Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 86

Add articles under the the following categories and subcategories to Wikiproject
I want to add the articles under the following categories+subcategories to wikiproject: Indian caste system. Is this a good request for a bot? Miximon (talk) 19:48, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Probably not; humans will need to add the WikiProject templates based on context. I picked a couple of articles at random from the categories, and Giraudpuri and Guru Balakdas, in, do not appear to have anything to do with that WikiProject. (edited to add: I believe that the OP is referring to WikiProject Indian caste system and the associated WikiProject.) – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:10, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I would also make the argument that other than the Scheduled Tribes cat, none of these are heavily populated - a quick AWB run would probably be both faster and more accurate (since there would be human oversight). Primefac (talk) 20:15, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Even the big category will need human oversight; I don't see a reference to caste in Tani people, which is in that scheduled tribes category. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:21, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Just adding context to clarify - Scheduled castes and tribes are Govt of India's list of castes and tribes that are recognized for affirmative action because of historic discrimination - Caste system in India Miximon (talk) 20:29, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
 * @Miximon: If you want to post a list of pages (not categories) on the WikiProject's talk page, and there's consensus to tag each of them, I will be happy to have my bot tag them. GoingBatty (talk) 21:06, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

Backlog drive leaderboard updates
Hi, is there a bot that can automatically update the leaderboard for the unreferenced articles backlog drive? Ideally, it would count the number of edit summaries made by each participant with "feb24" (not case-sensistive) to unique articles. Then, it would update the "Points from references" column in the leaderboard with that number. The rest of the leaderboard doesn't need to be updated by the bot, as the points from reviews is simpler to update, and the total points is automatically provided by a template. There's a bit of prior discussion at the talk page. Thanks! ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me! 23:14, 1 February 2024 (UTC)


 * I created a simple scraper which I plan to use daily to update the leaderboard. I don't think it's a very good solution, so if bot experts want to help, it would still be greatly appreciated ;) Broc (talk) 21:32, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
 * . Bot created based on script above. See User:BaranBOT/FEB24DriveLeaderboard. ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me! 18:12, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Categorizing ACM Fellows by Year
Right now, there is a category "Category:Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery" - which is added to all ACM Fellows. I created a bunch of categories "Category:202x Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery" as subcategories of the main category to organize these by year. The recepients are already organised by year in this page.


 * 1) Go through each section of the page (which corresponds to a certain year).
 * 2) Foreach blue linked article in that section add the correct year-specific category "Category:202x Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery" to the article.
 * 3) After all sections are done, remove the generic "Category:Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery" from all the linked articles since they are now living under a subcategory.

KNivedat (talk) 18:37, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
 * KNivedat, — Frostly (talk) 18:37, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
 * @KNivedat, — Frostly (talk) 03:45, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

Bot request for Korean hangul text
Per the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Korea-related articles, I am submitting this bot request. Please perform the following.
 * 1) Check if Template:Linktext only contains   in each parameter.
 * 2) If so, remove Template:Linktext and , but retain the text entered as parameters (including space characters before and/or after  ).
 * 3) If not (that is, if Template:Linktext contains (1) any character other than , or (2) two or more adjacent   in at least one parameter), leave it as-is.

The following examples would help you understand this request. 172.56.232.167 (talk) 00:24, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Cases that should be changed
 * →  (currently found in National Library of Korea)
 * →  (currently found in Capital Region First Ring Expressway)
 * →  (space characters have to be retained; currently found in Saturday Night Live Korea)
 * →  ((added this example just in case) a space character between two instances of Template:Linktext has to be retained; currently found in Even the Clouds Are Drifting)
 * Cases that should NOT be changed
 * (contains any character other than ; currently found in Chinese Wikipedia)
 * (contains two or more adjacent  in at least one parameter; currently found in Saemaeul-ho)
 * The regex will need to be a bit more complex than what is described above, but this should be doable. Let me do some small-scale testing and get back to you. Primefac (talk) 12:30, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
 * . Primefac (talk) 21:34, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you for running your bot. I greatly appreciate it.
 * But can you please also remove them in the Draft namespace? There are currently 86 pages containing them (see this). They can be moved to the main (article) namespace at any time. 172.56.232.239 (talk) 05:46, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Didn't think about draft space, seems reasonably uncontroversial
 * ✅. Primefac (talk) 12:54, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

Copyvio bot
Hello, I was looking around for something like this, and did not find it, could a bot run a page against earwigs copyvio detector automatically, and flag it for human review if its score is too high? (I am willing to attempt to code this if there is not a glaring issue with it) Geardona (talk to me?) 22:28, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Nevermind, I see the village pump thread. Geardona (talk to me?) 00:09, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
 * You may find User:Novem Linguae/Essays/Copyvio detectors to be a good read. – Novem Linguae (talk) 01:41, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Using coordinates on Wikidata
Category:Articles missing coordinates with coordinates on Wikidata contains articles tagged with coord missing, but they all have coordinates available on Wikidata. Would it be possible for this template to be removed and replaced with which will fetch the coordinates from Wikidata? I am not familiar with previous discussion on this, but I have also contacted for comments &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:32, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
 * . GoingBatty (talk) 14:13, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Protection padlock bot
Bot to look through the page on the list of protected pages, find ones missing the padlock and add it at the correct level, and to correct the padlock level if needed. Geardona (talk to me?) 14:06, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
 * ✔️ by User:MusikBot II. Primefac (talk) 14:20, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Can we confirm is is still up? Geardona (talk to me?) 15:06, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
 * It is. You can check its user contribution for the recent edits. – robertsky (talk) 15:11, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Good, thanks Geardona (talk to me?) 15:13, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Google cache
Google cache is shutting down, it is making the news. We have 5,000 pages on Enwiki. It is at WP:URLREQ. Thanks. -- Green  C  15:26, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

✅ -- Green  C  16:38, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Proxy Blocking Bot
This bot is programmed to use a wide range of VPN services; using so, it detects the IP addresses, and then blocks them. This means that a lot of time could be saved. HedgehogLegend (talk) 18:48, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
 * We already have a proxy blocking bot. * Pppery * it has begun... 18:49, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Specifically, User:ST47ProxyBot. Primefac (talk) 18:49, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Question or another bot request for Korean hangul text
This is also related to the above.

Any instance of Template:Linktext in Korean personal names should also be removed.

Korean personal names are usually in the "one-syllable surname + two-syllable given name" format (e.g. 홍길동 – surname 홍, given name 길동), so some people added Linktext like this:. There are currently 726 pages containing such instances of Linktext (see this), and these are mostly—but not always—personal names.

In this case, you should not look for any space characters and. You only need to look for  (that is   without the backslashes), and remove Template:Linktext and , but retain the text entered as parameters (i.e. change  to  ).

Here are my questions: 172.56.232.179 (talk) 21:27, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * 1) Is it possible to remove such instances of Linktext just from personal names?
 * 2) If so, please perform the bot removal.
 * 3) If not, if I provide pages that should not be affected by the bot removal, would that work? For example, a case like  (found in The Way Home (2002 film)) should not be affected.


 * Note that "no linktext in personal names (that is, do not add any kind of link to a personal name, including other forms of segmentations such as )" was also part of the discussion. Look under "For personal names (including pseudonyms such as pen names, stage names, etc.), no links should be added." in Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Korea-related articles. 172.56.232.188 (talk) 04:13, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I am slightly concerned about the CONTEXTBOT issues presented. Primefac (talk) 12:43, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I manually checked the search results and prepared a list of pages (total 11) where  is not a personal name. (As of 02:02, 23 February 2024 (UTC), this list still remains the same)
 * Dal Shabet:
 * Dangui: ,
 * Great Escape (South Korean TV series):
 * Kwang:
 * Min (Korean name):
 * Say It with Your Eyes:
 * Showbox:
 * The Way Home (2002 film):
 * Three Sisters (2020 film):
 * Young (Korean name):
 * Young-ja:
 * But you don't need to add these as exceptions when running your bot because these can be manually re-added/reverted after the bot runs.
 * Is the task doable now? If so, please perform the bot removal. 172.56.232.101 (talk) 20:24, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
 * FYI you can just write  -->  without all the nowikis. Or to link the template:  --  Green  C  21:00, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
 * If you are still concerned about the CONTEXTBOT issue, just don't worry about it. Since there is only a small number of exceptions, and since Linktext has never been a requirement (i.e. any instance of Linktext does not have to be there in the first place), you don't really need to worry about anything. Don't even add those cases as exceptions when running your bot either. 172.56.232.239 (talk) 03:14, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
 * also has two. Also, I'm curious if it's necessary to leave something like behind? Kanashimi (talk) 07:46, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Nothing was discussed about Chinese characters. 172.56.232.179 (talk) 21:48, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

I don't want to urge anyone, but can anyone please take care of this? I also want to move on. 172.56.232.179 (talk) 21:51, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Can anyone please take care of this? 172.56.232.239 (talk) 02:02, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

@Primefac Can you please also take care of this? Just don't worry about the CONTEXTBOT issue. It's not really worth worrying in this case. 172.56.232.239 (talk) 14:26, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Chill. Yes, but chill. Primefac (talk) 16:40, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Got it.
 * I didn't mean to urge you. I was just concerned whether this request was getting forgotten. 172.56.232.234 (talk) 22:16, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

done (for the bot). Primefac (talk) 18:31, 10 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Thank you for running your bot. I greatly appreciate it. 172.56.232.234 (talk) 21:44, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Replacing invisible space characters in short description templates
This is a request to replace invisible space characters with regular space characters in short description templates within articles. As the MOS says, these characters are typically placed inadvertently via copying and pasting, and they can cause problems of various sorts. The task would be to replace invisible nbsp and thinsp characters found within short descriptions in the articles listed at Database reports/Short descriptions containing invalid space characters.

I am pretty sure this would be a cosmetic task that would need explicit BRFA approval. Fixing the existing 3,000 or so instances of the problem will help us understand the root causes of the problem by identifying how new instances are occurring. I have some regexes that might help at User:Jonesey95/AutoEd/pages.js. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:30, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
 * If it's an issue and if there's consensus, I can probably run this. Of course, if these invisible formatting characters are in the "private use area" then AWB will be useless. Primefac (talk) 16:45, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Primefac. This request follows from this discussion. My impression was that a long-standing MOS guideline was consensus enough to remove these characters. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:39, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
 * @Primefac: Did you want to submit a BRFA for this, or would you like me to do so? GoingBatty (talk) 04:44, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Totally forgot about this. Looks like I should be able to make AWB do what I want, so I can handle it. Thanks for the reminder. Primefac (talk) 13:22, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
 * @Primefac - Thanks! Marking as  so the table at the top of the page is updated.  GoingBatty (talk) 21:14, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
 * , dbase report is down to 15 members, at least half of which are due to oddities with an infobox shortdesc (I didn't look too deeply but there are at least two different infoboxes in use). Primefac (talk) 06:27, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Wonderful, and thank you. I will take a look at the outliers unless someone else gets there first. – Jonesey95 (talk) 08:03, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

done (for the bot). Primefac (talk) 18:31, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Bot request
Would it be possible to get a bot to expand the match report citations at 2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League qualifying phase and play-off round (Main Path) to stop the article exceeding template size limits? I've tried sandboxing a couple of different ways to try and reduce the number of templates on the page and I think the best (and possibly easiest) way to do so would be to expand the Cite web templates but there are quite a few so it would take a while to do so manually. As an example, would become

Any help would be much appreciated. Stevie fae Scotland (talk) 12:08, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
 * If it's just one page, a find/replace (either via AWB or just a text editor) is better than a bot. A bot won't really do anything different than a user. Primefac (talk) 12:30, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Okay, it should be ; I did a mass find/replace on the most re-used cite style and everything seems to be showing up now. Primefac (talk) 13:02, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks Primefac, much appreciated. Stevie fae Scotland (talk) 13:51, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Marking as done to update the table at the top of this page. GoingBatty (talk) 03:55, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Remove NYTimes tracking parameters
Hey all! I know there is previous consensus to remove tracking parameters from URLs in articles (ex: PrimeBOT 17 and its predecessor), and I've noticed a parameter that appears in many URLs from The New York Times (in almost 3,700 articles as of now). There's also this particular link from the Mona Lisa article that shows a few more tracking parameters used by NYT: https://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/mona-lisas-identity-solved-for-good/?searchResultPosition=2&mtrref=www.nytimes.com&gwh=9DE4B32CC79812F2537467E9D52707E9&gwt=pay&assetType=REGIWALL.

I'd like to create a bot task to remove these but wanted to start a conversation on-wiki first to ensure there's consensus. I believe I have some draft code started that would work well, matching all NYT subdomains and whatnot. (Using the following regex to find NYT links in source code and this library to edit them  — test it)

Overall thoughts from the community? Bsoyka (t &bull; c &bull; g) 03:14, 15 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Please do not modify archive URLs eg. avoid "/https://" or "?url=https://" covers most cases. -- Green  C  03:56, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
 * @GreenC: Ah, good point — thank you! I've updated the regex and I think this should work to avoid archive URLs. You can see it working here:  Bsoyka  (t &bull; c &bull; g) 04:15, 15 March 2024 (UTC)


 * As long as you can do it without making it harder to access the article, definitely, yes! --David Tornheim (talk) 05:49, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I can just append this to my existing task. Just to check, these are,  , and  , yes? Primefac (talk) 08:51, 15 March 2024 (UTC) Primefac (talk) 08:51, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
 * @Primefac: I'd originally thought about that, but these parameters seem specific to the NYT. Those three you mention seem like they'd probably be safer to remove globally, but the one I was originally focusing on, searchResultPosition, along with assetType, seem like they'd have potential uses on other sites that could break the linked page if they're not included in the URL. (A few potential examples) Bsoyka  (t &bull; c &bull; g) 14:24, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Okay, so it's more about removing a full string of parameters rather than a group of them. Primefac (talk) 09:09, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Does Primefac's existing task have a facility to remove a tracking parameter only from certain domains? Certes (talk) 23:16, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes (see its talk page), I just need to do a short run to show there aren't any issues. Primefac (talk) 09:08, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Awesome, even better. I'll let you take it from here then! Bsoyka  (t &bull; c &bull; g) 13:04, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
 * done, for the bot (and the record); I've taken care of everything that was there currently, and I'll add it into my rota for the utm checks. Primefac (talk) 14:17, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Notifying AfC acceptors an article gets AfDed
Hello, I am wanting to propose the idea of creating a bot that notifies Articles for creation acceptors when an article they accept gets AfDed around 100 days within them accepting it via their talk page. GMH Melbourne (talk) 05:41, 22 February 2024 (UTC)


 * There is a script called User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/WatchlistAFD.js that automatically adds the AfD pages of your AfC accepts and NPP curations to your watchlist for 6 months. It's really handy because then you can easily keep track of when things are AfD'd and adjust your reviewing accordingly. – DreamRimmer (talk) 06:18, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I think my user script is broken. I should probably fix it one of these days. – Novem Linguae (talk) 06:27, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:Teahouse § Bot inoperable
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Teahouse § Bot inoperable. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 02:11, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Date ranges for noticeboard archives
This seems uncontroversial.It would be pretty cool if some kind bot could go through the pre-current (should never change) archives of the boards listed in the dramaboard archivebox series, extract the earliest and latest timestamps, truncate them to dates, and use those dates to annotate the links somehow. Inactive archives at time of writing are: I was recently trying to find an archived conversation from a few months ago, and the best tools I had available were a scattershot "tap an archive number, wait for the entire page to load, check top and bottom timestamps" and "search archives for exact string matched date". Improved navigability gained from annotating the archive links with date ranges should save people time. The quickest implementation would just be a plaintext date range edited onto the archive list pages linked above. A further step could be to add a date-span (or similar) to Administrators' noticeboard navbox all which, if present, would display the date range of comments posted at the top of the page itself, so the information is available both on the archive page and the index of archives. The most elegant, stupid, and expensive implementation would be to add shortdesc to all the archives, set the 1 to the date range, and convert the indices to use annotated link. Anyway though the first step is getting the date ranges. Maybe this is already in a report somewhere? Folly Mox (talk) 18:30, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
 * 355 at Administrators' noticeboard/Archives
 * 1140 at Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchives
 * 474 at Administrators' noticeboard/3RRArchives
 * 323 at Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement/Archive
 * @Folly Mox, I suspect you'd need consensus to go through with this. Perhaps trying asking at those noticeboards first? — Qwerfjkl  talk  19:06, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Oh right I tacked on all those expanded scope ideas in the process of making the edit. Folly Mox (talk) 20:22, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Just noting, an Index of some variety would probably be easier than going through the thousands of archives and amending them. Primefac (talk) 08:10, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Yep. A user script could be useful for displaying date ranges without the need for edits. — Frostly (talk) 10:04, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
 * The lists mentioned are generated by Template:Archive list. Could we change it's module to show the date ranges? Wikiwerner (talk) 12:50, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

ID pages needing infoboxes
Identify pages with Template:WikiProject Albums in their talk page but not Template:Infobox album on their main page and add |needs-infobox=yes to them. Please and thank you, J04n(talk page) 15:24, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Question, what about disambiguation or redirect pages, do they require the infobox? Would this be a 1 time run or a ongoing thing, if it is 1 time I could try to figure out some AWB or JWB regex to get this partly done. (given the pages a bot would be more efficient in my opinion) Geardona (talk to me?) 15:37, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the quick response,disambiguation or redirect pages don't need them, if they can be filtered out all the better. I suppose continuous is better, not sure of the logistics. J04n(talk page) 16:07, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I am not a bot programer myself, but it seems possible, (405683 pages) would need to be checked, and thats way too many for 1 or 2 people to check manually in any reasonable time (even with AWB). Geardona (talk to me?) 17:20, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Geardona, J04n, according to my PetScan query, 29,831 results. I could run my bot on these pages. — Qwerfjkl  talk  17:59, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Looking at the results though, seems there are quite a few false positives. — Qwerfjkl  talk  18:01, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Less amazing, how did it fail? Geardona (talk to me?) 18:02, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Geardona, because whilst they are in WikiProject Albums, quite a few of the articles likely don't need an infobox e.g. Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album. — Qwerfjkl  talk  18:04, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Im not sure how to filter those out, CONTEXTBOT is rearing its ugly head. Might need to be done manually, at least the list is a tiny bit shorter. Geardona (talk to me?) 18:06, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Most of those seem to be redirects. — Qwerfjkl  talk  18:02, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I see a "redirects yes/no" setting, would that fix it or am I missing something? Geardona (talk to me?) 18:04, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Amazing, I thought that something like this would exist, maybe post a notice with the albums project talk page, wait a day or 2 and then start. (Not sure if a BRFA would be needed here?) Geardona (talk to me?) 18:01, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Yeah, the majority seem to be false positives. Can redirects be filtered out? J04n(talk page) 18:04, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * J04n, I did so in my second query. Sorry if that was unclear. — Qwerfjkl  talk  18:14, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Very cool, I don't mind filtering out other false positives by hand. Thank you so much! J04n(talk page) 18:18, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * @J04n: Is there consensus that all articles should have an infobox? When creating the BRFA, it would be good to link to that consensus (whether it's a conversation or an albums style guide).  Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 18:37, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I'll start a conversation, thanks J04n(talk page) 18:49, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I reached out to the project, another thought I had was maybe have the bot look for any infobox template not just album. This would further reduce false positives. J04n(talk page) 19:09, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Rather than looking for the WikiProject template, you could work through yyyy albums, i.e. the subcategories of Albums by year. That might miss a few pages but should produce dramatically fewer false positives. Certes (talk) 22:21, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * That's a great idea, appreciate folks putting thought into this. J04n(talk page) 00:39, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

I started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Albums, which generated pretty much no interest one way or the other. I would like to go on with this as a one-time sweep of pages in the subcategories of Albums by year that do not have an infobox, if redirects could be filtered out it would be a big help. Can this be done? Thanks! J04n(talk page) 18:33, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Fixing broken links to talk page discussions
Links to talk page discussions often break when the discussions are archived by User:Lowercase sigmabot III. Could this bot be configured to replace the links (by linking to archived discussions) instead of breaking them? Jarble (talk) 18:58, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Jarble, this is not the right place. Ask on the bot operator's talk page. — Qwerfjkl  talk  14:02, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
 * clubot III does this by default. See User:ClueBot III. —usernamekiran (talk) 21:19, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Does ClueBot III repair links to discussions that were broken by other bots, including Lowercase sigmabot III? Jarble (talk) 21:40, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * To keep it short, I don't think so. —usernamekiran (talk) 21:54, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * cewbot regularly fixes these types of link errors. If there are any that are not fixed, please let me know and I'll see what's wrong. Kanashimi (talk) 05:37, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I frequently find broken links to sections of talk pages that were archived. Does Cewbot replace these broken links with links to archived talk page discussions? Jarble (talk) 21:48, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
 * That's what a robot would do. If the robot misses something, you can give me an example and I'll see what's wrong. Kanashimi (talk) 22:41, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
 * For example, I found several broken links to talk page sections on this page. Does this bot not repair broken links from archived discussions? Jarble (talk) 17:32, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
 * @Jarble The bot works by checking all the links to a specific anchor. There are too many links on this page, can you point out the exact anchor? Thank you. Kanashimi (talk) 03:18, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
 * One of the broken section anchors is at the beginning of this section, but there are probably several others. Jarble (talk) 03:39, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
 * @Jarble This page will be processed by the bot when it processes all the pages linked to Talk:BTS (band). Kanashimi (talk) 06:22, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Toolforge tool/bot to send email notifications
I've started a tool request about the recent "bots don't trigger email watchlist notifications" change to the backend at VPT (since it's not a botreq) but thought folks here might want to know. Primefac (talk) 12:12, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Bot to mass-undo edits & pagemoves
There seems to be (at least a rough) consensus at WP:BOTN to mass-undo at least a set of the edits and pagemoves that were proposed for reversal. I originally said that I would be happy to submit a BRFA to do this myself, but I am no longer personally able to take on this task.

Let me know if there are any queries. All the best, &zwj;—&zwj; a smart kitten [  meow ] 18:44, 6 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Looks like this user changed his name? Kanashimi (talk) 14:25, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
 * @Kanashimi: Yes, this user is now . All the best, &zwj;—&zwj; a smart kitten [  meow ] 15:36, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

Mass changes needed for retirement of Drug Information Portal
(I am contacting WP:BOTREQ at the suggestion of Andy Mabbett)

The National Library of Medicine's Drug Information Portal has been retired, with all information moved to the Library's PubChem database. I think all the links to the Drug Information Portal should be updated to the corresponding article in PubChem. I suspect that someone can set up a bot to do this, but I don't know how. Perhaps someone can point me to instructions to do this or turn this over to someone who already knows how? &#x2014; HowardBGolden (talk) 20:40, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

For example: Here's an example of a change I made manually:

Synopsis:


 * "druginfo" -> "pubchem/ncbi"
 * "drugportal/name" -> "compound"
 * "Drug Information Portal" -> "PubChem"
 * "charcoal" -> "Activated%20Charcoal#section=Drug-and-Medication-Information"

BEFORE *

AFTER *  HowardBGolden (talk) 22:25, 12 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Could WP:URLREQ do this more efficiently than a new bot? Certes (talk) 23:06, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
 * There is a Pubchem parameter for Infobox drug, and presumably many/most of the affected articles have that infobox, so I don't think it should also be listed in WP:EL. And it's maybe even already populated with the correct entry, so in many cases this item should simply be removed altogether. That would certainly limit the scope of the pages needing actual attention. And in many of those cases, it probably merits an infobox update (and then nuking the EL) rathe than changing the EL. DMacks (talk) 02:08, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I asked WPMED for advice on whether they see a need to special-case around WP:EL vs infobox link. DMacks (talk) 15:24, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much for this, and to DMacks for dealing with it. WhatamIdoing (talk) 17:40, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

To add categories based on article's listing in a third page
I wish to add the Category:Banaras Hindu University alumni to all articles listed in List of Banaras Hindu University people. The bot should automatically update/add Category to any article added in the List. This List-Category linker can not only be used across WP:UNI but also other such relations where a list and category exist for same theme. Thank you, User4edits (talk) 04:36, 1 March 2024 (UTC)


 * @User4edits: The first person in the article is "C. V. Raman, the Nobel Prize winner in Physics in 1930 and Bharat Ratna laureate..." The bot would have to check C. V. Raman and ignore the links to Nobel Prize and Bharat Ratna.  Might be easier if all the lists in the article were in the same format (e.g. all tables or all with bullets). GoingBatty (talk) 04:43, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
 * @GoingBatty would it not be possible to filter only biographical articles? Re-formatting would be tedious for such large article, and will not make the bot a universal use. Thanks, User4edits (talk) 04:59, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
 * @User4edits: It might be possible, but more challenging when you look at List of Harvard University people where you would also have to filter out the biographical articles from the "Notability" column. GoingBatty (talk) 05:26, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
 * @GoingBatty That is an issue. However, we can counter this by providing users with two modes -- biographical filter, or columns (formatted lists as Harvard above). Thanks, User4edits (talk) 06:02, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
 * @User4edits: Another issue that any potential bot owner (i.e. not me) will have to consider is that it won't be appropriate to add "Category:XXXX alumni" to an article if it already has a sub-category (e.g. Category:Harvard University people has 17 subcategories and numerous sub-subcategories). GoingBatty (talk) 08:10, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
 * @GoingBatty Yes, it will have to skip if any sub category of the main category is already listed. Although in the example you gave, I see Category:Harvard University alumni a sub cat of people. Thanks, User4edits (talk) 04:25, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
 * The category at the start of this topic has no subcategories, so that is not an issue. AWB's list comparer yields 196 pages that are linked on the list, but are not in the category (plus 146 pages in the category that are not in the list). Filtering out biographical articles can be done by checking whether a category "... births" exists, or by a human. Wikiwerner (talk) 17:40, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

Bot to automatically revert date change vandalism
Hi, I want to create a bot that automatically reverts obvious date change vandalism. For example:
 * "James H. (born 26 December 2002)"
 * And then a vandal comes and changes it to:
 * "James H. (born 29 December 2002)"

And the goal of the bot is to revert these changes as accurately as possible. And here's how it's gonna work:

A bot sees that someone changed the birth date. The bot looks up the name of the person on wikidata. If the person appears on wikidata, The bot searches for his birth date on his wikidata page. And if the birth date written on wikidata is different than the date the vandal changed it to, the bot automatically revert these changes. I hope this bot can be coded for me. It seems like a great idea for a bot. 93.173.38.154 (talk) 11:28, 5 February 2024 (UTC) Very minor formatting changes made for readability. Primefac (talk) 12:58, 6 February 2024 (UTC)


 * This might require a discussion to get consensus rather than being an automatic "do now". I would check that the Wikidata matches the old date, rather than just differing from the new one.  Bear in mind that Wikidata also has vandalism and good-faith errors, so (with all due respect to the IP proposer) we might want the bot to revert non-autoconfirmed editors only. Certes (talk) 12:07, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
 * This might be something that an edit filter could be able to accomplish, just disallowing changes like that. Geardona (talk to me?) 12:27, 5 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Minor changes to numbers are depressingly common. I have been combating a mobile IP from Italy for over 6 months, who modifies incorrectly the heights of buildings, in 100s and 1000s of articles. Might be game or competition. I agree watching birth/death date changes is a good idea. I have some ideas how to do this, but it gets involved, it's not easy. --  Green  C  15:22, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Not sure if this is possible even remotely, but a bot to unaccept any change like these, pushing them onto pending changes, even if the page is not protected as such, just for new/unregistered users, might solve the immediate problem of false info presented to readers. Geardona (talk to me?) 15:26, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I like the gist of the proposal but not the substance. If we're going to revert number vandalism (and I would say everything from DOB to height/weight to number of albums sold, etc) it should just be done, without checking WD (which might be wrong or nonexistent anyway). If a number is being changed without a reference, it's likely to be vandalism. Basically ClueBot NG but specifically for numbers. It would need broader consensus to get implemented, though (regardless of how the bot is set up). Primefac (talk) 12:58, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I would say that this seems more possible with a edit filter, so it should be proposed there (edit filter talk page). Then see what they think. Geardona (talk to me?) 13:11, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * That would certainly catch a lot of petty vandalism, such as changing the lead of 123 to begin "420 is..", but it might have many false positives. For example, good-faith editors regularly update sporting records for players and teams after each match, without waiting for some newspaper to mention that Smith has now played 42 matches rather than 41. Certes (talk) 13:34, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Potentially limiting it to just dates in the past (1 year +) would alleviate false positives? Maybe also limiting it to large number changes, would stop good faith false positives. Geardona (talk to me?) 13:38, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Oh, don't take my suggestion as what must be, just throwing out an idea that I feel is better than trusting WD. Whether edit filter or bot, I suspect that the reverts would be limited to IPs and non-AC users. Primefac (talk) 13:49, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Potentially even having it set to revoke AC status would really solve the problem, AC is not that hard to get. Geardona (talk to me?) 13:53, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * That's an interesting idea but I don't think we have a precedent for a "Robocop" bot which removes permissions and it would need at least an RfC. Getting AC for the first time is easy, but we would need to think about how affected editors would recover AC - permission request? Certes (talk) 14:05, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * To my knowledge some of the high-power filters can revoke AC. Geardona (talk to me?) 14:07, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * From EFBASICS "The strongest setting is disallow. In this case, the edit is rejected, and the user will see a customizable message. A link is provided for reporting false positives. It is also possible to have a user's autoconfirmed status revoked if a user trips the filter." Geardona (talk to me?) 17:23, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * This is indeed technically possible. It's also technically possible for an abuse filter to block someone entirely. We've chosen (for good reason IMO) not to use those options. * Pppery * it has begun... 19:25, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Bot to add uncategorized tag to untagged uncategorized pages
Could we have a bot to automatically add the Template:Uncategorized tag to untagged uncategorized pages? BlueberryIntoTheWild (talk) 06:29, 10 March 2024 (UTC)


 * It's been discussed previously at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Coordination. – <b style="color:black; font-family: Tahoma">DreamRimmer</b> (talk) 07:10, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
 * @BlueberryIntoTheWild: I already have BattyBot 55 to do this, and I last ran it on March 21. GoingBatty (talk) 03:43, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

IMDB Bot
I would like to request that a bot add the IMDb template to all articles that needs it. If possible (actors bios, entertainers etc). It is a very useful template. BabbaQ (talk) 13:27, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

Green Bay Packers draft picks (1936–1969) & Green Bay Packers draft picks (1970–present)
I am working on bringing both of these lists to WP:FLC in the future. Unfortunately, the style of the tables is based on an older layout not typically used any more. Fixing each individual table (like 90 tables comprising like 1,500 different players) is going to be a time drain of repetitive editing. After working on a few, I wondered if someone would be able to automate these steps. The idea would be running an input of a table and receiving an updated table as an output. This wouldn't need to actually edit the article, it could just be placement of the tables in my user space for me to QA/QC and then update the table accordingly. As an example, the following table would be the input:

And the output would be this:

What steps would this entail? Well here are the main things: This would save me a ridiculous amount of time and energy. I know this isn't the typical "bot request", but it seemed the most appropriate venue for such a request. Note again that this request would not require any bot editing to the mainspace, it could just paste the tables to my user space for me to add in, QA/QC and make some smaller changes not easily automated. Thanks for any help! « Gonzo fan2007 <small style="color:#2A2722">(talk)  @ 16:14, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Adding Sortname to each person's name.
 * Adding accessibility features (scope="row")
 * Converting from the double-piped style on one line to the single-pipe with each piece of data on its own line
 * Centering the data in columns 2 and 3


 * with some tweaking with regular expressions. Wikiwerner (talk) 10:09, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
 * , you are a lifesaver! Thank you so much :) « Gonzo fan2007 <small style="color:#2A2722">(talk)  @ 15:57, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

UTF-8 debugging
After seeing the use of â€™ in place of ' in the titles of several references, I noticed similar broken characters and determined that most of them are likely on this list. Further research indicated that the issue is known as Mojibake, with there being one prior bot request for the issue that appears to have been left unresolved.

As the character combinations in the chart are unlikely to occur by happenstance, their use of any given article likely corresponds to the characters on the chart. Assuming the chart I found isn't missing any commonly broken characters, the current number of articles with characters broken in this manner to be around 800. As periodically scanning for and correcting all of such occurrences would be repetitive, perhaps its a task a bot could handle? CoolieCoolster (talk) 07:13, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
 * CoolieCoolster, if I search for, the first result links to https://www.thenews.com.pk/archive/print/269366-cm-doubles-baloch-studentsâ€™-quota; https://www.thenews.com.pk/archive/print/269366-cm-doubles-baloch-students'-quota throws a soft 404.<span id="Qwerfjkl:1712509014641:WikipediaFTTCLNBot_requests" class="FTTCmt"> — Qwerfjkl  talk  16:56, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
 * In the case of â€™, I fixed all erroneous instances of it (about 400, mostly in reference titles) using AWB, with the remaining ones being in URLs like the one you found. There's also the remaining characters to fix, though I think ' is the most common one to be affected. It would be helpful if there were a means of having the process be entirely automated for the inevitable future fixes needed. CoolieCoolster (talk) 19:33, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
 * CoolieCoolster, the problem is context (WP:CONTEXTBOT), which is why it can't be automated.<span id="Qwerfjkl:1712523312273:WikipediaFTTCLNBot_requests" class="FTTCmt"> — Qwerfjkl  talk  20:55, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Converting Category:Harold B. Lee Library-related articles to talk page categories
Hi! This is my first request here, so please tell me if I did something wrong. At Categories for discussion/Log/2024 March 13, consensus was reached to move Category:Harold B. Lee Library-related articles and its subcategories from hidden mainspace categories to each article's talk page. (The category tree is used by User:Rachel Helps (BYU) and her students to keep track of their work.) I have created WikiProject Harold B. Lee Library/sandbox, which has associated task forces corresponding to each of the categories. Would it be possible for a bot to do this conversion?

The TL;DR is a bot which takes an article in (e.g.) Category:Harold B. Lee Library-related 19th century articles, removes it from that category, and adds to the talk page. Thanks, House Blaster  (talk · he/him) 02:21, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi, I'm not sure if I'm allowed to comment, but my understanding was that we agreed to moved the category itself to the talk page. That way I can still use the categories for AWB editing and with the massviews analysis. Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 16:17, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
 * That is, as far as I can tell, what is being requested. This is done via the WikiProject template as described. Primefac (talk) 16:23, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
 * That is correct.<span id="HouseBlaster:1713544828044:WikipediaFTTCLNBot_requests" class="FTTCmt"> House Blaster  (talk · he/him) 16:40, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
 * This doesn't seem overly complicated, if I get time this weekend I'll see if I can manage with AWB. Primefac (talk) 16:25, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
 * , I've started working through these, so please implement the relevant WikiProject updates to allow for the tracking to work. Primefac (talk) 19:56, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
 * done <span id="HouseBlaster:1713558479642:WikipediaFTTCLNBot_requests" class="FTTCmt">House Blaster  (talk · he/him) 20:27, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Cool. Just noting for my own reference (as I'm heading out) I made it to folklore. Primefac (talk) 20:37, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I have deactivated the done template because it caused ClueBot to archive this discussion. House Blaster  (talk · he/him) 00:20, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
 * and many thanks to Primefac! House Blaster  (talk · he/him) 17:08, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

Converting positional parameters to named parameters
Please can someone process Category:WikiProject Arthropods articles using positional parameters and change the syntax of WikiProject Arthropods to use named parameters, e.g.  to

I have posted on the template talk with the reasons and no has responded &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:18, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
 * 172 pages? I can get that with JWB real quick. Geardona (talk to me?) 16:19, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you. There are a few in Category:WikiProject Islands articles using positional parameters too ... &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:22, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅ Geardona (talk to me?) 22:30, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Cheers &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 06:55, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Would you mind doing Category:WikiProject Insects articles using positional parameters as well? &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:37, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
 * And Category:WikiProject Spiders articles using positional parameters &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:00, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
 * No problem. Geardona (talk to me?) 14:19, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅ Re-used regex from last time. On another note does the capitilization of importance or class matter? Geardona (talk to me?) 14:48, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks again. The parameter name must be lower case but capitalisation of the value does not matter. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 05:49, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

Bot to change page links from Baetylus to Baetyl
I made a technical request asking Baetylus to be moved to Baetyl and it has been granted. Baetylus is now a redirect to Baetyl. All pages previously linking to Baetylus are therefore now redirects to Baetyl. I want a bot to go through all the pages that directly link to [ [ Baetylus ] ] and change them to link to [ [ Baetyl ] ] instead so that all the pages linking to Baetyl are not redirects but direct links. Pogenplain (talk) 23:29, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
 * This is generally not done per WP:NOTBROKEN. * Pppery * <sub style="color:#800000">it has begun... 23:45, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Update WP: maintaince pages
A bot to make edits like this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3ABacklog&diff=1214091029&oldid=1197405012. Also used at Disambiguation pages with links. OrdinaryGiraffe (talk) 23:43, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

NFL Draft move downcasing cleanup
The report Database reports/Linked miscapitalizations shows something over 20,000 links to over-capitalized redirects after the NFL Draft downcasing moves, and there are of course lots of other over-capitalizations in the text other than links. User:Bagumba has fixed a few thousand over the last few days, but I think it might be better to take his JWB setup and make a bot run of it. Someone with more experience with such things could tune up his regular expressions to be more precise and effective, I expect. See our discussion at User talk:Bagumba. Dicklyon (talk) 05:05, 17 March 2024 (UTC)


 * At a high-level, some of the changes are to:
 * Replace links to all "XXXX NFL Draft" and "XXXX NFL/AFL Draft" redirects to the actual page title "XXXX NFL draft" or "XXXX NFL/AFL draft" (see Category:National_Football_League_draft)
 * If any of those links are also piped, changed the displayed text from "Draft" (when present) to "draft"
 * Change links to the redirects if referred by main or see also
 * The relevant discussion to lowercase to "NFL draft" was at Requests for comment/Capitalization of NFL draft article titles.—Bagumba (talk) 05:29, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I think this would be a fun one to take on! I think it could be done really effectively by using mwparserfromhell to filter and edit wikilinks across these pages. If no one else wants to work on this and no existing bot task can handle it, count me in. Bsoyka  (t &bull; c &bull; g) 13:40, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Also, should this task potentially be expanded to cover all the linked miscapitalizations at that database report? Bsoyka  (t &bull; c &bull; g) 13:49, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Potentially, though I'd go slow on the general case, as some of those have their own complications that might not be obvious at first. I'm glad to hear you have a decent parser, as that's clearly what's needed for best results.  I look forward to seeing how you take this on.  We're willing to help. Dicklyon (talk) 09:23, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
 * This will likely not get approval as a bot task; "fixing" redirects is very, very rarely supported on a mass scale. You should know this already, Dicklyon, given that your insistence on doing so was what got you banned from using AWB in the first place. Primefac (talk) 09:48, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
 * That is totally not true! What got me banned was that I made a few mistakes while editing too fast; some false positives in contexts such as reference titles slipped by me.  Nobody objected to what I was trying to do, as far as I recall, though some general discomfort with case fixes was likely an underlying motivation for them wanting to throttle me. Dicklyon (talk) 09:57, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
 * @Primefac: This specific case has gone through an RFC, approving both the page titles and the general usage of the term "NFL draft" in text. Seems uncontroversial at this point for this case. —Bagumba (talk) 10:00, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I recognise that there was an RFC to change the article titles, but bots replacing redirects is usually seen to be a minor task that should be done in combination with other tasks, not done on its own (especially when considering piped links which would offer no visual change to the page). I can't deny a bot request that hasn't been filed, and you are welcome to do what you feel is necessary, I'm just telling you my initial opinion based on this request. Primefac (talk) 10:12, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Understood. FWIW, 95+% of the links are not piped, so it generally would be making a visual change and not just be cosmetic. —Bagumba (talk) 10:20, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Primefac, if you'll review the RFC, you'll see that it was not just to change article titles. As for replacing piped redirects, yes it's a minor task, but an important one in making the maintenance report useful.  It's not just cosmetic, as it affects that report.  Prohibiting such fixes would make that report useless.  I've been doing such fixes manually for many months now, thousands of edits, and have had zero pushback about fixing piped links to miscapitalized redirects. Dicklyon (talk) 10:26, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
 * For reference see a recent run on JWB. Mostly (if not all) unpiped links i.e. non-cosmetic.—Bagumba (talk) 10:35, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Right, most of these are not piped links. But we should also be fixing those that are, such 2000. Dicklyon (talk) 10:48, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Bagumba, did you use any patterns that would have replaced piped links? If there's any significant pushback such as Primefac suggests, we could just not do that at all.  It would still be huge progess, avoiding fixing piping through miscapitalized redirects, and we could use non-bot methods to decide what else to do. Dicklyon (talk) 11:04, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
 * In my experience, almost every (all?) page that was edited had at least one link that was not piped. Later links might pipe just the year only, when it was obvious that the context was to a particular draft.  Otherwise, it'd be pipes like 2023 Draft or the Draft, where "Draft" was still in the displayed text. —Bagumba (talk) 11:26, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

From my understanding of the RfC, I do agree that it says "draft" should be lowercase across NFL-related articles, not just in the titles but in the content as well. I believe that with my intended method of parsing the wikicode itself with mwparserfromhell rather than simple regexes, everything can be taken care of, including piped links. (i.e.  ->  ) If this is decided to be a good bot task, I'd love to take it on, but if not, I respect the consensus of the community. Bsoyka (t &bull; c &bull; g) 15:11, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Probably it's best to avoid controversy by not doing edits where the only change is to piped links (e.g. ); where other things are being fixed, these are worth fixing at the same time.  I don't think this will leave many articles linking to the NFL Draft articles, as they pretty much all have the capitalized Draft in text, too, per Bagumba's experience. Dicklyon (talk) 07:03, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Are you an experienced bot operator, familiar with how to do the approval request and such? Can we get started on that? Dicklyon (talk) 07:08, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
 * @Dicklyon: Somewhat, in that I've been through the process a couple of times and currently run a daily bot task (see User:BsoykaBot). I'll work on some code and get a BRFA going shortly. Bsoyka  (t &bull; c &bull; g) 02:10, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Sounds good. Don't rely on the report at Database reports/Linked miscapitalizations, since a user has untagged all the NFL Draft redirects as not "errors".  See discussion at User talk:Hey man im josh.  .  Also, many were not yet tagged. Dicklyon (talk) 02:19, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I actually have a script working to generate a list of these "XXXX NFL Draft" redirects without that database report; in other words, my tentative bot code doesn't rely on the template, so no worries on my end.  Bsoyka  (t &bull; c &bull; g) 02:25, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
 * My code appears to work, so... ! Bsoyka  (t &bull; c &bull; g) 02:55, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Bot to clean up wikiproject templates
Some relevant tasks include:  Coco bb8  (💬 talk • ✏️ contribs) 15:14, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Disabling the needs-infobox parameter if there is an infobox on the article
 * Disabling the needs-image parameter if there is an image on the article

Disabling the needs-infobox parameter

 * @Cocobb8: I haven't run BattyBot 70 since October to work on removing needs-infobox where it's no longer needed, so I'll start that up now. GoingBatty (talk) 03:38, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
 * @Cocobb8: BattyBot 70 is in the process of removing the needs-infobox parameter from about 830 pages. GoingBatty (talk) 19:12, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Awesome!  Coco bb8  (💬 talk • ✏️ contribs) 15:05, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

Disabling the needs-image parameter

 * @Cocobb8:Is there consensus somewhere to disable the needs-image parameter if there is an image on the article? I believe it's possible that an article needs another image or a better image even though it already has one. GoingBatty (talk) 03:38, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
 * @GoingBatty: Quoting from the image requested template: It is a residual indicator, not a general-purpose "no image present" indicator (for that, use )  Coco bb8  (💬 talk • ✏️ contribs) 14:00, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
 * @Cocobb8: Thank you for the link to the template Image requested. However, I don't see how that is related to the request to disable the needs image parameter (and presumably all its variations) from WikiProject templates. GoingBatty (talk) 19:08, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
 * @GoingBatty Yes my bad, I got mixed up. No idea if there is consensus for it or not, but I would assume that it is only set as "yes" if there no images at all.  Coco bb8  (💬 talk • ✏️ contribs) 14:58, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

Automatically replace superscripts with sup and sub tags
Having just learned that the preference for superscript and subscript usage is to use sup and sub tags rather than Unicode superscript and subscript characters, I generated a list of 3000 articles in AutoWikiBrowser and fixed around 1500 articles with Unicode superscripts via that method. As fixing all superscripts and subscripts on Wikipedia would take a while with that method, perhaps a bot could be tasked with replacing all such instances automatically? Reviewing the exceptions for when Unicode characters should be used, they seem relatively easy for a bot to avoid. Another such case for replacement would be № with No., though as I found at least one case where the character was used in a file name, any automated means of replacement would need to avoid replacing characters in file names. CoolieCoolster (talk) 10:07, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
 * CoolieCoolster, my bot is approved for that task. There are currently 794 pages that need fixing.<span id="Qwerfjkl:1711801728130:WikipediaFTTCLNBot_requests" class="FTTCmt"> — Qwerfjkl  talk  12:28, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Note that some errors there, like the one at 2023 IFK Norrköping season should not used either style and need to be converted to normal text. Gonnym (talk) 15:06, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Unless I'm mistaken, it seems that your bot fixes cases of th and nd being used as superscripts when they shouldn't, rather than replacing Unicode superscripts and subscripts with tag-based superscripts and subscripts. For instance, I went ahead and fixed another 200 or so superscripts with AWB and your bot's number is still at 799. CoolieCoolster (talk) 01:16, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Sorry, my mistake.<span id="Qwerfjkl:1712433255495:WikipediaFTTCLNBot_requests" class="FTTCmt"> — Qwerfjkl  talk  19:54, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Long-dash URL
In 2018, during this Special:Diff/849981928/849983506, this error occurred:
 * https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/leonora-aragon-1405-1445
 * https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/leonora-aragon-1405–1445

The dash in 1405-1445 was changed from normal to long. This broke the URL. Since no archive exists for a broken URL, it was tagged dead and has been dead ever since: Special:Diff/886267655/916302781 (the  means the bot has given up looking for an archive replacement).

This is not the only instance -- humans, search-replace commands, AWB, scripts and bots -- change normal dashes to long dashes. In the process breaking URLs permanently. The fix is "easy": find URLs with long dashes (grep the external links database dump enwiki-20240401-externallinks.sql.gz at here), convert longs to short, verify the repaired URL works, commit the change. -- Green  C  22:16, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Bot to sync talk page redirects with their corresponding page
So, as I said in Wikipedia talk:Redirect, sometimes the talk page of a redirect is itself a redirect, most commonly after a page move. The problem is that sometimes, like in Acts of God (book) (before I corrected it in, 10 years later), someone retargets the redirect but forgets to retarget the talk page redirect, so any editor that tries to discuss the redirect is sent to the wrong place. I think that a bot should exist that retargets the talk page redirect to the talk page of the new target. One more thing that needs to be taken into account is that because of WP:TALKCENT, the bot needs to make sure it doesn't make a double redirect.

Just to be clear, despite what I wrote in the thread linked above, I would be against the bot changing every talk page redirect with talk page of redirect. I can explain the reasons why if necessary. Nickps (talk) 23:43, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I am not sure what exactly you are asking. But if you want to change a major policy/guideline, or a longstanding norm, then it requires consensus through proper RfC. Until RfC is concluded, no changes should be made. —usernamekiran (talk) 02:26, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I don't think my request requires a policy change. All I'm saying is that when the talk page of a redirect is itself a redirect, those two should point to the same place and a bot should be made to ensure that. In the example I provided, someone updated the mainspace redirect but not the talk page redirect. What happened then was that Acts of God (book) targeted Act of God (disambiguation) but Talk:Acts of God (book) targeted Talk:Acts of God (novel) which is obviously wrong. I don't think we need an RfC to tell us that. Nickps (talk) 02:34, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
 * We already have at least one bot performing similar tasks. For example,  makes edits such as .  (BFRA page)   may be able to provide more information. Certes (talk) 08:15, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
 * My bot uses the categorization done by R from move to detect talk pages which are out of sync. The problem with Talk:Acts of God (book) was that when the page moved at 16:42, 8 May 2009 it was not simultaneously tagged with R from move. Detecting such un-tagged moves and properly tagging them is a project that hasn't been done yet. Maybe with a good database query we could find all such pages. In the olden days, the act of moving a page didn't automatically leave an R from move on the redirect. – wbm1058 (talk) 12:05, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Note that some talk page redirects are not R from moves like . Nickps (talk) 12:24, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
 * In addition to WP:TALKCENT, the proposed bot would also need to take into account cases where A is intended as a redirect to B (and so Talk:A should redirect to Talk:B), but B is a redirect with a non-redirected talk page. Anomie⚔ 12:30, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Good point, I think. Let me check that I've understood the example.  Mainspace pages A and B are two redirects to the same target C.  A is a  but not necessarily tagged as such.  Talk:B is an actual talk page rather than a redirect to Talk:C.  Talk:A should redirect to Talk:B, rather than to Talk:C, even though A redirects to C.  Is that correct? Certes (talk) 17:15, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
 * That's right. Anomie⚔ 11:40, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
 * yes, I was kind of thrown off because of the title linked discussion. I understood it after going through this post, and the linked discussion for the second time. —usernamekiran (talk) 00:34, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Implementing the outcome of Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (television)
This is a rather big and somewhat complex job. Per the RfC, we need to move all articles on individual TV seasons from, e.g., Loki (season 2) titles to "Loki season 2" titles (get rid of the parens and add a DISPLAYTITLE template to maintain the italicization scheme; and add "| italic_title=no" to the television infobox to avoid a conflict). BD2412 T 01:00, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
 * thinking about this, but not actively working on it. Per the RfC, this is not a task for blanket removal of brackets as Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series, season 10) is supposed to become "Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series) season 10". Am I getting this correctly? —usernamekiran (talk) 04:05, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
 * That is correct. My thinking is that we hold those off to the end. BD2412  T 04:12, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Apparently this will actually require retooling of the infobox first to avoid clashes, but once that is done, this can roll. BD2412  T 22:22, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
 * add a DISPLAYTITLE template to maintain the italicization scheme; and add " I think all of this will eventually be handled on the infobox level, so we shouldn't need a multitude of DISPLAYTITLEs (and thus that parameter in the infobox). - Favre1fan93 (talk) 18:47, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes, the infobox sandbox version should be working with the new style. More testing by other editors is of course always appreciated. The display title and italic_title should not be needed to be edited by a bot. Other things mentioned in the follow-up still need bot work. Gonnym (talk) 13:17, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
 * This is technically two different tasks (first, move, second, cleanup). I'm happy to help out with the second half. Primefac (talk) 13:28, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
 * For the moves, the complete list of articles to be moved (original and new location) are listed at User:Alex 21/sandbox/NCTV. -- Alex_ 21 TALK 00:49, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Just bumping this, to see if any available editors with bots are willing to help out. Cheers. --  Alex_ 21 TALK 09:17, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Alex 21, I can take care of this. (The first part, moving the pages.)<span id="Qwerfjkl:1711208713118:WikipediaFTTCLNBot_requests" class="FTTCmt"> — Qwerfjkl  talk  15:45, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
 * @Qwerfjkl Fantastic, thank you! The complete list of articles to be moved are at User:Alex 21/sandbox/NCTV; the former link is the current location, the latter link the location to move to (some of which are already redirects and will require overwriting). Let me know if you have any questions. -- Alex_ 21 TALK 11:00, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I suppose I should have mentioned .<span id="Qwerfjkl:1711385858541:WikipediaFTTCLNBot_requests" class="FTTCmt"> — Qwerfjkl  talk  16:57, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Just so as I can hopefully get to the "part two" as quickly as possible after "part one" is done (unless someone else feels like tackling it), my list of things to update after the pages moves are:
 * Add no to the infobox
 * Update talk page archiving to point to the correct location
 * I seem to be reading from the above that the DISPLAYTITLE issue is being fixed on the backend in the infobox itself, yes? Is there anything else that needs updating? Primefac (talk) 12:37, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
 * First trial is complete, for the record; extra eyes are always appreciated. Primefac (talk) 12:55, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
 * No to your first bullet. The infobox handles italics (or at least should if I didn't mess up the code). Once the moves are done Template:Infobox television season/sandbox and Module:Infobox television season name/sandbox2 should be moved to live. Gonnym (talk) 14:16, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
 * The main update that will need to occur after the page moves will be updating usages of Episode list/sublist (e.g. from to . This could be done through a bot or AWB, either works; the latter would need a find-and-replace with   to   (regex enabled). This was a test edit of exactly that. --  Alex_ 21 TALK 20:18, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Hello, please also see
 * d:Wikidata:Project_chat
 * https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata%3AProject_chat&diff=2115427226&oldid=2114990113
 * Thanks a lot! M2k~dewiki (talk) 12:13, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
 * @Alex21 - See : 66 hits. Someone with AWB rights? Wikiwerner (talk) 17:49, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

Football league infoboxes
I've noticed a major past screwup that resulted in a significant number of people using an incorrect infobox for their notability claim.

There was formerly a generic Infobox gridiron football person, used on articles about players in gridiron football (NFL, AFL, CFL, etc.) regardless of their league — but because the two major American gridiron football leagues also had their own more specific infobox templates (Infobox NFL biography, Infobox AFL biography), in 2017 the generic "gridiron" template got unwisely moved to Infobox Canadian Football League biography on a faulty assumption that all American football players were using those infoboxes so that only CFL players were still using the generic "gridiron". But that wasn't the case at all, and in actual fact hundreds upon hundreds of NFL or AFL players who never had anything whatsoever to do with the CFL were still using the generic "gridiron" infobox.

I've recreated the generic gridiron template back to what it looked like shortly before the move, which has resolved the issue on some of the articles — however, there are still several hundred other articles where later bot or AWB edits had "genfixed" the template from "gridiron" to "Canadian Football League" despite the person's lack of any affiliation with the CFL. So I wanted to ask if there's a bot that could more or less generate a list of all articles that are using the CFL infobox but cannot be found under, and then wham through that list flipping Infobox Canadian Football League biography (or the Infobox CFL biography redirect) back to Infobox gridiron football person in those articles. Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 18:55, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
 * The caution being to use the base and not the more specific, as the reference category — as there are people (e.g. Frank Clair) who never played in the CFL but do still have CFL-related notability claims such as coaching or management. Bearcat (talk) 19:14, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
 * @Bearcat: Would it make sense to convert most of those to Infobox NFL biography instead if an individuals is only affiliated with the NFL? Or is it too complex too automate? —Bagumba (talk) 12:00, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I tried that myself in a couple of cases, and ended up with a radically shortened infobox because of too many parameters that the NFL box failed to recognize — basically, because the CFL infobox stayed patterned on the generic gridiron while the NFL one diverged from it significantly, switching back to gridiron will keep the infobox relatively intact while switching it directly to NFL will break large chunks of it. So I'd recommend leaving it to human editors to convert to NFL later on. Bearcat (talk) 13:37, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
 * (Not sure if this has any relevance or impact, but FWIW I think it worth noting that "Infobox AFL biography" does not apply to American Football League players; but to Australian Football League players instead – gridiron AFL seems to generally use NFL infobox). BeanieFan11 (talk) 16:55, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I think long-term, expanding Infobox AFL biography to Infobox Australian Football League biography and NFL likewise to match Infobox Canadian Football League biography would likely clear up a lot of the misuse. Primefac (talk) 12:01, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I don't believe there is any actual incorrect usage of the AFL or NFL templates. And at least for NFL, the National Football League is the primary topic.—Bagumba (talk) 13:43, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Auto-WP:NAVNOREDIRECT
Could we have a bot to automatically bypass redirects in navboxes? It would simplify part of the WP:POSTMOVE work that page movers have to perform. –  00:39, 10 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Not all redirects in navboxes should be bypassed. WP:NAVNOREDIRECT recommends bypassing redirects which are synonymous with the target but not those which are subtopics or other related topics on which a separate article might be written.  In some cases, bypassing everything might create a navbox for Garage Band where all the entries are of the form [&#91;Garage Band|Mike Singer]], [&#91;Garage Band|Obscure Single]], etc. Certes (talk) 11:19, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
 * As indicated above, there are context issues. Primefac (talk) 18:37, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Alright, thanks. –  20:18, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
 * @Hilst: One could generate a report of existing redirects on navboxes, whether or not filtered by redirects containing R from move. Then the results can be processed manually. A nice one is Template:Districts of Cambodia: all districts have been renamed from "... District" to "... district". Wikiwerner (talk) 19:49, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes, R from moves should be safe. Districts of Cambodia is one template where a bot or other process to bypass redirects automatically would be helpful.  There may be other categories/templates of redirect which can also be bypassed safely.  Others such as R from misspelling look tempting but might be mislinks where a topic with no article has its title redirected to an unrelated topic with a similar spelling. Certes (talk) 20:53, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
 * And those navboxes should go straight to WP:TFD for being pointless. Gonnym (talk) 19:17, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
 * And now this bot would have been very useful as all television season articles with disambiguation have been moved. Most of which have navboxes. Gonnym (talk) 12:36, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I would certainly welcome some sort of tool to bypass redirects in navboxes in a semi-automated way, perhaps by presenting a table of link targets which are redirects alongside the article title to which each redirect leads and a tickbox or similar to authorise bypassing. Certes (talk) 20:56, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
 * One should also consider changing the link text. I may generate something like this:
 * == Template:Andy Warhol ==
 * {| class="wikitable"

! Redirect title !! Redirect target !! R from move? !! Link text !! Change link target? !! Change link text?
 * Athletes (1977 series) || Athletes (Warhol series) || Yes || Athletes (1977) || ||
 * Blue Movie (1970 book) || Blue Movie || No || Blue Movie || ||
 * Jean-Michel Basquiat (1982 painting) || Jean-Michel Basquiat (Warhol) || Yes || Jean-Michel Basquiat || ||
 * New Andy Warhol Garrick Theatre || Garrick Cinema || No || ||  ||
 * Olympics (1984 painting) || Olympics (Basquiat and Warhol) || Yes || Olympics || ||
 * }
 * and so on for all templates in the category:Navigational boxes by topic and subcategories. The latter columns must be filled manually. Then a bot can process the list. Wikiwerner (talk) 12:22, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
 * New Andy Warhol Garrick Theatre || Garrick Cinema || No || ||  ||
 * Olympics (1984 painting) || Olympics (Basquiat and Warhol) || Yes || Olympics || ||
 * }
 * and so on for all templates in the category:Navigational boxes by topic and subcategories. The latter columns must be filled manually. Then a bot can process the list. Wikiwerner (talk) 12:22, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
 * and so on for all templates in the category:Navigational boxes by topic and subcategories. The latter columns must be filled manually. Then a bot can process the list. Wikiwerner (talk) 12:22, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

Find linkrot with a specific pattern
In this edit I removed a link to http://www.mycoincollection.co.uk, because it's definitely not the intended page. At the top of the page, you can see ''The domain Mycoincollection.co.uk may be for sale. Click here to inquire about this domain.''

Would it be practical to write a bot that examines bulk quantities of external links in some manner, and identifies links that begin with the text "may be for sale" or "is for sale"? I'm thinking of starting with a database dump (partial or complete, who cares), truncating to just the domain names, creating a page with a list of those domain names, and after checking each one, indicating whether it has this text at the top. Bonus points if the bot can be instructed to remove links after human review, e.g. a human checks a batch of links, marks some as "confirmed, rotten", and the bot goes around and removes those links from sections entitled "External links", and marks them with dead link if they're anywhere else. Nyttend (talk) 23:49, 30 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Would only need the root URL. Like in this case, http://mycoincollection.co.uk without the "www" or any other hostname. That will reduce the number of URLs to check. The view source has:
 * So really looking for https://www.trifega.com because that message "may be for sale" may change .. or not. It is common phrasing. There are a lot of sites like this around. Keep in mind, trifega.com is paying for the domain name and won't hang on to it forever. Eventually it will let it go, and the URLs will resort to 404, and be repaired by the bots as normal. Or someone else will buy it and the old URLs will return 404 since the new owner won't support them. In some cases, we have seen domains for sale this way, a new owner picks up the domain, then serves spammy content at the old URLs. It's a devious way to monetize (steal) the good name of an old site. Another scenario can occur, the old owners go out of business for a while, then reconstitute and bring it back the old URLs working again. -- Green  C  00:57, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I'm unclear: do you think this is a (potentially) workable idea or not? I know I've seen this happen heaps of times with various websites, not just trifega — otherwise I'd request something trifega-related — so I'm interested in anything where the site is for sale.  Nyttend (talk) 01:04, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I've thought about doing this in the past, but for lack of time, the resources it will take, other hanging fruit, reasons I gave above (it might resolve on its own in time), I never did it. But go for it, would be an interesting experiment to see what you discover. It will probably be an exercise in edge case hunting for those 'for sale' strings without getting false positives or false negatives (the things we don't know). Also I just asked the WaybackMachine developers if they had a mechanism for detecting these, or a database of them, I don't think so, but if they respond I'll let you know. --  Green  C  01:57, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
 * How many mass domain squatters are there? The coin site has a privacy link to skenzo.com, who presumably now own the domain and many similar ones.  If, say 90% of parked domains use one of a dozen standard formats, thenan option less prone to false positives is to look for the distinctive HTML behind each of them and to mark them as usurped so they can be treated similarly to 404s. Certes (talk) 10:17, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I come across them because I do a lot of manual link checking for soft-404s (essentially what these are). The pages and HTML change over time. Maybe we can start a project page off WP:LINKROT the purpose initially to record instances as they are encountered. Then we can determine how to best make matches, with keywords, or HTML patterns, or other ways. Worth noting they exist in the WaybackMachine also. And confirmed that Wayback does not do anything special to detect them. -- Green  C  14:32, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I created WP:SQUATTERS. Please add new cases here. -- Green  C  16:20, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I created WP:SQUATTERS. Please add new cases here. -- Green  C  16:20, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

User:RetractionBot, v2
Retraction Watch has made their database publicly available. See https://www.crossref.org/blog/news-crossref-and-retraction-watch/. In particular, you can download a CSV file here.

I would like for the bot to compare our citation templates (citation,, doi, doi-inline, pmid) against the OriginalPaperDOI and OriginalPaperPubMedID columns of the database.

If the RetractionNature column list "Retraction" as the reason, add as it applies.

If the RetractionNature column lists "Expression of concern" as the reason, instead, add as it applies.

If the RetractionNature column lists "Reinstatement" as the reason, remove /Retracted entirely.

Lastly, if the DOI/PMID of now have a reason of 'Retraction', then change it to

For example, if you find change it to
 * ...Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
 * ...Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.

The bot could run weekly (or maybe daily if it's a quick task?) in the Main/Draft spaces, possibly others, each time redownloading the CSV. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 19:42, 19 May 2024 (UTC)


 * I think it's a good idea. I don't think this comes up very often, so I doubt that we need daily runs.
 * Has anyone talked to @Samwalton9 about this? That bot hasn't run for years, and we would need to confirm that it still works and could be adapted to do this. WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:04, 19 May 2024 (UTC)


 * I agree it's a good idea. I've got some time this weekend, so happy to contact the bot op and have a look at recoding this up again. Looks like it was stopped over edit warring concerns, so there might well be more work to do before starting this up again (unless someone else is super keen to do this!). Cheers, Mdann52 (talk) 09:01, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I've just responded to your email - very happy for someone else to take this up since I haven't made the time :) Sam Walton (talk) 09:34, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Pardon the contentless metoo, but +1 to running it again. Perhaps even continuously? Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 10:23, 24 May 2024 (UTC)


 * - I've gained access to the existing toollabs instance and am upgrading the code to use the new datasource Headbomb has linked above. I'm planning to run within the previous approval for now (ie just flagging up DOIs), but I'm also ingesting PMED ids as well and I'm happy to look at expanding this in due course.
 * I've got a few additional changes I want to make (mainly because pywikibot has several extra features over the last few years(!)), so I may not be fully happy with this for a few weeks.
 * I note the request to add the extra columns, I think that would require an addition/update to the BRFA. Certainly happy to consider this as a slower task.
 * I note you've suggested a report in that original BRFA - are there any you would be interested in having? Happy to host some reports/data on toollabs if this is of interest. Mdann52 (talk) 14:02, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Happy to have whatever tool helps with whatever! &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 19:41, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
 * - coding complete and loaded on toollabs ready to go. Will be running this under supervision initially with fortnightly runs (just until I find a more reasonable way to finding the references).
 * I don't think this will require a BRFA as it's an existing tasks and the bot is still flagged, however will do the inital batches under supervision just in case. Mdann52 (talk) 16:06, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

'Literature of Kashmir'
The width of the birthplace section needs to be widened.

Some text seems to be oddly enlarged than the others needs to be fixed.

Musadiq Mushtaq (talk) 20:43, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Hello, this is For this request, WP:TEAHOUSE would be better suited. —usernamekiran (talk) 07:37, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Replace banners of merged history WikiProjects
There is a consensus to merge several inactive WikiProjects into WikiProject History. To complete the merge, we need to replace all instances of the following banner templates with WikiProject History:


 * WikiProject Ancient Germanic studies
 * WikiProject Colonialism
 * WikiProject Dacia

The former WikiProjects are not being converted into task forces, so all that is needed to replace one template with the other and carry over the quality and assessment ratings. Many pages will already have WikiProject History, in which case the other banner just needs to be removed. The task forces of the former WikiProjects are also not being preserved, so any parameters beyond the standard WPBannerMeta ones can simply be ignored or discarded.

Is there a bot that can help with this? After it is complete I will redirect the unused templates and delete the emptied categories. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 13:26, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Joe, is there a reason the templates can't just be redirected, with duplicates being removed? Primefac (talk) 14:40, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I don't know. It might be a little confusing that e.g. the source says WikiProject Dacia but displays history? And/or trip up scripts like WP:RATER? Honestly I'm only asking to do it this way around because of your comment here, but maybe I misunderstood. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 14:49, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
 * A lot of templates have their redirects used mainly because it's a pain to go through and "fix" them all (NOTBROKEN etc) and as far as I am aware RATER goes off of the target template (even has an option to replace the redirect). I do agree there might be a small amount of initial confusion if someone looks at the code and doesn't see what they expect, but on the other hand those folks are most likely to notice that it's a redirect.
 * If we're just going with duplicates, there are only ~250 so I can run those through quickly. As far as my Petscan comment went, if you're looking for pages with two templates, and one of the templates is a redirect to the other, then all transclusions will be marked as "both templates" since the target template is also (technically) transcluded; that's why it's best to remove dupes before redirecting. Primefac (talk) 14:58, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Sounds good to me. Simpler is better. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 15:07, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Duplicates sorted, so you should be good to redirect the templates and G8 the cats. Primefac (talk) 15:19, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Great, thanks a lot! –&#8239;Joe (talk) 15:22, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

(for the bot/table) Primefac (talk) 17:51, 5 July 2024 (UTC)