OpalYosutebito

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June 2024

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your edits to Rocío Dúrcal, please use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history, as well as helping prevent edit conflicts. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the page will look like without actually saving it.

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past_member_of

I see you've made several edits such as this one on jazz biographies, replacing associated_acts with past_member_of in Infobox musical artist infoboxes. This and lots of other examples are wrong, as the lists name individuals, not groups or bands. Could you undo such changes, please? Removing the whole entry is probably the best solution. EddieHugh (talk) 10:26, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Ok. I'll do that ASAP - OpalYosutebito (talk) 12:54, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Just bringing this up again. You have made this mistake to many, prossibly hundreds, of articles (see [1][2][3][4][5][6]) and have only, as far as I cans see, fixed this on the Tommy Flannagan article. Is there anyway you can automate a revert on all of these edits as it will take a long time to clean this up manually. Vladimir.copic (talk) 01:52, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Ok. I'll do whatever I can to fix this mistake - OpalYosutebito (talk) 02:08, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Anthony Burger

I see you removed an associated act for Anthony Burger here. Not only did he perform and record with the group, but it was also his first his first professional recording, at age 12. I added a cite to hold over but I will find cites to include that tidbit. Maybe Chattanooga Cadek Conservatory of Music has archives. I doubt this will be enough (Album Cover) Album link to satisfy cite requirements because Discogs is user generated. ASCAP or BMI may have a record of the recording in their database. Happy editing P37307 (talk) 02:42, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for adding the source! I barely saw any info on the page regarding the Celestials, and it was worded to make it sound like he merely collaborated with the band instead of being an actual member/player - OpalYosutebito (talk) 03:36, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

You're welcome. It is worded weird. I'll put this page on my list to find cites, etc. In that album cover photo I included above, he is the one in the whitish suit. I really hope I can find an official source, other than that album cover at Discogs, to show he was only 12-years old. Happy editing! P37307 (talk) 03:55, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

Agency parameter

I have reverted this edit of yours. |agency= is a proper parameter for {{Cite web}} and {{Cite news}}. If I have missed something, please let me know. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 14:53, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

I just noticed you are making these edits en masse. You need to stop immediately. I'll give you a few minutes before I block you to stop the editing. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 14:55, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

I have temporarily removed your permission for AWB until this is figured out. Please respond here asap and justify the edits you are making. It appears to be thousands over the last few days and there is no way to go through each one to determine if you are removing parameters that are actually appropriate. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 15:03, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

For the edit you reverted, I found an error in one of the citations. The error I'm referring to is here. For all of these pages that I edited, I saw reference errors that said {{cite magazine}}: Empty citation (help): Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)

I hope this explains my reasoning. I'll try to be more careful - OpalYosutebito (talk) 15:04, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Yet you removed all of the agency parameters, even valid ones in that edit. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 15:06, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Also, looking at a few more of your edits, it appears that these shouldn't just be deleted, they should be fixed. You are removing good reference information that just isn't using the appropriate parameter. The point of the warning is to fix the issue, not just delete it without reviewing it. You made 16 edits in one minute! You aren't reviewing anything you are editing. You are responsible for the edits you make. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 15:09, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

I've noticed that when the contents of the agency field is a piped link, AWB only gets part, ie "|agency=AFP" results in "|AFP]]" [7] being left behind, so they appear in Category:CS1 errors: unrecognized parameter.--Auric talk 15:17, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

I don't have the time to continue to dive into this issue. I have left a notice at WP:AN#Some Help with Bot-Like Editing to get some additional input. Please move the discussion there. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 15:26, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

okay. I'm fixing the errors I left behind. - OpalYosutebito (talk) 15:27, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Agency parameter in CS

Hi, it is regarding edits like this. The 'agency' is an 'unknown parameter' only when used with 'cite magazine'. It works fine when used to 'cite news' and others. Please, change 'agency' to 'last' in relevant cases only instead of removing it all together. See this for example, works fine. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 15:46, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

I'm working on changing all of the "cite magazine" templates from my previous edits to "cite news" right now. Thanks for the example! - OpalYosutebito (talk) 15:48, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Don't need to change those not showing any CS error. India Today and Outlook for example are magazines. Previously the 'agency' parm would work fine, but apparently the code was changed recently. I do "agency→last" wherever this new CS error pops up. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 15:56, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

This does not fix the problem with this editing. The purpose of the CS error is not to just delete it so it goes away. It should be fixed. An example would be this edit where Opal just deleted the parameter, yet the correct outcome would be to replace {{Citation}} with {{Cite web}}. This mindless "clean-up" of maintenance templates (averaging 12 edits a minute) is detrimental to the project and runs counter to the purpose of maintenance categories. This is blockable behavior for operating AWB like a bot without bot approval. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 16:43, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

it's also an unknown parameter in "cite book", "cite report", "cite web", etc, so the only way to get rid of the error message and keep the agency parameter is to use "cite news" instead, which I'm working on right now - OpalYosutebito (talk) 17:05, 12 July 2024 (UTC)