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Bot sputtering

The bot seems to be stalling; pauses for significant lengths of time, also was giving the 503 error. Abductive (reasoning) 20:24, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

DOIs that point to larger document

Status

not a bug

Reported by

Ariconte (talk) 03:01, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

What happens

New link added - https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Frederick_C._Leonard&type=revision&diff=1079490992&oldid=1028937799

What should happen

nothing

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Feedback from maintainers

I will revert the added link --- link is to a pub which adds no value.

The problem appears to be that the doi already there (doi:10.1111/j.1945-5100.2002.tb00912.x) goes to a 150-page "abstracts" section on which the publication actually cited is somewhere in the middle (page A34). The newly added link is to a different publication under the same doi (one of the two on the first page, page A9). —David Eppstein (talk) 07:43, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

Fixed up the refs on that page to fix issues. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 13:26, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Olearia cuneifolia

Status

 Fixed by adding to NO_DATE_WEBSITES list

Reported by

Gderrin (talk) 04:07, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

We can't proceed until

Feedback from maintainers

The bot is adding a random date to a reference in Olearia cuneifolia. The Queensland Government Department of Environment and Science regularly updates the linked page, the last time on 8 March 2022. Adding the date "20 October 2014" suggests to a reader of the article that the linked website is out of date. Gderrin (talk) 04:07, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

undefined issue

Status

{{fixed}}

Reported by

Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 13:24, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

What happens

Added |issue=undefined

Relevant diffs/links

https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Aging-associated_diseases&diff=prev&oldid=1080635948

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Feedback from maintainers

I know this is garbage, but should be added to a bad-list. Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 13:24, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

Billboard dates

Status

{{fixed}} by adding billboard to ignore dates list

Reported by

Exallonyx (talk) 15:43, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

What happens

The bot seems to be putting incorrect dates on Billboard year-end chart citations. I noticed it from this edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=I_Hate_U,_I_Love_U&diff=prev&oldid=1080644452 , where it put |date=2 January 2013 on 2 citations of 2016 year-end charts, which is obviously incorrect. I assume it's coming from the <meta property="article:published_time" content="2013-01-02T14:48:25+00:00" /> in the Billboard page's source code, so maybe the bot should ignore those tags on Billboard.com URLs?
It seems to have done this many times - I searched insource:/\{\{cite[^\}]+?billboard\.com\/charts\/year-end\/2016[^\}]+? 2013/ and that brought up 68 results of what, from clicking on the first few, appear to be the same deal, and that's just for 2016 links.

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Feedback from maintainers

Link publisher?

It would be nice if the citation bot could wikilink |publisher= attributes that it adds when the wiki article exists, e.g., |publisher=IBM, |publisher=IEEE. --Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 14:19, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

@Chatul: I have created a pull request for this: https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/3888

The bot's maintainers will decide whether to implement it. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:59, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

It has been implemented: https://github.com/ms609/citation-bot/pull/3888 BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:59, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

Publisher type error

See [1]. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 01:49, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

 Fixed AManWithNoPlan (talk) 13:30, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

book reviews

Status

 Won't fix without examples. I tried a bunch and could not reproduce

Reported by

Prairieplant (talk) 03:39, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

We can't proceed until

Feedback from maintainers

This bot is turning online reviews of books into books, that is, cite web into cite book, making up an isbn and deleting the url sometimes. It has happened in Reviews section of two different novels by Ellis Peters in Cadfael series. The bot should leave Publishers Weekly, Library Journal citations alone. -- Prairieplant (talk) 03:39, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Example edits please. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 12:31, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

ISBN in Cite web

Status

new bug

Reported by

Johannes Schade (talk) 06:30, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

We can't proceed until

Feedback from maintainers

The bot changed "{{Cite web|last=Coolahan |first=Marie-Louise |date=9 May 2019 |title=Dowdall [née Southwell], Elizabeth |website=[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]] |doi=10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.112775 |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-112775 |access-date=14 March 2021 |url-access=subscription}} – Online edition" -> "{{Cite web|last=Coolahan |first=Marie-Louise |date=9 May 2019 |title=Dowdall [née Southwell], Elizabeth |website=[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]] |doi=10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.112775 |isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-112775 |access-date=14 March 2021 |url-access=subscription}} – Online edition". I doubt the bot checks the book against the website. The website could differ from what was published in the book with that ISBN. I do not think an ISBN should be added under these circumstances. With thanks and best regards, Johannes Schade (talk) 06:30, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

A diff would be more useful than the above. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 10:26, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

To cite the ODNB, use {{cite ODNB}}:

{{Cite ODNB |last=Coolahan |first=Marie-Louise |date=9 May 2019 |title=Dowdall [née Southwell], Elizabeth |doi=10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.112775}}

Coolahan, Marie-Louise (9 May 2019). "Dowdall [née Southwell], Elizabeth". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.112775. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

—Trappist the monk (talk) 13:12, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

Normally this would work, but in this case, DOI is broken and needs to use the URL parameter instead. I fixed all 3 articles using this citation to use Cite ODNB with the URL.  — Chris Capoccia 💬 14:10, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Stalled job

A batch job of mine has been stalled for about 14 hours. I have tried to kill it using https://citations.toolforge.org/kill_big_job.php, but it won't die.

Please can it be killed? BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:13, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

This zombie job is still blocking me from starting a new batch. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:02, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

Is it working now? AManWithNoPlan (talk) 18:21, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

@AManWithNoPlan: it is still not working.

I tried a few seconds ago, and got the same big bolded response: "Run blocked by your existing big run". BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 05:42, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

Wrong S2CID

Status

 Not a bug - doi was wrong

Reported by

Nardog (talk) 18:10, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

What happens

Wrong S2CID added (241198800, for "New England: phonology", instead of 242118647, for "New Zealand English: phonology").

Relevant diffs/links

Special:Diff/1075641803

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Feedback from maintainers

Just simple GIGO. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 18:29, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

spelling change

Status

 Not a bug

Reported by

-- ☽☆ NotCharizard (talk) 17:01, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

What happens

just changed spelling in main entry to be incorrect (connectivity -> connecvity)

Relevant diffs/links

https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=K-vertex-connected_graph&curid=7566175&diff=1081957629&oldid=987331267&diffmode=source

You are mistaken. The bot's edit did not change 'connectivity' to 'connecvity'. That was done at the diff you provided by an ip editor. Not a bug.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 17:14, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

yeah, I know, probably gigo...

Status

 Fixed, added to do not spelling correct list

Reported by

Trappist the monk (talk) 00:06, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

What happens

converts French parameter |lien= to unrelated English parameter |lccn=

Relevant diffs/links

diff

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Feedback from maintainers

It begins with Editor Sulpyensid using French citation templates in the English Wikipedia at the article's creation. These templates are: fr:Modèle:Lire en ligne and fr:Modèle:Lien web. Editor Sulpyensid should have translated those French templates to their more-or-less matching English templates.

At this edit, AnomieBOT fixed the Lien web templates by substing them to {{cite web}}.

At this edit, SporkBot renamed Lire_en_ligne without completing the job by renaming the parameters within those templates. SporkBot should not be renaming non-English templates without it also renames the parameters within those templates; cs1|2 coughs up red empty citation error messages because the only parameter in these templates is |lien=.

Because of SporkBot's failure, at this edit, Citation bot changed the French |lien= (a url-holding parameter) in the English {{cite web}} template to |lccn= (an identifier-holding parameter) afterwhich cs1|2 coughs up four separate red error messages per template.

Yeah, this is a cascade of events that should not have happened had the various participants done the right things at the right time...

—Trappist the monk (talk) 00:06, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Can be run locally?

The hosted version of this bot is frequently overloaded. Can this be run on my local machine? Is there a document that describes how that can be done? I'm especially having trouble understanding how to do oath in env.php.example. --Mblumber (talk) 22:10, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

I have updated the code and in-code documentation. You will need your own Wikipedia Oauth tokens that are described in the example ini file. Please change BOT_USER_AGENT variable. Finally, only the process_page.php file supports command line running. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 22:07, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

Should work now and is documented.  Fixed. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 19:59, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

ISFDB connected to incorrect URL

Status

 Fixed

Reported by

Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 09:39, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

What happens

A citation to ISFDB, whose website is isfdb.org, instead gets sfdb.org as the website.

Relevant diffs/links

Diff of the error: https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Imagination_(magazine)&diff=prev&oldid=1082465500&diffmode=source

I have figured it out and fixed it. Also, I am going back and fixed the pages damaged. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 13:27, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Great; thanks. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 14:08, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Default titles for dead links without flagging

Status

{{fixed}}

Reported by

Mikeblas (talk) 19:00, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

What happens

Citation bot doesn't recognize decorated dead links and places title=404 in a {{cite web}} tag. The bot made two such changes here, which went undetected for several weeks. since the robot's actions aren't monitored or audited.

What should happen

dead raw links shouldn't be converted to {{cite web}} tags and, instead, either left alone or marked with {{dead link}}. The bot's changes should be reviewed to make sure they're constructive.

Relevant diffs/links

https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Waxahachie,_Texas&diff=prev&oldid=1067168696&diffmode=source

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Feedback from maintainers

Garbage title: ShieldSquare Captcha

Status

 Fixed

Reported by

Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 20:19, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

What should happen

See the first diff line [2]

When using a "new section" and then using a gadget, the section header title is not displayed correctly

See Draft talk:Suita conjecture (diff).--SilverMatsu (talk) 01:20, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

That's an issue with WP:EDITSUMMARYs when creating new sections, where you cannot have an edit summary separate from the section title. At that time, the user is responsible for their own edits.

It might be worth investigating if edit summaries should be disabled in that situation, but really, review the changes before saving them. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 03:08, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

@Headbomb: Thank you for teaching me !--SilverMatsu (talk) 03:53, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

and the academy award for the most unexpected bug goes to......10:53, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Adding note to gadget talk area. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 13:58, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

Some cite magazine conversions

Status

{{fixed}}

Reported by

Lightlowemon (talk) 01:32, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

What happens

Playthings should be corrected to magazine (this looks like a junk in junk out situation)

What should happen

Cite journal should be converted to cite magazine

Relevant diffs/links

https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Legacy_of_Kain&diff=prev&oldid=1083100047

We can't proceed until

Feedback from maintainers

Not entirely certain I'm correct on this one, but given it has magazine in the brackets on the page and is in WikiProject magazines, I feel like I am. --Lightlowemon (talk) 01:32, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

Similar here with Nintendo Power. --Lightlowemon (talk) 02:14, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

Some more missed conversions Electronic Gaming Monthly, Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine, PlayStation: The Official Magazine, Play and Silicon Mag. Also Games Radar, Hyper, Famitsu and GamePro--Lightlowemon (talk) 05:13, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

Just checked Official Xbox Magazine as well and a whole host of them in this article... I wasn't expecting there to be so many incorrect cite journals. I thought it was just Game Informer and Edge when I started looking at these. Sorry. --Lightlowemon (talk) 05:22, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

There was a not insignificant period where cite mag redirected to cite journal and where AWB was run with one of its general fixes being to change one to the other. This is probably why you are seeing so many. Izno (talk) 06:07, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

That seems like a weird choice, but it explains why there are so many, I've got one more that also seemed to stick around which is Entertainment Weekly. --Lightlowemon (talk) 00:21, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

DOI Removal

Status

{{fixed}}, very rare and obscure

Reported by

Lightlowemon (talk) 00:21, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

What happens

doi was removed, but the parameter was left behind

What should happen

Either doi stays if valid, or parameter removed with entry if not

Relevant diffs/links

https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Submerged_floating_tunnel&diff=prev&oldid=1083231508

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Feedback from maintainers

Wrong publication dates from Apple Music

Why bot adds publication dates of pages with album from Apple Music if this is not date of when page with album was published in Apple Music but something different - date of release date of this album so site with album might show up month before album release etc. Apple Music doesn't add date when page with album was added to store so it shouldn't be added. Eurohunter (talk) 09:49, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

Incorrect changed should be canccelled. Eurohunter (talk) 19:26, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

And how do you suggest finding them? AManWithNoPlan (talk) 19:44, 15 April 2022 (UTC)