Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks/Archive 4

Removing obsolete Wildbot tags

 * Co-listed: Bot requests/Archive 39

I have generated a list of talk pages with obsolete WildBot tags. They can be safely removed with the following regex: \{\{(User:WildBot/m01|User:WildBot/msg)\|([^{}]|\{\{User:WildBot/[^{}]*\}\})*\}\}\n? — Dispenser 01:22, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
 * as soon as I can. 04:26, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ all, bar 1 that I accidentally skipped. I used AWB, though I have no idea how to use the regex, so just imported the text file and worked through manually. Thanks, Acather96 (talk) 07:26, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

Simple replacement task to correct dashes
Since I am away from home on a computer w/o AWB, can someone please complete this rather simple task? I would like someone to replace all links to Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (redirect page) with Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. Notice the dashes. Thanks. Guoguo12 --Talk--  04:24, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Is this really needed? See WP:NOTBROKEN. -- John of Reading (talk) 10:32, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, the example there is of a different type: "Editors should not change [...] Franklin Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt just to "fix a redirect"." Here, the dashes provide a grammatical error, not just a different name. Guoguo12  --Talk--  16:03, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- John of Reading (talk) 18:04, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Guoguo12  --Talk--  18:07, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Expand
 Expand|Section  to  Expand-section . This will remove any instance where the now-defunct "expand" template was used with a "section" parameter, and replace it with the "expand-section" template. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 02:04, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
 * This is included in the latest set of general fixes. Does it really need to be done specially? How many instances are there? -- John of Reading (talk) 13:10, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Didn't realize it was. I'd been coming across several when removing transclusions of expand so I didn't think AWB could get them automatically. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 19:28, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
 * , I'll have a go, it would help if this was done when looking for articles to have expand removed. Acather96 (talk) 20:46, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
 * None found in January 2007 Acather96 (talk) 21:05, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
 * None found in February 2007 Acather96 (talk) 21:06, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Than
"more then" --> "more than"

"then that" --> "than that" ...etc.

Anna Frodesiak (talk) 11:46, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Neither of these are suitable as automatically-applied fixes because they can occur in correct sentences, for example "He knew more then than he does now" and "This car went into reverse then that car went forwards". -- John of Reading (talk) 13:06, 19 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Okay. Not even using "skip" for the inapplicable? I've been doing a few manually because I encounter blocks using AWB. Cheers. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 13:16, 19 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Oh yes, if you are checking them and skipping the bad ones, that's fine. In that case, though, you can set them up as your own "Find and Replace" actions without needing to post here. I do a lot of that - see User:John of Reading/Typo fixing with AutoWikiBrowser. Can you explain what you mean by "encounter blocks"? -- John of Reading (talk) 13:37, 19 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Find and replace is what I meant. My connection gets cut when using AWB because I am in China and the great firewall objects for some odd reason. Best, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 13:42, 19 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I'm so sorry, I completely misunderstood the purpose of your post! Yes, "more then" is already listed as a possible "Search and fix" task in the List of common grammar errors, and since I'm currently on the letter "L" I may well get round to it. But when I search for "then that" it looks as if most of them are correct uses. -- John of Reading (talk) 13:56, 19 January 2011 (UTC)


 * My fault. I should have expressed my self more clearly. My humble apologies. Many thanks. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 14:04, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
 * List of common grammar errors is interesting and a good resource for improving the project. I might start at Z and head you off at the pass. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 14:07, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Wow. I jest looked at the list, and wow, without fear of hiperbole, their are sum serious gramatical erors people make. I pride my self on the fact that I spell better then others. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 14:12, 19 January 2011 (UTC)


 * OK, I've just whizzed through an AWB Google Search for "more then" and made a dozen fixes, and for "then that" and made no fixes. -- John of Reading (talk) 14:22, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
 * A dozen is great. Splendid. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 14:27, 19 January 2011 (UTC)


 * ✅ -- John of Reading (talk) 14:31, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I've just updated the RegExTypoFix with all of the then--> than phrases like "greater than", "taller than", etc. I will start working on these soon: More/Greater/Less/lesser/Better/Worse/YOunger/Older/Smaller/Bigger/Larger/Taller/Shorter/Longer/Higher/Lower/Smarter/Rather/Other than Manish Earth Talk •  Stalk 06:55, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I've undone the change to WP:AWB/T because I think there will be too many false positives. By all means add them to Lists of common misspellings/Grammar and Misc if they are not there already, and by all means work through them with AWB and "Find and Replace", but the fixes in WP:AWB/T have to be correct (almost) 100% of the time. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:12, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Iowa cities wrong time zone
It has come up that some Iowa cities (some I added) :( have the wrong time zone for daylight savings time. It should be -5 not -7. Can AWB go through List of cities in Iowa and correct. I also find the error on a page by another user. C T J F 8 3  chat 18:29, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ - only eight said -7. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:53, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks! C T J F 8 3  chat 19:44, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Remove Unreferenced stub yes
Take advantage of the new SVN snapshot and run AWB over Category:Articles automatically tagged as unreferenced. AWB will convert Unreferenced stub to Unreferenced. If the article is referenced, then it will remove the template completely replace Unreferenced with Refimprove. If the article is really unreferenced, it will remove yes so the template is visible. (See the Feature requests archive.)  GoingBatty (talk) 03:46, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Made correction above. GoingBatty (talk) 04:02, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm presuming this shouldn't be a bot request, since these pages were initally marked by a bot and intended for human review. If I'm mistaken on that, I'll happily move this to WP:Bot requests.  GoingBatty (talk) 11:56, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
 * No this shouldn't be a bot or AWB task. It's more of a tracking category than a maintenance category and it doesn't actually need processing of any kind. See the intro paragraph I updated at the category page for a full explanation. -- &oelig; &trade; 06:24, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Note that I cleaned up about 3.2k articles that were either no longer stubs or no longer unreferenced (but no with as much rigour as the initial tagging). Since these are invisible tags the number will be growing again. Rich Farmbrough, 14:36, 22 February 2011 (UTC).

Database reports/Broken redirects
Could someone with AWB (who, unlike me, knows what they're doing) replace all the cross-wiki redirects (which don't work) with ? The pages to be changed should be the only blue links on the list. Thanks, HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   00:09, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ demize  (t · c) 22:15, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Grammar
Grammar wonkery: "due to the fact that" -> "because". I've seen so many usages of the former, when the latter says the same thing with 20% as many words. I see no reason to ever use "due to the fact that" except when one wants to be unnecessarily verbose. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 22:45, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I won't fix all of them, because "due to the fact that" will sound better in some cases, but in cases where "because" fits better I'll change it. demize  (t · c) 22:55, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Also, I'm only doing articles in the mainspace (or portal space maybe). I'm leaving the WP, WT, talk and userspaces alone. I can do WP in another sweep if necessary though. demize  (t · c) 23:21, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Got about 100* pages done, taking a break for sleep and then tackling the 1000 pages that are left. If anybody wants to continue while I sleep, feel free, it'll speed it up - just make sure to check and see if "because" will fit better than "due to the fact that" and that it's not a quote. *I may have gotten more done, but I've been tired and slow all day :p demize  (t · c) 03:45, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I ran into an objection when doing this last August. See this archived discussion. -- John of Reading (talk) 11:48, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
 * A valid point, which is why I'm reading the sentence to make sure "because" fits as well as, or better than, "due to the fact that". demize  (t · c) 16:08, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Bit of a status update - by the end of the day, I should have 200-300 done, so it should be done within the week. I have exams starting Tuesday too, so I'll have a bit more time to concentrate on this without IRC distracting me :p (Although I should get temporary access added for my public account, I'll go request that now). demize  (t · c) 00:51, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

And now I've realized something - this is too large of a task to every complete by hand or with AWB, and every day there are more and more articles created that use "due to the fact that". If somebody else wants to take it on, go ahead, but I don't think I can (since it would never be complete). demize (t · c) 21:29, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
 * There were 5000+ of thee back in June (yes I had a bash at them too). Any cleanup like this is an ongoing task, it's the nature of the beast. Rich Farmbrough, 14:59, 22 February 2011 (UTC).


 * I checked the January dump and it still comes in at about 5k. And of course most articles with this phrase need copyediting as well... Fixed up maybe a dozen. Rich Farmbrough, 18:26, 23 February 2011 (UTC).

Malformed accessdates
e.g. 20010 is 2010, 2080 is 2008, 20008 is 2008, 20090 is 2009, etc. As you can see here I've been doing it manually. It'll take a hell of a time to clear them all. Can you help? I (for now) don't have AWB, and I don't know how to use AWB. Thanks. -- Perseus  8235 22:06, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Is there a list of articles with malformed accessdates anywhere? Otherwise, I can't see this being a very easy task, even with AWB. demize  (t · c) 17:35, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I did a Wiki search (text) for "accessdate=20010", and now I'm doing a Find and replace to change it to "accessdate=2010". GoingBatty (talk) 02:29, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
 * That works, but it only gets those malformed dates - there are thousands of other ways for people to mess up an accessdate :p The easiest thing to do (that I can think of) would be a search for "accessdate=" and add a huge find and replace list with every possible malformation you can think of, but even then it probably won't get every malformed accessdate and it requires a lot of thinking to figure out what malformations to add to the find and replace. demize  (t · c) 02:33, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I had about 50 variations of malformed accessdates but I deleted all my code a couple days ago. If you want I can try and remember what they all where. By the way this doesn't just apply to accessdate but also the month and year parameters. Just let me know soon cause I won't be around much longer. --Kumioko (talk) 02:50, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Handy tip. Never delete code. ;->
 * I'll scan for corrupt dates and see what can be done.
 * Rich Farmbrough, 10:40, 22 February 2011 (UTC).


 * Also when your scanning you may want to also look for Months in the year Parameter (ie year=February) and vice versa. This seems to be fairly common as well. --Kumioko (talk) 18:29, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
 * There's rather a lot... about 57k, 32k are blank and 25k malformed. Rich Farmbrough, 18:38, 23 February 2011 (UTC).

NRHP Scott County, Iowa
Per link can someone please tag all the properties on here with Category:National Register of Historic Places in Scott County, Iowa? C T J F 8 3 05:01, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
 * GoingBatty (talk) 05:18, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Done, 263 pages categorised. Courcelles 05:45, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ - please check my work. GoingBatty (talk) 05:47, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you both, very much! C T J F 8 3  05:46, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

Category:New Jersey government templates
Can someone add   to each Template talk page in the category above? (per this TfD discussion) Thanks. → ♠ Gƒoley ↔ Four ♣ ← 21:49, 26 February 2011 (UTC)


 * ✅ :) Avic ennasis  @ 22:18, 22 Adar I 5771 / 26 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Awesome! Thanks. → ♠ Gƒoley ↔ Four ♣ ← 23:15, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

Tagging uncategorized articles
As some AWB users probably know, in the past year or so I've been pretty regularly involved in doing batch tagging runs with AWB on articles that aren't properly categorized. To be honest, I'd like to scale back on having that be my primary task on here — but as important as the task is, it generally just doesn't get done at all if I'm not the one doing it. So I'm hoping to enlist a few AWBers who have some interest in helping out on the categorization project; ideally, I'd like there to be a team of at least four or five people who are willing to help make sure that the Untagged Uncategorized Articles list is actually getting cleared each and every day.

The list usually picks up between 100 and 200 articles per day, so it's not a particularly difficult or mammoth task by any means — but it does pile up fairly quickly if it isn't actually getting dealt with. For example, I've been busy this week, so I haven't been editing Wikipedia all that much — and the list has already gotten to over 1,100 articles.

So if you're interested in helping out with this, leave me a talk page message and I'll show you the ropes. Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 00:12, 18 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Sounds like fun. I occasionally work through that list, I never use AWB though. You should add this as one of the tasks for the Great Backlog Drive btw. -- &oelig; &trade; 12:00, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I'll be happy to help out. Mostly at weekends though, I'll give it a go now :) Acather96 (talk) 15:09, 20 February 2011 (UTC)


 * I've written up a basic walkthrough at User:Bearcat/AWB categorization and tagging for anyone who's interested in participating; I'll eventually move it to a subpage of WikiProject Categories, but I want to make sure it's ready for prime time first. So if you need clarification of anything written there, let me know so I can improve it further — but otherwise, I hope anyone who's interested in helping on this task finds it a reasonably helpful guide to getting started. Bearcat (talk) 08:21, 27 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Already on to it! Jamietw (talk) 11:43, 3 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Got through about 160 articles before I had to call it a day. I'll try and do that amount about once a week. Your instructions are well put together. FiachraByrne 00:39, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

philanthropist
I often see the terms 'philanthropist' and 'investor', in unlinked, linked and piped forms sitting inside infobox field '|occupation='. I believe this should be systematically removed on the simple grounds that philanthropy and investing is usually not an occupation in the case of the vast majority of our bios. -- Ohconfucius ¡digame! 03:51, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

CfD tag removal
Remove CfD tags from the hundreds of categories in this nomination: Categories for discussion/Log/2011 February 10. Thanks! &mdash; Train2104 (talk • contribs • count) 01:22, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I have started from Old Maidstonians, heading toward Old Zzzzians. Chris the speller   yack  02:44, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Now doing "Old D" to "Old L". Chris the speller   yack  03:34, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Looks like I'm getting to do the rest, too. Chris the speller   yack  03:51, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
 * All done. (382 categories untagged) Chris the speller   yack  04:11, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

The notice below needs to be added to all the talkpages:

TIA. Timrollpickering (talk) 09:13, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Done. Courcelles is travelling (talk) 09:38, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Lend a hand - Please remove the spam

 * 09:06, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Less than 500 edits in main space (currently 307), please give a reason. Armbrust  Talk to me  Contribs  20:38, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Need it to clean up spam links from many articles. See: electionprediction.org is used to promote website, even though the official government website for information is Elections Canada i.e. elections.ca. The spam links are on most of the Electoral Districts. Example Charlottetown (electoral district) it says "Source: Election Prediction Project" even though it was never sourced from there.  --33rogers (talk) 20:54, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Actually I don't mind if someone else is willing to do the work for me as outlined here: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam --33rogers (talk) 21:12, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
 * So you want the links removed without any replacement link? Is there any consensus for this? I'm asking about consensus only because there are 145 instances of the link. A rather large amount. Brad (talk) 02:47, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ most of them, replaced with official government page. The  Helpful  One  14:32, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

Norm Macdonald recapitalization
If anyone is excited about link renaming, and has nothing else to do: due to a recently completed article move, all of the following links
 * Norm MacDonald (comedian) (big D)
 * Norm MacDonald (big D)
 * Norm Macdonald (comedian) (little d)
 * Norm Macdonald (little d)

should change to simply
 * Norm Macdonald

Also, any references to (comedian) "Norm MacDonald" in plain text should be changed to "Norm Macdonald".

Cheers! --Lexein (talk) 12:39, 9 May 2011 (UTC)


 * I have started on the list of over 200 articles to fix, and foreign WP links need to be avoided. Chris the speller   yack  14:34, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm about halfway home. Anybody else wants some fun, go ahead; I'll just see more "No Find and Replace Changes" messages in the log. I might not finish today. Chris the speller   yack  18:04, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
 * All done. Chris the speller   yack  01:45, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Much appreciated! --Lexein (talk) 08:57, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Its
Its' -> Its. I-t-s-apostrophe is not a word. There's no such thing as "belonging to its". I've caught this error in two movie articles already and wouldn't be surprised if it's elsewhere. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 04:03, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Has anyone tackled this? If no-one posts here I'll add it to my next database scan. -- John of Reading (talk) 12:10, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't scrape the database, and WP Special:Search doesn't lend itself to this task (finding "its" followed by a straight or curly apostrophe), but if you come up with an article list and it's too long to do without losing your sanity, put part of the list into a subpage and I'll help to chug through it. Chris the speller   yack  14:08, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
 * 1249 matches. Since you've offered, I've put half of them into User:John of Reading/Sandbox. Enjoy! -- John of Reading (talk) 16:10, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I got the 631 articles into an AWB settings file, so you may reclaim and reuse your sandbox. The race is on! Chris the speller   yack  17:45, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
 * If I race, my head will explode! I've done about 250. It's worrying that I found four copyright violations along the way. -- John of Reading (talk) 18:50, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

I have a little over 100 done. I don't know how you spot copyvios while using AWB, since you're seeing such a small slice of the article; I don;t think I have ever caught one that way. Chris the speller  yack  20:59, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I think I'm seeing more of each article than you because I have the general fixes turned on; my diffs are longer. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:20, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I am in awe of your apparent ability to put up with all those reference reshuffles; I stopped doing general fixes on account of that. I have finished my list of 631 articles, leaving a handful that were within quotations. There were relatively few false positives, like 'his/her/its'. I think this correction should be added to the typo rules, no? Chris the speller   yack  15:58, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
 * And an apparent bug in AWB: run War (band) through a Find & Replace rule against "\bits[’'`] to its". Does yours pick up " profits'" as well? Chris the speller   yack  16:03, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Never mind the bug: There was a funny character in the article, which showed up in WikEd, and I fixed it. Chris the speller   yack  16:06, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ and see this request for a new rule. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:27, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Everything's Gonna Be Alright
Everything's Gonna Be Alright -> Everything's Gonna Be Alright. All incoming links refer to the Deana Carter album, which I moved because it has an ambiguous title. Just a sweep to make sure everything's fixed. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 16:51, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
 * , but with WikiCleaner GoingBatty (talk) 02:15, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅, but they didn't all refer to the album. Some referred to Everything's Gonna Be Alright (Naughty by Nature song) and one referred to Everything's Gonna Be Alright (Sweetbox song).  The links on The First Cut Is the Deepest and Jodeci discography don't refer to the album - maybe someone else can disambig these articles?  GoingBatty (talk) 02:32, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

The Kids in the Hall
Kids in the Hall --> The Kids in the Hall

There are bzillions. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 12:56, 3 June 2011 (UTC)


 * I'll do it. Chris the speller   yack  14:14, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Done. About 90 articles. Not changed: Video titles from Broadway Videos, such as "Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy", where "The" seems to be officially missing. Chris the speller   yack  15:41, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
 * You are awesome!! Anna Frodesiak (talk) 23:18, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Abraham Lincoln
Would somebody please run AWB over Abraham Lincoln for mos compliance and typos? I've attempted to do so but keep getting timeouts and resets. Thanks. Brad (talk) 15:59, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Done. Except for one duplicate ref to consolidate, and a space between a period and a reference, nothing found. Courcelles 17:25, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Brad (talk) 17:32, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

stone-mason --> stonemason
Cheers! Anna Frodesiak (talk) 11:01, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I'll do it. It looks like 3 or 4 dozen. Chris the speller   yack  14:51, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

✅. But now I better take a look at wood-carver and brick-layer. Chris the speller  yack  15:05, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
 * The case is the same for "brick-layer", but Merriam-Webster online shows "wood–carver" (with an en-dash, but they seem to use that as an emphasized hyphen). I don't know what those folks are smoking, because all other reputable dictionaries show "woodcarver", but it makes me reluctant to make a wholesale change, as someone will surely get knots in their underwear. Any thoughts?  Chris the speller   yack  15:25, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Thoughts? Sure: Merriam-Webster --> MerriamWebster. That'll learn 'em. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 21:09, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Good one! Chris the speller   yack  03:23, 21 June 2011 (UTC)


 * I also did "brick layer", and now plan to do "stone mason". The "brick layer" case will not be good for Typos, because there is a big difference between a discussion of construction methods and a mention of the occupation: "the brick layer getting plastered" vs. "the bricklayer getting plastered". Chris the speller   yack  16:07, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
 * There were over 300 cases of "stone mason", so it's going to take a while. This one is a good candidate for a Typo rule. Chris the speller   yack  03:23, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Well done, my friend. Many thanks. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 04:19, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I went to add "Stonemason" to WP:AWB/T for you, but saw it was already added. GoingBatty (talk) 04:24, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

✅. I also did a bunch of "stone masonry", but just the craft, not the building material. Most cases are of the building material (as in "a stone masonry arch"), which is why this is no good for a Typo rule. Chris the speller  yack  21:08, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

Craig Morgan
Craig Morgan -> Craig Morgan Craig Morgan (singer) was moved to Craig Morgan, so pipelinks are not needed anymore. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 19:28, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure that it's a good idea to change these links. They are not hurting anything, and removing the piping will not make any visible change to the rendered page. WP:AWB rules say "Avoid making insignificant or inconsequential edits" and "an edit that has no noticeable effect on the rendered page is generally considered an insignificant edit". Chris the speller   yack  19:49, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

PrinceMathew --> InarZan2
The user who was using this username ("PrinceMathew") has changed his username to on 07:51, 7 November 2010 (UTC). This username ("PrinceMathew") is now possessed by me after changing to it from on 14:09, 8 November 2010 (UTC). Can somebody run AWB so that:

1) All the signatures by that user (older than 7 November 2010) link to his new username instead of mine.

2) All the Talk page mentionings (older than 7 November 2010) of that user (such as "I strongly disagree with ...") edited to his current username (such as "I strongly disagree with ...")

Two administrators have given permission for this. Thanks in advance. --PrinceMathew (talk) 02:29, 23 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Working on it. There are apparently less than 20 pages involved, per the "What links here" list I've made. --Darkwind (talk) 00:57, 25 July 2011 (UTC)


 * ✅. If I missed any that should be changed, please feel free to enter a new request. --Darkwind (talk) 01:23, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Wings of a Dove
Wings of a Dove -> Wings of a Dove. Most inbound links refer to the Madness song, which I moved since there's also a song of the same name by Ferlin Husky. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 20:52, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I have started on these (81 articles). Chris the speller   yack  21:17, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

✅. There weren't that many; most of "What links here" is just articles that have the "madness" template, and they will disappear from "What links here" when any edit is made to each article. There's another song of this name written by Van Dyke Parks, mentioned in List of songs by Brian Wilson and listed on Orange Crate Art. I added it to the dab page. I am still investigating a movie which apparently has the same name. Chris the speller  yack  21:53, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ and Doner. The movie was "The Wings of the Dove (1997)". Hossam Ramzy still links to the disambig page; I couldn't ascertain what movie is meant. Chris the speller   yack  22:07, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

My Kind of Music
My Kind of Music->My Kind of Music. Album page was moved since there's more than one album with this name. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 23:05, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
 * GoingBatty (talk) 01:20, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ - There were only four pages to fix. Hope you don't mind that I used Dab solver to fix these instead of AWB.  GoingBatty (talk) 01:26, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

China province navboxes
I could really use some help adding some navboxes to articles. I've done all the other provinces, but these two keep cutting my connection. Many thanks if you can handle this mission. This thread will self-destruct in 5 seconds.

Anna Frodesiak (talk) 07:05, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ Except for two that are dab pages, Xingyi and Zhao Mausoleum -- John of Reading (talk) 08:02, 3 August 2011 (UTC)


 * You are amazing. Was it easy? How long did it take? Many thanks!! Anna Frodesiak (talk) 08:28, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 20 minutes; I got confused partway when I saw (one "a") in one of the articles, but otherwise it was easy. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:39, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I might have added to the wrong article, or else it belonged because the subject covered both provinces, and thus required both navboxes.
 * Many thanks again for your help. You saved the day. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 08:48, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

ERC (IRC client) redirects
Due to a recent move, this is a request to change all instances of ERC (IRC client) to ERC (software) in article-space. There's a bunch. Thanks! --Lexein (talk) 12:52, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Seems to have been done. The only instances left are hidden inside piped links. -- John of Reading (talk) 14:16, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ - fixed two articles with piped links and one double redirect. GoingBatty (talk) 17:05, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

Sweet! Imaginary delicious cookies suitable to individual dietary requirements all around.--Lexein (talk) 22:01, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
 * ...and I must remember to untick "Options > Follow redirects" when looking at this sort of request. Thanks to GoingBatty for catching my error. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:24, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm curious - did these changes show up in edit histories? Or am I missing something? --Lexein (talk) 22:07, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Most of the articles in your original "what links here" link were only there because of the link in the navbox, which you fixed yourself. GoingBatty fixed piped links in Internet Relay Chat and Rcirc, which I had left alone per WP:NOTBROKEN; he also fixed Emacs Relay Chat which I missed. These three edits show up in the article histories as normal. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:07, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Doh. Forgot about the IRC footer template. --Lexein (talk) 07:20, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

Helen (actress) -> Helen Jairag Richardson
Could use help with this list. Name should still read Helen though, as in Helen to Helen. BollyJeff ||  talk  15:58, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
 * In progress -- John of Reading (talk) 16:33, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ in the article and template namespaces only. I don't think I should mess with the links in the other namespaces. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:09, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

page move
http://www.baronetage.org/unproven.htm has been moved to http://www.baronetage.org/succession-to-baronetcy/ - Kittybrewster  &#9742;  19:54, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
 * OK. Why do we all need to know this here?  -- Jayron  32  20:06, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Maybe because the former is used a reference in articles that will now need to be updated to the latter, to avoid a dead link? – ukexpat (talk) 20:14, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
 * See these search results. – ukexpat (talk) 20:16, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, I am quite sure that was the point, but wouldn't it be better to post this on the talk pages of articles and/or Wikiprojects where it will find the people who are most likely to make good use of it? Or better yet, just update the references oneself.  Posting the above fact here is probably the second least likely way to fix the problem (the least likely being "do nothing")There are billions of references in Wikipedia articles, and some non-trivial number of them go dead every day.  It isn't that people shouldn't be notified of dead links, but this particular forum isn't exactly the best place to do that.  -- Jayron  32  20:21, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Use Special:LinkSearch to find links to an external site. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:15, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Is there a robot which will auto move them all? Kittybrewster  &#9742;  11:37, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
 * The link is not being used on any article mainspace. — Arsonal (talk + contribs) — 17:28, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
 * See these search results. – ukexpat (talk) 20:16, 8 August 2011 (UTC) Kittybrewster  &#9742;  21:35, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
 * . Don't sign with another user's signature. Someone else has already replaced all mainspace instances according to an external link search of the first URL. An external link search of the second URL confirms this. — Arsonal (talk + contribs) — 22:05, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

Missing spaces after punctuation
Especially in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka article, there are a lot of such occurrences. Examples:


 * ,or
 * ,and
 * .The
 * .But

The list goes on. Thoughts? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 04:28, 18 August 2011 (UTC)


 * I routinely have a few F&R rules running to fix these while targeting other mistakes, though it sometimes slows me down more than I like. If I find an article that has dozens of these, I switch over to use wikEd with RegEx turned on, changing "([,\.\?\;\)\:])(\w)" to "$1 $2". Now, how to get other AWB users to pitch in? This is too dicey to put into the Typos list, as it often tries to change URLs. Chris the speller   yack  11:02, 18 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Ah wikEd. Nice. I'm will check that out. I don't know what RegEx is, but I will find out.


 * The url changing thing. Right. I didn't think of that.


 * I would love to help, but, AWB prompts the great firewall of china to reset my connection. Bummer.


 * Thanks again Chris. You are wonderbar! Mmmmmm Wonderbar. I could go for one of those right now. I wonder if they still make them. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 11:19, 18 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Okay, I found the regEx button beside the replace box. I sort of get what "([,\.\?\;\)\:])(\w)" to "$1 $2" does, but not exactly. Could you point me toward the tutorial for that? Cheers. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 11:29, 18 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Most everything you will ever need to know to use Regular Expressions within wikEd is found here: . A pair of parentheses "captures" matching text so it can be used in the replacement. The "$1" is substituted by what was captured by the first pair of parentheses, and so on.  The RegEx I showed you captures any of ",.?;:" and then captures any numeral or letter that immediately follows it. The replacement will be the punctuation, a space, and the character that followed the punctuation. The comma doesn't need to be preceded by the escape character (\), but many other punctuation marks mean something to Regex, so they are preceded by "\". Have a blast!  Chris the speller   yack  13:39, 18 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Okay. First thing tomorrow, nine cups of coffee, check the link, read what you just wrote 3 times, experiment, figure it out. Many thanks. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 14:08, 18 August 2011 (UTC)


 * There are a couple ways to get it to not replace the .'s in URLs'. One is to cleverly write some code that that replaces the .'s with something else (like  which is the html equivelant of a period (ie .), do the punctuation fixes then change   back to a . You could probably also do a look ahead statement using regex but I am not very good with them and they are fairly hard to do. You could also probably do an if then else statement to make it work which can also be tricky. There are several users that are pretty good with these like Lightmouse and Xeno. If you ask one of them the questions odds are good they will be able to provide an answer. --Kumioko (talk) 14:15, 18 August 2011 (UTC)


 * I feel pretty comfortable with the lookahead construct, and will give that a shot. It would still be good to hear from Lightmouse and Xeno, though. Chris the speller   yack  17:27, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Here's some RegEx to try. It works in wikEd or AWB. Find "(\s\w+[a-z0-9][,\.\?\;\)\:])(?!\w+\.)([a-zA-Z]{4,99})\b" and replace with "$1 $2" (do not enter the double quotes). In wikEd, click on the case-sensitive and RegEx buttons. This will fix many occurrences, and should not clobber many URLs or filenames; it won't catch .jpg .com .org and such because it needs at least 4 characters after the punctuation. It won't mess with M.Phil and terms like that, because it excludes an upper-case letter preceding the punctuation. In AWB F&R rules, it will fix more if preceded by these rules:
 * " ," to ","
 * "]],(?!\s)" to "]], "
 * "(,\w+[a-z0-9][,\.\?\;\)\:])(?!\w+\.)([a-zA-Z]{4,99})\b" to "$1 $2"

I estimate this will find and fix about 90% of the missing spaces, with few false positives. Take a look at the history of Bareilly to see how it did. Chris the speller  yack  21:05, 18 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Make that "(\s\w+[a-z0-9][,\.\?\;\)\:])(?<!Image:|File:|inline,)(?!\w+\.|jpeg)([a-zA-Z]{4,99})\b" to avoid a few false positives. Chris the speller   yack  22:22, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Wow thats great thanks, Great job. --Kumioko (talk) 00:37, 19 August 2011 (UTC)


 * I'm supposed to understand this code? It looks like a kitten was walking on the keyboard.


 * I'll leave this to the pros. I can already see watchlisted pages getting cleaned up, so many thanks.


 * I love this AWB task page. It's like hotel housekeeping. "Can you send someone over? Somebody spilled commas everywhere." "Be right up."


 * And thanks again for the wikEd thing. Cheers to all. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 00:47, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

Passed away
It would be really great if AWB included a phrase converting all instances of sadly / tragically passed away / died to "died". So unencyclopedic. There seems to be a school of thought that believes sadly or tragically goes with such words in order to make "good writing". I have tried but failed. Kittybrewster  &#9742;  11:11, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
 * And of course the 2000+ instances of "untimely death" should be changed to simply "death" as well (apart from those cases where it is in a quote). Of course, in a sentence like "His untimely death is an irreparable loss to the nation and the mathematical community in Pakistan." (here), removing one word isn't sufficient to make things WP:NPOV. Fram (talk) 13:18, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Things like that are difficult to remove, even though we must do so, because it's probably perfectly true and probably written by someone close to him who feels a great loss. I recommend that as people do remove such things, the most respectful possible language and explanations are given, both in the edit summary and on the talk page.  It's not good if such things are removed with "revert promotional fluff" or whatever people might be tempted to say.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 14:03, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Good point Jimmy, I don't think I've ever seen you edit here before but its nice to se you know about it. :-) Its possible to code something that would replace these as long as they don't appear in quotes. We should also avoid changing them if they appear in Templates (like citation titles). They may well be other occassions where its necessary to leave them as well. --Kumioko (talk) 17:58, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

I think AWB was used to do a similar project in the past, although I don't remember when. I've started poking at this a little bit, because I think it's a good idea. I'm reviewing each incident by hand for appropriateness - both to make sure I don't accidentally change a quote, and to make sure that it's not genuinely better with "passed away" instead of died. I'm not adding a talk page comment for every edit that I make, but I am not using AWB to make the change in places where I think it will be a problem. I'm keeping a list of changes to manually make with talk page explanations where the tone of the article or the nature of the subject makes me think the change is liable to upset anyone. Kevin (talk) 19:20, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
 * As Wikikid expressed concern about doing this on Jimbo's talk page, I've stopped for now. I only made a handful of changes, and I think all of them are 100% solid, but will await further discussion before resuming. Kevin (talk) 19:25, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
 * There is always somebody. Jimbo and Fran and I clearly would like you to keep going,, Kevin. Kittybrewster  &#9742;  22:05, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Unless I think it is likely to upset someone, I just use an edit summary like "'passed away' -> 'died' per WP:EUPHEMISM". Editors who see this and question the change can go read the guideline. That should deflect most complaints without having to put an essay on the talk page. Chris the speller   yack  22:29, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
 * OK. Tragically passed away is done. Next: Sadly passed away. Kittybrewster  &#9742;  10:01, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Sadly passed away is done. Next: tragically died. Kittybrewster  &#9742;  11:57, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Changed the few "passed away" I found to "died", and used Chris' edit summary, with a link to WP:EUPHEMISM. GoingBatty (talk) 16:34, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I've branched out into WP:EDITORIAL territory, starting to clean up "tragically". If anyone doubts that this improves Wikipedia, take a look at this edit. Chris the speller   yack  15:25, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Excellent. Then sadly? Kittybrewster  &#9742;  20:18, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Don't wait for me; the missing sign in Iowa has taken quite an emotional toll on me, and there is still much work left to do on "tragically". After that, I might do "(un)fortunately". Any help will be appreciated. Chris the speller   yack  21:56, 22 August 2011 (UTC)


 * I'll bet there are a few instances of of course. Just a thought - avoid making changes inside quotes or quote (or box) templates? --Lexein (talk) 22:13, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Of course. ;-) Chris the speller   yack  00:16, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Think I've cleaned up the rest of the articles where people died sadly, tragically, or unfortunately. GoingBatty (talk) 03:15, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Not as tragic as the sign, but I'm finding much sadness in Wikipedia. GoingBatty (talk) 03:34, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Ah but have you found any | timely deaths? Kittybrewster  &#9742;  11:28, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I have cleaned up over 300 cases of "tragically", mostly "tragically" with "killed" somewhere in the same sentence, but leaving fictional characters tragically dead. Even found a "closed his eyes for the last time". But I have a feeling that there is much more similar work to do. Chris the speller   yack  02:09, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Category:Chemical images that should be in SVG format
Fairly straight forward task. For each file in Category:Chemical images that should be in SVG format, please remove any instances of and  and add  to all files. Thanks,  F ASTILY  (TALK) 08:03, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ Avic ennasis @ 11:36, 29 Av 5771 / 11:36, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I am sorry, but Fastily misunderstood my request. should not be removed. Category:Chemical images that should be in SVG format is now empty what is not the intention at all.
 * The request was to replace by . Could you please fix that? --Leyo 12:05, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ Lemme know if anything else needs adjusted. Avic ennasis  @ 12:22, 29 Av 5771 / 12:22, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you. --Leyo 12:27, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Oops. Sorry about that Leyo :o Thanks for taking care of that Avic! :) - F ASTILY  (TALK) 08:08, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

Rationale template migrations...
In relation to - http://toolserver.org/~magnus/catscan_rewrite.php?depth=3&categories=Non-free+posters&ns[6]=1&templates_any=Film+cover+fur&sortby=uploaddate&ext_image_data=1&doit=1

The reference to {{film cover fur on these images in File: namespace should be changed to {{Non-free use rationale poster| Media=film

This is a simple Find/replace, but on a vast number of images...

On a related note:


 * {{poster fur -> {{Non-free use rationale poster - Seems to be done.
 * {{Video game cover fur 	-> {{Non-free use rationale video game cover 3330 articles Done?
 * {{Book cover fur 		-> {{Non-free use rationale book cover 5782 articles Done?
 * {{Vgboxart fur 		-> {{Non-free use rationale video game cover 	 Done?


 * {{film poster fur -> {{Non-free use rationale poster|Media=film = 4700 articles
 * {{Logo fur 			-> {{Non-free use rationale logo 79883 articles
 * {{Album cover fur 		-> {{Non-free use rationale album cover 82911 articles
 * {{Non-free use rationale album -> {{Non-free use rationale album cover

Sfan00 IMG (talk) 22:39, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Updated Sfan00 IMG (talk) 13:11, 31 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Noting error in request -> {{film poster -> {{Non-free use rationale poster|Media=film

Will fix the existing onesSfan00 IMG (talk) 08:57, 30 August 2011 (UTC)


 * {{tl|Vgboxart fur}} does look like it's not in use. {{tl|Logo fur}}, {{tl|Book cover fur}} and {{tl|Album cover fur}} are all redirects - is there a good reason for bypassing them? Avic ennasis @ 13:14, 24 Av 5771 / 13:14, 24 August 2011 (UTC)


 * The bypass is for standardisation purposes, and in my opinion WP:NOTBROKEN is getting in the way here. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 10:01, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

{{Outdent|::}}Hello. I'm here to say that {{Film cover fur}} should be migrated to {{Non-free use rationale video cover}}, not to {{Non-free use rationale poster |Media=film}}. {{Film cover fur}} and {{Non-free use rationale video cover}} are for DVD and videotape covers, but {{Non-free use rationale poster |Media=film}} is for movie posters. The proof of this is that {{Film cover fur}} now redirects to {{Non-free use rationale video cover}}. Just click on this link to see for yourself: Template:Film cover fur. Thanks. — Mudwater {{sup| (Talk)}} 00:21, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

{{od}} I added the number of articles that each one above has and as you can easily see the numbers for a couple are very high so although this could be done by AWB I think given those numbers the bean counters who are always looking for a reason to shut AWB down are going to insist this done as a bot and not just an AWB task. Besides that with 150, 000+ articles your gonna wear out your enter key. If it helps I have code that could be used to do this and if you want it I would be happy to provide it .--Kumioko (talk) 00:43, 26 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Well, {{tl|Film cover fur}} is done, all except one transclusion - which will need an admin to correct, as the filepage is fully protected. Avic ennasis  @ 04:27, 27 Av 5771 / 04:27, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Also {{tl|Video game cover fur}} is done. Avic ennasis @ 21:23, 27 Av 5771 / 21:23, 27 August 2011 (UTC)


 * The specfics or the film poster/film cover transition, where that the group identified on the specfic link were posters,

not video covers. That is why the translation was as stated.

Video/film covers -> {{tl|Non-free use rationale video cover}} for things that ARE video covers is noted, and thanks :) Sfan00 IMG (talk) 09:58, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

Stub tag update
Please update all uses of Victoria-geo-stub to VictoriaAU-geo-stub, with an edit summary linking to Stub types for deletion/Log/2011/August/23. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 08:07, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Doing. Courcelles 08:15, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Done. Courcelles 08:58, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

Mis-rationaled film poster
The following is a list of posters, which rathe than use a poster rationale, use a video cover one, Ideally these should be corrected.

http://toolserver.org/~magnus/catscan_rewrite.php?ns[6]=1&templates_yes=Non-free+use+rationale+video+cover%0D%0ANon-free+poster&ext_image_data=1&doit=1

Sfan00 IMG (talk) 21:19, 29 August 2011 (UTC)


 * ✅, except for File:Homicidal.jpg. <sup style="color:red;">Avic <sub style="color:blue;">ennasis @ 04:37, 1 Elul 5771 / 04:37, 31 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Update, File:Homicidal.jpg seems to have been update now as well? Sfan00 IMG (talk) 16:44, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Looks like it - currently, nothing transcludes Template:Film_cover_fur - it should be safe to have an admin delete it, if you wish. <sup style="color:red;">Avic <sub style="color:blue;">ennasis @ 22:20, 19 Elul 5771 / 22:20, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Scratch that - it looks like this template (and others) are used by FurMe - someone will have to request an update to that tool so it doesn't use redirects. <sup style="color:red;">Avic <sub style="color:blue;">ennasis @ 16:07, 20 Elul 5771 / 16:07, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Kids --> Children
Any thoughts? Kittybrewster  &#9742;  11:57, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Lots of false positives; fewer if you can search for only lowercase "kids". -- John of Reading (talk) 13:02, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
 * "kids" can be human children or young goats. See Kids for other usages.  GoingBatty (talk) 16:42, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Mass tagging for rename
In order to help clear a backlog it would be appreciated if someone with AWB could consider doing the following 'mass' tagging on a number of media files :


 * String to add :
 * File list    : Blue links in Database_reports/Largely_duplicative_file_names

I've been doing this manually in TWINKLE and it's taking a while

Thanks in advance.

Sfan00 IMG (talk) 16:42, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
 * &mdash;Akrabbimtalk 19:32, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I have completed A–G for now. I will get back to it later if nobody else wants to pick it up in the meantime. &mdash;Akrabbimtalk 21:44, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Ill tag a few too, Ill use the same edit summer as Akrabbim used. --Kumioko (talk) 22:29, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I notice that some have already. Do you want me to replace that with the template above? --Kumioko (talk) 22:33, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Ok the task is all done but I did notice some interesting things with files will I was cruising through


 * 1) Some have double Summary sections
 * 2) Some don't have a summery at all
 * 3) Some items aren't in the proper order, licensing above summary for example
 * 4) Some have duplicate sections of information
 * 5) Improperly formatted URL's
 * 6) Unbalanced brackets on templates or links
 * 7) Some tagged with bad image or obsolete
 * 8) Lots and lots of typos in summeryes
 * 9) Some have categories, most don't, should they?
 * 10) The list stopped at N. Are there any past that? --Kumioko (talk) 00:11, 19 September 2011 (UTC)


 * 11. Some of the had seemingly already been resolved :(, which means I need to manually undo a few edits..


 * Yes, there more after N, but those will be found when the report updates... :) Sfan00 IMG (talk) 01:02, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Ok well if you want me to tag them when the report reruns just let me know and I can take care of it. --Kumioko (talk) 01:08, 19 September 2011 (UTC)


 * →  (regex, multiline) will take care of the double-summaries headers - that's what I've been using. The duplicated sections, bad URLs, tyops and bracket mismatches are larger problems, though. AFAIK, most images on Wikipedia are not in a category and don't need to be. <sup style="color:red;">Avic <sub style="color:blue;">ennasis  @ 04:53, 20 Elul 5771 / 04:53, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. I thought about using code similar to that but since I don't usually deal with images I didn't know if it was appropriate. Ill run back through and fix them. As for the typos and such. AWB doesn't do any changes as far as I know in the File namespace but it might be worth mentioning some of these things for AWB to do. For example here are some things we could start with:
 * 1) Fix the incorrect URL's (like HTTP//, HTTP:/WWW, HTTP://Website.come with no WWW, etc) This logic is already in place on the main namespace
 * 2) Enable typos checking
 * 3) Remove the duplicate section titles. --Kumioko (talk) 13:15, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
 * AWB can fix typos in the File namespace. For example, try File:Centre North East.jpg or File:NigerDeltaStates.PNG.  I believe that the desire to have AWB perform any general fixes in the File namespace would be a feature request.  GoingBatty (talk) 16:38, 19 September 2011 (UTC)


 * If anybody here is still interested in the task, I found two more images on this list that need to be split. File:IMG 0065.JPG was originally some kid apparently attempting to imitate The Tick, but had the seat of a racing car posted in it's place, and File:IMG 0091.JPG, which originally had a science class at a school in Singapore had a picture of an outhouse in Colorado over it. DanTD (talk) 14:32, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Spamming Chinese students
Hello. I need a kind AWB user to drop 3 talk page posts at 160 students' talk pages in three goes, about 3 hours apart. Can anyone help? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 23:41, 20 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Anna, you will need to post this at the bot requests page. — Ganeshk  ( talk ) 00:22, 21 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Looks like Sigma is on standby with AWB. Thanks all. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 01:07, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Website lines needs converting in Non-free use rationales
A recent change to Non-free use rationale logo has seemingly broken the sourcing of a number of rationales.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3ANon-free_use_rationale_logo&action=historysubmit&diff=451511308&oldid=447824464

This could be fixed easily using AWB, if anyone is interested.

Sfan00 IMG (talk) 23:53, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
 * The template change has been reverted. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:22, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Mass purge
Recently a template was updated so that pages using it are categorised specfically. Much appreciated if a mass purge was done to stuff in this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Subscription_required

to ensure that all relevant pages are using the updated version which categorises appropriately. Thanks Sfan00 IMG (talk) 15:18, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi Sfan00 IMG! I wonder if some people might think using AWB to create "dummy saves" would go against one of the AWB rules of use: "Avoid making insignificant or inconsequential edits."  I suggest any AWB user who tackles this task uses an edit summary that links to the appropriate discussion to show why they made an edit for this purpose, and also turns on typo fixing and general fixes as well.  Or, maybe this task would be handled better using a bot request?  Good luck!  GoingBatty (talk) 02:40, 26 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Valid point, amended request accordingly :) Sfan00 IMG (talk) 12:13, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
 * The job queue should get round to doing this for you anyway - see Help:Category. -- John of Reading (talk) 13:05, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Chinese punctuation marks
Hello. Students participating in the NNU Class Project have created approximately 180 articles. Many of these contain peculiar characters. These include quotation marks, commas, colons, etc. They appear almost identical, but are not. They cause spacing problems. An example is here: Chinkiang Vinegar. Note the parentheses enclosing the Chinese name. Similar, but not the same.

The list of articles is here. Would it be possible to search and replace these? We would be most grateful for any help you can give. Thank you. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 03:52, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Also, there are lots of occurrences of no spaces after colons:and before(parentheses). (Do you remember the India-related articles? Same thing. You fixed those really nicely.) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 04:16, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

pp-semi-indef|small=yes
Considering that does the exact same thing as , perhaps we should have someone run through every page to change  to  in the wikicode used. LikeLakers2 (talk &#124; Sign my guestbook!) 21:25, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
 * No, we shouldn't. That would be an edit, without changing the visible output or providing any benefit, against the AWB rules of use. Courcelles 22:55, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

The Trouble with Girls
The Trouble with Girls -> The Trouble with Girls Page was moved since the title is ambiguous. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 20:02, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm confused is that a statement or a question? --Kumioko (talk) 20:38, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ &mdash;Akrabbimtalk 20:48, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Category:Beverage articles
I am not a AWB user myself, so sorry if I shouldn't post it here, but this is where I think AWB would come in handy. Perhaps we could have a AWB user change to  on all articles listed in Category:Beverage articles, since it is redundant due to Category:Beverages. LikeLakers2 (talk &#124; Sign my guestbook!) 18:25, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
 * There are no mainspace articles in Category:Beverage articles.  I think they are all related to WP:WikiProject Food and drink. &mdash;Akrabbimtalk 21:18, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Agreed. It seems that parameters in the template WikiProject Food and drink cause the talk pages to be included in Category:Beverage articles.  You might want to post on Template talk:WikiProject Food and drink to see if others think the template should be changed to use the appropriate category.  Good luck!  GoingBatty (talk) 02:49, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ --Funandtrvl (talk) 05:52, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

Fixing wikilink style
Would someone please go through Special:Contributions/ChemMater and fix wikilinks like in this case? --Leyo 23:28, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
 * How would you go about doing this? I'm not aware of any wildcard character for find and replace, like
 * Find:
 * Replace with:
 * &mdash;Akrabbimtalk 00:03, 14 October 2011 (UTC)


 * ✅ I did it, but only found Sliced bread and Trisilane.
 * Find "\[http\://en\.wiki\S{1,99} ([A-Za-z0-9 -]{1,99})\]"
 * Replace "$1"
 * This will fix all where the link contains only numbers, letters, hyphens and spaces, but that's the vast majority, I think. Did it miss any? Chris the speller   yack  01:05, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Fixed typos, made general fixes and performed other minor fixes, but didn't find any other wikilinks to fix when I used a more complicated regex. Nice job, Chris!  GoingBatty (talk) 01:44, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Trying a few things, this code doesn't seem entirely foolproof. What about the times when   isn't really the same as    We would want to use a pipe link in these cases, but it doesn't look like it performs this correctly, see . &mdash;Akrabbimtalk 14:55, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
 * See my upgraded F&R rules below. Chris the speller   yack  15:03, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

Would it be easily possible to search for  in the body of all articles? --Leyo 12:49, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Actually, I'm one step ahead of you. Yes, I found about 60 articles, and fixed a few.
 * Find "\[\[http\://en\.wikipedia\.org/wiki/(\S{1,99}) ([A-Za-z0-9 -\(\)]{1,99})\]\]"
 * Replace "$2"
 * This handles piped links within double square brackets pretty well, while the code I used above handles simple links within single square brackets. I have been working my way through various variations of markup, tweaking code as I go. Underscores in the resulting link can be changed to blanks manually. Chris the speller   yack  15:02, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Did you find any more for ChemMater, or did you find them in other articles? The two rules I'm using are:
 * Find: "\[*http://en\.wikipedia\.org/wiki/([A-Za-z_#%\-\.\,\d]+)\s([A-Za-z\.\s]+)\]*" →  Replace: "$2"
 * Find: "\[*http://en\.wikipedia\.org/wiki/([A-Za-z_#%:\-\.\,\d]+)\]*" → Replace: "$1"
 * I've been expanding the punctuation in the rules as I find articles. Suggestions always welcome.  GoingBatty (talk) 17:01, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
 * It looks like convergent evolution; we are at almost exactly the same point. The ones I am finding are not by ChemMater (there were only two of those). My rules and your yours work OK, but there are a lot of exceptions, where the external link format is on the right-hand side of a piped link so as to make it look external, trying to get by with the unholy practice of using a wikilink as a reference. I have been manually moving these to the "See also" section. Chris the speller   yack  17:42, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I got them all (though it seemed that a few other editors were also fixing them). AWB only did a small percentage. The rest was all mud wrestling, with backward pipes and other kinds of confusion. Chris the speller   yack  04:17, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you (and all others) for this effort. --Leyo 10:26, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
 * There are still many more to fix, such as the articles on Wikipedia and MediaWiki. Any assistance would be appreciated.  GoingBatty (talk) 02:44, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I didn't mean to claim "Mission accomplished" prematurely. A search for "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki" only found a handful. How are you finding these, and is it still a project where AWB can help? What should be done with the Wikipedia project pages that are used as references in the Wikipedia article?  Chris the speller   yack  04:26, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Special:LinkSearch will find them. Within the AWB "Make list" function that's one of the sub-options of "Special page". -- John of Reading (talk) 07:22, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I just did a Wiki search (text) for "en.wikipedia" (including the quotation marks), although your solution is better. AWB can still be used to clean up the articles (although Wikipedia and MediaWiki need more help than I can provide).  GoingBatty (talk) 13:51, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

Adding oldprodfull templates?
Is it feasible with AWB to go through all articles for which Proposed deletion has been added and removed, to make sure there's a oldprodfull on the Talk page? --Lexein (talk) 18:52, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't think so. I don't know of any way to see the history of What links here, What transcludes page, or category membership history. &mdash;Akrabbimtalk 19:48, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Category rename of Category:Roller coasters by opening year
Can some one please go through all the subcategories of Category:Roller coasters by opening year, and fix them like this edit? Unfortunatrely, this change is beyond the ability of the CfR bot. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 18:34, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Another user edited this category after you did. Should the fix you're requesting incorporate both changes, like this?  GoingBatty (talk) 23:57, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

MfD
Could someone use AWB to notify all the users listed between the two collapse templates here? Thanks.  HurricaneFan 25  00:47, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
 * The MfD is closed, so this no longer appears necessary. — Bility (talk) 00:49, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

Tautology
There are a huge number of "... currently live(s)..." which is bad grammar. Could somebody take it on please (by deleting the word currently)? Kittybrewster  &#9742;  10:32, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Not a lot! Fewer than 7,000 articles. Aaargh. A similar number of articles has "currently resides". Is "lives" vague and too informal? Is "resides" pretentious and too formal? Chris the speller   yack  15:16, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
 * A further objection is that "currently" could be understood to imply that the article is up to date, and most of us know better. On the same grounds, an objection could be made to "now lives" (c. 4,500) and "now resides" (c. 2,000). Let's not forget "living" and "residing", but "living" can also be used in the sense of drawing breath—"This page contains a list of the eldest United States Senators among those currently living". Chris the speller   yack  15:35, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Is this a candidate for adding to WP:AWB/T? GoingBatty (talk) 18:16, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't have a good feel for how many false positives would be encountered, but I can think of some gray areas where "currently" would be used to provide contrast or a sense that the residency is temporary. How about "they were born and raised in Slobbovia, but currently live in Fredonia, vowing to return to Slobbovia when its political climate improves"? I wouldn't mess with that, and wouldn't set up a Typo rule to do so. Chris the speller   yack  22:07, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Good point - thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 01:19, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

To clarify, it's fine if editors who read this decide to run a Find & Replace rule to knock out the word "currently", but I don't think a new Typo rule would provide a uniformly great experience for the hundreds of AWB users out there. Chris the speller  yack  01:04, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
 * So, does the tautology remain? Kittybrewster  &#9742;  14:12, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
 * It seems that "currently lives" is not a perfect candidate for an AWB Typo rule, and no one has stepped up to run AWB just for this purpose. If you would like to try, I'll help you get started; I see that you are registered, but don't regularly use AWB. I would support the use of AWB Typo rules for other tautologies that are more clear cut, such as "debut appearance", but "currently lives" is not quite the poster child. I took a run at it, and did a few dozen articles, but my heart's not in it. When I hit an article that starts with something like "Edna Schulmklopfer currently lives in Provo, UT." I immediately think that it needs a lot more work than clipping out a useless word. A search for "currently lives" is probably most useful for finding poorly written bios of non-notable people. Chris the speller   yack  16:43, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

Big Job
I used a bot to flag oversized non-free files for size-reduction in accordance with WP:NFCC. However, it seems the criteria I used to assess the size of non-free files was not in sync with the criteria the community had in mind. That said, as the bot's operator, I'd like to request that that every instance of (roughly 30,000 instances) applied by User:Fbot be reverted. There's a lot to revert, and the issue is time sensitive (e.g. I don't want acceptable files to be inadvertently reduced), so I'd appreciate it if the job could be done as soon as possible. Thanks,  F ASTILY  (TALK) 22:55, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
 * So just to be clear, you need to delete the template completely from any article its currently on correct? Or is there a specific list were working with? I just want to make sure before I go removing templates from a file that should have it. --23:16, 6 December 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kumioko (talk • contribs)
 * That sounds about right. There isn't a list at the moment, but if I'm not mistaken, AWB can fetch category members or template transclusions.  Would it be more helpful if you had a list?  I can make one. - F ASTILY  (TALK) 23:31, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
 * The way I read the original request, you only want removed from files where User:Fbot added it.  Are there other users/bots that would have added this template which need to be weeded out of the list?  Dismas |(talk) 23:46, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes Dismas thats what I was unclearly getting at. Additionally, if there are criteria that set the mood for this template we should leave those as well. Removing the template is quite easy I just want to be sure that I don't torpedo some file accidentally. --Kumioko (talk) 02:17, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, there are other users who have added this template to files. I'll try to compile a list of files the template should be removed from.   - F ASTILY  (TALK) 02:22, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
 * If someone adds user:Svenbot to the AWB whitelist (I, it's operator, am already on the list), and walks me through how I'd set it up, I'll do it. I'd prefer to do it through the Svenbot account rather than my regular one, just because of the sheer size of the task.  S ven M anguard   Wha?  03:18, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Here this might help. Just make a module with this code and you should be set. This will clean up the redirects for the template if applicable and then delete it. Let me know if you have any questions --Kumioko (talk) 04:29, 7 December 2011 (UTC)


 * It's been a long time since I used AWB. I have the above locked in as a module, but I don't know where to go from there. If you could leave me a step by step on how to get the task running, I should be able to monitor it from there.  S ven M anguard   Wha?  05:07, 7 December 2011 (UTC)


 * More specificly: I had the module working, I had the pages loaded, when I clicked start, the change I wanted was up top in yellow, and when I clicked save... nothing happened. It might be the Great Firewall, which prevented me from running Svenbot's tagging task, I really don't know. If it's not done at the end of the year, I'll try again from the States.  S ven M anguard   Wha?  05:28, 7 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Hmm, if its in yellow and you hit save it should work. I'm not sure why its not but your guess may be right it could be a firewall block depending on where you are. --Kumioko (talk) 14:11, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

List
Alright, I just generated a report listing the files that need to have removed from their file description pages:
 * Page one
 * Page two

Thanks,  F ASTILY  (TALK) 07:18, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Hmm, been playing around with this. I've made some progress, and have an AWB settings file that works fine on this I'll be happy to send to anyone who wants to finish this job.  After what I've done, the remaining files are 23,475. Courcelles 21:27, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I've filed a BRFA to fix this one up, it can be found at Bots/Requests for approval/SteveBot 7. Cheers,  Steven   Zhang  Join the DR army! 22:10, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
 * UPDATE: The BRFA was speedily approved and Stevebot is chugging through them now. --Kumioko (talk) 16:53, 8 December 2011 (UTC)