Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks/Archive 8

Please create a few redirects
Would someone mind creating a few redirects?


 * Missouri Route A
 * Missouri Route B
 * Missouri Route C
 * Missouri Route D
 * Missouri Route E
 * Missouri Route F
 * Missouri Route H
 * Missouri Route J
 * Missouri Route K
 * Missouri Route L
 * Missouri Route M
 * Missouri Route N
 * Missouri Route O
 * Missouri Route P
 * Missouri Route T
 * Missouri Route U
 * Missouri Route V
 * Missouri Route W
 * Missouri Route Y
 * Missouri Route Z
 * Missouri Route AA
 * Missouri Route BB
 * Missouri Route CC
 * Missouri Route DD
 * Missouri Route EE
 * Missouri Route FF
 * Missouri Route HH
 * Missouri Route JJ
 * Missouri Route KK
 * Missouri Route LL
 * Missouri Route MM
 * Missouri Route NN
 * Missouri Route OO
 * Missouri Route PP
 * Missouri Route TT
 * Missouri Route UU
 * Missouri Route VV
 * Missouri Route WW
 * Missouri Route YY
 * Missouri Route ZZ
 * Missouri Route AB
 * Missouri Route AC
 * Missouri Route AD
 * Missouri Route AE
 * Missouri Route AF
 * Missouri Route AH
 * Missouri Route AJ
 * Missouri Route AK
 * Missouri Route AL
 * Missouri Route AM
 * Missouri Route AN
 * Missouri Route AO
 * Missouri Route AP
 * Missouri Route AR
 * Missouri Route AT
 * Missouri Route AU
 * Missouri Route AV
 * Missouri Route AW
 * Missouri Route AY
 * Missouri Route AZ

All of these need to go to Missouri supplemental route; the routes are named with single letters or with double letters, which latter consist of "A" and a second letter, or the same letter used twice. Nyttend (talk) 01:18, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅, including talk pages. GoingBatty (talk) 23:49, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Nyttend (talk) 01:18, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

User awards for taking deleted articles to GA/FA
Cirt has asked me if I can help with a task described at Wikipedia_talk:User_scripts. The task is to take an existing category, locate the editor who nominated the article for GA or FA (that should be in the article talk page history methinks), and thank them (at the user talk page). This cross-namespace stuff is a bit out of my line and the methods are not obvious to me. Can anyone help? Mr Stephen (talk) 22:57, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

Invalid quotation marks on ref tags
It would be appreciated if someone would use AWB to find and fix this problem - it's causing breakage with VisualEditor. (More information here: VisualEditor/Feedback/Archive 2015 3.) Thanks! -- John Broughton (♫♫) 20:39, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
 * GoingBatty (talk) 04:06, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Great! -- John Broughton (♫♫) 19:10, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
 * AWB general fixes include the ability to fix references such as  - would this be a candidate to add to CHECKWIKI?  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 01:30, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Ahh, another thing that VE messes up on. CheckWiki already checks for some things VE can't handle and won't be fixed in VE.  I see  was involved.  If AWB didn't fix this, I'd say no, we already have too many errors and two grumpy editors burning out fixing them.  Batty, can I steal your regex so I don't have to think?  Bgwhite (talk) 07:15, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
 * To find them, I did a database dump looking for something like  and AWB's general fixes automatically adds the missing quotation marks.  GoingBatty (talk) 13:34, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Is AnomieBOT still running your OrphanReferenceFixer task? GoingBatty (talk) 13:54, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes. You can look at User:AnomieBOT/OrphanReferenceFixer log to see what it has done recently. Anomie⚔ 16:33, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Hmmm - looks like even though you bot will fix, articles such as Court-martial of Terry Lakin that have that problem aren't included in the categories your bot looks at.  GoingBatty (talk) 00:37, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ fixing those I found in the October dump. If Bgwhite or Anomie wants to automate these fixes, that would be great. GoingBatty (talk) 02:28, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Notifying users of mass MfD nomination
Please notify all the users whose pages are being considered for deletion at Miscellany for deletion/Blank userspace drafts. Instead of using the default text at Template:MFDWarning, the more specific text at Draft:Blank userspace drafts MfD/message should be used. (Template:MFDWarning/doc says editors are encouraged to modify substituted templates to suit unique circumstances.) Place  on the user talk page.

Additionally, consider tagging all the nominated pages with. Thanks. 103.6.159.83 (talk) 20:27, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Done manually until User:Mlf3154/Amelia Arenas. 103.6.159.85 (talk) 16:39, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

WP:Research help
Hey all, I put a bot request about selectively piloting links to WP:Research help in articles. The task could probably be done with AWB, but might be suited for a bot eventually (for scaling the pilot). Please weigh in at the bot request, if you think you can help, Astinson (WMF) (talk) 18:32, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

AFD tagging
Can someone please tag all the pages listed here with the AfD tag? The draft nomination would soon be moved to Articles for deletion/Kendriya Vidyalaya school articles. 103.6.159.89 (talk) 15:09, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

Linked misspellings
Maybe some AWB user want to play with these misspellings? -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 17:17, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

HTTPS external links to Wikipedia
You should also convert http external links to Wikipedia to https and do general fixes, such as replacing displayed text with displayed text. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 02:44, 7 December 2015 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure if AWB does that automatically. --bender235 (talk) 02:46, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Those are tracked here. -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 11:16, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

Redirects to deaths in each month
The following redirects should be created with AWB, per Redirects for discussion/Log/2016 February 17:


 * February 2016 deaths to Deaths in February 2016
 * January 2016 deaths to Deaths in January 2016
 * December 2015 deaths to Deaths in December 2015
 * November 2015 deaths to Deaths in November 2015
 * October 2015 deaths to Deaths in October 2015
 * September 2015 deaths to Deaths in September 2015
 * August 2015 deaths to Deaths in August 2015
 * July 2015 deaths to Deaths in July 2015
 * June 2015 deaths to Deaths in June 2015
 * May 2015 deaths to Deaths in May 2015
 * April 2015 deaths to Deaths in April 2015
 * March 2015 deaths to Deaths in March 2015
 * February 2015 deaths to Deaths in February 2015
 * January 2015 deaths to Deaths in January 2015
 * December 2014 deaths to Deaths in December 2014
 * November 2014 deaths to Deaths in November 2014
 * October 2014 deaths to Deaths in October 2014
 * September 2014 deaths to Deaths in September 2014
 * August 2014 deaths to Deaths in August 2014
 * July 2014 deaths to Deaths in July 2014
 * June 2014 deaths to Deaths in June 2014
 * May 2014 deaths to Deaths in May 2014
 * April 2014 deaths to Deaths in April 2014
 * March 2014 deaths to Deaths in March 2014
 * December 2013 deaths to Deaths in December 2013
 * November 2013 deaths to Deaths in November 2013
 * October 2013 deaths to Deaths in October 2013
 * September 2013 deaths to Deaths in September 2013
 * August 2013 deaths to Deaths in August 2013
 * July 2013 deaths to Deaths in July 2013
 * June 2013 deaths to Deaths in June 2013
 * May 2013 deaths to Deaths in May 2013
 * April 2013 deaths to Deaths in April 2013
 * March 2013 deaths to Deaths in March 2013
 * February 2013 deaths to Deaths in February 2013
 * January 2013 deaths to Deaths in January 2013
 * December 2012 deaths to Deaths in December 2012
 * November 2012 deaths to Deaths in November 2012
 * October 2012 deaths to Deaths in October 2012
 * September 2012 deaths to Deaths in September 2012
 * August 2012 deaths to Deaths in August 2012
 * July 2012 deaths to Deaths in July 2012
 * June 2012 deaths to Deaths in June 2012
 * May 2012 deaths to Deaths in May 2012
 * April 2012 deaths to Deaths in April 2012
 * March 2012 deaths to Deaths in March 2012
 * February 2012 deaths to Deaths in February 2012
 * January 2012 deaths to Deaths in January 2012
 * December 2011 deaths to Deaths in December 2011
 * November 2011 deaths to Deaths in November 2011
 * October 2011 deaths to Deaths in October 2011
 * September 2011 deaths to Deaths in September 2011
 * August 2011 deaths to Deaths in August 2011
 * July 2011 deaths to Deaths in July 2011
 * June 2011 deaths to Deaths in June 2011
 * May 2011 deaths to Deaths in May 2011
 * April 2011 deaths to Deaths in April 2011
 * March 2011 deaths to Deaths in March 2011
 * February 2011 deaths to Deaths in February 2011
 * January 2011 deaths to Deaths in January 2011
 * December 2010 deaths to Deaths in December 2010
 * November 2010 deaths to Deaths in November 2010
 * October 2010 deaths to Deaths in October 2010
 * September 2010 deaths to Deaths in September 2010
 * August 2010 deaths to Deaths in August 2010
 * July 2010 deaths to Deaths in July 2010
 * June 2010 deaths to Deaths in June 2010
 * May 2010 deaths to Deaths in May 2010
 * April 2010 deaths to Deaths in April 2010
 * March 2010 deaths to Deaths in March 2010
 * February 2010 deaths to Deaths in February 2010
 * January 2010 deaths to Deaths in January 2010
 * December 2009 deaths to Deaths in December 2009
 * November 2009 deaths to Deaths in November 2009
 * October 2009 deaths to Deaths in October 2009
 * September 2009 deaths to Deaths in September 2009
 * August 2009 deaths to Deaths in August 2009
 * July 2009 deaths to Deaths in July 2009
 * June 2009 deaths to Deaths in June 2009
 * May 2009 deaths to Deaths in May 2009
 * April 2009 deaths to Deaths in April 2009
 * March 2009 deaths to Deaths in March 2009
 * February 2009 deaths to Deaths in February 2009
 * January 2009 deaths to Deaths in January 2009
 * December 2008 deaths to Deaths in December 2008
 * November 2008 deaths to Deaths in November 2008
 * October 2008 deaths to Deaths in October 2008
 * September 2008 deaths to Deaths in September 2008
 * August 2008 deaths to Deaths in August 2008
 * July 2008 deaths to Deaths in July 2008
 * June 2008 deaths to Deaths in June 2008
 * May 2008 deaths to Deaths in May 2008
 * April 2008 deaths to Deaths in April 2008
 * March 2008 deaths to Deaths in March 2008
 * February 2008 deaths to Deaths in February 2008
 * January 2008 deaths to Deaths in January 2008
 * December 2007 deaths to Deaths in December 2007
 * November 2007 deaths to Deaths in November 2007
 * October 2007 deaths to Deaths in October 2007
 * August 2007 deaths to Deaths in August 2007
 * July 2007 deaths to Deaths in July 2007
 * June 2007 deaths to Deaths in June 2007
 * May 2007 deaths to Deaths in May 2007
 * April 2007 deaths to Deaths in April 2007
 * March 2007 deaths to Deaths in March 2007
 * February 2007 deaths to Deaths in February 2007
 * January 2007 deaths to Deaths in January 2007
 * December 2006 deaths to Deaths in December 2006
 * November 2006 deaths to Deaths in November 2006
 * October 2006 deaths to Deaths in October 2006
 * September 2006 deaths to Deaths in September 2006
 * August 2006 deaths to Deaths in August 2006
 * July 2006 deaths to Deaths in July 2006
 * June 2006 deaths to Deaths in June 2006
 * May 2006 deaths to Deaths in May 2006
 * April 2006 deaths to Deaths in April 2006
 * March 2006 deaths to Deaths in March 2006
 * February 2006 deaths to Deaths in February 2006
 * January 2006 deaths to Deaths in January 2006
 * December 2005 deaths to Deaths in December 2005
 * November 2005 deaths to Deaths in November 2005
 * October 2005 deaths to Deaths in October 2005
 * September 2005 deaths to Deaths in September 2005
 * August 2005 deaths to Deaths in August 2005
 * July 2005 deaths to Deaths in July 2005
 * June 2005 deaths to Deaths in June 2005
 * May 2005 deaths to Deaths in May 2005
 * April 2005 deaths to Deaths in April 2005
 * March 2005 deaths to Deaths in March 2005
 * February 2005 deaths to Deaths in February 2005
 * January 2005 deaths to Deaths in January 2005
 * December 2004 deaths to Deaths in December 2004
 * November 2004 deaths to Deaths in November 2004
 * October 2004 deaths to Deaths in October 2004
 * September 2004 deaths to Deaths in September 2004
 * August 2004 deaths to Deaths in August 2004
 * July 2004 deaths to Deaths in July 2004
 * June 2004 deaths to Deaths in June 2004
 * May 2004 deaths to Deaths in May 2004
 * April 2004 deaths to Deaths in April 2004
 * March 2004 deaths to Deaths in March 2004
 * February 2004 deaths to Deaths in February 2004
 * January 2004 deaths to Deaths in January 2004
 * December 2003 deaths to Deaths in 2003
 * November 2003 deaths to Deaths in 2003
 * October 2003 deaths to Deaths in 2003
 * September 2003 deaths to Deaths in 2003
 * August 2003 deaths to Deaths in 2003
 * July 2003 deaths to Deaths in 2003
 * June 2003 deaths to Deaths in 2003
 * May 2003 deaths to Deaths in 2003
 * April 2003 deaths to Deaths in 2003
 * March 2003 deaths to Deaths in 2003
 * February 2003 deaths to Deaths in 2003
 * January 2003 deaths to Deaths in 2003
 * December 2002 deaths to Deaths in 2002
 * November 2002 deaths to Deaths in 2002
 * October 2002 deaths to Deaths in 2002
 * September 2002 deaths to Deaths in 2002
 * August 2002 deaths to Deaths in 2002
 * July 2002 deaths to Deaths in 2002
 * June 2002 deaths to Deaths in 2002
 * May 2002 deaths to Deaths in 2002
 * April 2002 deaths to Deaths in 2002
 * March 2002 deaths to Deaths in 2002
 * February 2002 deaths to Deaths in 2002
 * January 2002 deaths to Deaths in 2002
 * December 2001 deaths to Deaths in 2001
 * November 2001 deaths to Deaths in 2001
 * October 2001 deaths to Deaths in 2001
 * September 2001 deaths to Deaths in 2001
 * August 2001 deaths to Deaths in 2001
 * July 2001 deaths to Deaths in 2001
 * June 2001 deaths to Deaths in 2001
 * May 2001 deaths to Deaths in 2001
 * April 2001 deaths to Deaths in 2001
 * March 2001 deaths to Deaths in 2001
 * February 2001 deaths to Deaths in 2001
 * January 2001 deaths to Deaths in 2001
 * December 2000 deaths to Deaths in 2000
 * November 2000 deaths to Deaths in 2000
 * October 2000 deaths to Deaths in 2000
 * September 2000 deaths to Deaths in 2000
 * August 2000 deaths to Deaths in 2000
 * July 2000 deaths to Deaths in 2000
 * June 2000 deaths to Deaths in 2000
 * May 2000 deaths to Deaths in 2000
 * April 2000 deaths to Deaths in 2000
 * March 2000 deaths to Deaths in 2000
 * February 2000 deaths to Deaths in 2000
 * January 2000 deaths to Deaths in 2000
 * December 1999 deaths to Deaths in 1999
 * November 1999 deaths to Deaths in 1999
 * October 1999 deaths to Deaths in 1999
 * September 1999 deaths to Deaths in 1999
 * August 1999 deaths to Deaths in 1999
 * July 1999 deaths to Deaths in 1999
 * June 1999 deaths to Deaths in 1999
 * May 1999 deaths to Deaths in 1999
 * April 1999 deaths to Deaths in 1999
 * March 1999 deaths to Deaths in 1999
 * February 1999 deaths to Deaths in 1999
 * January 1999 deaths to Deaths in 1999
 * December 1998 deaths to Deaths in 1998
 * November 1998 deaths to Deaths in 1998
 * October 1998 deaths to Deaths in 1998
 * September 1998 deaths to Deaths in 1998
 * August 1998 deaths to Deaths in 1998
 * July 1998 deaths to Deaths in 1998
 * June 1998 deaths to Deaths in 1998
 * May 1998 deaths to Deaths in 1998
 * April 1998 deaths to Deaths in 1998
 * March 1998 deaths to Deaths in 1998
 * February 1998 deaths to Deaths in 1998
 * January 1998 deaths to Deaths in 1998
 * December 1997 deaths to Deaths in 1997
 * November 1997 deaths to Deaths in 1997
 * October 1997 deaths to Deaths in 1997
 * September 1997 deaths to Deaths in 1997
 * August 1997 deaths to Deaths in 1997
 * July 1997 deaths to Deaths in 1997
 * June 1997 deaths to Deaths in 1997
 * May 1997 deaths to Deaths in 1997
 * April 1997 deaths to Deaths in 1997
 * March 1997 deaths to Deaths in 1997
 * February 1997 deaths to Deaths in 1997
 * January 1997 deaths to Deaths in 1997

GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 23:23, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ Alex&#124;The&#124;Whovian ? 03:02, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

between … to
There are several article that contain grammar: Since there are also false positives, semi-automated corrections are needed. --Leyo 23:44, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
 * between … to
 * between …-…
 * from …-…
 * Working on this,, can you give an example of a false positive, I have yet to find one! crh23 (talk) 17:13, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks. False-positives may include publication titles or cases like between 1931–2 and 1938–9 or going from 8–8 to 16–8. --Leyo 19:52, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Ahh, I didn't consider either of the second two errors to be honest, I was only fixing the first. Thanks, -crh23 (talk) 20:33, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks. Have you gone through the first or will you continue? --Leyo 12:05, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm working through it slowly, but it feels like at least the first one should just be added to the typo regex, as I have yet to reject an edit based on my find & replace. Since it'll still be only semi-automated, publication titles and the few false positives should be caught (note that , which would be the main false positive, returns nothing)—  crh 23   &thinsp;(Talk) 12:39, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I've added between … to to the typo list here, so it should now be done automatically. It also checks for (some) spelled out words, as well as digits. — crh 23   &thinsp;(Talk) 16:20, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Good idea, thanks. Could/should the other two also be added? --Leyo 21:38, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

Infobox television season granularity edits
Per the discussion at Template talk:Infobox television season/Archive 2 and Template talk:Infobox television season, the Infobox television season template was modified to support granularity better with these edits. The usages of Infobox television season need to be updated to use these new variables, and I know that it'll take a good deal of regular expressions in search-and-replace to do this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Alex&#124;The&#124;Whovian ? 06:07, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
 * is the documentation for the template up to date? It doesn't look like the new parameters are mentioned (I may be wrong, I'm not hugely familiar with infoboxes) — crh 23   &thinsp;(Talk) 18:38, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
 * It is now. Alex&#124;The&#124;Whovian ? 01:18, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

Redirects from unnecessary disambiguations
For each article (i.e. excluding the Portal:Current events subpages) in Category:Months in the 1900s except September 1913 (month) and August 1914, a redirect tagged with  should be created from the title with " (month)" added to the end using AWB. This means that January 1900 (month) would say, February 1900 (month) would say  , etc. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 17:29, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
 * is there prior consensus for this? Mass creation of pages tends to be frowned upon unless there is an agreed upon reason. — crh 23   &thinsp;(Talk) 19:34, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Probably a better question: How is this useful? To me, this seems like a pointless task. -- Tavix ( talk ) 00:39, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
 * That's sort of where I'm going. I can see a way it could be very slightly useful, but unless wider consensus has decided it is needed then it would be inadvisable. — crh 23   &thinsp;(Talk) 06:31, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

Spread a template
(copied from User talk:Izkala) I am in the process of creating Edward Elgar, and added it already to his article. It should go also to the linked articles. Do we have a bot to do that? Could there be one? It would have to check if the template is already there, and if not, insert it before any other navbox, before categories and other things that don't show on the screen, after external links, or references, or whatever is last. - Adding: this will happen to other composers also. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:53, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
 * By saying that "It should go also to the linked articles", I assume you mean the links on the navbox? Any number of articles could have him linked in general passing, but that wouldn't mean the navbox needs to be added to those pages. Shouldn't be too far for a regular user to do. Simply insert it before the first category (and hence after the last navbox template). Alex&#124;The&#124;Whovian ? 14:59, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I am not sure if I understand exactly what you mean. Of course I mean (only) the articles mentioned in the navbox, sorry for not being specific. I could add the navbox to them manually, but for an estimated 100, and more to come, that's a lot of uncreative work, therefore I asked if we have a bot for it, - the problem must come up more often. I was referred to here by Andy, as you can see. - Different from what you say, the composer navbox should go before any other navbox, not after. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:06, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Sorry. Busy day. I meant it should be easy for an editor to do this through AWB (not manually), and I misread your initial post and only saw "not insert it before any other navbox". Alex&#124;The&#124;Whovian ? 15:12, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Got it, inserted a comma for clarity, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:15, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
 * -- John of Reading (talk) 15:46, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Lovely, noticed, - thank you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:57, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ "I am the navbox placer, and I am the dreamer of dreams..." -- John of Reading (talk) 16:05, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Lovely song, after all these, - what when more compositions come in, and the next composer? Should I ping you here? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:15, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Here is better, as other AWB users may get the job done for you if I'm offline. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:33, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

Obsolete DYK categories
For the members of the category on the left, please remove the text on the right, in order to empty the category. Note that there is a non-breaking space code after the word "nominations". Our usual CFD bot doesn't seem able to handle the non-breaking space code. – Fayenatic  L ondon 13:42, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Categories for discussion/Log/2016 June 14


 * Category:DYK/Successful nominations from January 2013 –
 * Category:DYK/Successful nominations from February 2013 –
 * Category:DYK/Unsuccessful nominations from January 2013 –
 * Category:DYK/Unsuccessful nominations from February 2013 –
 * — crh 23   &thinsp;(Talk) 13:58, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ — crh 23   &thinsp;(Talk) 14:11, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks! – Fayenatic  L ondon 20:52, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

Add a new subcategory
Out of the 814 articles in Category:British military personnel killed in World War I, 93 involve those killed at the Somme. Would someone please replace this category with Category:British military personnel killed at the Battle of the Somme on each of the affected articles?


 * Alban Arnold
 * Tommy Askham
 * Raymond Asquith
 * William Baker (footballer)
 * John Barbour (footballer)
 * Guy Baring
 * Donald Simpson Bell
 * Eric Norman Frankland Bell
 * Major Booth
 * William Buckingham
 * William Burns (cricketer)
 * Edmund Burton (footballer)
 * George Butterworth
 * Geoffrey Cather
 * Cecil Christmas
 * Christopher Collier (cricketer)
 * Leslie Coulson
 * Bernard Donaghy
 * Edward Charles Ingouville-Williams
 * Ernest Ellis
 * Tommy Farrell (footballer, born 1887)
 * Charles Duncombe, 2nd Earl of Feversham
 * Alfred Flaxman
 * Allen Foster
 * Rowland Fraser
 * Albert Gill
 * Duncan Glasfurd
 * Tommy Goodwill
 * Arthur Gray (golfer)
 * John Leslie Green
 * Julius Gregory (footballer)
 * Patrick Hagan
 * Basil Hallam
 * John Hellard
 * W. N. Hodgson
 * Alick Horsnell
 * Mark Hovell
 * Philip Howell
 * Arthur Hulme
 * Kenneth Hutchings
 * Rupert Inglis
 * Billy Jarman
 * Percy Jeeves
 * William Jonas
 * David Jones (VC)
 * Frederick Septimus Kelly
 * James O'Connor Kessack
 * Tom Kettle
 * John Abbott King
 * Oscar Linkson
 * Evelyn Lintott
 * John Rolls, 2nd Baron Llangattock
 * Stewart Loudoun-Shand
 * William Mariner (VC)
 * Alfred Maynard
 * William McFadzean
 * Paddy McGuire (footballer)
 * Harold Meadowcroft
 * James Miller (VC 1916)
 * Eric Milroy
 * Toby Moll
 * Augustus Paget (RAF officer)
 * Roland Philipps
 * William Philo
 * Robert Pillman
 * Charlie Pritchard
 * Charles Randall (footballer)
 * Harry Robotham
 * Herbert Rogers
 * Walter Roman (rugby)
 * Leigh Richmond Roose
 * Tom Rowlandson
 * Saki
 * George Scott (footballer, born 1885)
 * Edward Shaw (cricketer, born 1892)
 * Ernest Shorrocks
 * William Henry Short
 * Edward Wyndham Tennant
 * Dick Thomas (rugby union)
 * George Thomas (rugby)
 * Horace Thomas
 * Ralph Thompson (footballer)
 * Edward Henry Trotter
 * James Youll Turnbull
 * Gilbert Waterhouse
 * David Watts (rugby player)
 * Cecil Wedgwood
 * Thomas Orde Lawder Wilkinson
 * Johnny Williams (rugby player 1882–1916)
 * Joseph Williams (English cricketer)
 * Archie Wilson (footballer, born 1890)
 * Charles Yaldren
 * Jack Yuill

Here's the complete list, culled manually by me. Even a bot could do this, as noted in WP:BOTPOL: Before adding sensitive categories to articles by bot, the input should be manually checked article by article, rather than uploaded from an existing list in Wikipedia; this list is the result of that manual checking, as can be seen from the recent history of my sandbox, but I figured it would be easier to bring it here. Feel free to send this to BOTR if AWB isn't the best route. Nyttend (talk) 03:30, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm willing to take this on, it seems pretty straightforward. I think AWB will work here. I'll let you know when I'm done.  Omni Flames ( talk ) 03:44, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
 *  Omni Flames ( talk ) 04:01, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅  Omni Flames ( talk ) 10:38, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Nyttend (talk) 12:13, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Non-orphans
At WikiProject Orphanage we've started working on the backlog in Category:Orphaned articles from February 2009. There seem to be some number of articles in this category which are not actually orphans. had looked into this (see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Orphanage). I understand that there's some means using AWB of freshening the Orphan tags. If so, would someone here be willing to do that for us? ~Kvng (talk) 20:57, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
 * My AWB solution was too slow, but GoingBatty (ping!) may be able to re-run a query and remove some tags with BattyBot. -- John of Reading (talk) 21:02, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
 * You did revise your estimate from 3 days down to several hours. Several hours seems like might be reasonable. ~Kvng (talk) 21:15, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
 * OK, I'll set it running overnight. I'm off to bed now (UK time). -- John of Reading (talk) 21:48, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅! GoingBatty (talk) 05:07, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks! ~Kvng (talk) 16:06, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Finish populating Category:Depressariinae stubs
Please go though the pages listed at User:Od Mishehu/temp, and replace Gelechioidea-stub with Depressariinae-stub. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 21:18, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 04:03, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

Goodreads author IDs
Goodreads author can now draw down a value from Wikidata. All the values in the current instances have been migrated to Wikidata. Please can someone remove the values from this wiki (excepting those used in citations)? (.) Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:19, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 05:57, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you. May I call on you for similar jobs with other templates? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:11, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Sure, . { —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 01:13, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

Ar-mi-dept & language
Please remove the Spanish language template from immediately after Ar-mi-dept, as in (the language is now emitted by the template itself). Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:52, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

Make more use of external link templates
I have a bot request at WP:BOTREQ. On reflection perhaps this is something suited to AWB? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:17, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

Pogda klimat
We have around 115 links to  pages, whose URL structure has just changed to. Please can someone convert them to the template which I have just made, Pogda klimat, which uses the new URL structure. Here is an. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:34, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

NOAA normals
Similar to the above,  documents have moved to  ; we have 91 such links. The new template is NOAA normals and here is. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:05, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

Deprecated wikilink
The Rock Hard article used to be about a German music magazine. It was deleted per AfD discussion and then newly created with a different topic (now a single by the Beastie Boys). The problem is that there are still dozens to hundreds of incoming links where "Rock Hard" is used in prose in the context of the magazine or inside citation templates for reviews etc.

I don't think we need a bot for cleaning this up. So, as a start, could you please remove the wikilink brackets for "Rock Hard" whenever you find it being used in the album ratings template or in one of the "cite" templates? De728631 (talk) 00:20, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
 * There's nothing in the deletion log at Rock Hard, and there is an article Rock Hard (magazine). I suspect you should be asking for most of the  to be converted into piped links? -- John of Reading (talk) 04:39, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Oops. Of course you're right, and it seems that I mixed up these two pages (and it was a Prod in 2014 and not an AfD). So, please convert the occurences of  inside a citation template or the "album ratings" template to a piped link  . While you are at it, you might also want to watch out for instances of   and convert them to  . These two are frequently confused although "journal" is meant to be for academic peer-reviewed publications. De728631 (talk) 15:42, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
 * I've edited 36 articles. The remaining articles that link to Rock Hard all mention the Beastie Boys. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:15, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Excellent, thanks a lot! De728631 (talk) 17:52, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

Template:NewMusicBox
Please could somebody amend up to 57 instances of NewMusicBox as described at here, to use the sandbox version with link parameters as per that discussion. When done, the template can be updated, and then the instances changed back to drop the. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:42, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
 * - I first edited NewMusicBox so that it accepted either the old syntax or the new syntax. This meant I could update the parameters without adding "/sandbox", avoiding the need to edit the articles again once the sandbox is made live. Most of the instances have an unlinked "conductor" and needed no edit. I edited nine articles to use the new "composer-link" parameter. Zhou Long uses the composer parameter for two composers, one linked and one unlinked, so I've left that one alone. -- John of Reading (talk) 19:01, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you. The template is now updated. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:50, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

Tagged templates
35 (max) templates in Category:Templates that wrap cite web, which is a redirect, are tagged  - please can someone change that to   (note upper-case "C" in "Cite")? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:08, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

UK National Archives IDs
The UK National Archives changed its IDs a while ago. Those used by NRA are deprecated (although the links it generates redirect to the new IDs).

As discussed here, I have created UK National Archives ID as a replacement. So far as possible, the IDs from instances of the old template outside references have been fetched by a bot, converted to the new type, and added to Wikidata. The new template fetches values from Wikidata, and uses  for link text.

We therefore need someone, please, to replace the old template with the new one, without parameters, as in but not for transclusions in references.

Any odd cases which were missed by the bot that did the data migration, and thus have no value on Wikidata, will be placed in a tacking category, which I shall then clear manually.

Once all this is done, we will know how many transclusions of the old template remain, in references, and can make a plan for converting them. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:15, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
 * This is similar to the ID removals for other external link templates. I can adapt that code and run it for this. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 16:34, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ 42 mainspace transclusions of NRA remaining and 14 UK National Archives ID that need an ID on Wikidata. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 03:30, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
 * The latter 14 now cleared. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:22, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * NRA is now orphaned; I've requested its deletion. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:09, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

Tagging Agt2008fan socks
Hi! I am a WP:SPI Clerk. I need someone to change the main parameter in the tag from "贱仔忠" to "Agt2008fan" on these userpages: Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of 贱仔忠 and Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of 贱仔忠. Agt2008fan is the real sockmaster. Thanks!  Vanjagenije  (talk)  16:19, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 19:37, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

Fixing hundreds of broken URLs - updating links to different server with the same reference number
After getting advice at Village pump (technical) and Bot requests I have been advised to come here to ask for help.

I edit hundreds/thousands of wp articles relating to Somerset. Recently (for at least a week) all links to the Somerset Historic Environment Records have been giving a 404. I contacted the web team who's server hosts the database & they said: "as you may be aware what is now the ‘South West Heritage Trust’ is independent from Somerset County Council – some of their systems eg. HER have been residing on our servers since their move – and as part of our internal processes these servers are now being decommissioned. Their main website is now at http://www.swheritage.org.uk/ with the HER available at http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/ . There are redirects in place on our servers that should be temporarily forwarding visitors to the correct website eg: http://webapp1.somerset.gov.uk/her/details.asp?prn=11000 should be forwarding you to http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/11000 - this appears to be working for me, so unsure why it isn’t working for you".

According to this search there are 1,546 wp articles which include links to the database. Is AWB to find & replace all of the links (currently http://webapp1.somerset.gov.uk ) to the new server name ( http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/ ) but keep the identical record number at the end? A complication is that two different formats of the url previously work ie both formats for the URL ie /record/XXXXX & /her/details.asp?prn=XXXXXX. There are approximately 800 links in some 300 articles.

I have never got AWB to work properly (although I registered to use it years ago). I have just downloaded the latest version & can't even get it to log in. Any help appreciated.&mdash; Rod talk 16:17, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Thinking a bit more about it the "publisher=" parameter of cite web may need to be changed from "Somerset County Council" to "South West Heritage Trust" as well.&mdash; Rod talk 16:35, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Please cancel this request. I think I have AWB doing what I want.&mdash; Rod talk 17:55, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for all help & advice - the broken links are now fixed.&mdash; Rod talk 07:13, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Sheriffs of Warwickshire
Please can someone add Category:Sheriffs of Warwickshire to all the people named in High Sheriff of Warwickshire? The same job may need to be done for other English counties, once categories are created. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:03, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ However I would like you to double check my actions if you can. Meiloorun   (talk) 🍁 03:52, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
 * LGTM. Are you interested in working on the other counties? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:01, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
 * If you'd like me to add more categories to some pages, I'd be glad to help. Meiloorun   (talk) 🍁 00:34, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Replacing citation link
Could someone replace all citations using  http://www.mbta.com/uploadedfiles/documents/2014%20BLUEBOOK%2014th%20Edition.pdf  with MBTA Bluebook 2014? The document was recently moved, so I created the template to consolidate all references using it (so that a single edit can fix any further links). Thanks, Pi.1415926535 (talk) 17:22, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

Richard Madenfort
Remove any listing for Richard Madenfort from a personnel listing on an album. This is a hoax listing that was added by a sockpuppeteer. For instance, they were on 35 MPH Town, but this is not corroborated by Allmusic, which does not even have a placeholder page for the name "Richard Madenfort" anywhere. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 17:28, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Limits of oceans and the seas - linkfix
The IHO moved the on-line version of its publication Limits of the Oceans and the Seas on their web-pages, from http://www.iho-ohi.net/iho_pubs/standard/S-23/S23_1953.pdf to http://www.iho.int/iho_pubs/standard/S-23/S-23_Ed3_1953_EN.pdf. There are about 200 references to the former found by Special:Linksearch

Would somebody please fix them? --Nomentz (talk) 09:44, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
 * As a corollary - we should have a macro for "the body of water known in Australia as the Southern Ocean and by international authorities as the Great Australian Bight. " including the two references. Not totally kidding. Maybe I should have created one for version 3 of S23 and the current draft of version 4. I've fixed all but talk pages using itsalltext and an editor macro. ✅ --Nomentz (talk) 10:48, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Bot request
I have listed a bot request that can be completed with AWB at. Alex&#124;The&#124;Whovian ? 09:13, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

Centers of US states
Could you create fifty redirects? Each one is "Center of STATE", and the content of each one should be #REDIRECT List of geographic centers of the United States. The complete list is collapsed to save room.


 * Center of Alabama
 * Center of Alaska
 * Center of Arizona
 * Center of Arkansas
 * Center of California
 * Center of Colorado
 * Center of Connecticut
 * Center of Delaware
 * Center of Florida
 * Center of Georgia
 * Center of Hawaii
 * Center of Idaho
 * Center of Illinois
 * Center of Indiana
 * Center of Iowa
 * Center of Kansas
 * Center of Kentucky
 * Center of Louisiana
 * Center of Maine
 * Center of Maryland
 * Center of Massachusetts
 * Center of Michigan
 * Center of Minnesota
 * Center of Mississippi
 * Center of Missouri
 * Center of Montana
 * Center of Nebraska
 * Center of Nevada
 * Center of New Hampshire
 * Center of New Jersey
 * Center of New Mexico
 * Center of New York
 * Center of North Carolina
 * Center of North Dakota
 * Center of Ohio
 * Center of Oklahoma
 * Center of Oregon
 * Center of Pennsylvania
 * Center of Rhode Island
 * Center of South Carolina
 * Center of South Dakota
 * Center of Tennessee
 * Center of Texas
 * Center of Utah
 * Center of Vermont
 * Center of Virginia
 * Center of Washington
 * Center of West Virginia
 * Center of Wisconsin
 * Center of Wyoming

Thanks! Nyttend (talk) 02:14, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 06:18, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot! Much easier to go this way than to create fifty redirects manually.  Nyttend (talk) 06:22, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Pittsburg(h)

 * Pittsburg, Alabama
 * Pittsburg, Arkansas
 * Pittsburg, British Columbia
 * Pittsburg, Colorado
 * Pittsburg, DeKalb County, Georgia
 * Pittsburg, Fayette County, Illinois
 * Pittsburg, Florida
 * Pittsburg, Georgia
 * Pittsburg, Illinois
 * Pittsburg, Indiana
 * Pittsburg, Iowa
 * Pittsburg, Kentucky
 * Pittsburg, Mississippi
 * Pittsburg, Missouri
 * Pittsburg, Montgomery County, Iowa
 * Pittsburg, Nebraska
 * Pittsburg, Nevada
 * Pittsburg, Nevada County, California
 * Pittsburg, New Mexico
 * Pittsburg, North Carolina
 * Pittsburg, Oklahoma
 * Pittsburg, Oregon
 * Pittsburg, South Carolina
 * Pittsburg, Utah
 * Pittsburg, Van Buren County, Iowa
 * Pittsburg, Walker County, Georgia

Could you create a "Pittsburgh" redirect for each of these, e.g. "Pittsburgh, Utah", and tag it with R from typo? I've checked that none of them exist; that's why other "Pittsburg" titles, e.g. Pittsburg, Texas, aren't on here, since they already have "Pittsburgh" redirects. Nyttend (talk) 19:08, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 02:52, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Nyttend (talk) 23:50, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

Jon Nite
Jon Nite -> Jon Nite Introduce wikilinks to article. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 04:02, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ ~51 articles. Avic ennasis @ 06:27, 14 Tevet 5777 / 06:27, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

Intersound Records
Introduce links to Intersound Records now that it has an article (i.e., replace Intersound Records with Intersound Records ). Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 00:11, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ for the exact phrase.--Racklever (talk) 01:05, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

Generate a list of pages
Could you generate a list of Wikipedia: namespace pages that redirect to mainspace pages, sorted by whether the titles are identical or not? Lots of WP-to-main redirects are the results of accidental pagemoves to projectspace (for example, Environmental Defenders Office (Qld) Inc was a redirect to Environmental Defenders Office (Qld) Inc.), and in almost all cases, they can be speedy deleted under G6, which includes "Deleting pages unambiguously created in error or in the incorrect namespace." Getting a list of these titles would be a lot more efficient than looking at WP-space pages in Special:Allpages and trying to guess which redirects go to articles. Nyttend (talk) 17:06, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
 * I've dropped the list at User:Nyttend/Project redirects. It looks like unicode characters were converted to a close ASCII character. I can fix that later if needed. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 21:01, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the help; it's just the format that I wanted. I've checked a few items (no need for help b with Unicode character conversions) and will be hitting more when I get the chance.  Nyttend (talk) 23:39, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

Remove some old CfD notices
Would someone be able to run through Categories for discussion/Log/2017 January 1/Perth and remove the CfD notices? The CfD has been closed. Note the first page in the list, Category:Perth, Western Australia, has already been done. Cheers, Jenks24 (talk) 12:47, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 07:07, 17 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Jenks24 (talk) 07:55, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

Sonny LeMaire
✅  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  20:51, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

Sonny LeMaire -> Sonny LeMaire Introduce wikilinks now that he has an article. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 22:32, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

Request for all uses of Template:Open-source attribution to be updated to Template:Free-content attribution
Hi

The template Template:Open-source attribution has been moved to Template:Free-content attribution, this is causing me problems in tracking where content from different organisations is being used on Wikipedia (Template:Free-content attribution has a function to add a category for content from different organisations). Please could a friendly wizard be able to change all instances of {{Open-source attribution to {{Free-content attribution ? It is less than 100 pages.

Many thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by John Cummings (talk • contribs)
 * The category issue must be a misunderstanding. See Village pump (technical). PrimeHunter (talk) 13:52, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

Replacement of the same PNG->SVG in multiple articles
I recently found Top 200 logo images that should use vector graphics, and plan on working through that list over the next months. I already started with the first two from the List, that is File:Apollo program insignia.png > File:Apollo program.svg and File:FLOSS logo.png > File:FLOSS logo.svg. The Apollo graphic is used in over 1000 articles, spread over dozens of wikipedias, the FLOSS one in over 500 articles. Is there a way for you guys to (semi-)automate replacing the PNG image for the SVG graphic? I am thankful for any help, and/or suggestion as to what to do. --Lommes (talk) 19:26, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Just a quick clarification: I am talking about (semi-)automating the replacement of the references to the gaphics in the articles, not the svg conversion itself. I will do the graphics stuff, I am looking for someone (or some method) for doing the wikitext stuff.--Lommes (talk) 11:11, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Would this be a good case for a bot request? The SVG creator could put a marker (template? category?) on each PNG description page; the bot can search for the marker and do the replacement automatically. I don't think we can get away with looking for Vector version available, because it may be used in cases where the PNG file is still more appropriate for some articles. Certes (talk) 20:16, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

Ij-to-IJ redirects
✅ Certes (talk) 19:06, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

Since the Dutch digraph IJ is not used in English, its use looks like an error, and English speakers may wrongly render IJ-initial titles as Ij. Could Ij redirects be created for IJ titles, e.g. Ijf Blokker as a redirect to IJf Blokker? The titles are as follows:


 * IJburg
 * IJf Blokker
 * IJgeul
 * IJhorst
 * IJkdijk
 * IJlst
 * IJlst railway station
 * IJmeer
 * IJmuiden
 * IJmuiden Heliport
 * IJmuider Courant
 * IJmuider Zee- en Havenmuseum
 * IJsboerke (cycling team)
 * IJsbrand
 * IJsbrand Chardon
 * IJscolf
 * IJssel
 * IJssel Line
 * IJsselderby
 * IJsselhallen
 * IJsselham
 * IJsselmeer
 * IJsselmeervogels
 * IJsselmonde
 * IJsselmonde, Rotterdam
 * IJsselmonde (island)
 * IJsselmonde (village)
 * IJsselmuiden
 * IJsseloog
 * IJsselstein
 * IJtunnel
 * IJzendijke
 * IJzendoorn
 * IJzerbedevaart
 * IJzerkoekje
 * IJzerlo
 * IJzerwake
 * IJzevoorde

Of course, if the redirect already exists, it shouldn't be touched. Nyttend (talk) 03:17, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

Sort name
Please can someone apply Sort name to the names of people in the table at The Life Scientific? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:14, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

✅ but please check! I didn't use AWB because it needed some manual fiddling to sort Neil deGrasse Tyson under T but Chris Llewellyn Smith under L. I may have got some wrong. (What we really need is a template that does the work for us by grabbing the DEFAULTSORT value from the linked article...) Certes (talk) 16:53, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Replacement of direct BLP invocations
✅ Hello, could somebody use AWB to replace all talk pages containing BLP with blps, or, more cleanly, ? I've just been cleaning up after the edits of, and (a) I doubt they're the only one whose made this mistake and (b) this part of the cleanup could be easily (semi)-automated, I would think. Thanks! Graham 87 13:59, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
 * This search gives me 741 articles. Should all of those pages change?  If so, do we just go ahead or should we go to somewhere like the village pump for a quick check first?  If not, what distinguishes those which should change from those which shouldn't? Certes (talk) 11:23, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Oh wow, I didn't even think to look at the search results in that way. It turns out that lots of the articles in that list aren't biographies as such, so shouldn't be tagged with a WikiProject Biography template. Therefore, the only ones where the requested replacement should be done are actual biography articles like, say, Talk:Arthur Kade; the others can be left alone ... they'd need a BLP notice, but not a WikiProject Biography template. I'd say you could go right ahead with these edits. Graham 87 15:22, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm finally getting around to doing this! Should we include cases which are not strictly a biography but are about one aspect of a person's life (e.g. Talk:Whitney Houston videography) or about a group of people (e.g. Talk:AK81), or do we limit this strictly to biography articles where the title is a person's name?  From a quick glance, there are about 400 actual biographies, with a few edge cases like Talk:Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen which I'd probably count as a biography.  Also, what do we do with oddities like Talk:Brangelina which is the talk page of a redirect?  Certes (talk) 10:21, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
 * To answer my own question: The Biography WikiProject ... includes only articles about individual persons, not about an organization or group or association, unless a substantial section of the article is a biography of a person related to that organization or group. Certes (talk) 10:52, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
 * I agree that the others aren't biographies, but re Talk:Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen, for what it's worth Talk:Katia and Marielle Labèque, which I see as a similar case, is tagged under the biography WikiProject. Graham 87 12:49, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
 * In progress. Please have a look at a few recent changes from Special:Contributions/Certes to make sure I'm on the right track. So far only one of the "BLP" subjects has been inconsiderate enough to die! Certes (talk) 17:41, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks very much, sounds great. Yes, how inconsiderate of them ... they should be immortal! :-) Graham 87 01:10, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
 * I think I've done all I can. I've left BLP on the talk page of non-biographies and a few articles that I'm too lazy to edit may need special consideration:
 * Paul Drake - dab page with a negative personal description
 * Mayweather - surname listing, looks uncontroversial
 * Tabouillot - about a family
 * A few listas= parameters weren't obvious so I've used my best estimate, e.g. sorting Sarah Pulliam Bailey under B rather than P. Certes (talk) 20:20, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks very much! All sounds good from here. Graham 87 07:12, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

J. T. Harding
✅ Add wikilinks for J. T. Harding whenever found. Also for redirect J.T. Harding. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 17:15, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
 * I've had a go at this one. To avoid overlinking, I've skipped a couple of articles where he was already linked: Bar at the End of the World and List of songs written by Shane McAnally. I also skipped List of mayors of Fitzroy because it looks like a different person.  Please can you fix those manually if appropriate? Certes (talk) 18:20, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

Replace &lt;/br>
Line-break handling says the following:"The MediaWiki software converts valid forms like, and to . Additionally, HTML Tidy – which is slated for removal  – converts the invalid form  to . These conversions do not occur on a number of MediaWiki interface pages, and can cause invalid HTML and problems rendering the page when used there.  Until Tidy is removed, the forms,  and  are equivalent.  After Tidy's removal, only  can be guaranteed to display correctly.  Editors should therefore use."Would it be appropriate to do a run-through and replace &lt;/br> with &lt;br />? Or perhaps would it be appropriate to request a bot run; it's unambiguous, and while it wouldn't immediately have an effect on the rendered text, it's not a COSMETICBOT thing because it's fixing what will soon become broken code and thus preventing the code from having a significant effect on the rendered text. Nyttend (talk) 00:45, 4 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Unless someone has a clever idea, getting a list of pages to edit would involve searching every page for &lt;/br>. That may make it a bot rather than AWB job.  Is the scope limited to articles?  My random sample found the string in very few articles but lots of other pages, especially in the User talk: namespace. Do we also need to deal with &lt;/br > (with a space) or other variants? Certes (talk) 11:20, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Does the latter exist? I'm sure we need to fix both equally.  Could a database dump work?  Nyttend (talk) 11:27, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Army of Conquest is the only article with spaces in &lt;/br> in my random sample. Talk:Jerusalem/Archive 8 contains &lt;/ br> (space before b) and there are plenty of other variants. I don't know a way to search exhaustively without tying up Wikipedia's search engines in an antisocial manner, so it's probably a good query for someone to run on a dump. Certes (talk) 11:54, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Common grammar mistake
Many of the hits using need to be corrected to. --Leyo 19:59, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅, good catch! Certes (talk) 21:25, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you. --Leyo 20:24, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
 * It's prompted me to have a look for similar cases: "the to", "the of", etc. A few of the pages need deeper attention, seemingly having been translated from German by Yoda in a hurry, but plenty of articles can be tidied up without too much effort. Certes (talk) 23:37, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

Fixing a dead URL on 400+ articles
Simple request to replace http://cookpolitical.com/file/Arranged_by_State:District.pdf with http://cookpolitical.com/file/Arranged_by_State_District.pdf in some 400+ articles; the prior link worked on the date of publication but was later taken down. Mélen cron  03:07, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 04:14, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

CfD template
On the monthly category pages listed at Wikipedia_talk:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2017_May_26, so the categories in the left column, is someone willing to insert a CfD template:

If it makes life easier, I can also provide a clean list of categories without the propose merging stuff and without the target category. Thanks in advance. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:13, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
 * This is do-able, and I've done a handful, but as there are about 2000 it would be tedious to do manually even with AWB. I don't want to make 2000 edits at top speed, as that would flood "recent changes". A bot could do it with a delay between each edit, but, as I understand it, the edits shouldn't be marked as "bot edits" because they are important. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:32, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your reply. Is there any way this can work in a reasonably efficient way? Maybe in a few batches instead of all 2000 at once? Marcocapelle (talk) 09:10, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Let's see what the bot approval specialists have to say: Bots/Requests for approval/John of Reading Bot 3 . -- John of Reading (talk) 16:46, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

Extraneous UTM tags
Sometimes, users will, when citing sources, include UTM parameters in the URLs which they copy and paste. There's ~13K with UTM SOURCE, ~12K with UTM MEDIUM, etc. Not only is this sloppy, but it provides misleading data in terms of web analytics — and, in certain cases, it can even give PII on users.

I'd like these strings that begin with "&utm_parameter" (where 'parameter' is either 'source', 'campaign', 'medium', 'term', or 'content') to be deleted from cited URLs. DS (talk) 15:26, 29 May 2017 (UTC)
 * See Bots/Requests for approval/PrimeBOT 17. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 23:24, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

Lonnie Wilson
Lonnie Wilson -> Lonnie Wilson Introduce wikilinks now that he has an article. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 00:49, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅. Beware that several films have a character of the same name, which I've not linked as they seem to be unrelated. Certes (talk) 10:35, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

Episcopal Area
The article Episcopal Area was previously about the geographical unit of polity in the United Methodist Church. As the term is not a proper noun and the term is also used in various churches in the Anglican Communion to describe an area within a diocese that uses an area model and which is overseen directly by a suffragan bishop (see Episcopal area (Anglicanism)), I have moved the former article to the title Episcopal area (United Methodist Church) and changed Episcopal area from being a redirect to being a disambiguation page.

While Episcopal Area is now a redirect to Episcopal area (United Methodist Church), I intend to redirect it instead to the disambiguation page Episcopal area. Before doing that, however, the vast majority of wikilinks to Episcopal Area will need to be changed over to Episcopal area (United Methodist Church) (viz. those related to the UMC). Would someone be able to change those over? Thanks, 142.160.131.202 (talk) 01:56, 26 June 2017 (UTC)


 * I can have a go at this. Alternatively, just put up the redirect and we can then use the disambiguation tool to sort out the links to dab quickly. Is the piped link episcopal area - lower case e and a - suitable? Certes (talk) 10:09, 26 June 2017 (UTC)


 * I've boldly gone ahead, at the risk of reducing Somecity episcopal area from a proper noun to a description. The outstanding problem is Infobox church, together with its /doc and /sandbox.  The episcopalarea= parameter produces a link to Episcopal Area.  The documentation suggest that it's meant for Methodist churches, but it is set for other buildings/congregations, not just Anglican but Catholic etc.  I'm not sure what to do with these. Certes (talk) 16:27, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks, ! And I wasn't sure what to do about infobox church either, mostly because the parameter would be useful in the case of Anglican churches in certain dioceses (though I doubt it ought to be used for Roman Catholic churches). Would it be inappropriate for the link in the infobox to point to the disambiguation page? That's where I'm leaning right now. 142.160.131.202 (talk) 04:18, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Per WP:Disambiguation the template shouldn't create links directly to a dab, but Episcopal area (disambiguation) → Episcopal area would work. Infobox church/doc gives the Anglican Bishop of Kensington as an example value for episcopalarea=, so I think it would be wrong to send the reader to an article specific to the UMC or any other denomination. Articles like the Catholic Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph (San Jose, California) either suggest that the dab should have a third link (to what?) or simply have the value against the wrong parameter.   In the case of San Jose it links to the Roman Catholic Bishop of San Jose in California.  Technically he isn't an area, and he's already linked from his diocese, so we should probably just remove that value.  The template is semi-protected but I'm happy to create Episcopal area (disambiguation) and boldly point the template at it, or we can discuss at Template talk:Infobox church first. Certes (talk) 11:03, 27 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Better: the template can work out from the denomination parameter which flavour of area to link to. I've changed Infobox church so Methodists go to Episcopal area (United Methodist Church), Anglican and Church of England to Episcopal area (Anglicanism) and other denominations to  Episcopal area (disambiguation) (which I've created).  For examples, please see Infobox church/testcases or your favourite church article.  (You may have to purge the page first.) Certes (talk) 20:52, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

RogerEbert.com
I created RogerEbert.com recently. The term is widely seen in film articles (in both prose and citations) and warrants wiki-linking so readers can learn more about this publication. (Especially to understand how and why a non-Ebert critic is published at that website.) Please let me know if it can be done. Erik (talk &#124; contrib) (ping me) 16:02, 27 June 2017 (UTC)


 * About 2000 articles mention the site, mainly in citation templates. I'm adding links to about 300 pages for now, mainly in the body of the text, but more links could go in later. Certes (talk) 19:00, 27 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Thank you! :) Erik (talk &#124; contrib) (ping me) 19:49, 27 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Anyone else about to complete the auto-linking of RogerEbert.com? Looks like it is still less than 500 pages that link to this. Erik (talk &#124; contrib) (ping me) 21:52, 30 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Should the remaining pages be linked? They are mainly in references, and Wikipedia seems quite inconsistent as to whether the article for the publisher being cited is linked.  Generally I left RogerEbert.com unlinked when similar sources weren't linked either.   To do a full job would involve nearly 2000 more articles so it could be a case for a bot request to avoid overloading the patrollers.  I'd welcome advice from more experienced AWB users here.  Certes (talk) 23:59, 30 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Hmm, surprised that you saw cases where sources were not linked. In my experience, the work is almost always linked (for film articles). Whatever is preferred is fine, I wanted RogerEbert.com to be linked like similar publications are. Erik (talk &#124; contrib) (ping me) 01:14, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

Correcting redirection
Hi Seasons' Greetings,

I need semi-automatic/awb bot support to correct redierections from Legitimacy (law) to Legitimacy (family law). for example bastard son link in one of the articles  needs to be  changed to bastard son  or for example  illegitimate needs to be  changed to illegitimate

You can find pages needing correction at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Legitimacy_(law)&limit=250&from=0 (those may be around 500). Please do make corrections where you are sure the link is about family law from the context. The remaining I will do manually.

Following pages links are not related to family law so need not be included :
 * Head of state
 * Law of the Dominican Republic
 * Proclamation of Rebellion
 * Independence
 * Anarchism and anarcho-capitalism
 * Yangju highway incident

Thanks for support, and regards Mahitgar (talk) 09:38, 1 July 2017 (UTC)


 * There are 357 links in article space. I can take this on but I just want to clarify something first. After this work, are you planning to change Legitimacy (law) into an article or a dab or a redirect to somewhere else?  If so then I'll put a very brief summary of your reasons into my edit summary, to deter other editors from reverting my work per WP:NOTBROKEN.  Certes (talk) 12:08, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for your positive response.

Change of name note was placed on article talk page in Jan 2015.

Currently came back to work on Civics & legal socialization. Simultaneouly I will need to work on broader concept of Legitimacy (law) article. Unfortunately Legitimacy (law) article name was mistakenly used for Legitimacy (family law) and since good number of internal page links still to be corrected I was not able to use article name  Legitimacy (law) for the article I created.

Mean while I used article name Legal Legitimacy for this page but some new student user moved it to Legitimacy (criminal law) probably because stub level content was more of related to criminal law(-subsequently yesterday I updated to start level with more general inclusive content with citation). Factually I did/do not intend to limit this article to criminal law only and make it more general to Legitimacy (law) so it will be easy for me to link other legal concept articles like legal socialisation here. besides links in articles like * Head of state Independence meant for broader legal concept of legitimacy (law) are getting wrongly diverted to family (law).

As soon as your bot corrects redirection we will rename Legitimacy (criminal law) as Legitimacy (law).

Thanks for your kind support in this respect.

Mahitgar (talk) 12:55, 1 July 2017 (UTC)


 * I am not a lawyer but maybe it's worth asking for opinions somewhere like WikiProject Law and perhaps raising a requested move. The editor who moved the page has some experience, with 73,000 edits over four years. One possibility is to make  a redirect to the existing dab Legitimacy.  I don't want to stop others stepping in but I'm reluctant to bulk-change these links myself until we're fairly sure of the article's long-term title. Certes (talk) 15:24, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

I do understand your perspective. and may be I will go for a rfc in this case to be on safer side.

As such you will find my intermittent posts on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Law seeking inputs but hardly any response ever, May be because even among greater legal fraternity people refering to legal philosophy, concepts, and theory are miniscule, and on wikipedia over all percentage of legal fraternity is also miniscule. If The general population does not get nuances of legal terminology.

But any way as you suggest it is always better to have a larger consensus. So I will put this matter for Rfc.

Mahitgar (talk) 15:51, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

A Request for comment to build consensus is raised at Talk:Legitimacy (criminal law) talk page.

Mahitgar (talk) 17:54, 1 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Thank you . I don't have enough topic knowledge to support or oppose your proposal, but I hope others will contribute.  From basic principles used elsewhere in Wikipedia, I think step one is to agree the best title for the article currently at Legitimacy (criminal law).  Then decide whether  has a primary topic to point to, or if it should take the reader to Legitimacy to pick their intended topic from that menu. Certes (talk) 18:06, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

Tagging categories
In all categories listed in this CfD discussion, would someone be willing to help with adding a cfd template? The template syntax can be copied from Category:63 in politics. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:56, 9 July 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 20:20, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Adding new navbox to Japan rivers
Hi all, not sure if this a request for here or WP:BOTREQ? My ask is, could the Rivers of Japan navigation template please be added to the appropriate place in all articles sub-categories of Category:Rivers of Japan by prefecture? Thanks, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 12:56, 8 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Articles A-L done. I'll finish the job soon unless anyone else wants to step in. Certes (talk) 12:42, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅. A bot might have struggled to find the "appropriate place" in some articles. Certes (talk) 20:54, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Tagging categories (2)
In all categories listed in this CfD discussion, would someone be willing to help with adding a cfd template? The template syntax can be copied from Category:50 in Christianity. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:40, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 05:53, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

Cosmetic task to add to other tasks
Infobox NRHP included a  parameter even before I joined WP:NRHP in 2008, but it was removed following a discussion at the beginning of last year. Unlike some parameters, it was autofilled by an infobox generator maintained by a member of the project, so virtually all infoboxes added before January 2016 include this field (as do lots of infoboxes created since then by people copy/pasting the template and changing the details), and it's simply getting in the way.

Is there some way that the removal of this parameter and its contents could be added to the list of fixes that are performed when you run an AWB task? The parameter doesn't appear in the rendered page, so it's a cosmetic edit, but if you're running a significant task, you might as well do this too, especially if you're doing other minor fixes at the same time. Nyttend (talk) 22:01, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

Tagging categories (3)
In all categories listed here, would someone be willing to help with adding a cfd template? The template syntax can be copied from here. Just for background info, the list of categories belongs to this discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:51, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Do the merge targets need to be tagged? —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 05:04, 5 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for replying. The targets don't have to be tagged. Just the categories to be deleted or merged, so one category on each row in the list, need to be tagged. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:09, 5 August 2017 (UTC)
 * In that case, ✅ —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 05:15, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

Regex to split 'See also' sections
I made a regex to automatically split See also sections with 10 or more entries, if anyone wants to add it to their fixes. Pariah24 (talk) 22:53, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Find
 * Replace with

Jan Crutchfield
Jan Crutchfield -> Jan Crutchfield Introduce wikilinks. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 16:22, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅. Should the article have a link somewhere to Category:Songs written by Jan Crutchfield? Certes (talk) 17:14, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

Jon Vezner
Jon Vezner -> Jon Vezner Introduce links now that he has an article. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 19:47, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ Certes (talk) 12:21, 12 August 2017 (UTC)

Tagging categories (4)
In all categories listed in Categories_for_discussion/Log/2017_August_13, would someone be willing to help with adding a cfd template? The template syntax can be copied from here. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:25, 13 August 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ Certes (talk) 10:36, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

Tagging categories (5)
In all categories listed here in three subsections, would someone be willing to help with adding a cfd template? The template syntax can be copied from this category page. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:59, 26 August 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 09:43, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

Tagging categories (6)
In all categories listed here in three subsections, would someone be willing to help with adding a cfd template? The template syntax can be copied from this category page. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:37, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 18:19, 10 September 2017 (UTC)