Wikipedia:Bot requests

For the policy on bot requirements, see WP:BOTREQUIRE.

This is a page for requesting tasks to be done by bots per the bot policy. This is an appropriate place to put ideas for uncontroversial bot tasks, to get early feedback on ideas for bot tasks (controversial or not), and to seek bot operators for bot tasks. Consensus-building discussions requiring large community input (such as request for comments) should normally be held at WP:VPPROP or other relevant pages (such as a WikiProject's talk page).

You can check the "Commonly Requested Bots" box above to see if a suitable bot already exists for the task you have in mind. If you have a question about a particular bot, contact the bot operator directly via their talk page or the bot's talk page. If a bot is acting improperly, follow the guidance outlined in WP:BOTISSUE. For broader issues and general discussion about bots, see the bot noticeboard.

Before making a request, please see the list of frequently denied bots, either because they are too complicated to program, or do not have consensus from the Wikipedia community. If you are requesting that a template (such as a WikiProject banner) is added to all pages in a particular category, please be careful to check the category tree for any unwanted subcategories. It is best to give a complete list of categories that should be worked through individually, rather than one category to be analyzed recursively (see example difference).

Alternatives to bot requests

• WP:AWBREQ, for simple tasks that involve a handful of articles and/or only needs to be done once (e.g. adding a category to a few articles).
• WP:URLREQ, for tasks involving changing or updating URLs to prevent link rot (specialized bots deal with this).
• WP:SQLREQ, for tasks which might be solved with an SQL query (e.g. compiling a list of articles according to certain criteria).
• WP:TEMPREQ, to request a new template written in wiki code or Lua.
• WP:SCRIPTREQ, to request a new user script. Many useful scripts already exist, see Wikipedia:User scripts/List.
• WP:CITEBOTREQ, to request a new feature for WP:Citation bot, a user-initiated bot that fixes citations.

Note to bot operators: The {{BOTREQ}} template can be used to give common responses, and make it easier to keep track of the task's current status. If you complete a request, note that you did with {{BOTREQ|done}}, and archive the request after a few days (WP:1CA is useful here).

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#	Bot request	Status	💬	👥	🙋 Last editor	🕒 (UTC)	🤖 Last botop editor	🕒 (UTC)
1	Automatic NOGALLERY keyword for categories containing non-free files (again)		27	11	Anomie	2024-08-04 14:09	Anomie	2024-08-04 14:09
2	Clear Category:Unlinked Wikidata redirects		9	6	Wikiwerner	2024-07-13 14:04	DreamRimmer	2024-04-21 03:28
3	Fixing stub tag placement on new articles	Not a good task for a bot.	5	4	Tom.Reding	2024-07-16 08:10	Tom.Reding	2024-07-16 08:10
4	Adding Facility IDs to AM/FM/LPFM station data	Y Done	13	3	HouseBlaster	2024-07-25 12:42	Mdann52	2024-07-25 05:23
5	Tagging women's basketball article talk pages with project tags	Y Done	20	4	Usernamekiran	2024-09-05 16:55	Usernamekiran	2024-09-05 16:55
6	Bot that condenses identical references	Coding...	12	6	ActivelyDisinterested	2024-08-03 20:48	Headbomb	2024-06-18 00:34
7	Bot to remove template from articles it doesn't belong on?		3	3	Thryduulf	2024-08-03 10:22	Primefac	2024-07-24 20:15
8	One-off: Adding all module doc pages to Category:Module documentation pages		7	3	Andrybak	2024-09-01 00:34	Primefac	2024-07-25 12:22
9	Draft Categories		13	6	Bearcat	2024-08-09 04:24	DannyS712	2024-07-27 07:30
10	Remove new article comments		3	2	142.113.140.146	2024-07-28 22:33	Usernamekiran	2024-07-27 07:50
11	Removing Template:midsize from infobox parameters (violation of MOS:SMALLFONT)	Resolved	14	2	Qwerfjkl	2024-07-29 08:15	Qwerfjkl	2024-07-29 08:15
12	Change stadium to somerhing else in the template:Infobox Olympic games	Needs wider discussion.	8	5	Jonesey95	2024-07-29 14:57	Primefac	2024-07-29 13:48
13	Change hyphens to en-dashes		16	7	1ctinus	2024-08-03 15:05	Qwerfjkl	2024-07-31 09:09
14	Consensus: Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo		17	5	Dicklyon	2024-08-14 14:43	Qwerfjkl	2024-08-02 20:23
15	Cyclones		3	2	OhHaiMark	2024-08-05 22:21	Mdann52	2024-08-05 16:07
16	Substing int message headings on filepages		8	4	Jonteemil	2024-08-07 23:13	Primefac	2024-08-07 14:02
17	Removing redundant FURs on file pages		4	2	Jonteemil	2024-08-12 20:26	Anomie	2024-08-09 14:15
18	Need help with a super widespread typo: Washington, D.C (also U.S.A)		32	10	Jonesey95	2024-08-26 16:55	Qwerfjkl	2024-08-21 15:08
19	Dutch IPA		4	3	IvanScrooge98	2024-08-25 14:11
20	AnandTech shuts down		9	6	GreenC	2024-09-01 18:39	Primefac	2024-09-01 17:28
21	Date formatting on 9/11 biography articles		5	2	Zeke, the Mad Horrorist	2024-09-01 16:27
22	Discussion alert bot		6	4	Headbomb	2024-09-08 12:29	Headbomb	2024-09-08 12:29
23	Regularly removing {{coords missing}} if coordinates are present	BRFA filed	11	2	Usernamekiran	2024-09-07 13:19	Usernamekiran	2024-09-07 13:19
24	Latex: move punctuation to go inside templates		3	2	Yodo9000	2024-09-07 18:59	Anomie	2024-09-07 03:38
25	Removing spurious nobot notice	BRFA filed	4	2	DreamRimmer	2024-09-07 12:55	DreamRimmer	2024-09-07 12:55
26	de-AMP bot	Resolved	4	3	Primefac	2024-09-09 16:01	Primefac	2024-09-09 16:01

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Templates transcluded more than once on a single page?

Not sure if this is necessarily the best place to ask, but is there any way of finding pages where a template is transcluded more than once? Specifically I would like to find any talk pages where {{WPBiography}} has multiple transclusions. PC78 (talk) 22:49, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

I might be able to put such a tool together. I'll get back to you on that. @harej 14:35, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

(Bump, because I don't want to lose this in the archives.) Any progress with this? PC78 (talk) 23:49, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

It wouldn't be possible with an SQL query tool since the database only contains unique links and templates for each page. The easiest way then is to scan the dump (regex: \{\{WPBiography.*?\{\{WPBiography). — Dispenser 04:26, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Would someone be able to do this? All I need is a list of pages, even if it just turns out to be a handfull. The problem is that some people have been using two instances of {{WPBiography}} on a single talk page to overcome limitations in that template's coding. This can be rectified, but I need to know where this has been happening. PC78 (talk) 22:36, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Replacement of prettytable

Could a bot replace all uses of prettytable (using wikitable), since the class is in shared.css? This is to remove the definition of prettytable in common.css. Locos epraix ~ Beastepraix 16:05, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Replace them with what? @harej 22:57, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

class="prettytable" → class="wikitable" Locos epraix ~ Beastepraix 23:23, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

The big obstacle would be generating a list of pages that use prettytable. In the meantime, would it be possible to establish prettytable as an alias of wikitable, then get rid of prettytable? @harej 23:43, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

Scanning a dump? Anyway, it already works the same, it's just to drop the CSS class in the local common.css and to give more standardized class name to tables. Locos epraix ~ Beastepraix 16:43, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/LawBot --MZMcBride (talk) 19:25, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

missing fields in {{GNF Ortholog box}}

All, as part of the Gene Wiki effort, we apparently created a bunch of {{GNF Ortholog box}}es with two missing parameters. It worked fine at the time, but due to updated data those missing parameters now create incorrect links. Unfortunately the student who did it is gone, and I'm hoping someone here can help with a few thousand simple changes. The pages are all listed here (subpages of {{PBB}}), and I've made one example change here. Anyone willing to help out with this? Cheers, AndrewGNF (talk) 18:58, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

This looks very straight forward. I volunteer to do it. Cheers. Boghog (talk) 19:11, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Great! Thanks, as always... Cheers, AndrewGNF (talk) 19:48, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Y Done Boghog (talk) 15:51, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Coordinates for features off-Earth

Martian

Can someone with a Bot please edit List of craters on Mars & List of mountains on Mars replacing the two latitude & longitude columns with a single coordinates column, using {{Coord}}. For example, the first row on craters would contain {{Coord|16.1|N|249.0|W|globe:Mars_type:landmark}}; the first on mountains would be {{Coord|19.0|209.6|globe:Mars_type:mountain}}, but the second there would be {{Coord|-30.1|273.4|globe:Mars_type:mountain}}. I've done the smaller List of catenae on Mars manually, by way of illustrating the desired outcome. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 13:07, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

A script is what you are asking for, more than a bot. I convert the craters page, but then reverted it. The problem is that WP will crash if you try to have too many template transclusions on one page. All the transclusions after a particular point are broken. The page should first be split into smaller pages (already way too big), then the links can be added back again. For example, A-K, L-T, U-Z or something. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 15:45, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Okay, the craters page is done. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 16:39, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Bot, script, same difference ;-) Thank you for that. There are still 528 instances on the first article; I think it's probably worth dividing that again. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 17:31, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Please note that you really should be use the name= parameter to distinguish the different spots. — Dispenser 03:15, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

{{coord}}'s name parameter is broken, as I've reported previously. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 10:01, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

"The name parameter would remain, still hidden, for use by other services. Andy Mabbett". GeoHack, WikiMiniAtlas, ghel, and many text parsers would still be able to make use of the extra infromation. Especially GeoHack as it would list the feature name instead of printing "List of XXX on Mars". — Dispenser 11:25, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Indeed - which is why I suggested removing the unwanted and redundant microformat markup from Coord, rather than removing the parameter all together. Until the former (or indeed the latter) is done, the parameter is still broken. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 17:13, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Lunar

Similar to the above; to go through the categories for features on the Moon, and change coordinates as in this edit. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 15:18, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Bot to take over categorising unsourced articles from User:Erik9bot

Hi there. As Erik9bot (BRFA · contribs · actions log · block log · flag log · user rights) has now been blocked as a sockpuppet, along with it's operator. We have Category:Articles lacking sources (Erik9bot) no longer being maintained. If anyone is keen to step forward to maintain a similar category, that would be appreciated. Best, - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 20:54, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

As I noted at AN/I, I'd like to see a broader discussion about the general usefulness of a category like this and the best way to implement it. --MZMcBride (talk) 20:55, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Is there any particular reason why this category was created instead of just having the bot add {{uncategorized}}{{unreferenced}}? I could probably be persuaded to (re-)create the bot task if there is consensus to do so... Although, it would be more useful (and a more interesting programming task to me) to create a bot that can at least classify some article itself. Not sure if the community would be willing to trust such a bot though. Edit: Got confused with one of the bots other tasks, which was to add {{uncategorized}} to articles.--ThaddeusB (talk) 21:06, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

I can't see any reason to use this instead of {{unreferenced}}. — Jake Wartenberg 21:43, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Yes, direct category inclusion doesn't make any sense here. A template can adjust the category on thousands of pages with a single edit, can support parameters (maybe something like {{unreferenced|bot=true}}), and is the standard form for tagging unreferenced articles. If ThaddeusB or another bot op can't be found to run this task, I may be able to. --MZMcBride (talk) 21:56, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

I know that consensus has existed for this bot for some time but I'd like to at least raise some questions about not using a separate category. The bot checks for inline citations--it's not appropriate to tag an article as unreferenced if it contains references other than inline citations. There are still many thousands of our older articles that contain parenthetical citations. These need to be dealt with but I don't see the point in just lumping them in to the unreferenced category. A bot like this is only useful if it does something hidden that a human can then follow up on. Chick Bowen 22:23, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

"A bot like this is only useful if it does something hidden that a human can then follow up on.", as far as I am aware, the said category is set up as a hidden category so it doesn't show up on the said articles pages unless the user has enabled said option within their preferences, so it is kind of hidden so that humans can check them. Humans are checking the category, I know WP:CSQ is working on it but that category does have quite a backlog to see any noticeable backlog progress. Peachey88 ^{(Talk Page · Contribs)} 23:51, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

That has been the case, yes. I'm arguing that it should remain the case. Sorry if that wasn't clear. Chick Bowen 00:43, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

In response to the above, there is no reason a bot can't detect "other types of references". In fact, that might be an interesting extension of its functionality. For example, it could flag articles with external links only with a more specific tag than "unreferenced" and could possible add a "nofootnotes" tag to article where that applies.

If a separate category for bot tagged pages is really desirable, I would think the best way to obtain it is via a "bot=" parameter to the existing template(s). --ThaddeusB (talk) 01:53, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

I would really be against the mass adding of the unreferenced templates via bot. those templates are garish, adding a hidden category for humans to follow up on is a better option. it tags the article for review without plastering a ugly template that takes over half the page. (a lot of these are stubs). β^_command 02:04, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

If it uses "bot=true" then we could hide it. I would even support hiding all maintenance templates by default, and having editors opt-in via css... –xeno^talk 02:09, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Some templates the reader should know about, unrefs if its confirmed and an issue with the article, NPOV, COI and a few others. β^_command 02:11, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Yea, I was going to mention there were a few that should display. We could also allow "small=yes" the way it is done with protection templates. This is probably a discussion for elsewhere, though. –xeno^talk 02:14, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

For reference, I just read through the BRFA for the original task & I see the reason the template wasn't used is because some very vocal editors (who more or less objected to the existence of the tag to begin with) showed up & forced a compromise of categorization only. Personally, I think this was a very bad idea as if Erik9bot was shut down or abandoned for any reason, the category would instantly become a liability. As noted, the template can be hidden if that is the only issue.

Of course, there is perhaps a legitimate complaint to be made that the task is pointless given the massive backlog of unsourced articles already tagged. --ThaddeusB (talk) 02:21, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

As a contributing editor to WP:CSQ I would like to encourage another bot to take over the managing Category:Articles_lacking_sources_(Erik9bot) probably rename the category to Category:Articles_lacking_sources_CSQ. While the number of articles in the category is large, once they have all been identified it should not grow. The current inventory is mostly if not all older articles from 2001 - 2004 with a few up to 2006. Current rules and new article patrols ensure that new articles meet at least basic expectations of WP:V so there is little if any creation of new articles without references. Jeepday (talk) 18:06, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Bot to replace image redirects?

Is there a bot that replaces file links that are actually links to redirects? With file renaming for admins re-enabled, a lot of redirects will be generated for files but not replaced in the articles. Does such a bot already operate or, if not, can we create one? Preferably, it should also have admin flags to delete those redirects afterwards, but that's not needed. Regards SoWhy 07:59, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Errr, the entire point of redirects is that you don't need to update the pages using them.... I'm confused. --MZMcBride (talk) 08:11, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Actually, the whole point is that different, likely names for the same thing lead to the same place, isn't it? When an article uses an image like File:DSC 0024.JPG somewhere in the wikitext, people will probably be confused as to what the image is about. On the other hand, if they read File:Canmore Museum and Geoscience Centre.jpg in the editing window, they will likely understand what the image is about, making editing easier. Regards SoWhy 08:28, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

I agree with SoWhy here, and when I saw the thread on WT:RFA I actually thought about using a bot to clean-up after moves. There isn't a bot which does it currently I don't think, it may however be possible by using AWB find & replace. Are you wanting to delete the old images once they have been removed from articles? - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 08:37, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

I would take special note of bugzilla:15842#c15. --MZMcBride (talk) 08:44, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

I think as long as we keep the redirect their and just bypass it with a bot it would be ok. (Ill ask brion when I see him next) β^_command 13:21, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Sounds like WP:R#NOTBROKEN to me, unless Template:Bug isn't going to be fixed any time soon. Note that the File:DSC 0024.JPG example is a red herring, it could easily enough be taken care of under WP:CSD#R3. Anomie⚔ 17:34, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

We also aren't the only ones using them, MediaWiki has a feature called ForeignRepo's that allow site operators the ability to pull in remote images from sites such as Commons and En.Wikipedia and we currently have no way to know who is using what images, therefore removing redirects may be harmful to other people and not just us. Peachey88 ^{(Talk Page · Contribs)} 23:36, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

And that was what brion said he would de-sysop over. Im all for changing the file names, and leaving the redirects unless there are other circumstances. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Betacommand (talk • contribs)

Actually, the removal of those redirects is not the main reason for this request, so please don't let the discussion be distracted by it. I don't care whether the redirects are deleted or not but I think the redirect names in articles should be replaced no matter what. The File:DSC 0024.JPG example is only a red herring when it comes to deleting the redirect but having the name in the wikitext is still confusing. Regards SoWhy 21:32, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

Not really, it's no different than having a article redirect in a article, of which there are many around. Peachey88 ^{(Talk Page · Contribs)} 03:28, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

References bot?

Noting the Help:Footnotes#List-defined references change, I wonder if there's utility in a bot wandering through articles munging ref data out of the article body and into the reference space at the foot of the article? Seems to me that would clean up the scary reference text in articles which surely intimidates newbies and some oldsters. --Tagishsimon (talk) 11:46, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Ive got a tool that assists but be careful it does have a few bugs still. http://toolserver.org/~betacommand/cgi-bin/fix_refs?ip=Pear (replace Pear with what ever article title you have). β^_command 13:19, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

I haven't yet seen any consensus (or even discussion to try to find a consensus) for wholesale munging of articles in this manner. So it is certainly too early to be requesting a bot, and IMO mass edits to do so would also be premature. Anomie⚔ 17:36, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Deal or No Deal (US) models self-redirects

Deal or No Deal (US) models is a large list of people. Each name on the list is a wikilink. Almost all of these links lead to redirects, which then lead back to the article.

I'm not sure of what the right thing to do here is, but the existing situation is ridiculous, and fixing it would be hard to do manually. Rees11 (talk) 17:26, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

AFD imo. –xeno^talk 15:25, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Even better. Thank you. Rees11 (talk) 15:33, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Template G8 upgrade

(I think this is a job for someone with AWB.) Please change all articles using {{Infobox G8}} to use the new |date= parameter, with {{Start date}}, and the template's new name, {{Infobox summit}}, as in this edit. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 11:25, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

RTÉ News and Current Affairs

If all links to RTÉ News and Current Affairs could be corrected, that would be brilliant. The links I am requesting to be corrected are: RTE News, RTÉ News and RTÉ News And Current Affairs, all to go to RTÉ News and Current Affairs. I could not possibly do the work on my own. Thanks,  Cargoking  talk  13:04, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Are you asking for the link title to be change or are you asking to bypass the redirect. If the latter, don't do it per WP:R2D. Also, don't mark the start of new discussions as minor. — Dispenser 22:27, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

I am withdrawing the request.  Cargoking  talk  07:08, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Automatic creation of translation requests from Wikipedia:Find-A-Grave famous people

I posted the request below three weeks ago and got no response so I'll ask again. I understand that it's more complex than most requests posted here but I'm hoping that someone will eventually take a stab at it.

Ok, this is probably a bit of a pain to program but it would be a big help. Wikipedia:Find-A-Grave famous people is a subproject of WP:MISSING that tries to identify missing articles about notable dead people. There's been quite a lot of work on these lists to classify the individuals and in many cases articles exist in wikis in other languages. When this is the case, a link has been created to such articles. For instance, at the top of the list Wikipedia:Find-A-Grave famous people/A you find links to the es.wiki articles about Anny Ahlers and Anselmo Aieta. What I would like is to have a bot create translation requests for such entries. I estimate that there are a few hundred of these. I'll check the translation requests manually but I'd be grateful if a bot can generate them. Let me know if you need any xtra info for the task. Thanks, Pichpich (talk) 16:39, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Knowing what a translation request is and how one is filed would be helpful. --Cybercobra (talk) 07:28, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

I was about to give you a nice little description and went to re-read Wikipedia:Translation for details. The translation system has however been completely overhauled. I was completely unaware of this and it makes the above request pretty much impossible. Pichpich (talk) 18:51, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

{{WikiProject Disambiguation|class=dab}}

Ensure all occurrences of {{WikiProject Disambiguation}} on Dab article talk pages include the paramenter "|class=Dab". This will ensure that the my preferences option on the Gadget tab to display an assessment of an article's quality as part of the page header for each article interprets dab pages correctly.

For bonus marks:

1. convert all occurrences of {{DisambigProject}} to {{WikiProject Disambiguation|class=dab}} as the former does not seem to support the "|class=Dab" parameter.
2. remove the unused "|importance=" parameter from any instances of {{WikiProject Disambiguation}} that contain it.

-Arb. (talk) 16:47, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

{{WikiProject Disambiguation}} is a redirect to {{DisambigProject}} (which, as noted, does not use a class parameter), and has been since 2007, which makes this request seem somewhat pointless. Also, has this request been run by the project in question? Anomie⚔ 20:56, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

You are right, should have run it past the project first. That is now in progress so let's suspend this request until the outcome of that discussion is clear. -Arb. (talk) 22:26, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

I've already commented at Template talk:DisambigProject, but I'll reiterate what I said here: it would be more desirable to seek changes in the behaviour of the gadget than to add a redundant |class= parameter to the banner. PC78 (talk) 01:17, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Request withdrawn: It is clearly the wrong way to deal with what turns out to be a long standing bug in the gadget. -Arb. (talk) 12:15, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Birmingham.gov.uk URLs

As mentioned some time ago, Birmingham.gov.uk URLs in the form http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/parks.bcc (of which there are many on Wikipedia) have dropped the four-character .bcc suffix, thus: http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/parks. Please can someone update all these? BCCWebTeam (talk) 15:02, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Y Done on 14 wikimedia projects (one wikibooks, the rest were wikipedias), but there where two urls that could not be replaced, because of a 404 error:

• http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/blackpresence.bcc in Smithfield, Birmingham
• http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/adulteducation.bcc in Birmingham

Merlissimo 22:55, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

periods before and after references

There's a common sort of error that I find myself fixing repeatedly. Some sentences have the refs supporting the sentence at the end right before the period, some right after (and I'll grant that I'm not sure which is right)... but a surprisingly large number have had editing and end up with periods before and after a reference or string of reference, something like this.. That ain't nohow right, and should be easy to address in most cases with a simple bot (a period before a ref tag, and a period after the next end-of-ref tag), and with a little more programming, able to handle such things as single-tag refs and strings of refs. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 02:55, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

The MoS calls for the ref to go after the punctuation: WP:PAIC --Cybercobra (talk) 03:36, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

WP:REFPUNC says to follow the style established in the article, while noting that after is more common. Seems like this "WP:PAIC" is yet another MOS screw-up.

As for the request here, this seems like something good for WikiProject Check Wikipedia. Anomie⚔ 11:33, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Article tagging for WikiProject Lancashire and Cumbria

Requesting a bot to tag all articles in the categories on this list (not the following list on that page which is for categories to be checked manually) with {{WikiProject Lancashire and Cumbria|class=|importance=}}. If possible, please also tag any articles marked as stubs with {{WikiProject Lancashire and Cumbria|class=Stub|importance=|auto=yes}}. Discussed at the project here. Thanks in advance! Small-town hero (talk) 11:16, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Hey there Small-town hero. This should be fairly simple, using AWB with bot mode and Kingboyk plugin. But would it be possible to get that list of categories a bit smaller, but with the same categories in the end, because AWB can fill from sub-categories, so, for example, all the Buildings and structures categories could be replaced with Category:Buildings and structures in Lancashire, if the bot was set up to include sub-cats. Hope that makes sense :/. Cheers - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 16:47, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Note that tagging "and sub-cats" is strongly discouraged, because it's far too easy to wind up in some sub-sub-sub-category that shouldn't be tagged. Anomie⚔ 19:35, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Oh right, I've never done it before, but I think you can just set AWB to look one level down can't you? - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 09:02, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Nevermind, I've used the list provided. Should be  Doing... shortly KingpinBot (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 09:34, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

I'm going to have to do a second run (once the initial tagging is done) to add the stub parameter. - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 09:47, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Books clean up.

The Book tool has been updated to automatically generate tables of content. User-made tables of content are now obsolete and actually detrimental to books. If someone could write a bot that would remove these non-dynamics/user-made TOCs, it would be of great help.

For an example, see Wikipedia:Books/Linguistics. Simply remove it the TOC link (in its entirety), and place a {{db-g6|TOCs are now automatically generated by the book tool}} on the /Table of content subpage (or /TOC, or /Table of Content as appropriate) . The relevant category is Category:Wikipedia:Books. (This probably could be done with AWB.) Thanks. Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 21:52, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Content Analysis Bot/Automatic Glossary Bot

I need a bot that will allow me to upload a list of about 1200 items and 'spit out' the Wiki definition of those items. Wouldn't it be great to be able to make a customized 'wiki glossary'?