Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 69

Files for discussion redirects
I would appreciate if someone could run a bot that would create a redirect for Files for discussion/date to Files for deletion/date, where no page or redirect exists. For example, a redirect from Files for discussion/2012 January 11 to Files for deletion/2012 January 11. I'm creating a template that links to a year's worth of archives and the simplest way for it to work is for all the pages/redirects to have the same name. Thank you, Oiyarbepsy (talk) 14:27, 18 February 2016 (UTC)
 * - I found a better way. Have a look, Daily archive log Oiyarbepsy (talk) 06:20, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

Tagging articles lacking a lead (extreme cases only)
I am running a competition (Take the lead!) in January. I have been looking at Category:Wikipedia introduction cleanup and Category:Pages missing lead section. However this is only a minor portion of all articles missing or with too-short leads as I can come across them pretty frequently if I hit Random Page repeatedly.

What I was thinking of was a bot that might pick up the most extreme examples, say, articles of over 5 kb (or 10kb?) prose with leads of 1-2 sentences only. I was thinking this might be a good way to pick up large/important articles with crappy leads. I didn't want to go crazy with tagging 50,000 articles. Writing in a stream-of-consciousness type way and happy for input on this. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:26, 15 December 2015 (UTC)


 * One thing to consider is lists. They tend to have rather laconic leads "This is a list of X" (in violation of WP:BEGIN and usually accompanied with a chronic shortage of words). Do you think mass tagging lists will raise awareness about the importance of writing good leads? Finnusertop (talk &#124; guestbook &#124; contribs) 09:05, 15 December 2015 (UTC)


 * The hardest part about this is to determine which articles to tag. I've done some work on this, and have gone and excluded disambiguations. As Finnusertop said, however, the lists are going to still be a large number of the remainder. I've gone ahead and gathered a list of potential candidates so far here (excludes disambiguation, but nothing else, so some may have already been tagged; I didn't limit the size of the pages either). As you can see, over half of that list contains, well, lists. Therefore, the question would be how do we treat these? Hazard SJ 00:50, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
 * thanks for doing that. Interesting quandary. Could go either way on lists. I am tempted to tag them. I think maybe asking some wikignomes to tag a few articles might be best. I don't really want to indiscriminately tag-bomb articles and yet would be good to point to a few broad/obvious fixes...hmmm.Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 04:59, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
 * after looking at 50 or so articles I am inclined to think that lists need leads....Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 19:28, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
 * without a doubt your view is in agreement with our policies and guidelines. I, too, agree. It's just that this is one of those things that has never been enforced much and the community has developed bad practices. Tagging instances of this would affect a majority of list articles, and I'm wondering if this has the desired effect of raising awareness, or will it simply upset people. Finnusertop (talk &#124; guestbook &#124; contribs) 19:32, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Yeah, maybe just tagging a few high-importance and broad articles would be good. And hence better done manually. I am not a fan of tag-bombing Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 04:26, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
 * If this is something that would affect the majority of list articles, it is obvious that the MOS does not reflect the consensus of the entire community, and enforcing the will of a few MOS editors over the majority of list-article writers runs contrary to our basic principles. Nyttend (talk) 14:41, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
 * The actions of prompted me to do . -- Red rose64 (talk) 10:17, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I came across a few like that. umm, I am not sure what the consensus among list article writers actually is...? Come to think of it, had to look at the MOS too...actually it doesn't say too much proscriptive at all (see Manual of Style/Lead section).Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 10:21, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm not attempting to say that the consensus of list writers is for something, but enforcing MOS, written by just a small group of people, over different practices of the majority of list-writers is wrong. Policies being written to reflect what we generally do already, there can be no real basis for demanding that we follow MOS here, because there's definitely not a consensus of list-writers in favor of doing anything that can be bot-enforced, at least among suggestions made here.  Nyttend (talk) 13:09, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Aah ok, I get you - that is a fair point and I concede that list-articles hadn't crossed my mind when initially thinking about this. The list of articles above that includes some lists is interesting, as it catches some articles that actually do have leads but that someone has slapped an Overview section header at the top. Some definitely could do with decent leads however. In any case, I was just throwing this idea up for discussion and have already been tagging things manually anyway as the more I discuss it the more I am dubious of a bot's utility. Food for thought though....Cas Liber (talk ·' contribs) 13:29, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

Update the lists at WikiProject Fix common mistakes
We really need a bot that updates the lists at WikiProject Fix common mistakes. Right now they are being done manually, which is a very tedious process. Some of the entries have not been updated since November of 2014 and there are a bunch of errors that we haven't added because we can't keep up with the ones we list now.

Note: This was brought up before at Bot requests/Archive 63, where it was marked as resolved and archived, despite the fact that we are still doing this by hand. --Guy Macon (talk) 18:40, 29 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Hazard SJ 03:28, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

Redirects to lists, from the things they are lists of
Please could someone do this:


 * 1) For every article titled "List of foo"
 * 2) if the article called "Foo" exists; do nothing
 * 3) otherwise, create "Foo" as a redirect to "List of foo"

For example, I just created Birds of Tunisia as a redirect to List of birds of Tunisia.

This might usefully be added to a list of monthly cleanup tasks, for new "List of..." articles. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:06, 6 May 2015 (UTC)


 * - Though I have messaged WikiProject Lists to check consensus first. Jamesmcmahon0 (talk) 12:54, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Please see also, below. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:36, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
 * - Bots/Requests for approval/MoohanBOT 8 It is just for this task as I had already generated the list of pages needed and there seems to be no opposition to it. I will have a look at in a few days but feel free to jump ahead GoingBatty as that one may be outside of my regex expertise... Jamesmcmahon0 (talk) 11:05, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

It appears that User:Jamesmcmahon0 has dropped this. Can anyone else help, please? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:29, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I see User:Jamesmcmahon0 has been editing again... Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:30, 3 August 2015 (UTC)


 * The BRFA expired, this task is now open for grabs again.—cyberpower  Chat:Online 20:20, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
 * This is a two minute job. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 03:12, 16 October 2015 (UTC).


 * Should get this done soon. Phil  roc My contribs 20:10, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
 * All done! Phil  roc My contribs 23:01, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

The BRFA has been denied for reasons unrelated to the task itself. Another editor is welcome to take this on. Are you willing to reopen the old BRFA? — Earwig   talk  23:15, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
 * And I have refiled the BRFA. Phil  roc My contribs 11:30, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Denied again... — Earwig   talk  01:43, 2 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Wanna just make a list of the pages and let someone else do the redirects by hand. A search of red-links on a page and creating those as redirects is simply enough for AWB to handle, even if it's a lot of pages. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 02:36, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
 * This is fine. We can start by working further on the list from Bots/Requests for approval/MoohanBOT 8. — Earwig   talk  02:39, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
 * et al - any chance of an update, please? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:55, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

Century-item redirects
My request for someone do this:


 * 1) For every page or category beginning with a cardinal number (e.g. 17th-, 21st-) century; or articles prefixed "List of..." matching that pattern:
 * 2) Create a redirect from the equivalent title, with no dash
 * 3) Create a redirect from the equivalent title, using words
 * 4) Create a redirect from the equivalent title, using words, with no dash

was markred as "not done - no wider discussion" and archived. What wider discussion is needed?

For example, for the existing Category:20th-century war artists, I just created:


 * Category:20th century war artists
 * Category:Twentieth-century war artists
 * Category:Twentieth century war artists

Other examples matching the above pattern would include:


 * 20th-century music
 * List of 20th-century religious leaders

This might usefully be added to a list of monthly cleanup tasks, for new articles and categories matching the above pattern. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:27, 15 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Anyone? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:14, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Is there any reason this can;t be done? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:56, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

Texas Historical Commission atlas has changed information links
I'm not knowledgeable enough to know if this is possible to correct with a bot, but there are a considerable amount of articles that are affected by this. These atlas links have been used for NRHP citations, as well as other historical marker citations.

The home for the Texas Historical Commission atlas URL remains the same: http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/

However, once you access information, those links have changed. Whatever is linked to THC as sources in articles are now dead links. I just made a recent change to an article. You can see by the diff how it's been changed. — Maile (talk) 22:25, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Copied from Village pump (technical)/Archive 140:
 * Special:LinkSearch finds 718 links to http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us. The count includes all namespaces and cases with multiple links on the same page. There are around 370 different articles. http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us currently says: "Welcome to the new Atlas! The original Atlas, now located at http://atlas1.thc.state.tx.us, will eventually be phased out in the coming weeks. Please begin transitioning your use to the new Atlas." The links I examined work if atlas is replaced by atlas1 but it sounds like this is temporary. It would be good to find and update to new atlas url's while the old content can be seen at atlas1 (not all url changes are of the same form). PrimeHunter (talk) 22:40, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I guess somebody is working on this, because Battybot is currently running he fixes. Thanks. — Maile  (talk) 20:02, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
 * BattyBot is working on the Handbook of Texas links such as  - If you still need fixed for , please let me know and I can submit an RFBA for that as well.  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 21:30, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

findarticles.com
Mark all links to findarticles.com as dead. The links are being redirected to a another website. However, they are not marked as 404, or soft 404. That includes links to https://web.archive.org/web/$1/findarticles.com etc. which has been deleted retroactively from the archives. Examples:
 * http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_1998_Nov_18/ai_53365282
 * http://web.archive.org/web/20050922160253/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_1998_Nov_18/ai_53365282

See more detailed reasoning read this on my blog and FindArticles. (t) Josve05a  (c) 08:25, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
 * insource:findarticles.com: 16,609 mainspace matches. (t) Josve05a  (c) 08:31, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
 * so that I understand the request correctly (and to help guide the answer) what you're looking for is: For every occurrence where the pattern findarticles.com appears inside a ref block (i.e. regex 'ref>*?findarticles.com*?(t) Josve05a  (c) 19:12, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Doesn't just has to be in refs, but in all external links, but if that's to complicated, then the refs are good enough. (t) Josve05a  (c) 19:13, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
 * More fun: some links are already archived via archive.is, e.g. - the bot would have to take this into account. Max Semenik (talk) 23:22, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Just saw cyberbot II tag some dead links and add archiveurls. Hope it will get around to these links soon!  GoingBatty (talk) 22:04, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Dead links
I am here again, I would like to inquire if we could create a dead links bot that searches for and tags dead links in articles. I find dead links from years back every day. I think that the system needs to keep up with the high amount of dead links that are not tagged as such. So that the bot that is currently archiving the dead links doesnt just take for example one dead link that happens to have been tagged but leaves behind 5 others.BabbaQ (talk) 15:54, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Just saw cyberbot II tag some dead links and add archiveurls. Hope it makes its way to your favorite articles too.  GoingBatty (talk) 22:03, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Modify links to Graph (mathematics)
Graph (mathematics) has been moved to Graph (discrete mathematics). I think that all mainspace links pointing to the old name (which has been redirected to a disambiguation page) should be retargetted to the new name. Petr Matas 17:09, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
 * A bot isn't necessarily the best idea here. Human checking with one of the dab solver tools will be necessary to ensure that the links are actually intended to go to the graph theory article (instead of graph of a function or something). Also: the requested move was closed as "no consensus". I admit I'm not a huge fan of this new title as an improvement of the previous one, but it's difficult to come up with a better one (although I suggested "Graph (discrete structure)"). Either way, that's wandering off-topic. — Earwig   talk  00:02, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Bot to find missing year of publication category for fungus species
I was wondering if it would be possible to make a bot that made a list of all fungus species that do not have the year of publication category (e.g. Category:Fungi described in 2015). I would use this list to go through the articles by hand and add the missing cats where appropriate. I'm not quite sure how many articles would be included, but guessing less than 2000. Sasata (talk) 21:33, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
 * While I didn't put much effort into the scan, and I'm running a dump thats at least three weeks old, these are the only results I got:


 * Cortinarius ponderosus
 * Clitocybe dealbata
 * Leratiomyces ceres
 * Rubroboletus pulcherrimus
 * Hebeloma crustuliniforme
 * Panaeolus acuminatus
 * Panaeolus africanus
 * Panaeolus cambodginiensis
 * Panaeolus olivaceus
 * Panaeolus fimicola
 * Dikarya
 * Microfungi
 * Mastigomycotina
 * Neotyphodium aotearoae
 * Neotyphodium australiense
 * Psilocybe ovoideocystidiata
 * Basidiolichen
 * Conocybe apala
 * Panaeolina foenisecii
 * Psilocybe caerulipes
 * Neolentinus lepideus
 * Nectria cinnabarina


 * Hope this helps! -- Cheers,   Ri l ey   05:09, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for doing this for me . This set is far less numerous than I expected; for example, missing are Hypholoma fasciculare, Clitocybe dealbata, and Clitocybe amoenolens. Any idea why these (and many more) weren't caught in the scan? Sasata (talk) 05:21, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Actually, you can scan it yourself with |3&negcats=Fungi+by+year+of+formal+description|4 catscan. Doing a scan of (category depth 3) gives 121 result. You can play with that field "Categories" to get other results. -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 05:47, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
 * And scanning (depth: 6) gives |6&negcats=Fungi+by+year+of+formal+description|4 7704 results. I have no idea, how good categories there are, so you also check that. -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 05:56, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
 * That looks like a very useful tool, I will play around with it. Thanks both for the assistance! Sasata (talk) 06:27, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Please help with WikiProject Translation Studies
Some weeks ago the WikiProject Translation Studies became operational. It would be interesting to have a page such as WikiProject Translation studies/Article alerts. Any help welcome. Regards, --Fadesga (talk) 12:34, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
 * You want to follow the instructions at Article alerts/Subscribing. Hasteur (talk) 13:52, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Fix links to TBS (U.S. TV channel)
This article has been moved from TBS (TV channel) as a result of an RM that suggested the redirect should be retargeted to the main TBS page. I would have done it via AWB but there are around 2,000 incoming links. Cheers, Number   5  7  22:06, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Done. Cheers! bd2412  T 18:12, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Cited tweets
As noted in this blog post, we have some citations to tweets which "use the obsolete HashBang URls (e.g. http://twitter.com/#!/007/status/133679555167784960.) Some Tweets have been deleted." Can a bot fix these two issues? Or perhaps that's a job more suited to AWB? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:23, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
 * So the two issues would be:
 * Change URLs of the form  to   (with variations for URLs with   and  )
 * Fix dead Twitter links - I hope the bots that already mark dead links and/or add archiveurls would pick these up too.
 * Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 18:21, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, though your point about dead links and bots may be right. A third change might be to change links to accounts (not individual tweets) in EL sections to use Twitter. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:07, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
 * for #1. GoingBatty (talk) 21:59, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
 * That's great; thank you. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:27, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
 * #1 is ✅ - please let me know if I've missed any. Thinking about #3 - what would be the benefit in changing links to Twitter?  (I have a guess, but I don't want to put words in your mouth).  Thanks!   GoingBatty (talk) 15:52, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Two benefits: easier tracking; and we'd be able to pull the values from Wikidata. In fact, it might be worth converting the template, first, then replacing links and removing the Twitter handle (or moving it to Wikidata) in one go. Thoughts? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:52, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Changing Twitter to behave like Official website? Sounds like an interesting idea.  Too bad you didn't get any response to your suggestion on Template talk:Twitter.  I've invited a couple editors to discuss there (everyone else is welcome too, of course).  GoingBatty (talk) 21:06, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Just saw cyberbot II tag some dead links and add archiveurls. Hope it would do it for Twitter links too.  GoingBatty (talk) 22:01, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Container category diffusion
Category:Container categories, by the current definition of the notice box, only allow subcategories, no other pages. If possible, I think it would help the maintenance process if a bot could check container categories for pages, and if found, check if they are already categorized in a subcategory of the container category being checked. If they are, remove them from the container category, referencing the subcategory and WP:SUBCAT in the edit summary. --Slivicon (talk) 14:57, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

I also think, such a bot is required -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo 13:27, 1 September 2015 (UTC)


 * I would also like to see such a bot. Note: Ideally it would check not just immediate subcategories, but go down the category tree. Perhaps it could also generate a list of any that it can't fix. DexDor(talk) 07:11, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Remove MiszaBot config
A bot should remove all transclusions of User:MiszaBot/config because the three bots have been replaced by Lowercase sigmabot III. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 03:56, 19 December 2015 (UTC)


 * There's no effective need to do that, as my bot searches for User:MiszaBot/config. That said, it wouldn't be hard to replace the MiszaBot template with a different one on the bot's next run. → Σ σ  ς . (Sigma) 04:00, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Also, if they weren't replaced (just removed) all the pages that use the MB configurations (my talk page included) would cease to be archived. --kelapstick(bainuu) 04:02, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
 * It's bad form to start this thread and less than a minute later file a MFD which pre-empts the outcome. See also WP:MULTI. -- Red rose64 (talk) 08:12, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

Moreover, this page is for tasks that already have consensus. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:26, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
 * This request has not been thought through, and the subsequently filed MFD is going down in flames for that very reason. Suggest this request be closed. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:38, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Not to prolong this request, but would it make sense to move and rename the (invisible) template to something like Template:Archiving bot configuration or even Template:Archive configuration? --Izno (talk) 22:42, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Citation style
The citation style should be consistent in an article. A bot should automatically fix citations in some articles in Category:All articles needing references cleanup so that they will be consistent. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 02:30, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
 * How does the bot determine the right style for each article? – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:54, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Hmmmm I might start looking into this. I think this task is vastly to broad in scope to tackle all at once by a bot as Jonsey mentioned. But maybe there are some simpler sub problems that a bot could solve. Lonjers (talk) 02:47, 12 December 2015 (UTC)


 * You could start with a bot run to calculate the citation style of each article and add an appropriate hidden category to those articles where the citation style is consistent. Subsequent bot runs could identify articles where a cite has been added in a different style, they might even be able to change the citations to match the style set by the hidden category. Though this would mean we needed to carefully monitor changes to that hidden category.  Ϣere  Spiel  Chequers  10:17, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

Bot needed to reverse contributions
As far as I am aware there is not yet a bot which will:
 * undo contributions of another user/bot for a given date/time range
 * write a list of diffs where it was impossible to Undo because of subsequent edits

One example where this is needed is above on this page, but there will be others. – Fayenatic  L ondon 13:37, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

List of URL redirects
Hi! Could some bot check all these URLs and tell me, to what URL are they redirecting? And putting them in some table with old and new URL. Yes, that's all what I need. Doing that manually will be very tedious. URLs are here. So, for example, this redirects to this. -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 17:31, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

Pinging when a "task" section is edited
First: sections of a page can't be added to a watchlist, and this whole subject has seen some pushback over the years; see for instance this Phabricator page, which I learned about yesterday at WP:VPT. Wikipedia is hurt every day, significantly, when people check their watchlists less frequently because they're forced to check hundreds or thousands of edits just so they can monitor the particular sections that represent the task requests they're interested in. This happened to me just yesterday; I don't pull up my watchlist as frequently nowadays because I have to keep WP:ERRORS watchlisted in case anything shows up in the Today's Featured Article section, which represents a small fraction of the edits to that page. There are many editors who struggle with the same problem daily. I'm asking for a bot that runs frequently, takes a diff of WP:ERRORS if there have been any edits, discards everything from the diff above and below specific text markers, and notifies me in some way (a ping would be fine) if the relevant part of the diff has changed. (It would also be nice if it didn't keep pinging me with each edit ... once per 24 hours would be fine ... but that's optional.) If anyone is willing to code this simple bot to run at ERRORS and a few other high-traffic pages, a lot of people will love you for it. (A red herring sometimes gets thrown into these discussions that searching for sections is hard to do ... that's both dubious and irrelevant. All we need is a bot that can search for specific, perhaps hidden, text, and can discard the parts of a diff above and below that text.) - Dank (push to talk) 15:33, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
 * , simulating a watchlist via pings and other (ab)uses of Echo would be pretty kludgy. One of the solutions mentioned in that Phabricator task you linked to was breaking up the page in question into a bunch of transcluded subpages. In your WP:ERRORS example, all TFA errors would go into WP:ERRORS/TFA (or something), which would be transcluded onto WP:ERRORS and which you could watchlist directly. This would be a pretty good way to solve the problem you're talking about, and we'd only need consensus on WT:ERRORS. APerson (talk!) 23:33, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Wondering if it would be sufficient if you created a local tool that would email you or something like that editors could run themselves. You could do it as a bot that users could sign up to have this done automatically for them too. But seems more like something that should be added to the base wikipedia code. Lonjers (talk) 23:10, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Articles update
A multi-lingual edit-a-thon. 70+ editors are participating from 18 Wikipedias meta:User:Titodutta/GI_participants. Is it possible for a bot to report on a Meta subpage the articles created by these editors in every 4-6 hours for next 1 week? --Tito Dutta (talk) 00:22, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Wrong links in pages that include a template
Hello,

Certain (maybe all) pages listed by Bassar Prefecture contain two erroneous links to Bassar instead of Bassar Prefecture. Could you please fix this for all the pages (blue links of the template)? Also, you could remove obsolete parameters "dot_x", "dot_y", "dot_map_caption", "dot_mapsize" and "image_dot_map" when empty: they are obsolete. Here is an example of edit—keep the text "Bassar" in the infobox and change just the link is preferable.

Thank you by advance, Automatik (talk) 14:15, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I've done your first request &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 23:10, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Somehow, a couple were missed for the first request. I went through again with AWB and found the stragglers. They're fixed now. ~ RobTalk 07:30, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
 * thank you both (actually this was the same request, since unnecessary parameters are present in the pages where there are links to fix; but this is not a very important change to make). Automatik (talk) 00:38, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
 * The remaining changes are purely cosmetic, so those parameters can be left for the time being. ~ RobTalk 21:15, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

botreq
hello, i request a normal bot access for anti vandalism and for what it does too   importScript('Wikipedia:Igloo/gloo.js'); // WP:Igloo
 * here it is the name of the bot is igloo — Preceding unsigned comment added by Helpinghumanity (talk • contribs) 18:40, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Please re-read WP:igloo. You don't need a bot to use it. Also, automated counter-vandalism is an area that's already well-covered by existing bots. ~ RobTalk 21:14, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

Replacing templates
Hello everybody, does someone knows how to replace an old template with the new?For example, I want to replace an template who includes sections level 3, 4, 5, 6 etc. with an single template. I want to split the sections, but without removing the text beneath them. Thank you, -- Denis Marinov (talk) 20:33, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Are you looking to make edits in the mainspace, or just edit the template itself? Could you link to the template you're interested in? ~ RobTalk 21:20, 24 March 2016 (UTC)


 * I'm searching for a way to replace this template, which produce an table with nine sections. Beneath this sections are some other themplates by which you can add some text to the section itself. For example, you have on section 2 Прилагателно име (Adjective), which needs to be replaced by . This  (the meaning of the adjective) needs to be deleted and the text added beneath  . I do not know how to use the python bot, but if it's some explanation about it, it will be grateful. -- Denis Marinov (talk) 22:01, 24 March 2016 (UTC)


 * If you want to edit the template itself, that doesn't require a bot at all. If you wanted to make changes across many articles transcluding the template, you should start be seeking consensus for that. We're unable to help too much here, though, because the procedures on the Bulgarian (?) Wiktionary are likely very different from the English Wikipedia. I'd recommend asking at the help desk over there. ~ RobTalk 22:52, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Marking because this isn't a task for a bot on the English Wikipedia. ~ RobTalk 22:52, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

Bot to create and update lists of most requested articles within a WikiProject
Is there interest in a bot that, at the request of a wikiproject, looks through the articles in its scope and compiles a list of "most requested" articles based on red links? I imagine it similar to how User:AlexNewArtBot creates a list of articles that project members can look through and include on a list. I got the idea from working on WP:Linguistics so I'll use that as my example here, but the bot could be useful for any number of wikiprojects.

I would imagine a bot would periodically (once a day? once a week?) look through the WikiProject category (Category:WikiProject Linguistics articles) and count the number of times various redlinks appear in those articles. So for example it would see that both Linguistic Society of America and List of presidents of the Linguistic Society of America both have a redlink to George Melville Bolling and put down that the article has 2 incoming redlinks. It would then put that down on a page that project participants can look at and decide whether those requested articles are within the projects scope and add them to the "requested articles" section of the WikiProject.

If there's interest, and something similar doesn't already exist, I would be willing to work on it. Thoughts? Wugapodes (talk) 21:19, 15 January 2016 (UTC)


 * I don't think there is one for all WikiProjects, but there are some similar lists, like this one. Certainly worth looking into. — HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK 12:58, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Similar redlink bots have been built over the years. Most fell out of use, and most dedicated to a single Wikiproject but I certainly can see the interest in such a bot that could work for any project. I know I would make use of it for WP:PHYS and WP:JOURNALS (as a supplement to our existing WP:JCW which Hellknowz mentioned, but that one is fairly unique to the project.) Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:27, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
 * If no one else is working on this let me know and I will take a stab at it Lonjers (talk) 23:09, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I haven't begun working on it, as I wanted to make sure there was interest (which there seems to be), and because I'm still reading the API documentation. I'd be willing to work together on it if you want. Wugapodes (talk) 03:31, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Created an empty git hub repo for it https://github.com/utilitarianexe/requested_wiki_articles. I would just use pywikibot to create it but let me know if you would prefer something else.
 * I've created the user ProjectRequestedPagesBot which can be used for the task. I know python so pywikibot should be fine Wugapodes (talk) 23:40, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Request for bot to replace a string of code in applicable pages
I am requesting for a bot to perform a task that goes in line with my attempt to merge Template:Lc1 into Template:Lc. At this point, I have updated Lc to replicate the functionality of Lc1 when a parameter by the name of  exists in Lc. So, I am requesting for a bot who can make the following edit on the pages that transclude Template:Lc1: Replace all instances of  with. Thanks! Steel1943 (talk) 07:36, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
 * —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 23:09, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Please file a new bot request if a solution is agreed upon. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 23:11, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

Substitute all cite doi and cite pmid templates
Per the RfCs at and, the use of cite doi and cite pmid templates has been deprecated. We need a bot to go through all the articles that currently transclude those templates and substitute them instead. Kaldari (talk) 21:33, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
 * It looks like Dexbot may have already done this. Kaldari (talk) 22:02, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
 * What's the status of Dexbot's clean-up of these templates? Can they all be deleted now? Kaldari (talk) 22:03, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Hey, Yes. I did what I could. All removed now Ladsgroupoverleg 01:33, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I don't think the following is controversial: All instances of and  with no incoming links, transclusions, or incoming redirects can be deleted. It will take at least two passes to delete as many as possible, since some  templates are redirects to  templates. – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:29, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Note that this is nearly 100,000 deletions, no small feat. I would like to see a bit of clearer consensus first as a sanity check. At any rate, I hope we can keep discussion centralized on the village pump thread. — Earwig   talk  07:48, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
 * The VPT thread has been archived. My sense of the discussion was that there were no technical problems with deleting this many unused templates. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:50, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
 * It would be good to move this data to Wikidata. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:32, 18 March 2016 (UTC).


 * Update: to {{ping|Kaldari|Rich Farmbrough|Ladsgroup{The Earwig}}, this was brought again below at Bot_requests and I've asked the two admin bots suggested about it. No response yet. The Wikidata suggestion been proposed since I believe September 2014 so we shall see. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 04:51, 26 March 2016 (UTC)
 * by . Let's keep future conversation at Bot_requests. I'll archive this in a day or so. ~ RobTalk 18:13, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

Removing warning
Hi! Can someone remove this warning please? Where does it come from? It should probably be removed there too. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 06:13, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
 * per WP:COSMETICBOT. The text comes from using the WP:Article wizard. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 06:36, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
 * One day this may become part of AWB's "general fixes", see phab:T100316. But even then, the comment would only be removed when a bot/editor is making a different, non-trivial, improvement to a page. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:46, 30 March 2016 (UTC)


 * So, the WMF made a mess, volunteers have to clean it up, and they can't even use bots. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 07:35, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
 * This has absolutely nothing to do with the WMF. Either way, it looks like a nice way to find new articles that are sorely in need of cleanup. — Earwig   talk  14:31, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
 * It also isn't a mess requiring cleaning up. It doesn't affect the output of the page at all. ~ RobTalk 14:42, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Well, it kinda is a mess. A messy source page is hard to edit.  It's also not a huge deal, and should simply be removed on sight.  All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:07, 31 March 2016 (UTC).

WikiProjectBanners
A nice easy job if anyone is interested. Pursuant to this TfD can all calls to be replaced with, which will allow the former template to be deleted or redirected to the latter. Thank you. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:58, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
 * —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 20:57, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

AWB needs to be updated accordingly. -- Yobot (talk) 00:37, 17 February 2016 (UTC)


 * AWB has been updated, and I added AWB standard installation to Template:WikiProject banner shell/doc. Is there anything else?  GoingBatty (talk) 03:29, 17 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Warms my heart. This was TfDed years ago, but kept on weak WP:HARMLESS grounds.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  19:07, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
 * ~ RobTalk 23:46, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Red links
Are there any bots that can identify red links? I'd like to look at their source code. The Transhumanist 04:26, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
 * See the source for this bot I helped write that counts red links. Which I realized I completely forgot about until now...I should probably file that BRFA... Wugapodes (talk) 07:13, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
 * See WP:WikiProject Red Link Recovery for red link work. I've also made redlink prefix tools.  — Dispenser 22:07, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Not a bot request and question answered; archiving. ~ RobTalk 00:29, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

Bot-related idea on Meta
I've started a new bot-related idea in the IdeaLabs on meta, m:Grants:IdeaLab/Tool_support_for_worklists. If you have thoughts or comments, please leave them there. Stuartyeates (talk) 19:15, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

History merge old category renames
An adminbot should check each category page created by Cydebot with "Moved from" and authors in the edit summary and history merge the category in the edit summary into the bot-created category. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 15:54, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
 * This is being done by Od Mishehu. . 103.6.159.68 (talk) 17:18, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
 * What's the status of this? Is it still needed? ~ RobTalk 18:23, 26 March 2016 (UTC)
 * ~ RobTalk 14:28, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

Peer review archive bot
We over at wikipedia peer review would be very grateful if a bot could be created to archive old peer reviews.

A bot did this once upon a time but is now inactive. A user volunteered to in November 2015 but must have time commitments that preclude this.

We'd be very grateful if a bot could be created that closes inactive peer reviews. Thank you wise bot coders!! --Tom (LT) (talk) 22:04, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Sadly VeblenBot isn't open source, so I can't look to see how he was configured. What determines a peer review as old? Is Wikipedia:Peer review/guidelines#Step 4: Closing a review the procedure it'd be using? -- Cheers,   Ri l ey   23:43, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

To start on this, I added a tracking category that will populate shortly with all peer reviews that have gone a month without edits. See Category:Current peer reviews pending closure. This should be doable with AWB. ~ RobTalk 18:46, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks Riley! Something like a review that has been open at least a month with no responses in the last 2 weeks could be considered "old". Yep, it'd be using that procedure. --Tom (LT) (talk) 00:32, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Bump. How's this been going? --Tom (LT) (talk) 00:25, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Bump. --Tom (LT) (talk) 00:28, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I run an AWB-based bot. AWB is great at doing find-and-replace with regex, but it's not so great at combing through articles to find ones eligible for a find-and-replace. Is there a template that is placed on all peer review pages? If so, could you modify this template to add a tracking category to all stale peer reviews? If that is feasible, I could probably take on this task. ~ RobTalk 18:20, 26 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I am not sure that this would be possible, . The main reason we need a bot is to close inactive reviews, which requires a determination that a page hasn't been edited in x amount of days (say 2 weeks). Changes then need to be made to the review page, and the talk page of the article. Would that be possible using AWB? --Tom (LT) (talk) 15:41, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
 * That's where the template comes in. It's possible, if a template is transcluded on all peer review pages to denote them as peer review pages, to use that template to generate a tracking category of all pages that transclude that template which haven't been edited in a certain amount of time. AWB can then use that category to pull a list of pages that need edits. Once you have the list of relevant review pages, then the edits on review and talk pages are fairly easy. I'm not familiar with the peer review process, so I don't know if such a template exists that is transcluded on all active review pages (and generally no other pages). If you linked me to an example active review and example inactive review, that would be helpful. ~ RobTalk 18:29, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
 * it seems that they're all in the category Category:Current peer reviews. The technical details of review closure are here: Wikipedia:Peer_review/Tools. --Tom (LT) (talk) 05:30, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I didn't know that was possible. The category may need some refining, because it currently contains some article talk pages and templates, too. --Tom (LT) (talk) 18:53, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Check now. I changed the template a tad and only peer review pages should appear in the category now. The extra pages were a result of Peer review page being transcluded where it shouldn't be, but I changed things so the template will only place the new maintenance category on pages that are in Category:Current peer reviews or its subcategories. If the category looks good, I'll start working on a corresponding category for article talk pages and then I'll write the regex for this task. ~ RobTalk 19:49, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
 * (or will be in like 5 minutes, anyway). After working on this for another hour, I'm confident the categories are working as expected. There will need to be some manual work to ensure all the peer reviews were properly opened prior to running the bot, but other than that, this task can run once every couple weeks and close things out. ~ RobTalk 21:36, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

~ RobTalk 20:58, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

Bot to convert publisher parameter in reference templates

 * Section title was Bot for converting [insert here] into [insert here] (without italics), changed so anchor works &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:29, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Hello. I have already created this bot, but it first needs to be approved, and I do not quite know where to start, so I may need to give up my ownership of the bot.

Anyway, the purpose of this bot is to scan reference templates in articles for the publisher parameter whose value is in italics so that it would be changed into the work whose value is no longer in italics, and the reason why I am requesting this is because there is a common tendency to use the publisher parameter (with italics) over the work parameter (without italics) incorrectly, so, with this bot, we could guide editors into correctly using parameters. Gamingforfun 3 6 5 ( talk ) 19:18, 15 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Please link to the discussion that shows consensus for a bot changing citations in this way. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:16, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I am not requesting that it be made; rather, I am looking for thoughts. Gamingforfun 3 6 5 ( talk ) 00:11, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
 * At the top of this page, there is a link to the Bot policy. On that page, you will find a list of Bot requirements. That section contains the following instructions: "In order for a bot to be approved, its operator should demonstrate that it: ... performs only tasks for which there is consensus". Your suggestion is for a bot that would perform a task that may be controversial, so I was asking you to link to a discussion that obtained consensus for that task.


 * It sounds like you are looking for a place to discuss the idea behind this bot. The best place I can think of is Help talk:Citation Style 1, which is the centralized location for discussion about a set of widely used templates whose names begin with "cite", like cite web and cite news. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:30, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
 * What can I do there? I do not see what your instructions are, my honestly speaking. Gamingforfun 3 6 5 ( talk ) 02:43, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm trying to assume good faith here, but it's getting more difficult. What you would do at that page is open a discussion about whether the mass changes you are proposing are supported by the editing community. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:00, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I am sorry, but it was hard for me to understand for whatever reason, and I admit that that may just be my fault. Anyway, "There is no standard practice, so there is nothing to standardize." said Czar on my talk page, so what is the point? Gamingforfun 3 6 5 ( talk ) 06:36, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Czar is wrong. There is WP:FACR. See my reply in your talk page. Fleet Command (talk) 08:41, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I am only quoting Fleet Command's two statements:As a matter of fact, there is a standard: WP:FACR. It has only one simple requirement: Citation style must be consistent. So, either the entire article must forgo publisher, or the entire article must use it wrongly, or the best option: the entire article must use it correctly.

And then there is the time when the editor writes
 * Gamingforfun 3 6 5 ( talk ) 18:30, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Seems like a sensible change, but please point to a couple of examples where the problem has been encountered. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:24, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
 * My talk page. :\ Gamingforfun 3 6 5 ( talk ) 00:11, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
 * This seems like a bad idea for a bot, because it is very context sensitive and citations have a notorious GIGO problem. An AWB run would be much more appropriate. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 15:34, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
 * First, define AWB, and, secondly, would it be a good idea otherwise? Gamingforfun 3 6 5 ( talk ) 00:11, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
 * AWB is AutoWikiBrowser. It is an app that does a lot of automatic editing with editor oversight. HeadBomb is proposing a plug-in for it... well, "proposing" is bit extreme here. He seems to think doing such a thing in an environment where there is editor oversight is favorable. Fleet Command (talk) 08:45, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Agreed with Headbomb (and would have stated it earlier if I knew the words to state). It might be something add to the WP:CHECKWIKI process. --Izno (talk) 15:49, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
 * What good would that do? Besides, on my talk page, an editor on my talk page said to me:"There isn't a standard practice so there's nothing to standardize. You don't ever have to include the publisher if it isn't helpful. No one really cares as long as each article is consistent. We wouldn't switch to just italicizing the Publisher field because the fields have different metadata purposes. czar 5:56 pm, 15 March 2016, last Tuesday (2 days ago) (UTC−5)"


 * Gamingforfun 3 6 5 ( talk ) 00:11, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
 * For some reason, I feel as though I had just vandalized Wikipedia by giving in this anti-Wikipedia bot idea. I am sorry for destroying that part of Wikipedia. Gamingforfun 3 6 5 ( talk ) 00:19, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

Trying to recover an old bot called BryanBot
Hello, some helpful souls directed me to this page. On behalf of the people over on Dutch Wikipedia, I'm trying to find out if an old bot which has gone missing can be recovered. The bot is called BryanBot, and it used to take care of their monthly disambiguation list. It has packed in over a year ago (when the Toolserver stopped operating), which means that WP.NL is now in a bit of a pickle. I'm currently doing manual refreshes for them, now and again, but got tired of it, and would like to find a more permanent solution, ideally trying to get that bot recovered.

Now, I'm out of my realm with bots, so I'll have to rely on your help. Is there anyone who can find out if that bot can still be recovered and/or reactivated. If the answer is a firm negative, we'll have to consider alternatives. Thanks! --Midas02 (talk) 21:49, 29 February 2016 (UTC)


 * commons:User:BryanBot/source? What did it do?  Might be able to just write some SQL to replace it.  — Dispenser 22:43, 29 February 2016 (UTC)


 * It generated this list. On a monthly basis, I believe. --Midas02 (talk) 23:01, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I went a roundabout way, so I'll have to rewrite it. I think I could incorporate this into Dab solver.  — Dispenser 01:48, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
 * That's very kind of you. But are you suggesting you're going to write something from scratch (adapting the WP.EN version I'm assuming), without access to the original source code? In that case you'll need to be aware that they used some kind of filtering on the results. Remember the convention we have on WP.EN not to include links that carry the qualifier (disambiguation)? Well, they... em, did it their way. They were maintaining some kind of list, a filter, that holds the page titles which should not be included in the results. It's not the best solution... maybe they'll change their mind at some point in time. Anyway, if you're going to do what I'm thinking you will be doing, let me know so I can query them regarding that list and see if you're able to work with it one way or the other. --Midas02 (talk) 04:38, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
 * , maybe you could share with your SQL query? I assume you have a better than mine (yes, I know, that I should be using page_props for disambigs, i just haven't included it), and you count also links to redirects etc. -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 12:48, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
 * is a table I use for categorder tool. — Dispenser 17:00, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

Bot for dashes
Hello. Loads of articles (particularly sports, but also TV seasons etc) contain a longer dash (I'm not sure what it's called, or if it even has a name!). Example University Challenge 2015–16. It looks nicer than a smaller hypen but I'm not sure this sort of dash is even on my keyboard and I'm sure loads of users will type in an article with the smaller hyphen (found next to the 0 on my keyboard, other makes may differ) and will end up on a search page. I was thinking a good bot would be one that searches for articles with the longer dash in the title and automatically created a redirect from a page with the same title except with a shorter hyphen. So for the above article, this page would be created: University Challenge 2015-16 (I've actually just done it myself). I'm not really familiar with bot process and whether this is suitable, but what do people think? Thanks, HornetMike (talk) 18:54, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
 * The en dash is used for date ranges and a few other things, per MOS:DASH. Yes, it would be very helpful if a bot created redirs at the hyphen version. There are zero cases in which we want no redir from a hyphen version to a title with an en dash in it (the opposite is not true). We should probably also have one that identified and made a list of articles (not redirs) at titles with two sets of numbers separated by hyphens, but maybe there's a way to wrangle that out of the regular search engine (I doubt it; ours is very limited). Many of those hits would turn out to be dates, e.g. in album titles and stuff (Live: 02-03-15 or whatever) and left alone, but a lot of them would probably also be date ranges that need to be moved to en-dash names.  We could also have one that fixed page number ranges in citations, which are frequently given with hyphens (and frequently with "|page=" instead of "|pages=" for a range, with " p. " instead of " pp. " for a range (in non-templated citations), and/or with no space between the " p." or " pp." and the number(s). The only catch with the latter fix is that it shouldn't be done in quotations; might be better as an AWB general fix.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  20:54, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
 * That sounds great! I'm not really sure what the next part of the process is - just wait for someone with the necessary skills to pick this up (provided others don't object...)? The only thing I was wondering about - if University Challenge 2015–16 is the main article and 2015–16 University Challenge is an existing redirect, and the bot creates versions with hypens for both, will the hyphen version of the latter direct to the page it originated from or University Challenge 2015–16? Thanks, HornetMike (talk) 13:38, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Interesting suggestion, and seems useful. Anomie⚔ 22:58, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Hiya. The BRFA was approved a while back. Can this be marked as done? ~ RobTalk 14:17, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I don't think we've ever bothered to systematically mark stuff as "done" on this board. Go ahead and do it if you really want, use your judgment. Anomie⚔ 18:28, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
 * It's more so I can archive the thread and make it easier to find threads that still need assistance. I've seen editors mark things as done and/or archive when done before on this board. ✅ ~ RobTalk 18:43, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

Task force tagging (Hymenoptera)
I am making a request for user:Yobot or other available bot to do some tagging for Wikiproject Insects. I am a member of the project and have notified them here.

What to do: (inheriting importance from parent project) to articles in the following subcategories
 * Change  to
 * EXCEPT where talk page already has  set.

Categories:
 * and all subcategories
 * and all subcategories

Although the "all subcategories" is usually against yobot's rules, there shouldn't be any issues with forgetting to exclude categories, as the wasp and bee categories have been curated extensively by WikiProject Insects members and only contain pages for those groups (the non-ant Hymenoptera). I can manually list all the categories if you'd prefer, but there are a lot of them! M. A. Broussard (talk) 23:44, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
 * — Omni Flames  ( talk   contribs ) 07:21, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
 * The BRFA was approved, but can this task be marked as done yet? Not sure if you ever ran the task. ~ RobTalk 14:17, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
 * It was approved half a day ago, so I'm not sure if he's had time to run it yet... — Earwig   talk  19:11, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Whoops! My apologies. I didn't look at the date. I've just been trying to clear away a bit of the clutter here so I can tell what still needs looking at. ~ RobTalk 20:19, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Yeah, sorry, only just saw it's been approved. I'll run it tonight, and mark it as done when the task is complete. — Omni Flames  ( talk   contribs ) 22:10, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Marking as —  Omni Flames  ( talk   contribs ) 09:47, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

Wikiproject Women tagging
Could some AWB bot (pinging ) do a little tagging? The list A is available here, list B - here.

Articles from list A needs to be tagged with WikiProject Women's History, articles from list B needs to be tagged with WikiProject Women. Although I did the basic check, the lists should be checked once more. Maybe some articles already have any of these banners in talk page: Bot can skip them.
 * WikiProject Feminism
 * WikiProject Gender Studies
 * WikiProject Jewish Women
 * WikiProject LGBT studies
 * WikiProject Women
 * WikiProject Women artists
 * WikiProject Women's Health
 * WikiProject Women's History
 * WikiProject Women scientists
 * WikiProject Women's sport
 * WikiProject Women writers

The consensus to tag articles is here. This is phase 1 (tagging those articles, which are also in German Wikipedia), there will be more phases later. -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 19:57, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

Question about WikiProject templates
I have seen talk pages that contain more than one of the WikiProject templates above. Are there any guidelines that state if a talk page has one of these templates that it doesn't need another template? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 20:30, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Don't think, there is such guidelines. But the article can have let's say WikiProject Women's sport and WikiProject Women's History, if sportsperson is born before 1950 (margin for inclusion at WikiProject Women's History). But it isn't important in this proposal. Articles should contain at least one of those banners. In the very original proposal there was only WikiProject Women, but as it is easy to distinguish women by birth year category, the tagging is splitted to two banners. -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 20:53, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

I can help with this. I 'll read the request carefully. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:49, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

if I just go and add the banners in the two lists it would be a problem? -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:40, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
 * not a very big problem, but the list comparing is so easy in AWB. Or I didn't carefully explain, what I want you to do? -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 11:54, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

I would prefer if someone else was generating the lists to reduce complains against my bot. If something goes wrong I can always blame you :) -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:07, 14 January 2016 (UTC)


 * The lists are already here - in the first line, you just need to do a simple check. Yes, you can send complainers to me :) -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 12:17, 14 January 2016 (UTC)


 * OK then I ll start tagging later today :) -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:24, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Just noting that Magioladitis is currently blocked so the bot is not operating. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:55, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
 * User:Yobot isn't blocked though, right? GoingBatty (talk) 05:41, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Yobot it's not blocked atm. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:45, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
 * What's the status of this? Do you still need some tagging done? If so, I might be able to help out with AWB. ~ RobTalk 01:49, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, would be nice to have this done. Will try to regenerate the lists later on weekend. -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 08:24, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

I never proceeded with this task because there is no sign in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women's History that the WikiProject was notified about the tagging. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:50, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I agree that consensus is needed from the projects. If you link to consensus discussions at both projects, one of us will get to this sooner or later (probably sooner, since the task is trivial). ~ RobTalk 12:12, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, I already have withdrawn Women's History project tagging in my mind. Will give you only one list, when it will be ready. -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 17:28, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Looks good. to get the ball rolling. Ping me when the list is updated. Please don't worry about scanning for other WikiProject tags that are more specific - just provide me a list of them. The bot will ensure that any talk pages that include templates on the list you provide aren't also tagged for WP:WikiProject Women, and there's no sense wasting man hours to do what a bot can do! ~ RobTalk 23:32, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

So here is the list. List contains all enwiki articles, that are in dewiki "Frau" ("Women") category. Sorry, didn't perform any check for existing banners (there are problems with saving the list onwiki or doing check via PetScan). -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 20:14, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

Here is a list of 200 pages already in both WikiProject Women and WikiProject Feminism

Talk:Emma Goldman Talk:Woman Talk:Madonna (entertainer) Talk:Ani DiFranco Talk:Christina Aguilera Talk:Comfort women Talk:Janeane Garofalo Talk:Yoko Ono Talk:Mormonism and women Talk:Corazon Aquino Talk:Jane Fonda Talk:Annette Lu Talk:Martha and the Vandellas Talk:Beyoncé Category talk:Women Talk:Batgirl Talk:Vera Brittain Talk:Astrid Lindgren Talk:Aretha Franklin Talk:Nellie McKay Talk:Bea Arthur Talk:Lena Horne Talk:Martha Reeves Talk:Helen Reddy Talk:Norma Shearer Talk:Lana Turner Talk:Anaïs Nin Talk:Loretta Lynn Talk:Smita Patil Talk:Women and video games Talk:Shabana Azmi Talk:Vidya Balan Talk:Kathy Najimy Talk:Lily Tomlin Talk:Lillian Russell Talk:MC Lyte Talk:Lauren Hutton Talk:Barbara Gordon Talk:Taylor Swift Talk:Violence against women Talk:Iris Marion Young Talk:Carole Pateman Talk:Chantal Akerman Talk:Janet Radcliffe Richards Talk:Lee Grant Talk:Teresa Wright Talk:Ethel Smyth Talk:Lynn Davis (singer) Category talk:Women by occupation Talk:Saba Mahmood Talk:Cheryl Araujo Talk:List of tomboys in fiction Talk:Lakshmi (actress) Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Feminism Talk:Katy Perry Talk:Janet Jackson Talk:Susan Walker Fitzgerald Category talk:Violence against women in Pakistan Talk:Mary Foy Talk:Catherine Hakim Talk:Midge Costanza Talk:Megan Rapinoe Talk:Andrea Dworkin Talk:Anahita Ratebzad Talk:The Women's Conference Talk:Queen Latifah Talk:Bernadette Brooten Talk:Women's Organization of Iran Talk:Mary Louise Defender Wilson Talk:Maureen Milgram Forrest Category talk:Violence against Aboriginal women in Canada Category talk:Violence against women in India Category talk:Black feminist books Talk:Fierce Pussy Talk:Incarceration of women Portal talk:Women's sport Category talk:Judith Butler Category talk:Womanist writers Category talk:Violence against women Talk:Honour killing of Sadia Sheikh Category talk:Violence against women in China Category talk:Violence against women in the United Arab Emirates Category talk:Violence against women in Vietnam Category talk:Emma Goldman Talk:Arvonne Fraser Category talk:Audre Lorde Category talk:Women photographers Talk:Eekwol Category talk:Violence against women in England Category talk:Womanist literature Category talk:Violence against women in South Africa Category talk:Violence against women in North America Category talk:Violence against women in the United States Category talk:Violence against women in Canada Category talk:Violence against women in Asia Talk:Ikumi Yoshimatsu Talk:Jacquelyn Grant Category talk:Violence against women in Africa Category talk:Crimes against women Category talk:Violence against women in France Category talk:Violence against women in Europe Category talk:Violence against women in the United Kingdom Category talk:Violence against women in South America Category talk:Violence against women in Mexico Talk:Lauran Bethell Talk:Tara Teng Talk:Prabha Khaitan Category talk:Women business executives Talk:Valerie Bryson Talk:Women in Sweden Category talk:American women photographers Talk:Incarceration of women in the United States Category talk:American women printmakers Category talk:Women experimental filmmakers Category talk:Women film directors Talk:Fatima Sadiqi Category talk:Women company founders Talk:Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring Talk:Violence against women in India Talk:Elizabeth Sackler Talk:Nada al-Ahdal Category talk:Women government ministers Talk:Soraya Post Talk:Kakan Hermansson Talk:Agneta Stark Talk:Amina Tyler Talk:Social justice warrior Talk:Godless Bitches Category talk:Violence against women in Afghanistan Category talk:Violence against women in Israel Category talk:Violence against women in Turkey Talk:Yoko Hayashi Category talk:Violence against women in Scotland Category talk:Violence against women in Wales Category talk:Violence against women in Ethiopia Talk:Women's Equality Party Talk:Representation of black women in hip hop Talk:Clara Sue Kidwell Talk:Yara Sallam Talk:Kat Blaque Talk:How to Be a Woman Talk:Dorothy Sue Cobble Talk:List of women's studies journals Talk:Margareth Øvrum Talk:Pao effect Talk:Daniela Bobeva Talk:Corinne Vigreux Talk:Women's empowerment Talk:Begum Zafar Ali Talk:Rose Mukantabana Talk:Women's Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality Talk:Women of the World Festival Category talk:Violence against women in Russia Category talk:Violence against women in Saudi Arabia Category talk:Violence against women in Spain Talk:List of incidents of violence against women Category talk:Violence against women in Greece Category talk:Violence against women in Ireland Category talk:Violence against women in Belgium Category talk:Violence against women by continent Talk:List of incidents of violence against women in Spain Talk:Malathi Talk:Esther Ayuso Talk:Judith Edelman Talk:Media Report to Women Talk:Obioma Nnaemeka Talk:Flying Broom Talk:Feminism in Sweden Talk:Anonymous birth Talk:Confidential birth Talk:Wei Tingting Talk:Mia Matsumiya Talk:Êzîdxan Women's Units Talk:Susan Boyd Talk:Wellington Rape Crisis Category talk:Violence against women in Chile Talk:Vicki Garvin Talk:Evanthia Kairi Talk:Women of color Talk:Hidayet Şefkatli Tuksal Talk:Yasmin Jiwani Talk:Can't Take This Shit Anymore Category talk:Women templates Talk:Malouma Wikipedia talk:Meetup/NYC/ArtAndFeminism 2016 Talk:Deolinda Rodríguez de Almeida Talk:Fannie Pennington Talk:Sisterhood Is Global Institute Talk:Bohus Stickning Talk:Lyn Mikel Brown Talk:Charlene Carruthers Talk:Meira Paibi Talk:Double Union Talk:National Women's Studies Association Talk:Lois Galgay Reckitt Talk:Fembot Collective Talk:Ilse Fuskova Talk:National Association of Women Judges Talk:Delilah Montoya Talk:Shehla Rashid Shora Talk:Coloniality of gender

-- Magioladitis (talk) 09:54, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

where in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women was the WikiProject notified that were a bot tagging take place? -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:55, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women/Archive 6. -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 09:57, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with pages being tagged as both Women and Feminism. If human intervention determines that overlap is worthwhile, that's fine. It's just not desirable in a bot run. ~ RobTalk 11:07, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Apparently ✅ ~ RobTalk 04:22, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

Orphaned Category:Cite doi templates
Template:cite doi has been deprecated but Category:Cite doi templates still contains over 58k pages at the moment. Could someone provide a table of the orphaned pages from that category (I'm aware that a number are not technically orphaned because, such as, Template:Cite doi/10.1029.2F2008GL034614 they show up in various orphaned template lists) and also probably the ones used the most. If possible, can there be a check if the creator was User:Citation bot? That way, I can list them in chunks at TFD and skip the notification part? -- Ricky81682 (talk) 09:50, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
 * at least part of request. -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 11:41, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Whatever you can. I'm making a request at WT:CSD to see if these could fall under G6. If so, I can basically mass delete these myself using AWB. Else, I'll be adding these to TFD depending on the number we're talking about. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 12:12, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Could another run be made for orphans over Category:Cite pmid templates as well? There's only about 8.7k there. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 12:19, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
 * By my current count (will check later, but it looks OK), there are 27908 cite doi templates, that are not linked and transcluded anywhere. After those are cleaned-up, we can move forward. Probably those templates, which are only linked somewhere, are also good to delete. About Citation bot - does and/or  counts? For example, this was created by CB2.
 * I don't really care, but wasn't there some disscusion here or at WP:VPT about deleting so large number of pages and doing it in a better way? -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 12:20, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Link to Google spreadsheets. There are 24816 templates (listed at 1st sheet), that were created by Citation bot, that don't have any links and transclusions to them. AFAIK, that also counts redirects. So those should be completely orphaned and safe to delete. If somebody wants to review SQL query, it's at 2nd sheet (Code). At 3rd sheet there are the most used templates. Nothing very much, only 1900 - I'm counting transclusions to all namespaces. Hope this helps. -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 13:43, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
 * also cite pmid scan. 7094 orphaned and only 4 transcluded cite pmid templates. -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 13:56, 5 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Thank you for taking this on. This deletion process will require at least two passes through both categories to get all of the actual unused templates. Some of the cite pmid templates are redirects to or from – I forget which – cite doi templates, so after all of the orphaned templates in both categories are deleted, you can go through both categories again and you should find another batch of newly orphaned templates to delete. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:16, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Right now, we just have a list right? We don't actually have a deletion plan here do we? -- Ricky81682 (talk) 06:45, 6 February 2016 (UTC)`
 * Well, I think the next step is to propose to delete those 24,8k cite doi + 7k cite pmid. And then go and delete them. We can think of next steps after this is done. BTW, finally found that disscusion I was talking about: Batch deletion. -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 08:45, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I think the consensus at Wikipedia_talk:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion is that deletion is proper. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 10:28, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

Update to request
Can I request that a bot mass delete these orphaned templates? The consensus at TFD here was clearly in favor of a mass deletion. Thanks! -- Ricky81682 (talk) 23:07, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Bumping this. Is there a bot operator who would be willing to take this on? We'll be happy to help by making lists or whatever else is required. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:48, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
 * An admin bot is required for this. Maybe or . —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 02:27, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Ok, asked at both. We'll see if there's a response. Is there another bot that could actually deal with the deprecation of the doi templates still in use? -- Ricky81682 (talk) 22:08, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Anomie⚔ 15:30, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

Simpler idea -- How about transcluding every single template in that category that's still in use, then deleting everything? I did a lot of work like this (cough userboxes cough) back in the day. -- Cyde Weys 01:45, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I think you mean "substing" instead of "transcluding". That work has been done already, with the possible exception a few templates that were missed, or created recently. Now it's time to delete the orphaned templates. AnomieBOT is hard at work doing that, at a rate of six per minute. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:56, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Status as of this time stamp: (AnomieBot is deleting the templates) – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:58, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

and category deleted. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:56, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Merge talk page banners
I have noticed a significant number of article talk pages that use both article history and one or more of on this day, DYK talk, ITN talk, and other templates that could be combined into article history. Given the ever-increasing length of the pile-up of banners at the top of talk pages, I want to suggest that a bot could combine redundant talk page banners (like this, for example). Graham (talk) 21:56, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
 * , I did a quick estimate, and found that only 139 pages with have one or more of the other templates you mentioned. However, I wasn't counting other pages with two of the templates you mentioned that could be combined into a single  conclusion. I've started to write some code to process pages like this. APerson (talk!) 04:43, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Any status update on this? ~ RobTalk 00:32, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
 * , oops, I think I forgot about this task. My current progress is that I'm running a script to enumerate all 139 pages or so, and I have half of a script that takes a page title and fixes it. APerson (talk!) 02:59, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
 * A test I just did can be seen . (I know I have to order the parameters "correctly"; that's up next.) APerson (talk!) 04:11, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I'll leave you to it. No pressing need for this to be finished soon. I've just been working through the backlog here and wasn't sure if you were still working on this. ~ RobTalk 04:20, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
 * and, I've successfully tested this bot on a couple of talk pages, as you can see at . Graham, do you envision this bot task as a weekly or monthly run that goes through all of the pages with banners that could be merged, and then merges them? APerson (talk!) 03:09, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I'll assume that this should be a weekly task, then. . APerson (talk!) 04:28, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

BRFA approved and most probably bot has finished its task already since last task related edit was on April 14. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:54, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Substitute and redirect /Comments subpages
Following many discussions in the past, the use of "/Comments" subpages of article talk pages was deprecated (see WP:DCS for details). But the process to completely stop using them has never been carried out. I would like to ask if a bot could be employed to do the following tasks: Thank you &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:46, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Visit each /Comments subpage. (It is estimated that 25,000 exist.)
 * If it is a redirect or blank, then skip it.
 * Substitute the contents onto the articles talk page (possibly using Template:Substituted comment which I have just written).
 * Redirect the subpage to the talk page, citing WP:DCS in the edit summary.
 * That may mean putting a lot of very old comments below current discussion. Might it not be better to hat the /Comments pages, perhaps with a purpose-made template, and a soft redirect, plus a short note on the current talk page? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:23, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Instead of a short note with a link, why not a short note with the actual comment? If you are worried about the length of the comment (e.g. >500 characters), we can put it into a collapsible box. Ultimately it would preferable to get rid of these separate pages. When an article moves, the link that you have proposed will break unless care is taken to move the subpage with it. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:29, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Poke &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:22, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
 * As I already said (emphasis added): "That may mean putting a lot of very old comments below current discussion". Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:52, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, I understood what you wrote. Does that mean you are okay with the idea of putting them in a collapsible box? &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:28, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
 * No. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:49, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

—&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 05:58, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Agreed with Andy Mabbett that this doesn't seem useful and may be interruptive of current discussion and work. The proper things to do with these pages is going to vary by context. The most commonly appropriate solution would be to merge the material into the talk page and/or its archives in chronological order, but that's a lot of work for no particular gain. Isn't it just easier to add them to an archive box (creating the archive box if needed?  Example:


 * There's no compelling reason to hunt down and eliminate old /Comments pages. They're not in the way of anything.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  19:08, 26 March 2016 (UTC)
 * thank you for your comments. I think it's easiest if I respond on the BRFA page now &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 23:31, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

BRFA approved. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:52, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

infobox football biography bot
Per a recent discussion at WikiProject Football, a bot is requested to remove the ' (retired)' string from the '|position      = ' field within Template:Infobox football biography. Thanks, C679 08:29, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
 * — Omni Flames  ( talk   contribs ) 09:10, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

All pages fixed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:50, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Bot with AWOL owner adding non-existent templates
I see there's been passing mention of this before, but I've been working on a backlog in which categories such as regularly appear. The only content is a template which was deleted three years ago following merger of the category. The category is created by User:DumbBOT, whose owner has had sporadic Wiki time for a few years and who has not edited at all since August. Is there something that can be done about this situation? It seems a waste of resources and admin time to create one of these categories and then have a human delete it every day, aside from the fact that it means this backlog can never be emptied. I guess the ideal solution for an unsupervised bot is for it to be taken over by someone else (I understand has taken over most of the functions - is this sufficiently advanced that DumbBOT can be blocked?) Or at the very least, can we have a second bot to automatically delete these categories when DumbBOT creates them, to save a human having to do it? Le Deluge (talk) 15:30, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

WP:CHICAGO
It has been a couple of years since a bot has tagged Chicago WikiProject on relevant pages using WP:CHIBOTCATS. Could we get an update.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 18:20, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I have also made a request at User_talk:Yobot.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 04:10, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
 * This is unrelated to your bot request, but since you mentioned auto-assessment at the Yobot page, you may be interested in this discussion. ~ RobTalk 05:19, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

This was done. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:49, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Grammar checker
How about a bot that looks for many instances of sentences containing terrible grammar? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 04:44, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
 * WP:CONTEXTBOT applies here; it's just too broad... —  Earwig   talk 05:22, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. Thanks. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 08:07, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
 * ~ RobTalk 14:10, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

Bot to make sure external links are still working.
I've come across many links on wikipedia in the past that lead to sites that no longer operate or work, are we able to implement a Bot to seek out these links and delete them if they don't work or are obsolete? (I'm kind of a Noob at this, BTW) Minecraftpsyco (talk) 19:48, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Definitely not. 'Dead links' can still be looked up on internet archives, like the Internet wayback machine. French Wikipedia even has a bot which replaces dead links by a number of links to internet archives. I'm wondering why that has never been implemented on English Wikipedia. --Midas02 (talk) 20:36, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I think it has at least once, since I see bot-added archive-url, archive-date, and dead-link tags in citations. It would be nice if this checking were more robust. I encounter links in articles all the time here that have been dead for years (either do not resolve, or go to error pages). I don't think any bot can do anything about pages that redir to something that doesn't generate an error code, though. We have to manually fix those.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  20:42, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Your bot is working this, right? --Izno (talk) 20:49, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes it is, and quite diligently too. There's just a lot to work on, and this is still a project in development, and supported by IA and the WMF.—cyberpower <sub style="margin-left:-10.1ex;color:olive;font-family:Comic Sans MS"> Chat:Online 21:27, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Unless I'm mistaken, any reason why the French practice of adding links to archives was never implemented on this Wikipedia? By the way, I believe they are adding links to archives by default, so it overcomes the problem of dead links not returning fault codes. --Midas02 (talk) 05:47, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Automatically or manually? It has always been a best practice here to add an archive link manually. CP's bot is now doing it automatically. --Izno (talk) 19:23, 15 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I think he's saying the French wiki is adding archive links automatically at time of placing the reference, which is not that bad of an idea. Could you clarify, ? ~ RobTalk 18:26, 26 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I was talking about complementing dead links with archive links. Good to know there's a bot doing that now. French Wikipedia also adds an archive link by default to every external link placed (example). It has its pros and cons. --Midas02 (talk) 01:40, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

The adding archive links by default is interesting, but not the original bot request, and it would need consensus gathering. Marking the original request as not done because we already have bots providing archive links for dead links. ~ RobTalk 01:19, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

Removal of duplicate WikiProject Korea templates
The redundant Template:WikiProject South Korea was redirected to Template:WikiProject Korea, and now some pages have duplicate templates (e.g. Talk:President of South Korea). Can a bot remove Template:WikiProject South Korea when Template:WikiProject Korea or one of its redirects is already placed? (See recent discussion here.) Random86 (talk) 20:24, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Do you happen to know roughly how many pages have the duplicate template (vs. just the South Korean one)? ~ RobTalk 11:11, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
 * I have no idea, but about 800 pages had the South Korea template. Random86 (talk) 11:19, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ ~ RobTalk 13:54, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks ! There weren't as many as I thought there would be. Random86 (talk) 21:54, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

Moving My Little Pony: Equestria Girls (franchise) and My Little Pony: Equestria Girls (film) and fixing links
I posted a plan on Talk:My Little Pony: Equestria Girls (franchise), but I need a bot to fix links and redirects while I rename MLP EQG-related articles. Here's my plan: Could any of you help me with this? Thanks in advance. JSH-alive/talk/cont/mail 11:35, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) After I move My Little Pony: Equestria Girls to My Little Pony: Equestria Girls (film), I need some bot to fix the links everywhere including talk pages. (I'll handle the navigation boxes, though.)
 * 2) After that, I'll move My Little Pony: Equestria Girls (franchise) to My Little Pony: Equestria Girls. Then the bot will have to fix them too. (Again, I'll handle the navigation boxes, but do not touch Template:WPANIMATION Announcements and Template:WPANIMATION Announcements/Shell.)
 * 3) And then...

Alright, I'll begin the process soon with the film article. JSH-alive/talk/cont/mail 07:27, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
 * If you move My Little Pony: Equestria Girls (franchise) to My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, links pointing to My Little Pony: Equestria Girls (franchise) can stay just as they are, per WP:NOTBROKEN. bd2412  T 12:24, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
 * It's all about link context. It will be weird to see a link to My Little Pony: Equestria Girls in Tara Strong article's Filmography section will now point to the toy line's article when it is supposed to point to the article about the first film in the series. That's what Jenks24 too concerns about, having to fix lots of links. JSH-alive/talk/cont/mail 14:47, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Links to the film would need to be fixed, obviously. Links to the franchise would not. bd2412  T 15:39, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Just moved the film article to My Little Pony: Equestria Girls (film). Any user with such capability please proceed with step 1. And can somebody delete My Little Pony: Equestria Girls (which is by now a redirect to the film article)? JSH-alive/talk/cont/mail 10:39, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
 * The redirect should remain until the links are fixed to prevent broken links. ~ RobTalk 11:13, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
 * I see. So, who's fixing the links then? JSH-alive/talk/cont/mail 11:22, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
 * No-one's stepped forward here yet. It won't require a bot run, I expect, just regular old AWB. I might get around to it, but it's thesis submission time, so no guarantees. Anyone else who comes along and has the free time is welcome to handle it, including yourself, if you want to take a stab at using AWB. ~ RobTalk 11:33, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
 * AWB? I don't have it, and haven't been using it. Thanks anyway, and I'll try it for later tasks. JSH-alive/talk/cont/mail 11:39, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
 * On it. bd2412  T 14:30, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
 * I believe that at this point, all the links that need to be fixed are done. bd2412  T 15:48, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for helping me and. I appreciate it. Now, shall I sort the redirects? JSH-alive/talk/cont/mail 02:01, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Go for it. Jenks24 (talk) 07:30, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ JSH-alive/talk/cont/mail 08:37, 9 May 2016 (UTC)