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Tagging sbucats of Category:Populated places in the United States with Hispanic majority populations for deletion
I think this whole tree needs to be deleted, and some related trees as well. I really do not feel like tagging the whole thing, so I was hoping it would be possible to have a bot assist.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:45, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
- I can do it with AWB. However, it's been almost 5 days, so I'm not sure it's a good idea at the moment. (We need a category, AWB users willing to submit bulk nominations.) — Arthur Rubin (talk) 16:28, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
- Actually, we don't need a category — just pop in at WP:AWB/TA. Hazard-SJ ✈ 03:18, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
Coordinate templates
A bunch of articles [1];[2] are using the deprecated {{Coor dm}} or {{Coor dms}} for their coordinates; they should use {{Coord}} instead, to which the former templates redirect. As we don't simply fix redirects, it would be good if this could be added to some routine cleanup bots'/ AWB's tasks (is there a better place to request this?) Here is an example edit. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:11, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
- WP:AWB/FR is the place. I just cleared up the current ones. Thine Antique Pen (talk) 21:33, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
- Thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:49, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
- In general, we do not approve bots to go around simply replacing a redirect with its target, unless the redirect is about to be deleted. It is also against the AWB rules to use AWB to perform that sort of cosmetic change. — Carl (CBM · talk) 17:07, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
- I acknowledged that "we don't simply fix redirects". By "some routine cleanup bots'/ AWB's tasks" I mean that the change should be applied at the same time AWB is being used to make other changes. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:49, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
Delete broken links
Template:CongLinks, used in External links, has a washpo parameter, for Washington Post. The broken links are all alphabetic (plus underlines and possibly commas) but the working ones are a mix of alpha and numbers in two versions. For example, Blanche Lincoln is broken, Dick Durbin works, and anything that looks like f9d0a3fa-4bbc-11e2-8758-b64a2997a921 works. I need a bot to go through and blank out only the broken (old version) instances. 184.78.81.245 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 19:10, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
- Could you please clarify? It appears that an all alphabetic parameter on Dan Coats works just fine. Do the broken links all contain underscores? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 03:12, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
- Should the
|nndb=and|findagrave=parameters also be removed at the same time, since the template no longer supports them? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 03:20, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
- Should the
- Why delete instead of repair? If the link used to be valid at some point, then the material is most likely still there just under a different url. For example, Blanche Lincoln is under /blanche-lincoln/gIQA5gxz9O_topic.html. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 10:36, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
- Deleting would remove the incorrect links that are currently on articles, and would still give the ability to repair later on. However, would you prefer to have a report of all of the parameters that need repairing? GoingBatty (talk) 16:52, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
- GoingBatty, you are absolutely correct about Dan Coats. Would it work to delete washpo parameter values which include an underline? I wouldn't delete findagrave and nndb, as those were removed with no discussion, and Template:NNDB and Template:Find a Grave are widely used. There's often confusion between links acceptable for EL and links which are acceptable as reliable sources for references. Perhaps after the cleanup is done, a list of current Senators and Representatives who lack a washpo parameter would be a useful addition to the relevant Wikipedia Project, or perhaps post an example of the code needed to scan for a missing or valueless parameter in templates, starting from a list of articles such as the members of the 113th Congress. I've now remembered a related broken link problem with the votesmart parameter. I believe those which include alpha characters no longer work. 184.78.81.245 (talk) 17:23, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
BRFA filed here. GoingBatty (talk) 01:51, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
Page purging Null edit bot
Is there a bot that can automatically purge null edit all pages in a category after a specific period of time? -- Toshio Yamaguchi 08:03, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
- Yes, my bot can do either purging or null editing on request. But why will a purge not work? Legoktm (talk) 08:21, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
- I don't know whether a purge is enough or not. The category in question is Category:Non-free files lacking a non-free use rationale for more than 7 days, where I noticed that even after more than 7 days files are not being shown without a null edit to all pages tagged with {{File page NFCC concerns tag}}. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 10:31, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
At Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#COI_Template there are 10 supports and zero opposes for the suggestion that we begin a trial deployment of Template:COI editnotice to Category:Companies based in Idaho. The idea is to eventually apply it to Category: organizations if the template results in a lift in Request Edit submissions. I think there is strong enough consensus to request a bot to begin tagging. If I'm not doing it right, let me know. CorporateM (Talk) 15:24, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
- Two opposes now; maybe I should wait until the commenting is done... CorporateM (Talk) 16:56, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
- Ok, the consensus still looks strong, two opposes and 12+ supports. Can we get a bot to apply Template:COI editnotice to Category:Companies based in Idaho? CorporateM (Talk) 13:03, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
WP:JAZZ redux/revisited
A couple of months ago, Yobot fulfilled a request that I made on behalf of WP:JAZZ; the details are available in the archived discussion. It appears that at least some of the edits need some cleanup:
- The {{WikiProject Jazz}} banner did not inherit the
class=rating from the existing WikiProject banners (or derive it from article's length, or presence of a stub template in the article) - The 'bot always placed the banner at the top of the page, regardless of whether {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} or {{Talkpageheader}} was already present. (In at least one case it fixed a redirect link to {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} but didn't place the new banner inside the shell; in another it actually added the shell but didn't include the banner in it: [3].)
- For pages in the /Songs list, the parameter
songs=yeswas added; it should have beensong=yes(I'm not sure if it affects all the song articles, but I've noticed it with those pages that were originally tagged withalbum=yesand then re-tagged a few minutes later).
I have spot-checked a few dozen edits from Jan. 4-5 and I'm consistently seeing these issues. For example, [4], [5]. Of course where there were no existing assessments, or no banner shell, this is a non-issue (other than not identifying stubs).
I apologize that I didn't spot this and bring it up any sooner. I'm not sure if Yobot (or another 'bot) can simply retrace its earlier steps, or whether it needs to go back through the categories again, but the category scheme remains largely the same (cat. list is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Jazz/Categories. I'm making a few edits to remove red links, add at least one known new category, etc.). If it does need to go through the categories again, maybe tag any new articles along the way, as per the previous request. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 20:20, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
I am sorry my edits weren't perfect. I hope someone helps to fix these because I am busy in real life to deal with this task. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:17, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
Doing... some manually - checking to see how many have |songs=yesbefore proceeding further. GoingBatty (talk) 20:58, 16 March 2013 (UTC)- Magioladitis, my request for auto-assessment may not have been clear in the first place – I very briefly mentioned it in my request and then placed a link to the 2010 request, so it was very easy to miss. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 15:33, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
- BRFA filed here. GoingBatty (talk) 02:04, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
- Based on a suggestion in the BRFA,
|songs=is now also a valid parameter for {{WikiProject Jazz}}. GoingBatty (talk) 21:35, 17 March 2013 (UTC)- Thank you! -- Gyrofrog (talk) 15:33, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
- Based on a suggestion in the BRFA,
- Auto-assessment
Can we get a 'bot to help with the auto-assessment?
- We wish to inherit
class=from other WikiProjects (if any):
- Inherit
class=if only a single rating is available - Inherit
class=if two or more ratings are available; in the event of auto-stub/inherit conflict, inherit the most frequent (or highest)class=rating - Presumably these auto-assessments would be flagged as such, e.g.
|auto=yes|auto=inherit|auto=length|autoi=yes
- Inherit
- Otherwise, tag as
class=stubbased either of the following criteria:
- One or more stub templates in the article
- The text of the article is 2,500 bytes or less
- We do not wish to inherit
importance=ratings.
Thank you! -- Gyrofrog (talk) 15:33, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
Tagging categories for speedy renaming
I have nominated a lot of categories for speedy renaming (at WP:CFD/S), but can't run AWB at the moment, so they are too much work to tag.
Please can a kind bot-owner tag them by inserting {{subst:cfr-speedy}} at the top of each page? --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:32, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
Doing... using AWB Vacation9 23:53, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
- Many thanks :) --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs)
Done after consulting if parameter was needed or not. Vacation9 02:42, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
- That's wonderful. It saved me an hour's work. Thanks again! --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs)
- Many thanks :) --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs)
Category redirects to be created
The following categories were renamed to include a dash instead of a hyphen. Now category redirects are needed. Could someone create them? Armbrust The Homunculus 22:30, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
Over-precise coordinates
As discussed most recently at Over-precise coordinates – things of the past?, {{Coord}} should have values no more precise than 6 decimal places. We have some instance with as many as ten. A bot could usefully truncate any such values at the 6th decimal place. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:46, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
- This seems like a good idea. There was a similar bot-assist effort targeting French communes in January 2012. Note that many overprecise coordinates reach {{Coord}} indirectly, by way of templates such as {{Infobox settlement}}. Also, coordinates in dms format probably should not provide more than 2 decimal places (in the seconds). —Stepheng3 (talk) 21:10, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
- Agreed that we also need to deal with such coordinates in infoboxes; and DMS format. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:18, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
Motorsport in Italy by year
The sub-categories of Category:Motorsport in Italy by year are parented in Category:YYYY in Italy, whereas they should be subcats of Category:YYYY in Italian sport. This needs to be fixed, and I have done Category:1996 in Italian motorsport an example in this edit.
The categories I have checked have made odd usage of {{Year by category}}, and not used the parent parameter, so it seems to me that the best thing to do is to replace the entire content of the category.
The search string only needs to select the whole page while matching the year, and split it into 4 parts: ^.*([12])([890])([0-9])([0-9]).*$
... the replace it with:
{{Cat main|Motorsport in Italy}}
{{Year by category
|m=$1
|c=$2
|d=$3
|y=$4
|cat = in Italian motorsport
|subcat = $1$2$3$4 in Italian sport
|sortkey = Motorsport
|parent = Motorsport in Italy by year
}}
[[Category:$1$2$3$4 in motorsport|Italian]]
Any volunteers? --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 02:40, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
- Doing... manually with AWB. GoingBatty (talk) 18:18, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
- Done. GoingBatty (talk) 18:24, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
- Thank you! --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 11:43, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
Tagging 64 categories for CFD
At CFD 2013 March 17 I have nominated Category:Formula One race reports for renaming, along with its 64 subcategories.
The 64 sub-categories (listed below) are untagged, and I hope that a kind bot-owner could do the job.
It could be done in two ways:
- The simple way
- Insert at the top of the page:
{{subst:cfr|Formula One race reports}}
The resulting notice won't state the renaming target, and it would be better if the rename target was specified.
- Specifying the rename target
- Insert at the top of the page:
{{subst:cfr|$1 Formula One races|Formula One race reports}}
The $1 value for the year can be picked up a regex which by matches the YYYY string at the start of the title of the parent category YYYY in Formula One (e.g. Category:1990 in Formula One).
However, the most important thing is that the categories are tagged today, before the date changes. So the simple tagging is better than no tagging! --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 11:57, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
- Doing... semi-automated with AWB. GoingBatty (talk) 22:19, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
- Done - GoingBatty (talk)`
Dead link george-orwell.org
Would someone with some time please be able to go through and add {{dead link}} to Special:LinkSearch/*.george-orwell.org. One could argue that the links should be stripped altogether as the works are still under copyright in the US and the home nation. — billinghurst sDrewth 22:42, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
- Doing... with AWB - only 23 articles. GoingBatty (talk) 23:26, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
- Done - GoingBatty (talk) 23:53, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
Webcite generation for set of domains that are scheduled to be shutdown
A publisher is set to shut down three major RS sites for video games: 1UP, UGO, and Gamespy. (The sites effectively have stopped publishing but their content is still there, but we have no idea how long that will last). We want to try to webcite these links, a list is given at [6]. We had a previous situation where we knew a web site was going dark in a matter of days and had a bot run through and webcite the links and update the articles, but I'm having problems finding that request from before. Here we don't think we're in as big a rush to fix this but certainly have the issue that we have no idea of the timing here. Is there a bot set up to handle this or would a new one need to be made? --MASEM (t) 17:20, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
- I've been asked to post [7] for Δ. Dru of Id (talk) 19:40, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
- ...who is still working on it. :D Dru of Id (talk) 19:43, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
- Once he's done, I can activate AnomieBOT to add the webcite links to the articles. Anomie⚔ 00:24, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
- ...who is still working on it. :D Dru of Id (talk) 19:43, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
Need help with CfD tagging
I have put in a nomination here to rename all of the by-year categories which currently are subcategories of Category:Events_in_the_Thirteen_Colonies to Category:Events in the British colonies of North America. I put a note on the CfD talk page (per the instructions) for help tagging all of the relevant categories, but someone suggested I try here instead. Can you help? In short, I need to add a CfD note for a rename to all of the 180+ subcategories of [:Category:Events in the Thirteen Colonies] -- Dis/establishment by Year/Decade/Century. There are one per year from 1607 to 1775, plus 18 decade ones, and two centuries. Thankfully, most of the "Disestablishment" categories haven't been created yet. Thank you!! JRP (talk) 07:07, 19 March 2013 (UTC)