee  and crumbs  08:19, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
 * You can always use WP:RAQ, too. Killiondude (talk) 21:03, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks everyone! I hit a motherload of the least-maintained articles on WP. Don't know yet if anything should be done with the enormous list of pages flagged. --- Coffee  and crumbs  06:34, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

Tagging for CfD
Would someone be willing to add a tag the each of the categories listed in this discussion by means of AWB? I have already tagged the first one, Category:Years in African sport. Thanks in advance for helping out. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:46, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ FYI, Category:Webcomics by year and Category:Literature by year already exist. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 08:20, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

More specific maintenance tag
FrescoBot was updated to use the more specific Circular reference instead of from now on. However, old instances of still remain. Could someone run AWB to change all to Circular reference? – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 19:16, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Is there an easy way to identify this or is it only visible through the Better source maintenance category? StudiesWorld (talk) 18:25, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I can file a BRFA if no one objects --DannyS712 (talk) 18:36, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Sure, ,, if you think it's worth it. I suppose it's only through wikitext in articles that transcude the said template/are in that category. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 19:21, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I told AWB to go through the category and filter the ones that include . After parsing the first 7500 articles, I have a list, User:DannyS712/sandbox, of 253 articles that would be edited. Extrapolating to the total size of the category, which currently has 71,524 pages, there are around 2412 pages that are labeled as "per WP:CIRCULAR" that should be edited (doesn't account for "reason = ", "reason= ", "reason =", or other variations of spacing). I don't think it should be done manually --DannyS712 (talk) 19:26, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Agreed, . The problem was, after all, introduced by a bot, so it's certainly large enough for one to fix it. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 19:28, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
 * BRFA filed DannyS712 (talk) 19:39, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

Create redirects for affiliate schools for Trilogy Education Services
Create redirects for the following list of affiliate schools of Trilogy Education Services:

Case Western Reserve University Coding Bootcamp Columbia University Coding Bootcamp European School of Management and Technology Coding Bootcamp George Washington University Coding Bootcamp Georgia Institute of Technology Coding Bootcamp Harvard University Coding Bootcamp Monash University Coding Bootcamp Northwestern University Coding Bootcamp Rice University Coding Bootcamp Rutgers University Coding Bootcamp Southern Methodist University Coding Bootcamp Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESEM) Coding Bootcamp University of Arizona Coding Bootcamp University of California Berkeley Coding Bootcamp University of California Davis Coding Bootcamp University of California Irvine Coding Bootcamp University of California Los Angeles Coding Bootcamp University of California Riverside Coding Bootcamp University of California San Diego Coding Bootcamp University of California San Francisco Coding Bootcamp University of Central Florida Coding Bootcamp University of Connecticut Coding Bootcamp University of Denver Coding Bootcamp University of Massachusetts Coding Bootcamp University of Miami Coding Bootcamp University of Minnesota Coding Bootcamp University of New Hampshire Coding Bootcamp University of North Carolina Coding Bootcamp University of Oregon Coding Bootcamp University of Pennsylvania Coding Bootcamp University of Richmond Coding Bootcamp University of Southern California Coding Bootcamp University of Texas at Austin Coding Bootcamp University of Texas at Houston Coding Bootcamp University of Toronto Coding Bootcamp University of Utah Coding Bootcamp University of Washington Coding Bootcamp University of Wisconsin Coding Bootcamp Vanderbilt University Coding Bootcamp Washington University Coding Bootcamp

with the content:
 * 1) REDIRECT Trilogy Education Services

GobsPint (talk) 06:24, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
 * We should probably confirm that each individual affiliate school is sufficiently notable to merit a page before going ahead. Certes (talk) 09:50, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
 * {| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"

! Country ! University ! Division ! Date Added
 * +List of Trilogy Education Services University Partners
 * United States || Case Western Reserve University || ||
 * United States||Columbia University || Columbia University School of Professional Studies ||
 * Germany || European School of Management and Technology || ||
 * United States || George Washington University || ||
 * United States || Georgia Institute of Technology || ||
 * United States || Harvard University|| Harvard Extension School ||
 * Australia || Monash University || ||
 * United States || Northwestern University || Northwestern University School of Professional Studies (SPS) ||
 * United States || Rice University || ||
 * United States || Rutgers University || ||
 * United States || Southern Methodist University || ||
 * Mexico || Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESEM) || ||
 * United States || University of Arizona || ||
 * United States || University of California Berkeley || UC Berkeley Extension ||
 * United States || University of California Davis || ||
 * United States || University of California Irvine || ||
 * United States || University of California Los Angeles || ||
 * United States || University of California Riverside || ||
 * United States || University of California San Diego || ||
 * United States || University of California San Francisco || ||
 * United States || University of Central Florida || ||
 * United States || University of Connecticut || ||
 * United States || University of Denver || ||
 * United States || University of Massachusetts || ||
 * United States || University of Miami || ||
 * United States || University of Minnesota || ||
 * United States || University of New Hampshire || ||
 * United States || University of North Carolina || Friday Center for Continuing Education ||
 * United States || University of Oregon || ||
 * United States || University of Pennsylvania || ||
 * United States || University of Richmond || ||
 * United States || University of Southern California || ||
 * United States || University of Texas at Austin || ||
 * United States || University of Texas at Houston || ||
 * Canada || University of Toronto || ||
 * United States || University of Utah || ||
 * United States || University of Washington || ||
 * United States || University of Wisconsin || ||
 * United States || Vanderbilt University || ||
 * United States || Washington University || ||
 * }
 * Per the table above (copied from the article), all of the affiliate schools have their own article and are sufficiently notable in their own right.GobsPint (talk) 04:25, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
 * United States || University of Connecticut || ||
 * United States || University of Denver || ||
 * United States || University of Massachusetts || ||
 * United States || University of Miami || ||
 * United States || University of Minnesota || ||
 * United States || University of New Hampshire || ||
 * United States || University of North Carolina || Friday Center for Continuing Education ||
 * United States || University of Oregon || ||
 * United States || University of Pennsylvania || ||
 * United States || University of Richmond || ||
 * United States || University of Southern California || ||
 * United States || University of Texas at Austin || ||
 * United States || University of Texas at Houston || ||
 * Canada || University of Toronto || ||
 * United States || University of Utah || ||
 * United States || University of Washington || ||
 * United States || University of Wisconsin || ||
 * United States || Vanderbilt University || ||
 * United States || Washington University || ||
 * }
 * Per the table above (copied from the article), all of the affiliate schools have their own article and are sufficiently notable in their own right.GobsPint (talk) 04:25, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
 * United States || University of Southern California || ||
 * United States || University of Texas at Austin || ||
 * United States || University of Texas at Houston || ||
 * Canada || University of Toronto || ||
 * United States || University of Utah || ||
 * United States || University of Washington || ||
 * United States || University of Wisconsin || ||
 * United States || Vanderbilt University || ||
 * United States || Washington University || ||
 * }
 * Per the table above (copied from the article), all of the affiliate schools have their own article and are sufficiently notable in their own right.GobsPint (talk) 04:25, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
 * United States || University of Wisconsin || ||
 * United States || Vanderbilt University || ||
 * United States || Washington University || ||
 * }
 * Per the table above (copied from the article), all of the affiliate schools have their own article and are sufficiently notable in their own right.GobsPint (talk) 04:25, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
 * United States || Washington University || ||
 * }
 * Per the table above (copied from the article), all of the affiliate schools have their own article and are sufficiently notable in their own right.GobsPint (talk) 04:25, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

Mass page move
Special:Permalink/900852816 has been closed with consensus to move Articles for creation/Redirects to Articles for creation/Redirects and categories. However, Anthony Appleyard says The page has 145 subpages, which is so many that I tried 3 times to obey the move request and every time the page move system jammed. Could someone move the subpages in batches? Anthony's an admin and has tried to use the "Move subpages (up to 100)" option, so I think you'll have to move subpages individually, whether 45 of them or all 145. Nyttend (talk) 15:40, 8 June 2019 (UTC)


 * -- Green  C  16:33, 8 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Sub-pages are renamed including any talk pages with a redirect left. --  Green  C  17:57, 8 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks a lot! Nyttend (talk) 18:24, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

Tagging for CFD (2)
Would someone be willing to add a tag the each of the categories listed in this discussion by means of AWB? I have already tagged the first one, Category:Companies_established_in_the_1st_millennium. Thanks in advance for helping out. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:28, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
 * - see Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot II 13 DannyS712 (talk) 07:29, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ --DannyS712 (talk) 07:39, 15 June 2019 (UTC)

Spellcheck
Hi, I just went through the search results for "translated form" and fixed fourteen of them that were typos for "translated from". Could someone go through "translation form" and other variants? Please be careful, since "form" can be right, e.g. "___ in the original, or ___ in translated form". Nyttend (talk) 11:38, 18 June 2019 (UTC)