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WikiProject Weather
I'm requesting someone with AWB experience to run the editor on the entirety of Category:WikiProject Weather articles. There are countless (thousands?) of references that use {{cite report}} with the |agency= parameter, which breaks the citation. |agency= needs to changed to |author=. wxtrackercody (talk · contributions) 03:20, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
- It looks like many of these "agency" parameters are used with "cite report" template calls, and that "publisher" may be a better alternative parameter name than "author" in such cases, unless already used. The "agency" parameter is valid with other templates such as "cite news". —ADavidB 04:59, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
- Yeah, and in our circumstance, publisher is already used. Here is an example of the types of citations that are causing this issue. This is a report on an individual tornado. The data is collected by the local National Weather Service office (which we have historically/erroneously listed as the agency=). It is published, however, on the National Centers for Environmental Information website (which we have historically listed as the publisher=). We have struggled with the proper way to format these references. It would probably be simplest to just exchange agency= for author=. wxtrackercody (talk · contributions) 05:48, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
- Agreed, on further examination. My AWB usage remains somewhat basic and I encourage others to take on this task. —ADavidB 05:56, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
- I don't think awb request or a sledge hammerapproach is appropriate here at this time. Imstead i think it would be more appropiate to look at theae references properly, have a project discussion on how to cite them better or get the agency parameter added to cite report.06:30, 21 April 2024 (UTC) Jason Rees (talk) 06:30, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
- Agreed, on further examination. My AWB usage remains somewhat basic and I encourage others to take on this task. —ADavidB 05:56, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
- Yeah, and in our circumstance, publisher is already used. Here is an example of the types of citations that are causing this issue. This is a report on an individual tornado. The data is collected by the local National Weather Service office (which we have historically/erroneously listed as the agency=). It is published, however, on the National Centers for Environmental Information website (which we have historically listed as the publisher=). We have struggled with the proper way to format these references. It would probably be simplest to just exchange agency= for author=. wxtrackercody (talk · contributions) 05:48, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
I disagree with Jason Rees (talk · contribs). I think this is a great usage of AWB, as it will correct the thousands of references in one quick action. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 21:19, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
I endorse the request here, though I would clarify the scope of what's requested. Specifically, there is widespread use of {{cite report}} misusing the |agency= parameter specifically for references linking to the Storm Events Database hosted by the National Centers for Environmental Information. In some cases, NCEI is erroneously listed as the agency. In other cases, a weather forecast office of the National Weather Service is erroneously listed as the agency. In either case, the agency parameter should be removed for all {{cite report}} in the aforementioned project category that point to https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/stormevents/ and its subpages (as linked previously). If the |agency= was listed as a forecast office (something of the form National Weather Service Office in Memphis, Tennessee
, though National Weather Service*
may be a reasonable catch-all), then it should be listed as the |author=. If necessary, |publisher=National Centers for Environmental Information should be amended/appended to the citation template. TheAustinMan(Talk ⬩ Edits) 15:04, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
- Bumping this discussion since we are still looking for someone to fulfill this request. There are thousands of broken references currently scattered across the WikiProject, so we would greatly appreciate swift assistance if anyone is available. wxtrackercody (talk · contributions) 06:18, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
- I was hesitant to take on another reference task, if you are still looking for someone in a day or two I can get to it. Geardona (talk to me?) 11:10, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
- Seeing as no-one else has taken this on, consider me
Working. Geardona (talk to me?) 01:50, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
- Sorry, I am struggling to fully understand the request, I have looked through the category randomly, and haven't found anything really sounding like what you are describing. Is it possible for one of you to manually make an example edit? Geardona (talk to me?) 00:43, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Geardona: The vast majority of broken references will be on tornado list pages, but they're scattered all throughout the category. The May 2019 list (and all list pages like that) are a great example of the issue we're facing. In all of these references, the local NWS office is listed as the agency. Since that is the wrong parameter to be using/because agency= is deprecated in the cite report template, agency= needs to be changed to author= in all cases where a local NWS office is listed. Please refer to TheAustinMan's comment for how this applies more broadly. wxtrackercody (talk · contributions) 01:43, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
- There are 325 pages using the {{cite report}} template with agency parameter that need fixing. I can do it, but since Geardona is up for the task, I'm leaving it to them. Geardona, could you please find instances of
{{cite report|agency=
in these pages and replace them with{{cite report|author=
. There may be more pages that use the cite report template with agency parameter. We can find and fix them once these 325 pages are fixed.Thank you. – DreamRimmer (talk) 13:06, 2 June 2024 (UTC)- @Wxtrackercody, I made an example edit here. Could you please check it? – DreamRimmer (talk) 13:15, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
- @DreamRimmer: This is exactly what we are looking for. :) wxtrackercody (talk · contributions) 19:56, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
- I read the documentation for the Storm Data website, which is published by NOAA. The documentation is here. Storm Data aggregate information from many sources, including first person, media, WFOs etc.. they then re-publish the aggregate results in Storm Data. As such, the author is technically Storm Data, but this is also the
|work=
, so there would be no author listed. Normally on Wikipedia we only list the author to help readers find and verify a citation. Since the citation is to Storm Data, that is all that is needed ie.|work=Storm Data
. Everything else is extraneous and not what the citation system was mean to do. It looks like trying to re-create sub-elements of the Storm Data database within the CS1|2 system. Another way to say this, it is citing two sources in a single citation: the Storm Data citation, and also citing the WFO and/or whatever other sources used by Storm Data. It's a sign of a problem. -- GreenC 20:33, 2 June 2024 (UTC)- I'm not an expert in referencing. I would just point out that the local NWS offices are responsible for submitting the NCEI entries. Whether the tornado was reported by someone out and about, evident on radar, or found in a damage survey after the fact, the local offices are singularly responsible for confirming the tornadoes and then finalizing them to send over to NCEI for Storm Data. I'm not sure if that changes your point here. wxtrackercody (talk · contributions) 21:42, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
- I'm having a hard time understanding the Storm Data report page because there is no apparent unique identifier (for the report). There is a code in the URL
id=814712
but that could be a website software code that could change. In these cases the URL itself is the key. But that is fragile, because they will in the future abandon this system and make a new one that may not have a 1:1 conversion eg. no redirects. So assuming the current Storm Data site is defunded or changed, they make a new system without redirects - a common scenario for government sites. How would you track down the report at the new site. Going by title only "Kentucky Even Report: EF1 Tornado" is not enough. The citation would probably need to contain the event date at least, to remain verifiable for the long term. - It could look like this:
- Event Report: Kentucky: EF1 Tornado: 2019-05-01 05:08 CST-6. Storm Data (Report). Retrieved 2024-06-01.
- Depending how many Storm Data links there are it might benefit from a custom template.-- GreenC 01:16, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for the response. For now, I'd like the agency= to author= request to be processed simply so we can remedy the thousands of broken references. After that, I will refer the project back to what you said so we can figure out a more suitable way to cite them moving forward. wxtrackercody (talk · contributions) 18:22, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- Seeing no objection to this much more limited scope, I will work on this tomorrow. Geardona (talk to me?) 03:16, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for the response. For now, I'd like the agency= to author= request to be processed simply so we can remedy the thousands of broken references. After that, I will refer the project back to what you said so we can figure out a more suitable way to cite them moving forward. wxtrackercody (talk · contributions) 18:22, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- I'm having a hard time understanding the Storm Data report page because there is no apparent unique identifier (for the report). There is a code in the URL
- I'm not an expert in referencing. I would just point out that the local NWS offices are responsible for submitting the NCEI entries. Whether the tornado was reported by someone out and about, evident on radar, or found in a damage survey after the fact, the local offices are singularly responsible for confirming the tornadoes and then finalizing them to send over to NCEI for Storm Data. I'm not sure if that changes your point here. wxtrackercody (talk · contributions) 21:42, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
- I read the documentation for the Storm Data website, which is published by NOAA. The documentation is here. Storm Data aggregate information from many sources, including first person, media, WFOs etc.. they then re-publish the aggregate results in Storm Data. As such, the author is technically Storm Data, but this is also the
- @DreamRimmer: This is exactly what we are looking for. :) wxtrackercody (talk · contributions) 19:56, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Wxtrackercody, I made an example edit here. Could you please check it? – DreamRimmer (talk) 13:15, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
- There are 325 pages using the {{cite report}} template with agency parameter that need fixing. I can do it, but since Geardona is up for the task, I'm leaving it to them. Geardona, could you please find instances of
- @Geardona: The vast majority of broken references will be on tornado list pages, but they're scattered all throughout the category. The May 2019 list (and all list pages like that) are a great example of the issue we're facing. In all of these references, the local NWS office is listed as the agency. Since that is the wrong parameter to be using/because agency= is deprecated in the cite report template, agency= needs to be changed to author= in all cases where a local NWS office is listed. Please refer to TheAustinMan's comment for how this applies more broadly. wxtrackercody (talk · contributions) 01:43, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
Wikilink all instances of both Champion Data and AFL Tables
I have recently created stub articles for both Champion Data and AFL Tables, which are major statistical players in the Australian Football League and have been referenced consistently across Wikipedia.
I am now please seeking an automation to add wikilinks to all instances of each phrase on Wikipedia.
- There are 58 instances of Champion Data that require wikilinking
- There 13,839 instances of AFL Tables that require wikilinking
I understand the second request is quite arduous! I hope there is not much human intervention required here; it shouldn't be the case as they are mostly part of citations / references. Please let me know if there is anything else required on my end. Thank you! Gibbsyspin 13:37, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
- I think that, to avoid CONTEXTBOT issues, the approach here is to only touch instances in citations, where afltables.com is present elsewhere within the ref tags. Probably could be done with an AWB bot. Would need a BRfA. Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 15:04, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
- The AFL Tables article is two days old and already has a WP:GNG tag. Linking it 13,000 times should probably wait until it's avoided deletion for a couple of months. Aspirex (talk) 13:17, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
- The AFL Tables article has now been userfied with a view to merging into an as yet unwritten article about AFL analytics. The current request related to AFL Tables should go on hold. We will revisit in the future with a request to wikilink all instances of AFL Tables to a section or anchor within that future article. Aspirex (talk) 11:59, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
- The AFL Tables article is two days old and already has a WP:GNG tag. Linking it 13,000 times should probably wait until it's avoided deletion for a couple of months. Aspirex (talk) 13:17, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
Google garbage added to URLs
Weird URLs. Garbage characters need to be removed from URLs. They are in 348 pages. I think this could be a regex search-replace. -- GreenC 02:52, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
- I'll see if I can write something to get this done when I get home. Rusty4321 talk contribs 18:04, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
Error in Women in Red newsletter
Hello friends, as per this kind message from @Jonesey95, an error crept in the most recent Women in Red newsletter, see this diff. Would someone be able to fix it. I'm aware there have been a couple more of these syntax errors over the past year or so. I'm going install the Syntax highlighter myself, and encourage other team members who write the invitations to do so too. Many thanks to the AWB cm=ommunity for your help! Lajmmoore (talk) 07:18, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
- I could fix this super easily, although it really shouldn’t be done by anyone without a bot flag. (It would trigger notifications) (just use this no regex needed '''''[[Find a Grave]]'''-> '''[[Find a Grave]]''' ) Geardona (talk to me?) 11:06, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
- Looks like around 1400 pages affected in user talk space. Lajmmoore, if you know of other specific Signpost issues list them here and I'll see about getting a BRFA filed. Primefac (talk) 11:54, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
- There is this one also, from November 2023. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:17, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
- BRFA running. Might miss a few pages but the bulk should get sorted. Primefac (talk) 13:39, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
- There is this one also, from November 2023. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:17, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
- Looks like around 1400 pages affected in user talk space. Lajmmoore, if you know of other specific Signpost issues list them here and I'll see about getting a BRFA filed. Primefac (talk) 11:54, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
Add references to a list-defined references section
In the articles List of nearest giant stars and list of nearest supergiants, i suggest moving all references to a list-defined references section, in order to avoid cluttering the text and make the article better to edit with source editor. InTheAstronomy32 (talk) 19:12, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
- @InTheAstronomy32: Have you gained consensus for it on the talk pages yet? Rusty4321 talk contribs 22:12, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
- No, but i am the page creator and this change will have no difference for readers. InTheAstronomy32 (talk) 22:16, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
- This sounds more like a task to be done by hand, only two articles need editing if I understand?@InTheAstronomy32 Geardona (talk to me?) 00:48, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Geardona: Over 75 references in each article. Doesn't necessarily need AWB though.
- For anyone interested, here's a general idea of I think how this would go:
- Match a named reference. (process it so that you get two variables, the reference name and the ref body.)
- Replace the match with a named reference invocation. (is that what it is called?)
- Append the reference to the reflist.
- Rusty4321 talk contribs 01:33, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
- Having done this on a similar article and a half-dozen others, I can say that the easiest way to do it is just cut/paste the references into a text document (leaving behind the named ref tag itself) and then copy/paste the final list back into the article. I don't think AWB will make it any easier, and you'll spend more time coding it than just doing it by hand. Primefac (talk) 11:41, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
Requesting Tag for other categories
I've tagged a category for deletion at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2024_June_4#Category:Crime_action_films. I would like all of its sub-categories also nominated for the same reason (I've listed them at the discussion request). I was suggested to come here to get that done and so they point to the above discussion so we don't have dozens of scattered requests. Is that possible? Andrzejbanas (talk) 12:10, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
- Doing – DreamRimmer (talk) 12:16, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
- DreamRimmer, apologies for treading on your toes, but would you mind if I could test my script for this (User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/massXFD.js)? — Qwerfjkltalk 12:38, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
- Sure, no problem. I only did two; you can do the rest. – DreamRimmer (talk) 12:40, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
- DreamRimmer, thanks. Luckily no bugs.
Done, tagged 38 (remaining) categories and notified 7 users. — Qwerfjkltalk 12:46, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
- Yeah, I checked the edits. Looks great! Thanks for this script. – DreamRimmer (talk) 12:49, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
- DreamRimmer, thanks. Luckily no bugs.
- Sure, no problem. I only did two; you can do the rest. – DreamRimmer (talk) 12:40, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
- DreamRimmer, apologies for treading on your toes, but would you mind if I could test my script for this (User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/massXFD.js)? — Qwerfjkltalk 12:38, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
Request for syntax error fix on recent WP:GOCE mass message
This is a request to apply this syntax error fix to the User Talk pages listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Mailing List. We at the Guild of Copy Editors mistakenly sent out a mass message with four unbalanced bold tags to 760 pages. Thanks to anyone who can take it on. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:23, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
- I can take a look at this when I get home from school. Rusty4321 talk contribs 19:49, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks. This might also be a good task for a bot. Maybe Primefac if they have time. There are more mass messages out there like this. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:20, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
- Yeah, I filed a BRFA a few hours ago, but it hasn't received a response yet. I have pywikibot basically ready to go. Rusty4321 talk contribs 01:26, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
- BRFA is not a fast process. Primefac (talk) 10:46, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Primefac: Sorry for the misunderstanding; I didn't mean to say it was a fast process, but just wanted to say that I hadn't received a BAG response on my BRFA. Rusty4321 talk contribs 16:43, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
- BRFA is not a fast process. Primefac (talk) 10:46, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
- Yeah, I filed a BRFA a few hours ago, but it hasn't received a response yet. I have pywikibot basically ready to go. Rusty4321 talk contribs 01:26, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks. This might also be a good task for a bot. Maybe Primefac if they have time. There are more mass messages out there like this. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:20, 11 June 2024 (UTC)