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John Thompson (poet)

Latest comment: 2 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

John Thompson (poet) was moved to John Thompson (Canadian poet) as the title was ambiguous with multiple other articles. The original title now redirects to the disambiguation page. Could the existing links to John Thompson (poet) please be changed to John Thompson (Canadian poet)? Thanks, Graham (talk) 01:56, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

@Graham11: done using WP:DisamAssist. eviolite (talk) 02:32, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

Reg. electors row addition in constituency articles.

Latest comment: 2 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The row "Registered electors" need to be added to Vav Assembly constituency#2017 Vidhan Sabha so that it looks similar to Abdasa_Assembly_constituency#2017_Vidhan_Sabha.

It would be great if all or some of this can be done using the tool, would save a lot of time. Manually adding the row and data, would be the last option. Also ping @MPGuy2824 --Venkat TL (talk) 18:22, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

Brookfield Properties

Latest comment: 2 years ago7 comments4 people in discussion

I was encouraged to post here by User:Epicgenius. Brookfield Properties (my employer) was known as "Brookfield Office Properties" from 2011-2017, and as a result there are still many articles that refer to the company that way even though the company is now known only as "Brookfield Properties." Epicgenius showed me these search results showing instances of "Brookfield Office Properties" in articles, all of which should be changed to "Brookfield Properties" except for historical references and appearances of the term within references.

Similarly, GGP Inc. was acquired by Brookfield in 2018, and was then known as "Brookfield Properties Retail Group" for a period of time after that. But now the retail group no longer exists as its own company, but only as a group within Brookfield Properties. So all instances of "Brookfield Properties Retail Group" currently appearing in articles (as shown in these search results) should be changed to "Brookfield Properties," except for historical references and appearances within references.

Finally, the same goes for another old name, "Brookfield Properties Corporation" (search results here), though there are only a small handful of examples of this case that are not historical.

I would be happy to assist whoever steps up here in identifying which instances are historical and thus should not be changed (in most cases it's obvious from context). Thank you! Claudiailagan (talk) 11:44, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

Hi everyone. I see that my request may have demanded too much legwork on the part of the regular editors here, so I created a userspace draft with a simple list of all the articles that need to be fixed, at User:Claudiailagan/Brookfield Properties naming errors. (I already weeded out all the historical references to the three old names for Brookfield Properties, where no correction is necessary.) I would greatly appreciate someone helping carry out this task, or at least letting me know if further work is necessary on my part. Thank you, Claudiailagan (talk) 20:23, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
Hi Claudiailagan, I'll assist you here however rather than attempting to do this with AWB, pick off say a couple a day, manually. I see that you have been revising a few yourself. Would you please strike-through any on your list page if already attended to. Do you have a link to any commercial material/website that confirms business naming? Neils51 (talk) 10:26, 14 September 2022 (UTC)
@Neils51: Thank you! There is nothing on the list page that I've already attended to. You can see on the Brookfield Properties website that the company is referred to today only as "Brookfield Properties." You can also see that consensus regarding the naming on Wikipedia has been established previously at Talk:Brookfield Properties#Requested move 19 August 2019 and at Talk:GGP Inc.#Requested move 2 December 2019. Claudiailagan (talk) 17:51, 14 September 2022 (UTC)
Unless of course someone decides to go ahead with AWB :-) Neils51 (talk) 01:37, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
@Claudiailagan,   Done with AWB. — Qwerfjkltalk 15:19, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
Thanks to both of you! 137.83.250.24 (talk) 12:03, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

Fixing mis-specified span tag color settings

Latest comment: 2 years ago17 comments6 people in discussion

I don't know if this is a bot request or an AWB request, but I thought I would start here. There are over 1,000 pages that use span tags with hex colors missing the # symbol. They look like <span style="color:0099FF">, but they should look like <span style="color:#0099FF"> (note the # symbol). Some of these are due to bad edits by a regex I used to employ, but there are many others.

Is there anyone here willing to sweep through these articles and add the missing # symbols? It will result in editors' color preferences for text being displayed as intended. I have been able to fix these problems semi-automatically with code like: str = str.replace(/(\<span style\=\"color:)([a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9])/gi, '$1\#$2'); but you may have a better regex. As far as I know, there are no valid color names expressed as words that contain six a–f characters in a row, so the above regex should be safe. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:15, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

Of the search results, only two are in the article space. Some of the other results are actually part of a user signature, which I guess we are not going to edit (Talk:Internet_Watch_Foundation_and_Wikipedia signature of user Celarnor). The two articles can be edited manually. For the others, I am not sure. Considering they are not in the article space, should we leave them as they are? Vpab15 (talk) 16:43, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
Some of them, possibly the majority, are the result of invalid conversion of font tags (without the #, which works) to span tags (which require the # to render a color) by myself and other editors cleaning up Linter errors. In those cases, it was the original intention of the editors to display the color, so fixing the span tag is the right thing to do. In cases where the span tags has always been like this, it was clearly the editor's intent to display a color, even if it didn't work right (or maybe it used to work?). I can go through and fix them myself if necessary, but I do not have access to AWB and cannot get it due to my OS, so I thought I would ask here first. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:59, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
You are correct, there are no valid colors. I checked. I think it's supposed to rain in the morning, so I'll take a stab, I do agree with your point that it was how it was meant to be shown. Also, you mention OS. As a mac user, may I interest you in WP:JWB instead of AWB? Happy Editing--IAmChaos 02:48, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
Thanks. I've had JWB on my to-take-a-look-at list for a while. I use AutoEd, which is good enough for most things, but it's not great for mass small edits because its workflow is a bit clunky. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:26, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
@Jonesey95, alternatively you could try de:Benutzer:Schnark/js/bandersnatch, though it does require basic knowledge of javascript. ― Qwerfjkltalk 08:10, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
Based on your comment above I can probably assume you know JavaScript. ― Qwerfjkltalk 20:52, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
I got namespaces 0 and 1 loaded and did A lot were signatures (bc it was talkspace) User:Penyulap User:Blanchardb and User:Hansen Sebastian came up a lot I noticed, which may have been the conversions from <font> you mentioned earlier, as they were mostly older comments. I loaded just the first two namespaces due to loading times, but my final tally was Pages saved: 167; Null-edits: 2; Pages skipped: 24; Other: 0; . 26 that JWB didnt edit. I'll go back and look at them after I do the other namespaces. If anyone wants to take over the task before I get to it tonight or tomorrow - the regex I used is in a subpage of my userspace desk. Happy Editing--IAmChaos 19:13, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
ns 2&6 8 12 14 100 118 done. Saved 67 pages JWB didn't parse 13 with an edit. Most of those namespaces didnt even have any pages matching your search. I will go back and do talkspaces(including project and template. But I realized that the way I was doing it was only solving the first instance per page, so does anyone know how I can fix that? Happy Editing--IAmChaos 04:21, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
@IAmChaos, add the RegEx flag 'g' for global. According to the search there are still ~1167 pages left, so I'll try to do them some time today. ― Qwerfjkltalk 06:35, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
Just saying thank you for raising old AfDs. Seriously, not sarcastic as some raise with clean up edits. Super helpful to then un-watch list those that were before temporary watchlisting. And good luck with the actual purpose as well of course Star Mississippi 02:50, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
Bump to prevent archiving. I did some of them but still needs more work. 0xDeadbeef 10:39, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
Bump. 0xDeadbeef 06:02, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
I have been working on these slowly, and other editors have dealt with a chunk of them as well, but the upgrade to a new version of search has meant more regex timeouts and worse search results (see VPT for discussion). There are at least 2,500 instances of just one editor's signature, and who knows how many more that are not this editor's signature. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:08, 14 September 2022 (UTC)
I just did 900 with Bandersnatch. This probably warrants a bot, I could file a BRFA? — Qwerfjkltalk 16:13, 14 September 2022 (UTC)
That would be great. You may have to use a database query to find all of the affected pages. There is a bunch of strange stuff out there. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:25, 14 September 2022 (UTC)
@Jonesey95, I think the database dump for all pages is a terabyte (maybe you can exclude articles?), so it'd be fairly hard to download. — Qwerfjkltalk 21:24, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

Bush (band)

Latest comment: 2 years ago4 comments4 people in discussion

Bush (band) previously redirected to Bush (British band) but I have changed the redirect target to Bush due to incomplete disambiguation. Could the existing links to Bush (band) please be updated to link directly to Bush (British band)? Thanks, Graham (talk) 22:51, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

I've adjusted the link on roughly a third of the 330 or so articles. Dawnseeker2000 01:36, 14 September 2022 (UTC)
I did a further 125 or so, until I realised that the disambiguation has been reverted. So, should I change the remainders? Not many remain though. —CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 14:35, 14 September 2022 (UTC)
@CX Zoom, a late reply, but probably not, per WP:COSMETIC and some other policy I can't remember the name of. — Qwerfjkltalk 21:26, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

Publishers Weekly

Latest comment: 2 years ago5 comments3 people in discussion

At the moment, there seems to be ~183 instances of the misspelling "pubishersweekly.com" in articles. It seems to appear in both work and url parameters (or equivalents) of various citation templates, so preferably the incorrect URLs should be changed to publishersweekly.com, while the instances where it's used to indicate the publication's title should be changed to "Publishers Weekly". Thanks! Bridget (talk) 23:54, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

@Bridget,   Done. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:38, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
A while back, I figured out that the automatic citation tool was generating this error with Publishers Weekly. I now know to manually replace the letter "l" in the url. Until someone figures out why this happens, you will continue to see this typo. Rublamb (talk) 17:07, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
@Rublamb, you could report it at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical). — Qwerfjkltalk 18:15, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for the suggestion. I have done so. Rublamb (talk) 18:49, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

Down Home

Latest comment: 2 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

[[Down Home (song)|Down Home]] -> [[Down Home (Alabama song)|Down Home]]. Fix pipelinks now that page has been moved. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 22:44, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

  Doing... VanIsaac, GHTV contWpWS 23:47, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
  Done - 22 of 23 "What links here (all NS)" pages converted. Editor of 23rd page notified (appears to be massive bot-generated list in userspace). VanIsaac, GHTV contWpWS 00:00, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

Tag redirects for Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 October 17#Various circled letters

Latest comment: 2 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

I know I have AWB enabled, but I couldn't figure out how to get it to do this. Hopefully someone here has more luck. * Pppery * it has begun... 02:51, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

  Doing... —CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 09:12, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
  Done: @Pppery: I maintain a regex directory of all regexes I've ever employed at User:CX Zoom/Regex. See the last two entries, which might be helpful to you. —CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 10:18, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

Tag redirects for Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 October 19#Three Worlds cycle plot points

Latest comment: 2 years ago4 comments2 people in discussion

* Pppery * it has begun... 18:41, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

@Pppery,   Done— Qwerfjkltalk 19:23, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
@Qwerfjkl: Mind reverting this? I withdrew the nomination and started smaller batches. * Pppery * it has begun... 00:44, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
@Pppery,   Done. — Qwerfjkltalk 06:07, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

Typo in section name

Latest comment: 2 years ago7 comments4 people in discussion
  Moved from WP:BOTREQ

You know what to do :) Emptywords (talk) 14:55, 29 October 2022 (UTC)

  Doing... VanIsaac, GHTV contWpWS 18:51, 29 October 2022 (UTC)

Greenwood Mall

Latest comment: 2 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

[[Greenwood Mall]] -> [[Greenwood Mall (Kentucky)|Greenwood Mall]] Disambiguation now that two Greenwood Malls have articles. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 22:15, 17 November 2022 (UTC)

@TenPoundHammer,   Done. — Qwerfjkltalk 22:29, 17 November 2022 (UTC)

Special:Search/insource:"Population: Ua-pop-est2021"

Latest comment: 2 years ago6 comments2 people in discussion

Please replace (Population: \{\{Ua-pop-est2021\|\d+)\}\}\r\n by $1|punct=.}}\r\n. 1234qwer1234qwer4 11:28, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

@1234qwer1234qwer4, wouldn't it be easier to set the default value of |punct= to .? Or is there some other reason for this? — Qwerfjkltalk 14:56, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
No, because its default value is no punctuation at all and it is a lot more intuitive that way (especially since people not completely familiar with the template might insert incorrect full stops everywere otherwise). 1234qwer1234qwer4 16:56, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
@1234qwer1234qwer4,  Y Partly done - I skipped pages like Vesele, Zaporizhzhia Oblast (has punctuation after the template). — Qwerfjkltalk 18:37, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
Thanks (though these should probably be changed per MOS:REFPUNCT as well)! 1234qwer1234qwer4 18:38, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
If anyone's up for this, try the regex (Population: \{\{Ua-pop-est2021\|[\d,]+)\}\}\.
Carriage returns \r don't appear in wikitext, they are converted to \n (I think). — Qwerfjkltalk 21:39, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

Conjunctions

Latest comment: 1 year ago2 comments2 people in discussion

[[Conjunctions]] -> [[Conjunctions (journal)|Conjunctions]]

The non-primary topic has been disambiguated but over a hundred links to the journal now need to be changed. UltimateDude101 (talk) 02:47, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

@UltimateDude101,   Done. — Qwerfjkltalk 08:56, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

Afd notice

Latest comment: 1 year ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Please add Afd notice to all the article listed here. আফতাবুজ্জামান (talk) 00:15, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

rcat shell on these pages

Latest comment: 1 year ago2 comments2 people in discussion

please add this to all of shortcuts starting with WP:UBX (I'm only about halfway through). thanks.

{{Redirect category shell|
{{R from shortcut}}
{{R from subpage}} (if applicable)
{{R to project}} (only if it redirects to Wikipedia namespace; if it redirects to talk use R to talk page)
{{R to subpage}} (if applicable)
}}

137a (talk) 13:59, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

Looks good to me,   Doing...   Done ~~lol1VNIO (I made a mistake? talk to me) 23:29, 3 January 2023 (UTC); edited 23:34, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

Replace categories' content with cathead template

Latest comment: 1 year ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Please replace all contents of subcategories of Category:Redirects from domain names with the template below:

{{Redirects from .XX domain names category header}}

I hvae tested the template on .ir, .int and .press domain categories and it works fine no matter how many characters the domain has. all parent cats are added by the template plus the hatnote and enough description. Thanks Jeeputer Talk 15:56, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

@Jeeputer,   Done. — Qwerfjkltalk 20:50, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

De-linking circular redirects on stars and exoplanets

Latest comment: 1 year ago2 comments2 people in discussion

There are numerous articles where an exoplanet is a circular link to its host star, or vice versa. Due to the systematic naming conventions of exoplanet articles, nearly all cases can be de-linked by AWB with no false positives and at most a handful of false negatives.

  • Most star articles use a {{starbox begin}} template, and most exoplanet articles use {{infobox planet}}. Thus, we can use these templates as a proxy for articles about stars and exoplanets, respectively.
  • Exoplanet names consist of the host star appended with a lowercase Latin letter, starting with b for the first discovery around a star; there may or may not be an intermediate space. For example, the first planet discovered around 55 Cancri is 55 Cancri b. This naming convention is not used anywhere in the Solar System, so with {{infobox planet}} there should be no false-positive hits that are Solar System bodies.
    • In multiple star systems, an exoplanet's host star may be labeled by a capital letter; for example, 55 Cancri b may also be called 55 Cancri Ab, but like most multiple stars, 55 Cancri's article is about both A and B. Circumbinary planets like Kepler-16b are commonly referred to without the host stars' letters, but if they appear they would appear together in parentheses, in this case Kepler-16(AB)b.
    • A few stars have disambiguators that would need to be dropped, but the only star/planet pair I know where this would apply is Pollux (star)/Pollux b, both of which have standalone articles.
  • The links to be removed are planets which redirect back to the host star, or stars which redirect back to their planet, under the titles extrapolated from the article name using the above rules. Circular links caused by navigation boxes can be ignored; see Category:Exoplanet navigational boxes and Category:Constellation navigational boxes.
  • There should be zero false positives under the above assumptions except for other rare types of circular link, and the number of false negatives should be small enough that they can be remediated by hand.

–LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 11:22, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

See also this open BRFA. EpicPupper (talk) 02:29, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

Love You Anyway

Latest comment: 1 year ago2 comments2 people in discussion

[[Love You Anyway]] -> [[Love You Anyway (Boyzone song)|Love You Anyway]] Cleanup after page move Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 17:53, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

@TenPoundHammer,   Done— Qwerfjkltalk 18:02, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Koshi Province

Latest comment: 1 year ago4 comments3 people in discussion

[[Koshi Province]] -> [[Koshi Province (Japan)]] post-move cleanup after RM. The Night Watch (talk) 18:59, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

Luis Díaz

Latest comment: 1 year ago2 comments2 people in discussion

[[Luis Díaz (Colombian footballer)]] -> [[Luis Díaz (footballer, born 1997)]] – post-move cleanup, previous title will need to be redirected to the disambiguation page. ■ ∃ Madeline ⇔ ∃ Part of me ; 09:27, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl has kindly fixed the links using DisamAssist. Luis Díaz (Colombian footballer) can safely be retargeted to the dab (due to Luis Díaz (footballer, born 2004)) if that's the intention. Certes (talk) 14:58, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

Lucca (first article)

Latest comment: 1 year ago2 comments2 people in discussion

[[Lucca Holanda Sampaio Tavares]] -> [[Lucca (footballer, born 2003)]]

Can you help me clean up following this page move, please? I've performed it in order to distinguish two footballers that are known by the same name.

Oltrepier (talk) 13:36, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

@Oltrepier: Could you please help me understand why you wish to bypass this redirect? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 14:05, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Lucca (second article)

Latest comment: 1 year ago3 comments2 people in discussion

[[Lucca (footballer)]] -> [[Lucca (footballer, born 1990)]]

Can you help me clean up following this page move, please? I've performed it in order to distinguish this article from another footballer I mentioned in the previous message.

Oltrepier (talk) 13:44, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

@Oltrepier: Do you want to bypass this redirect in order to change Lucca (footballer) to a disambiguation page? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 14:05, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
@GoingBatty My bad, I forgot to mention that I've already added more details about both footballers in the disambiguation page for "Lucca", so I don't need that anymore.
I was mainly worried about direct wiki-links (the ones I can look for from the "What links here" section of each page)... Oltrepier (talk) 14:10, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

The Price is Right

Latest comment: 1 year ago2 comments2 people in discussion

The Price Is Right --> The Price Is Right (franchise)

Please change these links after a move. Thanks! EpicPupper (talk) 00:30, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

Can't find insource instances of either of these? Around 56 instances are qualified per the disambig page. Neils51 (talk) 08:58, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023_April_15#Category:Crimes_by_month

Latest comment: 1 year ago3 comments2 people in discussion

I have opened a bulk CfD of 158 categories to be merged, and they all need to be CfD tagged. The full list is collapsed below.

158 categories

–LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 16:56, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

  Doing. — Qwerfjkltalk 09:52, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
@LaundryPizza03,   Done. — Qwerfjkltalk 10:01, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023_April_19#Category:Disestablishments_in_the_Dutch_Empire_by_year

Latest comment: 1 year ago2 comments2 people in discussion

I have opened a bulk CfD of 69 categories to be merged, and they all need to be CfD tagged. The full list is collapsed below.

69 categories

–LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 11:45, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

@LaundryPizza03,   Done. — Qwerfjkltalk 15:52, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

Remove span lang=en dir=ltr from 113 articles

Latest comment: 1 year ago12 comments7 people in discussion

We discussed this on Discord and I can't think of a legitimiate reason for <span lang="en" dir="ltr"> to be in the wikicode. I think these should be mass removed. Here's a list of where they occur. cc @Chlod and SWinxy: If no one objects, let's remove them all using AWB. An example removal would be converting <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Test</span> to Test.–Novem Linguae (talk) 07:21, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

No objections here; it's probably just phab:T116887. Since this is an English, left-to-right wiki, the span is just dead weight. Chlod (say hi!) 07:25, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
  Doing... –Novem Linguae (talk) 07:42, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
Actually I decided to pause because this may violate WP:COSMETICBOT. Do I need a BRFA to make these changes? –Novem Linguae (talk) 07:50, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
You are not a bot, and this is a small-scale run. Just Do It. Primefac (talk) 14:12, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
@Novem Linguae: I suggest turning on AWB's general fixes and typo fixing if you haven't already, to improve the probability that your edit will make changes that are visible to the reader. GoingBatty (talk) 14:14, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
There might be legitimate uses btw. For instance you could have an English part inside a German quote on the English wiki. Doubt those would be very common however. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 09:57, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
  Done. I did mainspace and draftspace. I think the others can be left alone. There's lots still on talk pages, some in userspace, and a few in other miscellaneous places. –Novem Linguae (talk) 01:54, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

Spans for other languages and text directions

There are about 1,000 uses of <span lang= and 150 uses of <span dir=. Should this feature of MediaWiki be removed on enwiki? It seems like it's people pressing buttons they shouldn't press rather than any intentional thing. SWinxy (talk) 20:22, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

Unlike the span lang=en dir=ltr above, most of these non-en non-ltr ones appear to be correct usages. That is, they are marking text that is in other languages, distinguishing it from surrounding en ltr text.
However, I am not sure I understand the point of marking foreign language text with spans. Does this change anything visually for the reader? (I don't think it does.) Maybe it's a screen reader / MOS:ACCESS thing? (Seems more likely, anyone know for sure?) –Novem Linguae (talk) 20:56, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
See Template:Lang#Rationale. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:07, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
We should probably change them to {{lang}}, then, even though they output identical HTML. SWinxy (talk) 21:18, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

Infobox Replacement

Latest comment: 1 year ago18 comments3 people in discussion

Requesting the replacement of Infobox Indian state legislative assembly constituency with {{Infobox Indian constituency}} on usage pages. This replacement can be a drop-in as it doesn't need to change or replace any parameters. Additionally, it would be nice to add |type=SLA in every replacement.

For example, the change may be as follows: 

 {{Infobox Indian state legislative assembly constituency
 | name = {{{name}}}
 | 1 = a
 | 2 = b
 | 3 = c
 ... ... }}
 
to

 {{Infobox Indian constituency
 | name = {{{name}}}
 | type = SLA
 | 1 = a
 | 2 = b
 | 3 = c
 ... ...}}

I initially proposed this in Wikipedia:Bot requests, but as it did not receive any response and it is a one-time task, I am relisting the proposal here.

The merger discussion can be found at: Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2023 April 11#Merger of Infobox Indian state legislative assembly constituency and Infobox Lok Sabha Constituency. Prarambh20 (talk) 13:08, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

If adding "type" makes the process more complex, then the replacement process can be done without the type, no problem. Thank you very much. Prarambh20 (talk) 13:18, 30 April 2023 (UTC)
@Prarambh20, I can do this. — Qwerfjkltalk 14:03, 30 April 2023 (UTC)
Great, thank you for offering to do this! Prarambh20 (talk) 14:16, 30 April 2023 (UTC)
Qwerfjkl, the former is a redirect to the latter, so this should not be done. Add the |type= param if you want, but please do not just replace the templates. Primefac (talk) 14:20, 30 April 2023 (UTC)
@Primefac, I'm adding the type parameter while bypassing the redirect. — Qwerfjkltalk 14:23, 30 April 2023 (UTC)
Okay, thanks for the clarification. Primefac (talk) 14:25, 30 April 2023 (UTC)
I don't understand why it won't be replaced. Prarambh20 (talk) 14:26, 30 April 2023 (UTC)
Wouldn't it be better to present all the usage under one template? If it is redirected template, then what is the problem? Prarambh20 (talk) 14:34, 30 April 2023 (UTC)
If it's against a policy then, that's fine, but besides that I don't see any reason. Prarambh20 (talk) 14:36, 30 April 2023 (UTC)
@Prarambh20, WP:COSMETIC. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:44, 30 April 2023 (UTC)
I sincerely hope that atleast the |type=SLA can be added, If the replacement is not possible. Prarambh20 (talk) 13:03, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
@Prarambh20,   Done. — Qwerfjkltalk 13:56, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
Most of the pages are done, but there are also many pages where the edit remains. I tried to find the rest of those pages, see here. .
For reference, can use Category:Legislative Assembly Constituencies of Indian States. Prarambh20 (talk) 14:27, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
@Prarambh20, I'm just using a hastemplate search. Doesn't seem to be catching all of them, so I'll keep on running it until there aren't any more. I'll notify you when this is properly finished. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:55, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
All right. Thank you for the update. Prarambh20 (talk) 17:05, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
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@Prarambh20,   Done correctly this time. — Qwerfjkltalk 19:48, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
Thank you for completing the request. I greatly appreciate your edits and efforts. Many thanks. Prarambh20 (talk) 20:19, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

Victoria (Australia) → Victoria (state)

Latest comment: 1 year ago3 comments2 people in discussion

A recent CFR has renamed categories specifying "Victoria (Australia)" to specify "Victoria (state)" instead. Some redlink categories remain in articles and other pages, for various reasons.

One that I have found suitable for fixing by AWB is Category:Victoria (Australia) articles missing geocoordinate data which no longer exists but is populated, and Category:Victoria (state) articles missing geocoordinate data which has been moved to the new name but is not populated.

The AWB task required is to visit all pages in the first category and make edits like this which will move them to the second cat. Thanks in advance. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 17:54, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Mass draftification

Latest comment: 1 year ago6 comments2 people in discussion

Please move all articles listed at User:BilledMammal/Olympic_draftifications to draft space per consensus at Wikipedia:Olympic Stub Draftification. The articles have already been prepared; all that needs to be done are the moves, but as that requires admin permissions to do through AWB I am not able to do so. BilledMammal (talk) 18:03, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

AWB only seems to let me move pages if I enter each new title separately and move the pages one-by-one, which isn't much faster than just doing it by hand. I think User:Ahecht/Scripts/massmove is more of what you're looking for (it does still need to be done by an admin since page movers are subject to a rate limit of 16 moves per minute). If that sounds good to you, I'm happy to do the honors (assuming nothing else crops up, of course). Extraordinary Writ (talk) 19:01, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
Ah, I wasn't aware of that - strange, in that case, that the use of AWB for that purpose is limited to admins.
Thank you, the option of using that script sounds good to me. BilledMammal (talk) 19:04, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
In progress... Extraordinary Writ (talk) 20:26, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
And   Done. Let me know if you see any issues. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 21:05, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
Thank you, none that I can see so far. BilledMammal (talk) 21:12, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2023_May_28#Al_Frankenstein

Latest comment: 1 year ago5 comments2 people in discussion

Mass nomination of 39 redirects to the same article, 2 of which are already tagged. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 06:38, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

  Doing... Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 14:59, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
  Done. Sorry it took so long, I'm still new to this. Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 15:27, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
Missed a bunch, sorry about that. Fixing. Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 15:33, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
  Done Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 15:35, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

Fort Bragg renaming

Latest comment: 1 year ago4 comments3 people in discussion

As of today, Fort Bragg has been renamed to Fort Liberty. There seems to be a lot of pages with the old name in them, which could mean some pages would be missed if they were all updated manually. If someone could use AWB to update the name on these pages, I would greatly appreciative it. Thank you for your time and have a great day! DiscoA340 (talk) 23:36, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

  • It won't always make sense to rename to the new name. If the new name didn't exist at the time of a historic incident that references the place for example. MOS:PLACE says "A place should generally be referred to consistently by the same name as in the title of its article. An exception may be made when there is a widely accepted historical English name appropriate to the given context. In cases where such a historical name is used, it should be followed by the modern name in round brackets (parentheses)". Thus it will be context sensitive which name to use. When referring to the fort in a historical context, it would probably be as "Fort Bragg (Fort Liberty)". This only needs to be done on the first occurrence of Fort Bragg in an article. -- GreenC 00:55, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
  • We should wait for the RM on Fort Liberty to close before going ahead with this. Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 14:21, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
  • Also, the GOP is threatening to rename it to Bragg if they win the Presidency in 2024. Maybe we should let this cool a little while? -- GreenC 01:00, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

Large-scale misuse of the PROD tag

Latest comment: 1 year ago3 comments2 people in discussion

The user Homechallenge55 (talk · contribs) incorrectly used the PROD tag on 50 redirects to the same target, Suikoden#Story, with a copy-pasted rationale Insufficient notability for a fictional character. Also cannot find their name anywhere in the page it redirects to. I have initiated a new bulk RfD covering all of them at Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2023_June_15#50_redirects_from_fictional_characters. It is requested that all the PROD tags be removed and RfD tags be added. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 08:43, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

@LaundryPizza03, I can do this, I need to test out a mass XfD script I wrote. — Qwerfjkltalk 08:45, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
  Done, also notified five users who created the redirects (between them). — Qwerfjkltalk 08:59, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

Replace category with template

Latest comment: 1 year ago8 comments5 people in discussion

Please replace 

[[Category:Wikipedia fully protected redirects]]

with 

{{Rcat shell|
{{R fully protected}}
}}

on the 558 pages currently listed at Category talk:Fully protected redirects.

As a bonus, there may be a few pages with an existing "R from" or similar template. In these cases it would be nice to wrap such templates within the Rcat shell. – Fayenatic London 18:52, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

that would require an admin with AWB. —usernamekiran (talk) 21:04, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
It looks like JJMC89 has done a subset. Btw @Fayenatic london: {{R fully protected}} is redundant in a {{R shell}}, per: When appropriate, protection levels are automatically sensed, described and categorized. For example, UTC is showing duplicate paragraphs in the shell; it needs only {{R from initialism}} and not {{R fully protected}} 73.93.5.246 (talk) 21:33, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
You are right, thanks. I have edited UTC accordingly.
So, in cases where there is another "R from" or similar template, that only needs an Rcat shell wrapper, as that will then generate the protection category. – Fayenatic London 21:41, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
An {{R cat shell}} on its own produces a message basically saying "please add a redirect category" and enters it into Category:Miscellaneous redirects, which is a maintenance category for redirects only using {{R cat shell}}. The template should never be used on its own. Skarmory (talk • contribs) 12:50, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
@Skarmory, @Fayenatic london, you can use {{R tagged automatically}} as a placeholder rcat. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:49, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
Actually not sure if that rcat is finished. Might need some fixing beforehand. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:51, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
Good to note, I guess with that you could skip the {{R fully protected}} if you wanted to. Skarmory (talk • contribs) 19:38, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

Quick category cleanup

Latest comment: 1 year ago5 comments4 people in discussion
  Moved from Wikipedia:Bot requests § Quick category cleanup
 – –Novem Linguae (talk) 06:02, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

If someone could run the regex

  • \[\[Category:Wikipedia lists of recognized content.*\n → Nothing

On all Wikipedia-namespace pages in Category:Wikipedia lists of recognized content, that would be great.

The category is now automatically added via transclusion. This will affect 292 pages. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 09:44, 25 June 2023 (UTC)

@Headbomb wouldn't this be a cosmetic edit? Frostly (talk) 20:35, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
Technically yes, in some/most cases [1] (~204), no in others [2] (~88). But it's something that's considered editor-hostile enough (see case c) to be worth fixing. I could take care of it by AWB, but I'm trying to avoid mindlessly mashing save 292 times over an hour. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 22:32, 25 June 2023 (UTC)

CfD cleanup

Latest comment: 1 year ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Remove all 47 redirects in Category:ISIRI standards before the category is merged to Category:Standards of Iran, as decided in Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023_June_11#Category:ISIRI_standards. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 00:27, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

Latest comment: 1 year ago4 comments2 people in discussion

This may be a small job – until recently Daughter of the Bride was a redirect to the 1997 short film article Family Video Diaries: Daughter of the Bride. However, I just moved the article on the 2023 film with that title to the base title. Could someone with AWB please check to see if there are any article links currently going to Daughter of the Bride that should be changed to Family Video Diaries: Daughter of the Bride? Thanks. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 17:57, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

@IJBall: There are only 5 direct incoming links. I'm not sure which of these, need a link cleanup, so you might want to look at these once.
—CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 17:01, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
@CX Zoom: If I had to guess, it's just the fourth link – the others all definitely should go to the 2023 film. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 17:54, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
Thanks!   Done —CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 18:08, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

Unsupported parameter removal in 300+ category talk pages

Latest comment: 1 year ago2 comments1 person in discussion
  Resolved

A recent update to Template:WPMILHIST to use an updated version of WPBannerMeta has left 300+ category talk pages with the same unsupported parameter value: the parameter |1=CAT is no longer supported or needed, since the template now knows it is on a category page. If someone could remove the pipe, "CAT", and the line break following, like this, I would appreciate it. The list of pages is here. Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:42, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

Never mind; I found a workaround. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:14, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

Everything I Love

Latest comment: 1 year ago3 comments2 people in discussion

[[Everything I Love]] -> [[Everything I Love (Alan Jackson album)|Everything I Love]] and [[Everything I Love (song)|Everything I Love]] -> [[Everything I Love (Alan Jackson song)|Everything I Love]]. Cleanup for more accurate disambiguation. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 19:35, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

  Doing... —CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 20:02, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
  Done —CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 23:20, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
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