Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks/Archive 9

Tagging categories (7)
In all Ottoman categories nominated here for rename, would someone be willing to help with adding a cfr template? The template syntax can be copied from this category page. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:35, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I'll take care of it.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  13:52, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
 * , it seems you are incorrectly using ; the description of that template says it is to be 'd instead of being used directly. Please correct the template and I will correct the 26 category edits I've made and then continue with the remaining 169.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  14:11, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
 * It's alright, you may proceed the remaining 169 as you did the first 26. The substitution has already taken place in the first category that I tagged. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:17, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I see; resuming.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  14:22, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅! 195 categories tagged.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  14:47, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

Tagging categories (8)
In all year events categories nominated here for merge, would someone be willing to help with adding a cfm template? The template syntax can be copied from this category page. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:32, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 20:00, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

Fix a lint error in a user's signature
Per User talk:Milonica and User talk:DMacks, the following change would clear a bunch of lint high-priority errors (Special:LintErrors/pwrap-bug-workaround). From:



to:



Probably needs to be done against a database dump. I don't have access to AWB, so I'm not sure if this is the right tool for this fix, feel free to tell me where to go if not... DMacks (talk) 05:37, 25 September 2017 (UTC)


 * against database. Will let you know when I have the results. — nihlus kryik   ( talk ) 05:56, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
 * [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=insource%3A%22%3E%5B%5BUser%3AMilonica%22+insource%3A%22660066%3Bpadding%3A1px%22&title=Special:Search&profile=all&fulltext=1&searchToken=b2aoy0oatxcakcd9d16gshsv8 This search] finds 369 pages - is that about the right number? I think this edit should be made by a bot account, so that these users don't get a "new messages" notification. Would you like me to create Bots/Requests for approval/John of Reading Bot 4? -- John of Reading (talk) 06:10, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
 * That's probably the right ballpark count, given Special:LintErrors reports 380 total errors of this type from all causes. Doing that search limited to "User talk:" namespace gave me 295 hits, so I agree that a bot to avoid new-messages noise is a better idea. DMacks (talk) 06:16, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
 * BRFA filed. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:31, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
 * ...and withdrawn. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:48, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- John of Reading (talk) 18:34, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Perhaps T140606 will get resolved to prevent this sort of thing in the future. DMacks (talk) 19:25, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Looking to clean up Database reports/Polluted categories
Database reports/Polluted categories is created weekly with categories that are mainspace categories, but have user pages in them as well. In general, what I would like to be able to do is to select all 1000 categories from that page, go into each of those categories and select all user pages. (Once I get that, changing [[Category: to [[:Category: is easy<. I appreciate that this won't clean all of the categories (some have categories created by templates), but it would certainly give me a good start. Any idea how I can use the Polluted Categories page to generate that list for AWB?[[User:Naraht|Naraht]] (talk) 11:18, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Any ideas? (just bumping before it gets archived.)Naraht (talk) 20:36, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

[citation needed]
One occasionally finds a manually added version of fact in articles; I just replaced one with the template. Is there a chance that someone could run through a database dump and replace this precise code with fact, either with or without a  parameter? I'm having trouble finding them with an ordinary search, because "intitle:[citation needed] " finds lots of pages with and ignores the brackets and <> characters that are essential to this manual representation of the template. This particular instance was added a year and a half ago, so I doubt that the [citation needed] is the subject of any ongoing maintenance project. Nyttend (talk) 00:47, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ The best way to find those using the wiki search is by using  . It should be empty now. Nihlus 01:27, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Repinging since it didn't work the first time. Nihlus 01:31, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I think I'll take your code-searching instructions and try to find non-superscripted tags.  Nyttend (talk) 02:29, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Oof, yeah, there is about 460 of those. That's something my bot can handle. Let me submit a BRFA and I will let you know how it goes. Nihlus 02:47, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

Tagging categories (9)
In all events by month categories nominated here for deletion, would someone be willing to help with adding a cfd template? The template syntax can be copied from this category page. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:52, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Let's put this request on hold for at least a day or two. The immediate reactions weren't too positive so it may not be worth the effort to tag the categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:36, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I'll repurpose the script from my last category-tagging on this, say, Wednesday (3 days from now), pending any change of request-status.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  20:56, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
 * The nomination (hence also this request) has been withdrawn. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:41, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

Tagging categories (10)
While manually tagging the categories listed in this discussion I made a nasty mistake, as I forgot to put "BC" in the tags.

For example, the first one, on the category page Category:1040s_BC_births the tag says to merge to Category:11th-century births while it should be Category:11th-century BC births. So in the script, "target=11th-century births" should be changed to "target=11th-century BC births".

Generalized across all listed categories "century" should be replaced by "century BC". Is it relatively easy to correct this for all listed categories with AWB and if so, would someone be willing to do this? Marcocapelle (talk) 07:59, 15 October 2017 (UTC)


 * I've corrected the CfD tag on Category:1040s BC births and will apply it to the other cats.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  12:38, 15 October 2017 (UTC)


 * ✅ 71 CfD targets corrected.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  13:01, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much! Marcocapelle (talk) 16:03, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

Tagging categories (11)
In all elections by year categories nominated here for merge, would someone be willing to help by adding a cfm template onto the category pages? The template syntax can be copied from the first category page of the list. Thanks in advance! Marcocapelle (talk) 20:47, 20 October 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ Nihlus 21:03, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

fully accredited -> accredited
About 600 articles (mostly schools, some hospitals) claim that an entity is fully accredited by its relevant regulatory agency. I'm proposing "fully" be semi-automatically removed from these phrases except when part of a quotation or when doing so changes the meaning of the sentence. Furrykiller (talk) 01:22, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

Comma before Jr. and Sr.
Per WP:JR, several of us have been removing commas before Jr. and Sr., moving articles where appropriate, etc. We're at the point where more than 90% of articles in any top 500 search are fixed, but that still leaves hundreds, or perhaps thousands, in the long tail of less popular articles to work on. There are a lot of subtleties here, like whether or not to have a comma after Jr. or Sr., and a few articles to not mess with for various reasons. I don't have a clear idea how much of this AWB can take on, but would love to engage in a dialog with someone who wants to help. Dicklyon (talk) 05:34, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Please feel free to move my comment elsewhere if there is an existing discussion on this topic. Tricky! I looked at just one example, Neil Brown Jr., who has several links via . Even his own website is inconsistent, with a comma in the archived version but the current version being a redirect to IMDB which has no comma.  First we need a definitive note of how to refer to each subject, and I would say that step one is to move every article to the right title.  That's an improvement in its own right and should make it easier to fix references to one person at a time with AWB or similar.  Where appropriate, redirects such as  could be classified as R from misspelling so they show up in Database reports/Linked misspellings.  The comma after Jr. is more of a problem.  (I call this a "wikicomma" because it is a peculiarity of MOS rarely seen outside Wikipedia.)  As you've already worked out, Doe, Jr., died. needs the wikicomma removed but Doe, Jr., like Doe, Sr., died. doesn't.  Any rules would be complex and have exceptions, so that's probably one for the human eye. Certes (talk) 11:14, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Right, there's a lot that can be done automatically, like the moves, but also a lot of exceptions, or cases that need to be looked at. Does AWB provide an easy way to get a human into the loop doing yes/no on proposed edits?  Something like that is what we need, I think.  Not sure what you mean by wikicomma; what about this in our MOS is unusual compared to outside grammar and style guides and practice? Or are you just noting that it's common to drop the matching comma after when there's a comma before? That common error is one of the main motivations for the change of recommended style in guides over the last four decades. But yes, in your examples, some commas go and some stay: Doe Jr. died.  but Doe Jr., like Doe Sr., died.  If we just take out commas before, we'll change some errors to correct, and some correct to errors: e.g. Doe, Jr. died. is corrected to Doe Jr. died. and Doe, Jr., like Doe, Sr., died. is good as Doe Jr., like Doe Sr., died., but Doe, Jr., died. is made wrong as Doe Jr., died.  Most likely, we'd do more good than harm (because, as you note, the balancing commas are already pretty commonly missing), but there are a lot of all these, and a way to get eyes on them without as much manual work is what I'm looking for.  Dicklyon (talk) 23:41, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
 * There are also those cases where the comma after is needed, and missing, independent of the comma before. It's like the editor felt that the comma before was enough, in things like Doe, Jr. like Doe, Sr. died. Here's one I fixed recently.  Dicklyon (talk) 00:01, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I went through and removed the commas from pages that linked through the Neil Brown, Jr. redirect, and in no case (unless I've missed one) did I need to add or remove a comma after. So I'd just automate that, and maybe collect a list for humans to check.  If AWB can run a fancy parser, like in a grammar checker, it might be able to filter down to suspicious cases.  I have no idea what it can do. Dicklyon (talk) 00:20, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
 * AWB (and JWB, which I use instead) can parse using regular expressions. They do present the proposed edits to a human for checking. (Fully automated editing would need a bot instead.) You'll probably need an admin to do the page moves, because many of the new titles will be occupied by redirects with multiple versions.
 * I agree with all your examples above, including the matching parenthetical commas around "like Doe Sr.". By "wikicomma" I meant the second comma in Doe, Jr., died in the unusual case where we do want to write "Doe, Jr." with a comma. MOS requires it, so it will stay. Certes (talk) 00:57, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Right, but MOS requires it because all grammar guides require it. As we worked down into the depths of page rankings, we've found fewer and fewer that have redirects, so most of the moves have become very easy; perhaps 90%.  When we started, with more popular articles, it was more like 50%, there being lots more redirects there.  Anyway, doesn't need an admin, just someone with pagemover bit.  Thanks for discussing.  Let me know if you'd like to help.  Is JWB something I could run without getting a Windows machine?  Looks like it; maybe I'll try. Dicklyon (talk) 03:20, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm happy to help. The main input I'd need is a link to a list of the next Jrs and Srs to process.
 * JWB should work on any modern browser and operating system. I use it in Firefox on Ubuntu.  I've heard that AWB works well in wine if that helps.  You'd need to register before using AWB or JWB. Certes (talk) 09:40, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I applied for and received approval already. I have a list of about 300 titles I can send you (email, or put on a user subpage, or whatever). But I'd like to see if JWB can help in digging up more articles that need fixes; there will be many thousands that could use edits, in addition to the hundreds or perhaps thousands of moves.  As I said, this is pretty much all in the long tail.  It's relatively rare to encounter any of these excess commas in articles on anyone you're likely to have heard of. Dicklyon (talk) 03:45, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Here's my current list: User:Dicklyon/JrSrMoves, culled from the first 10,000 hits on searching for articles that contain both "Jr" and "Sr". The top 5000 only had about 50 (1%), but going deeper I found 3%.  Going deeper still there will probably be plenty more. Dicklyon (talk) 03:57, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

I just ran a database scan on the 2 Oct 2017 dump and found 2002 pages ending in. I've uploaded the list to User:Tom.Reding/JrSrMoves, borrowing the whitelist from User:Dicklyon/JrSrMoves. I'm running another scan now for pages with  anywhere in their name and will update my page accordingly and put the new pages in a separate section.

There is no automatic way (that I know of) with AWB to move pages. Perhaps there are administrator tools to do so? For now, though, it looks like they need to be moved manually (leaving a redirect, of course). ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 13:46, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
 * A manual move isn't wise for that many pages. There are bots that can handle moves, so a request should be made at WP:Bot requests. Nihlus 14:32, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I was making a similar list in User:Certes/JrSr/titles at the same time. AutoWikiBrowser/User_manual says AWB offers page moving for admins only.  I've not seen that feature in JWB, but then I'm not an admin.  I agree that, with thousands rather than hundreds of pages to move, we should make a bot request. Certes (talk) 14:39, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

Just noticed this Tom.Reding contribution. I've updated User:Certes/JrSr/titles and took care of most of the unusual cases manually, and expanded the whitelist there a bit. Let's see if we can merge these efforts. Thanks so much for the help, all! Dicklyon (talk) 17:37, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

I see now why all the ones with ", Jr" and missing dot are redirects: Tom.Reding just moved them. This would be a good set on which to try some semi-automated cleanup edits before we do too much more moving. Dicklyon (talk) 17:44, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

I've been working on the ones at User:Certes/JrSr/titles with bluelink targets; either they're done already, or can be moved, or need admin help, so I've removing done ones (like the 47 that Certes moved already), and moved what I could, and listed others at WP:RMTR. Still more of the later to do. Dicklyon (talk) 03:23, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

Admin help wanted
Is there an admin AWB user willing to help here? I see that Certes has moved dozens, and Tom.Reding has edited hundreds, but for this to scale we probably need an automated move capability, or at least a semi-automated easy way to use AWB to move. If that's not going to happen, I'll try to use Tom's contribs as a guide for where corresponding moves are needed to catch up with his edits, and do a few dozen per day manually. Dicklyon (talk) 02:32, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
 * ,, do you think that the whitelist at User:Certes/JrSr/titles is more or less complete, i.e. no more than 5 missed exceptions might exist in the non-whitelist of ~1700 (~0.3%)? If/when so, let me know here and I'll make a WP:BotReq.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  05:13, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, I think it's unlikely that we missed more than 5 non-bio articles in that list. Dicklyon (talk) 16:42, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I'll work on speedily deleting the redirects to make way for page moves then do the bot request.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  20:32, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Bot request submitted.
 * I semiautomatically went through each page that remains on the non-whitelist, checking for templates and/or categories characteristic of non-fictional people, and pages with only a single name before the . I found a total of 10 and moved them to the whitelist. What remains should all be non-fictional, "normally named" people.   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  22:51, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Good finding. I went ahead and moved four of those and took them out of the whitelist, as they are characters often described without the commas.  The film and play titles I left. Still working on one that needs a technical. Dicklyon (talk) 00:17, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
 * , and WP:BAG has requested that it be advertised at a wider venue such as WP:VPR. I will leave the advertisement to you. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 16:03, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
 * OK, I will advertise it there. Dicklyon (talk) 16:50, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Advertised at WP:VPR. Dicklyon (talk) 17:02, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
 * —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 00:58, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Bulk edit
Thanks for organising the bulk move. It's a lot easier now that we can also fix other Jrs on the page without pausing to move them manually. I've edited the pages which turned into redirects and the ones I moved myself. It's still a massive task with a lot of intricate checks to make. Each name can have dozens of pages with multiple links, so fixing 10 names a day as a background task seems reasonable - 6 months' work. Particular gotchas: Is this a good time to try to move the job into the Typos list? Certes (talk) 22:13, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
 * John Q. Doe, Jr. redirects to John Doe Jr. but John Q. Doe Jr. without the comma doesn't; similarly with missing accents etc.
 * File:John Doe, Jr. is an image, and removing the comma would make it vanish
 * Links are piped as Doe and someone may get upset about trivial edits with no effect on the page's appearance


 * I've started working on the name-list again; 1-2 hundred per day. If you find any exceptions please update the whitelist (I've hard-coded to avoid them).
 * I'm not sure about adding this issue to the typos list. It will be difficult to isolate all proper names for institutes, libraries, buildings, etc. that require the comma. I would like to see it, however, since an insource search for  returns ~138,000 pages.   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  13:18, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you! I'm a bit busy elsewhere at the moment but will join you when I can. Certes (talk) 16:51, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ correcting all of the pages at User:Certes/JrSr/titles. The regex pattern I'm using is embarrassingly long, no doubt wastes many compute cycles, and proper-noun false positives still crop up. I don't see this being easily & robustly added to the typos list. I do have a personal genfixes list though, to which I've added my efforts here, and will always know where to look if I ever want to find something to do...  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  03:45, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks very much, Tom. That's a lot faster than I could have managed. I've tidied up the exceptions that should have a comma and didn't.
 * Have we missed any? For example, Connecticut's 143rd assembly district still links to (and displays) Yorke Allen, Jr..  I can have a look for similar cases and fix them manually but perhaps you have a better tool for the job.  Certes (talk) 12:29, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Well, as far as the scope of this task request, all the page titles are fixed (unless a new -page was created since the last database scan). However, there're still ~138k pages containing   in their body. This is low priority for me, at least for now, but if I happen to land on one of those 138k for a CS1 error or formatting reason, the errant commas will be fixed as well.   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  13:49, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Ah, that explains it. My process was fixing all 138k pages, which was slow and tedious as well as potentially disruptive.  I'll also let it rest but fix any I stumble across in other work. Certes (talk) 14:16, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

non-breaking spaces
I've stumbled across a few instances of failed non-breaking spaces in articles, and searching suggests that there are quite a lot more. The most common errors seem to be: There are a few more, but a quick look suggests they are not as numerous and so the above two will be good for starters, Almost all of these are going to be errors that should be corrected to but there may be some exceptions. It is possibly worth adding this an ongoing general fix.
 * (i.e. a space between the ampersand and nbsp)
 * (i.e. a colon rather than a semicolon)

Probably most of those instances where the non-breaking space separates numbers from a unit this should be replaced with a template, but that is a separate job and not one that I think AWB is suitable for. Thryduulf (talk) 01:30, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I only find 15 instances of this. Might be good for future general fixes, but these can be easily fixed by hand. Nihlus  01:50, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks for looking. And thanks for that link, I didn't know you could do that with the search engine - very useful to learn! Thryduulf (talk) 01:56, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Tagging categories (12)
In all years by continent categories including the (dis)establishments categories, all nominated here for merging, would someone be willing to help by adding a cfm template onto the category pages? The template syntax can be copied from the first category page of the list. Thanks in advance! Marcocapelle (talk) 09:36, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
 * .  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  12:44, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
 * , do you want me to tag the 10 deletion requests too? If so, please provide a CfD template to the first one (Category:6th-century years by continent).  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  13:19, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Don't bother about the deletion requests, I will do these manually. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:26, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ tagging 1,920 categories.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  16:11, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

Tagging categories (13)
This nomination consists partly of merge proposals and partly of delete proposals. Would someone be willing to help by adding a cfm template to all category pages to be merged, and a cfd template to alle category pages to be deleted? The cfm template syntax can be copied from the first category page Category:948 establishments in Sri Lanka and the cfd template can be copied from Category:940s establishments in Sri Lanka‎. Thanks in advance! Marcocapelle (talk) 09:08, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
 * . You're quite busy!  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  11:42, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ tagging 124 categories.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  12:21, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

Tagging categories (14)
This nomination consists of merge proposals only. Would someone be willing to help by adding a cfm template to all listed category pages? The cfm template syntax can be copied from the first category page Category:States and territories established in 220. Thanks in advance! Marcocapelle (talk) 06:23, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 17:41, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

Tagging categories (15)
This nomination consists partly of merge proposals and partly of delete proposals. Would someone be willing to help by adding a cfm template to all category pages to be merged, and a cfd template to alle category pages to be deleted? The cfm template syntax can be copied from the first category page Category:560 in Wales and the cfd template can be copied from Category:560s in Wales. Thanks in advance! Marcocapelle (talk) 06:36, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 06:56, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

Tagging categories (16)
This nomination consists partly of merge proposals and partly of delete proposals. Would someone be willing to help by adding a cfm template to all category pages to be merged, and a cfd template to alle category pages to be deleted? The cfm template syntax can be copied from the first category page Category:1091 establishments in Austria and the cfd template can be copied from Category:1090s establishments in Austria. Thanks in advance! Marcocapelle (talk) 10:21, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 18:43, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

Discussion notification
Could someone add the following text to talk pages of articles in Category:Railway stations in Melbourne and Category:Proposed railway stations in Melbourne?

==Station type== A discussion is taking place at Anzac railway station about the use of the "type" parameter in Template:Infobox station for Melbourne's railway stations. Editors are invited to comment and discuss.

Triptothecottage (talk) 09:06, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I don't think this needs to be advertised on hundreds of pages. If anything, you can post it on the talk pages of the relevant projects and the template's talk page. Nihlus  09:10, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Understood, a good idea. I thought it would be appropriate though given that the IP editor has specifically edited pages in that cat? Triptothecottage (talk) 09:30, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Paul Leim
Paul Leim -> Paul Leim Introduce wikilinks.

Also change all instances of "Paul Liem" to "Paul Leim" to facilitate links and correct spelling error, as his name is often misspelled in album articles. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 02:45, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ 340 links including 50 corrections. Certes (talk) 12:49, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

Question
Would it be possible to use AWB to scan all articles in Category:Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) and if an article contains Category:14th-century English people (without first colon in the syntax), to remove both Category:Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) and Category:14th-century English people, and to add Category:14th-century English MPs (again, without first colon in the syntax), as a more specific categorisation? Marcocapelle (talk) 12:25, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, as long as those categories are hard-coded on the page, and not attributed via a template.
 * To be clear, you want to effectively replace  with , without fixing the category link?   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  13:30, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I think we were meant to read the request without the initial colon before Category, which is only there to avoid categorising this talk page, but keep the colon after Category. What do we do if the article is in subcategories? Certes (talk) 13:39, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Ohhh, ok, well it's a given not to use that colon since it's not visible, so no need for Marco to bring it up. "Colon before 'Category'" would be less ambiguous as well. The tags can be used to be perfectly explicit, if the need should arise.   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  14:15, 3 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Petscan says there are 495 relevant pages. All are direct members of Category:Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707).  402 are direct members of Category:14th-century English people but 93 are in subcategories (e.g. Geoffrey Chaucer qualifies via Category:14th-century English writers). Surprisingly, there is no overlap between the 495 and Category:14th-century English MPs‎.  Fixing the 402 as requested should be easy.  We should probably move the remaining 93 out of Category:Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) and into Category:14th-century English MPs‎ but leave them in the subcategories such as Category:14th-century English writers.  Does that sound like a plan? Certes (talk) 15:05, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
 * It definitely does! Marcocapelle (talk) 15:20, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
 * A potential problem: do all 14th-century English people who were Members of the Parliament of England qualify as 14th-century English MPs‎? For example, Ralph Ardern (c1374 - c1420) was was a 14th-century English person (though he's not actually in the category) but wasn't elected until 1406. Certes (talk) 15:13, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I've done some 200 manually until I realized I might better ask for assistance here, and (surprisingly) this problem didn't occur once. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:20, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Better examples, who are actually in both categories but not elected until 1401 or later: Thomas Chaucer, Sir Hugh Luttrell. There will be others, and less obvious cases such as Robert Corbet (died 1420), but I don't know an easy way to get an exhaustive list.  Certes (talk) 15:56, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Also you get cases like David Flitwick (Beds MP 1295) who is (correctly?) in Category:English people of the Wars of Scottish Independence which is (mistakenly?) a subcat of Category:14th-century English people. He died in 1296, so it's a bit of a minefield.  But perhaps I'm being a pedant and we would be fixing far more errors than we introduce, so I'm happy to go along on that basis if everyone else is. Other opinions welcome please. Certes (talk) 21:00, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
 * It's probably best to ignore subcats that do not have an explicit 14th century in the category name. I can still manually recategorize any leftover articles after everything (including the follow-up below) has been processed. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:54, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

I've not forgotten this but I'm bogged down in another task that's more intricate than it appeared. I'll get around to it eventually but am quite happy for someone else to step in. WP:HOTCAT may be a more appropriate tool than AWB. Certes (talk) 13:37, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I did the first 200 articles (with letters A and B) with HOTCAT, but it's pretty tedious that way. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:55, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

Follow-up question
I presume we can do the same for 13th, 15th, 16th and 17th century, is that correct? In the 16th century there is an additional complexity which does not occur in the other centuries, namely people may currently be in Category:16th-century English politicians rather than Category:16th-century English people. Unlike with the "writers" example above, but similar to "people", "politicians" should be replaced by "MPs". Marcocapelle (talk) 15:23, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
 * (ec) Yes, and it's useful to know that's coming so we can keep our workings for re-use. As you say, all MPs are politicians, so that category becomes a redundant parent. Certes (talk) 15:56, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Replacing references
https://www.cookpolitical.com/file/Arranged_by_State_District.pdf is a dead link, which seems to be superseded by https://www.cookpolitical.com/pvi-map-and-district-list. Would appreciate it if the instances below (1) could be replaced with (2):

Mélencron (talk) 05:59, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

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This CfD nomination, with the complete list of nominated categories listed on the talk page, consists of merge proposals (in two sections) and delete proposals (in a third section). Would someone be willing to help by adding a cfm template to all category pages to be merged, and a cfd template to alle category pages to be deleted? The cfm template syntax can be copied from the first category page Category:530s in Africa‎ and the cfd template can be copied from Category:690s in Africa‎. Thanks in advance! Marcocapelle (talk) 13:55, 15 December 2017 (UTC)


 * ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 15:06, 15 December 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ tagging 428 categories, . Category:768 establishments in Africa is on the list twice, fyi. Not sure if just a typo or if it took the place of a cat that's meant to be on the list (but Category:767 establishments in Africa & Category:769 establishments in Africa don't exist either).  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  16:25, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

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This CfD nomination consists of merge proposals and delete proposals. Would someone be willing to help by adding a cfm template to all category pages to be merged, and a cfd template to all category pages to be deleted? The cfm template syntax can be copied from the first category page Category:1000 establishments in Spain and the cfd template can be copied from Category:1000s establishments in Spain. Thanks in advance! Marcocapelle (talk) 13:20, 17 December 2017 (UTC)
 * ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 22:09, 17 December 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ apparently.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  22:20, 17 December 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 22:22, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

Incorrect linking of rivers
Hundreds of river articles have the word “course” incorrectly linked to Course (navigation) when it should be linked to Watercourse. Any chance of automating this task? Downsize43 (talk) 22:18, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Mcewan (talk) 15:01, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

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This CfD nomination, with the complete list of nominated categories listed on the talk page, consists of nine sections of merge proposals and delete proposals (one section for every country). Would someone be willing to help by adding a cfm template to all category pages to be merged, and a cfd template to alle category pages to be deleted? The cfm template syntax can be copied from the first category page Category:1202 in Croatia‎ and the cfd template can be copied from Category:1210s establishments in Croatia‎. Thanks in advance! Marcocapelle (talk) 10:28, 26 December 2017 (UTC)


 * ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 14:05, 26 December 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ tagging 533 cats. I found 3 duplicates on the list: Category:1410s in Croatia, Category:1420s in Croatia, & Category:1480s in Croatia.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  15:40, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

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This CfD nomination consists of merge proposals and delete proposals. Would someone be willing to help by adding a cfm template to all category pages to be merged, and a cfd template to all category pages to be deleted? The cfm template syntax can be copied from the first category page Category:1034 in Christianity and the cfd template can be copied from Category:1092 in Christianity. Thanks in advance! Marcocapelle (talk) 19:20, 3 January 2018 (UTC)


 * ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 20:55, 3 January 2018 (UTC)


 * ✅ tagging 116 cats, .  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  21:25, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Blacklisted URL
Help_desk -- UK Sharma3  (User &#124;  talk &#124; Contribs) 10:29, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ See Bot_requests &#40;&#40;&#40;The Quixotic Potato&#41;&#41;&#41; (talk) 19:53, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

Lunar Craters
Would it be possible to go through all the pages in Category:Impact craters on the Moon and replace any instance of  or   with the far simpler and more relevant  ? (i.e. Like I've done here: )

The former messy pairs of links were set up repeatedly on vast numbers of pages way back before the page lunar crater existed. Ale vya  03:59, 12 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Mortee (talk) 23:35, 3 January 2018 (UTC)


 * ✅. 1257 edits across 1544 pages in category., there are still 67 pages that don't link "lunar", e.g. Borel (crater). Would you like me to replace  and   with   as well? Mortee (talk) 01:18, 4 January 2018 (UTC)


 * I say go for it, on a case-by-case basis (i.e. if it's in the lead), since there's obviously some intended consistency among the crater articles.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  13:01, 4 January 2018 (UTC)


 * However, the text of page should not have been changed from lunar impact crater to lunar crater. The word "impact" is (was) there for a reason, and removing it en mass to 1300 articles (in good faith, but perhaps too hastily) requires more than 1 person's request, and shouldn't be taken lightly.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  13:40, 4 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Are there non-impact craters on the moon? Assuming not, partly because lunar craters begins "Lunar craters are impact craters on Earth's moon", I can switch lunar crater (where there's no preceding "impact" now) to lunar impact crater safely. That would restore the original wording, with the more specific link. Mortee (talk) 19:35, 4 January 2018 (UTC)


 * was careful enough to only request pages in Category:Impact craters on the Moon, so it is safe to do, as it's a stable cat. I've finished following-up your edits to restore "impact"; can you follow suit with the other 67 you mentioned above? FYI I only found 1 minor instance of overlinking, at Euclides (crater).  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  20:01, 4 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Also, when performing these tasks, it is always a good idea to link to these discussions in your edit summaries, for centralized discussion, in case any problems/suggestions/piggyback ideas/etc. come along.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  20:05, 4 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Good point about linking to the discussion. I've for the 67 pages. Mortee (talk) 20:39, 4 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Thanks for all this, I'll defer to your collective judgement with the way you handled it. Ale  vya  18:36, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

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This CfD nomination, with the complete list of nominated categories listed on the talk page, consists of four sections of merge proposals and delete proposals (one section for every country). Would someone be willing to help by adding a cfm template to all category pages to be merged, and a cfd template to alle category pages to be deleted? The cfm template syntax can be copied from the first category page Category:1005 in China and the cfd template can be copied from Category:1000s in China. Thanks in advance! Marcocapelle (talk) 08:10, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 08:56, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

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This CfD nomination only consists of merge proposals, to make things easy. Would someone be willing to help by adding a cfm template to all category pages to be merged? The cfm template syntax can be copied from the first category page Category:1009 in religion. Thanks in advance! Marcocapelle (talk) 22:17, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
 * ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 22:37, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ tagging 227 cats, .  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  23:14, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

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This CfD nomination, with the complete list of nominated categories listed on the talk page, consists of 16 sections of merge proposals and delete proposals (one section for every country). Would someone be willing to help by adding a cfm template to all category pages to be merged, and a cfd template to alle category pages to be deleted? The cfm template syntax can be copied from the first category page Category:1340s establishments in Bohemia and the cfd template can be copied from Category:1340s in Bohemia. Thanks in advance! Marcocapelle (talk) 16:46, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * oh boy....  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  16:51, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ tagging 1225 cats, . I found 1 duplicate, Category:1460s in Bohemia, which is in both the merge-block and the delete-block of Bohemia (entirely). Since I tagged merges first, it currently has a CfM tag, which you may or may not want to change to CfD, and remove it from the appropriate block. Cheers!  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  20:47, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

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This CfD nomination only consists of rename proposals, to make things easy. Would someone be willing to help by adding a cfr template to all category pages to be renamed? The cfr template syntax can be copied from the first category page Category:1720s disestablishments in Russia. Thanks in advance! Marcocapelle (talk) 12:50, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
 * (phew)  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  14:55, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ tagging 465 cats, .  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  16:38, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

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A request on behalf of User:Jpcase:
 * Categories_for_discussion/Log/2018_January_20 is a proposal to rename some 80 categories, and in addition there are two categories nominated for merger. The full list of categories to be renamed is on the talk page. Would someone be willing to help by adding a cfr template to all category pages to be renamed? The cfr template syntax can be copied from the first category page Category:Airstrikes_during_the_War_in_Afghanistan_(2001–2014). I can do the two mergers manually. Thanks in advance! Marcocapelle (talk) 16:24, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 18:44, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

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This CfD nomination, with the complete list of nominated categories on the talk page, consists of 12 sections with merge proposals and 2 sections with deletion proposals. Would someone be willing to help by adding a cfm template to all category pages to be merged? The cfm template syntax can be copied from the first category page Category:502 in Europe. Thanks in advance! (Note, I can handle the two small sections with deletion proposals manually.) Marcocapelle (talk) 11:54, 27 January 2018 (UTC)


 * .  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  14:54, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ tagging 1138 cats, .  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  17:09, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

English MP categories

 * Previous discussion: AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks/Archive 9

I've finally got around to starting this task and will report back here. Certes (talk) 13:32, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
 * That's the 13th and 14th centuries finished off. In general I've not done subcategories but I have unlinked Category:English people of the Wars of Scottish Independence and sorted out its member articles.  Does that look like what we needed?  If so then I'll get on with the later centuries. Certes (talk) 18:01, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

I've had a quick look at later centuries. The good news is that once we reach 1500 there are fewer pages. But there are more subcats such as Category:English MPs 1504‎. Do we want to disperse the people into those? I didn't bother for 13-14th centuries (and won't for 15th) as those subcats are so sparse there. Certes (talk) 18:20, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I presume it's too complicated to automate dispersing people into subcats like Category:English MPs 1504‎. If I'm right about that, then let's first move everyone into the correct century MP category, that will certainly make future manual diffusion into specific parliaments a lot easier. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:17, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Neither approach is totally automated. JWB puts up the page with the category changes and read the article.  About 80% of the time I accept the standard change and hit Save; about 10% are about people who were only MPs in an adjacent century so I Skip; the rest are more complicated or simply lived in a different century.  Certainly filing into centuries is easier, and makes sense if that's where most of the pages are already. Certes (talk) 20:20, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

I've completed an initial run for 13th to 17th centuries. Things I've not done: Hopefully that's most of the work done. Do you think anything else could sensibly be automated? Certes (talk) 02:11, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
 * 1701–07, because there's no category Category:18th-century English MPs (note: several 17th-century MPs also served in the 18th but aren't categorised as such)
 * checking for redundant parents, e.g. articles in both Category:English MPs 1504‎ and Category:16th-century English MPs
 * subcategories,any overlap between Category:13th-century English architects‎ and Category:Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707)

I've also addressed the subcategories. Category:Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) is now down to 138 pages, which someone should be able to diffuse manually.

In a few cases, especially in the 17th century, what I've done isn't ideal for two reasons: There is further checking and diffusion to be done, but I think it's now time to leave things to HotCat or other methods.
 * 1) I've moved articles to Category:17th-century English MPs etc. that are also in its subcategories for specific parliament dates. It's not always clear whether they're in all relevant subcategories, and they'll be easier to check there than if left in the nebulous Category:Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707).
 * 2) I've moved articles to Category:17th-century English MPs which would also belong in Category:18th-century English MPs if such a thing existed.

Beware of Category:William Shakespeare, which is in Category:17th-century English writers (and 16th). Although the Bard himself undoubtedly belongs in its parent Category:17th-century English people, many of the category's other articles such as Henry Green (politician, died 1399) do not. This can cause problems when using PetScan. Certes (talk) 13:05, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

I've moved what I can from Category:Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707). I am currently categorising a number of MPs such as Ralph Crepyn who weren't in any MP category. You may also want to look at Category:Members of the Parliament of England (1485–1603). Certes (talk) 15:19, 29 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much for everything! I'll have a further look soon. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:37, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

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This CfD nomination consists of categories nominated for merger or deletion. Would someone be willing to help by adding a cfm template to all category pages to be merged and a cfd template to the category pages to be deleted? The cfm template syntax can be copied from the first category page in the list Category:1000s in Norway, and the cfd template syntax can be copied from Category:1020s establishments in Norway. Thanks in advance! Marcocapelle (talk) 11:42, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
 * ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 13:41, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ tagging 138 cats, .  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  14:09, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

Four-digit numbers
It appears that through  have standardized subsections, and they used to have different standardized subsections. I propose that

be redirected to the following subsection
 * 1) redirects from  abcd (number) to (subsections of)  a000 (number),
 * 2) links of the form abcd (or to subsections)
 * (blank)
 * if bcd = 000
 * #a001 to a099
 * if b = 0
 * #ab00 to ab99
 * if b > 0

A more complex script might fail to suggest the change if the section name was abcd, but if I'm running the script, I can reject those changes.

If someone can construct AWB modules or replacement scripts to do that, I'm willing to execute them, but it's beyond my regular expression construction capabilities. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 23:28, 4 February 2018 (UTC)


 * I wrote a few regexes for the links but a search for test cases finds very few pages with links of that form:
 * 1701 (number)
 * 2016
 * 2600
 * List of prime numbers
 * Triangular number
 * Have I missed something? Here are regexes for the three cases. I use JWB rather than AWB but I think the syntax is the same.

\[\[ *(\d000 \(number\)) *(#[^]|]*)?\| *((\d0)00) *\]\] → $3 \[\[ *(\d000 \(number\)) *(#[^]|]*)?\| *((\d0)([1-9]\d|0[1-9])) *\]\] → $3 \[\[ *(\d000 \(number\)) *(#[^]|]*)?\| *((\d[1-9])\d\d) *\]\] → $3 Redirects look harder: I know how to get the page name ($x) but not bits of it. Hope that helps, Certes (talk) 01:01, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
 * 1701 (number) has links in the old format
 * 2016 has an anomalous form, actually not in the format I was looking for, but it picked up something I could fix.
 * 2600 doesn't seem to have the link I was looking for: I can't find the character string "000".
 * List of prime numbers needs a lot of substitutions.·
 * Triangular number seems to have only one link that needs substitution, but I'll check further.
 * I suspected most of the troublesome links were redirects. — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 02:06, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I've run regexes 2 and 3 on List of prime numbers. (Hopefully regex 1 would do nothing!)  Some links such as 5023 lead to a section that doesn't mention the number, but that's no worse than before. Certes (talk) 03:38, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I don't see any errors. Thanks.  — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 05:27, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Redirects now done. Page lists came from Rdcheck.  Almost all were abcd (number), e.g., with some simple numbers such as  and one I've edited manually: .  I skipped redirects such as  which have their own anchors.
 * Here are the regexes in case we want to do something similar again later. The first one inserts £ followed by the page name; the others replace that by #section.

(#REDIRECT *\[\[ *(\d000)[ _]\(number\)).*?\]\] → #REDIRECT $2 (number)£$x £ *(\d0)([1-9]\d|0[1-9]).*?\]\] → #$101 to $199]] £ *(\d[1-9])\d\d.*?\]\] → #$100 to $199]] £ *(\d0)00.*?\]\] → ]]
 * Job done? Certes (talk) 13:36, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Done. All redirects are to existing appropriate sections or anchors, and no redirects without an anchor which should have one.  — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 16:47, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

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This CfD nomination consists of categories nominated for merger or deletion. Would someone be willing to help by adding a cfm template to all category pages to be merged and a cfd template to the category pages to be deleted? The cfm template syntax can be copied from the first category page in the list Category:1014 establishments in Japan, and the cfd template syntax can be copied from Category:1014 in Japan. Thanks in advance! Marcocapelle (talk) 18:01, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 18:27, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

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This CfD nomination consists of categories nominated for merger or deletion. Would someone be willing to help by adding a cfm template to all category pages to be merged and a cfd template to the category pages to be deleted? The cfm template syntax can be copied from the first category page in the list Category:1002 in the Holy Roman Empire, and the cfd template syntax can be copied from Category:1003 in the Holy Roman Empire. Thanks in advance! Marcocapelle (talk) 23:14, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
 * ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 23:47, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ tagging 540 cats.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  00:36, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

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This CfD nomination consists of categories nominated for merger or deletion that are listed in this section. About the latter, please note that this is only about the Castile section. Would someone be willing to help by adding a cfm template to all category pages to be merged and a cfd template to the category pages to be deleted? The cfm template syntax can be copied from the first category page in the list Category:1127 in Castile, and the cfd template syntax can be copied from Category:1120s in Castile. Thanks in advance! Marcocapelle (talk) 09:26, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 10:43, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

Adding short descriptions to Wikipedia articles.
At this stage this is a query on practicability.

Is AWB suitable for adding Short descriptions to articles which lack them, using the short description from the associated Wikidata item, but allowing user override and improvement?

If so, how would it be done? This would be a huge task requiring operator inspection of each of several million short descriptions to ensure that it is appropriate before writing to the article, and in many cases some improvement will be required. In some cases the description will be entirely inappropriate and can simply be skipped altogether, and in a very large number of cases there is no short description available, and can be skipped altogether. If there is already a short description on Wikipedia, it should not be overwritten. Cheers, &middot; &middot; &middot; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 06:17, 19 February 2018 (UTC)


 * , certainly doable with AWB via the module, which recognizes C# 3.5 & VB.NET 2.0. You can use the WP API to get the "wikibase_item" (aka Wikidata item), then use the QID to access any related Wikidata data. I haven't had much need to pull specific WD items' info, so I don't know how to quickly query the contents of a specific WD property, etc., (and would love to hear it) but scraping the HTML (also doable via AWB) is always an option, but certainly not the most elegant. Once the desired information is fetched, it can be placed on the WP page prior to saving, to be reviewed and edited by the operator.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  13:16, 19 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Thanks, Knowing that it is possible is a good start. Do you know anyone who might be interested in setting up such a task so that users less skilled at coding could run it? &middot; &middot; &middot; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 17:12, 19 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Well, chances are that the person coding this wouldn't be main user, due to the large # of pages, and the non-automated nature as you've described it. This almost seems like something that should be incorporated into like Visual Editor or something. I don't have any experience with VE, but I'm just guessing.
 * If there were a list of pages with "ok-as-is" short WD descriptions, i.e. on a per-project basis, showing project vetting/consensus of the list, that would be a much more straightforward task that could be handled here or at WP:BOTREQ.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  17:29, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I would imagine that getting it incorporated into VE would be a major task, and as I have also very little knowledge or experience with VE, can't really comment further, except to predict that it would be slow.
 * Tagging articles as having OK WD descriptions should be faster than copying them over, and is an option to consider. &middot; &middot; &middot; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 07:48, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

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This CfD nomination consists of categories nominated for merger or deletion that are listed in this section. About the latter, please note that this is only about the Bohemia section. Would someone be willing to help by adding a cfm template to all category pages to be merged and a cfd template to the category pages to be deleted? The cfm template syntax can be copied from the first category page in the list Category:1340s establishments in Bohemia, and the cfd template syntax can be copied from Category:1340s in Bohemia. Thanks in advance! Marcocapelle (talk) 07:16, 22 February 2018 (UTC)


 * ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 13:20, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ tagging 87 cats.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  13:32, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

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This CfD nomination consists of categories nominated for merger or deletion that are listed in this section. About the latter, please note that this is only about the Moldavia section. Would someone be willing to help by adding a cfm template to all category pages to be merged and a cfd template to the category pages to be deleted? The cfm template syntax can be copied from the first category page in the list Category:1475 in Moldavia, and the cfd template syntax can be copied from Category:1470s in Moldavia. Thanks in advance! Marcocapelle (talk) 22:20, 22 February 2018 (UTC)


 * ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 11:53, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ tagging 71 cats.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  12:12, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

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This CfD nomination consists of categories nominated for merger that are listed in this section. Would someone be willing to help by adding a cfm template to all category pages to be merged? The cfm template syntax can be copied from the first category page in the list Category:1004 establishments in Italy. Thanks in advance! Marcocapelle (talk) 10:30, 23 February 2018 (UTC)


 * ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 11:53, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ tagging 1203 cats.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  13:19, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

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This CfD nomination consists of categories nominated for merger or deletion that are listed in this section. About the latter, please note that this is only about the Russia section. Would someone be willing to help by adding a cfm template to all category pages to be merged and a cfd template to the category pages to be deleted? The cfm template syntax can be copied from the first category page in the list Category:1010 establishments in Russia, and the cfd template syntax can be copied from Category:1010 in Russia. Thanks in advance! Marcocapelle (talk) 07:13, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
 * ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 12:54, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ tagging 159 cats.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  13:40, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

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This CfD nomination consists of categories nominated for merger or deletion that are listed in this section. About the latter, please note that this is only about the Ukraine section. Would someone be willing to help by adding a cfm template to all category pages to be merged and a cfd template to the category pages to be deleted? The cfm template syntax can be copied from the first category page in the list Category:1044 establishments in Ukraine, and the cfd template syntax can be copied from Category:1040s establishments in Ukraine. Thanks in advance! Marcocapelle (talk) 12:26, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
 * ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 14:32, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ tagging 73 cats.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  14:43, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

The Chamber
Pardon me if this is the wrong place to request, but is it possible for someone to run a AWB task to change all links to The Chamber (film) to point to The Chamber (1996 film) instead? I just created The Chamber (2016 film), so no links point there yet. Erik (talk &#124; contrib) (ping me) 16:51, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ using DisamAssist. Certes (talk) 17:17, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

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This CfD nomination consists of categories nominated for renaming that are listed on this talk page. Would someone be willing to help by adding a cfr template to all listed category pages? The cfr template syntax can be copied from the first category page in the list Category:1540s establishments in Russia. Thanks in advance! Marcocapelle (talk) 22:51, 16 March 2018 (UTC)


 * ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 01:30, 17 March 2018 (UTC)


 * ✅ tagging 266 cats.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  02:26, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

French arrondissement -> Infobox French arrondissement
Can someone replace the template name  with   on all the articles that use this template? The template  is a redirect to , but it is causing some difficulties for me when trying to import the infobox automatically using a bot to my home wiki. Thanks in advance. Mensis Mirabilis (talk) 11:57, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅. All of the those articles now use Infobox French arrondissement.--SkyGazer 512 talk / contributions / subpages 12:41, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Database reports/Potential biographies of dead people (3)
Could some please go through the talk pages of Database reports/Potential biographies of dead people (3) and change living=yes, living=y etc. to living=no in Wikiproject Biography where appropriate. Don't change if there is discussion querying the living status of the subject of the article or if the article is about a group of people. --Racklever (talk) 12:18, 5 April 2018 (UTC)


 * ✅. If I wasn't sure whether one should be skipped or not, I went ahead and skipped it, so there may be a few that I missed.--SkyGazer 512 talk / contributions / subpages 13:11, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

Portal:Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant & Portal:ISIL
Hi, can someone with WP:AWB or another automated tool remove Portal:Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and Portal:ISIL from all the pages it is present on? The portals were recently deleted via Redirects for discussion/Log/2018 March 2. The usual unlink tool doesn't work and there's over 100 transclusions. Cheers —  IVORK  Discuss 01:53, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I couldn't find a more appropriate place to put an "edit request" of this nature, if there is one can someone either replicate it there or let me know, thanks —  IVORK  Discuss 01:54, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 03:43, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Motorcyclist page moves
Please can an admin who uses AWB assist with moving articles about motorcyclists to consistent titles? See WT:WikiProject Motorcycling. AWB is needed only for the list of 110 pages in the collapsed box. All of them follow a standard pattern, and where a page exists at the new title it's a redirect to the current title. The few articles mentioned outside that box are more intricate and I'll do them manually. Thanks, Certes (talk) 15:42, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Is replacing characters in a page name repeatedly possible with AWB? As far as I know you can only manually move pages for the current page that shows in the feed, rather than doing the same replacement automatically for all pages in the feed. Pinging, as they seem to be very familiar with AWB and how it works.--SkyGazer 512 What will you say? / What did I do? 15:54, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
 * , is right for asking an admin to do semi-automated page moves in AWB, since non-admins don't have that utility enabled. Since I'm not an admin, I can't speak to AWB's page-move interface's functionality, but from the few times I've seen that requested, it didn't seem to be a problem. I also think there is a non-AWB admin tool which makes mass page-moves quite painless, but I could be wrong. Passing the buck to  >.>, whom I think has done one of these before?   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  16:09, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you for replying. I never knew that AWB allowed admins to perform semi-automated moves, that's definitely helpful to know. :)--SkyGazer 512 What will you say? / What did I do? 16:14, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Before I pull the trigger on this one - all of the existing articles have a consistent naming convention. Are you saying that said convention is outside of the norms for similar naming conventions? In other words, is there consensus for this? Primefac (talk) 18:47, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
 * The current position is that we have 110 articles called "Joe Name (motorcycle racer)", 70 "Joe Name (motorcyclist)", and a ragbag of others that I can fix manually. The two main qualifiers are doing the same job.  Editors adding links are understandably confused, and often put up a redlink when there's a perfectly good article.  My interpretation (as an involved editor) of WT:WikiProject Motorcycling is that there's a consensus to standardise on something and a weak preference for (motorcyclist).  If you feel that this would benefit from further discussion, please hold off and suggest a better forum. Certes (talk) 19:45, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Oh. Duh. Of course you would only list the names that would require renaming, because the others already conform. Unless someone posts here that they've already done this, I'll make an effort to get to it tomorrow. Primefac (talk) 19:58, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 03:42, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

That looks great. Thanks everyone for your assistance. Certes (talk) 09:29, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Help request for CfD nomination
Would someone be willing to copy the cfm template at Category:Landmarks to all categories listed for merger or renaming in Categories_for_discussion/Log/2018_May_12, and also to copy the cfd template at Category:Landmarks in Afghanistan to all categories at the bottom of the same the list which are nominated for deletion? Thanks in advance! Marcocapelle (talk) 09:01, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Would one of you be willing to help with this request? Marcocapelle (talk) 18:36, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
 * oh back at it again!? Later today sure, if JJMC doesn't get to it first.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  18:52, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ tagging 352 cats, but found 5 dups in the merge batch,
 * Category:Landmarks in Colombo
 * Category:Landmarks in Galle
 * Category:Landmarks in Jaffna
 * Category:Landmarks in Kandy
 * Category:Landmarks in Kurunegala
 * and tagged only 14 of the 59 deletes, since the remainder had already been tagged for merging, but everything has a tag of some kind at least.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  04:41, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

Help deprecating Template:Tooltip
I recently closed an RfD, the result of which was to deprecate tooltip. Per Manual of Style/Accessibility, tooltips should be avoided except for the use of abbreviations. In short, every current use of tooltip (many are in templates) should be either: While I imagine AWB will be most helpful, many cases will not a quick or simple fix, and this will require a fair bit of human effort. Still, I wanted to advertise this here in case anyone was interested. ~ Amory  (u • t • c) 17:54, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
 * 1) Converted to abbr if it is an abbreviation; OR
 * 2) Removed, whether by restructuring or converting to a footnote or whatever


 * , it would have been useful to save #R'ing Tooltip until after people had a go at this. Finding transclusions of Tooltip, when it's an #R to Abbr, is now more difficult.
 * Also, can someone post proper examples of each case (1, 2a, 2b, etc.), for those that might want to help that haven't used this/these templates frequently?  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  19:59, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
 * has done a bunch already, so there are some good examples in his contributions.
 * Proper MOS use: Replacing tooltip with abbr
 * Improper use: Restructuring to avoid improper usage
 * Another option, should one wish to retain some information, would be to replace  with   or   and adding notelist.  I would imagine this to be uncommon.
 * As noted by Galobtter, many of the sports templates are likely to be fairly straightforward, with obvious abbreviations like pos . ~ Amory  (u • t • c) 20:37, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Noting that Tooltip has been a redirect for 8 years. Yeah, I'd say that the most easy to do semi-automatically would be to go through uses of Pos and all other sports table headings like that and replace with Abbr as being clearly fine to use. It'll probably be harder to fix the bad uses as they'd be more varied. Galobtter (pingó mió) 04:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

recent edits by User:Catfurball
User has been mass-adding flag icons to infoboxes, which is directly contrary to WP:INFOBOXFLAG. Was going to do it myself but it would probably be much easier for an AWB user to just zap them as they used the same edit summary “added two flags” each time. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:21, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅. Most had already been done manually.   may remain controversial. Certes (talk) 21:22, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
 * . Beeblebrox (talk) 21:23, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

Portal:London Transport
This is being moved to Portal:London transport following an RM, but has a large number of subpages that the move process can't handle automatically. Can someone with automatic moves enabled move all non-redirected instances of "Portal:London Transport/" in a name to "Portal:London transport/"? Thanks in advance! Timrollpickering 13:50, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Actually I just found an alternative method. Timrollpickering 14:06, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
 * What alternative did you find, please? It may be useful for similar jobs in future. Certes (talk) 14:50, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
 * The trick is to move the page & subpages, then move the page alone back, then move the page & subpages over again and keep repeating until all are moved. Because the process won't overwrite subpages that already exist you don't risk a redirect mess and the process goes to the next 100 subpages in the queue. Timrollpickering 15:04, 26 May 2018 (UTC)