Talk:111th Sustainment Brigade (United States)
Latest comment: 4 years ago by Buckshot06 in topic Reference import/bots
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Reference import/bots
editMikeblas many thanks for importing the references. My usual rule is that I wait a couple of days and by then the bots usually update things without too much trouble. Have you had difficulty in this regard? Buckshot06 (talk) 00:31, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
- Yes, I have. The bots don't always make fixes, and often make incorrect fixes. Category:Pages with broken reference names shows about 3250 articles (at this moment) that have at least one undefined reference that isn't fixed. I work through this category as I can because I want the encyclopedia to be correctly referenced. Problem is, I have to investigate something to see what the problem is -- maybe the a bot would have (or could have) fixed it, but we can't be sure until we check. Once checked, it's easy enough to just make the fix. Were you exepcting a bot to come along, follow the link in your edit summary, and pull the references of the same definition from that other article? Which bot does that? -- Mikeblas (talk) 01:11, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
- Mikeblas I don't know the bot name, just that it sometimes occurs, enough that I've become used to it. Clearly I need to be more alert about it. I did not wish to cause others more work. Thankyou for doing the work for me this time. Let me check back through my edits and see if I can work out what was going on. For now however I will stop importing the text without carefully fixing the references. Buckshot06 (talk) 23:45, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
- Dear Mikeblas, I have just been improving Allied Land Forces Southern Europe with the James L. Dozier kidnapping case in the early 1980s. You will see at [1] that when I linked Operation Winter Harvest in the edit summary, AnomieBOT came along and retrieved reference "auto1" within about 12 hours, inserting the reference so the target page was properly referenced. This was what I was talking about; this is just for your information; I well understand that when the ref names are not so clear, or other circumstances intrude, things might not work as easily. I have been more careful since we spoke on importing references. Kind regards Buckshot06 (talk) 21:04, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
- Mikeblas I don't know the bot name, just that it sometimes occurs, enough that I've become used to it. Clearly I need to be more alert about it. I did not wish to cause others more work. Thankyou for doing the work for me this time. Let me check back through my edits and see if I can work out what was going on. For now however I will stop importing the text without carefully fixing the references. Buckshot06 (talk) 23:45, 29 July 2020 (UTC)