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This page is for tasks that involve changing the same code in multiple articles. This is a great fit for editors with AutoWikiBrowser permissions.

Please note that Wikipedia:Bot requests sometimes has one-time tasks which can be done easily using AWB.

See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia.

Replace category with template

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)

Fort Bragg renaming

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

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)

URL change of newspaper archive

The newspaper archive of Singapore, NewspaperSG has moved its newspaper archive url from eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19331015.2.83 to eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/articles/straitstimes19331015.2.83 . You can use the first three references from Lim Yong Liang as an example. While the case change does not affect the url, the introduction of a s break the url. This should be a quick and easy change. Appreciate if anyone can assist with this. Thanks. Justanothersgwikieditor (talk) 02:33, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

3,132 hits is a lot for AWB. Might need a WP:BOTREQ WP:URLREQ. –Novem Linguae (talk) 02:38, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

Oh, here's a better query: 2,833 –Novem Linguae (talk) 03:16, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

@Novem Linguae as per below, will bring it up at the other venue. Thanks. Justanothersgwikieditor (talk) 03:28, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

• @Justanothersgwikieditor: Hi. This request/task would be more well suited at WP:URLREQ. —usernamekiran (talk) 03:22, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

  @Usernamekiran Noted. Will bring it up over there instead. Justanothersgwikieditor (talk) 03:28, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

  Thank you. Note that URL changes have a lot of complications such as archive URLs, templates, dead links, link verification etc.. thus the need for a special bot and URLREQ. -- GreenC 03:45, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

• @Justanothersgwikieditor: I (tried the new URL and the new link gave me an error from eresources. Can you please check on the new URL format and make sure you've copied it correctly here? VanIsaac, GHTV ^cont_WpWS 03:28, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

  The new link works for me: [1] -- GreenC 03:47, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

  @Vanisaac Oh I omitted the required https in front of the url as I could not get a proper formatting that I like, if you used the example article actual link as mentioned, it should work. And I planning to put up the request at WP:URLREQ as advised. Justanothersgwikieditor (talk) 03:49, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

  @Justanothersgwikieditor: I don't think it's necessary now, as GreenC usually handles almost all of the URL related requests. This venue is also correct, and it is generally good to keep the discussion in one place :-) —usernamekiran (talk) 10:01, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

Quick category cleanup

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 [2] (~204), no in others [3] (~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)

•  Done, 292 pages saved. Had to do a few by hand when line breaks didn't correspond to the end of the category call. VanIsaac, GHTV ^cont_WpWS 08:07, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

CfD cleanup

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)

•  Done VanIsaac, GHTV ^cont_WpWS 01:05, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

  I intended to de-categorize all the redirects, but the category that was merged will be gone shortly. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 02:42, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

Request: Move links from Daughter of the Bride to Family Video Diaries: Daughter of the Bride

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.

• Marcia Gay Harden
• Aidan Quinn
• Halston Sage
• List of female Academy Award winners and nominees for non-gendered categories
• Michael Hsu Rosen

—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)