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Year disambiguation suffices

Hi GoingBatty, I just reverted an edit by BattyBot which broke the {{sfn}} references in the article by removing disambiguation suffices from the dates in references. This reminded me of this discussion that we had last year about a similar issue with WPCleaner – perhaps the BattyBot code needs some similar tweaking? Thanks, Wham2001 (talk) 21:24, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Wham2001 Thanks for catching my error and reverting it. Category:CS1 errors: dates now identifies |access-date= values (but importantly NOT |date= values) with suffixes as errors. What I thought was a limited fix for obvious typos was not, so I've reverted it in my code. This smaller manual edit seems to have resolved the issue in the Snuneymuxw First Nation article while maintaining the proper {{sfn}} references.

I checked the watchlist for Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors‎, and the edit you found is the only recent BattyBot edit that added an article to this category. Thanks for keeping me straight! GoingBatty (talk) 21:51, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent – thank-you! And thanks for spotting that the article had a bug with the |access-date= that needed fixing – I had missed that. Best, Wham2001 (talk) 08:44, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Question from FAberdeen on Farhad Hasanzadeh (10:24, 20 January 2023)

Morning, I need help with the reference. I want the reference number to be on the same line of the text. But it goes to the next line. For example reference number 26, which goes to the following line. May you please help me? --FAberdeen (talk) 10:24, 20 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@FAberdeen

Done in this edit by removing the <br> line break from between the text and the <ref>. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 13:46, 20 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for advise. FAberdeen (talk) 17:44, 20 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Question from FAberdeen on Farhad Hasanzadeh (09:50, 27 January 2023)

Hi, I edited the Category section. However, I do not see this section being published. Have I made any mistake? --FAberdeen (talk) 09:50, 27 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@FAberdeen: I see you made this edit where you added two categories to the article. I do not understand why you do not see these categories on the article. Yes, you made a mistake by adding the non-existent Category:Iranian Female Identity to the article. (The red color of the link tells you that the category does not exist.) Please remove this category from the article. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 14:45, 27 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Question from FAberdeen on Farhad Hasanzadeh (09:59, 27 January 2023)

Hello, I need to change my email address please. --FAberdeen (talk) 09:59, 27 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@FAberdeen: You can change your email address on your Preferences page on the "User Profile" tab. GoingBatty (talk) 14:47, 27 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks I changed my email. FAberdeen (talk) 18:03, 27 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Nationality in infoboxes

Hi, I noticed BattyBot making lots of changes to nationality fields in infoboxes. WP:INFONAT says "Generally, use of either should be avoided when the country to which the subject belongs can be inferred from the country of birth, as specified with |birthplace=". So is it really an appropriate se for a bot? DuncanHill (talk) 01:29, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@DuncanHill - Hi there! The topic was brought up at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BattyBot 61, and it was decided to not have the bot remove the value. I'll suspend running that bot task in case you want to discuss it further. GoingBatty (talk) 01:35, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No that's OK, I just wasn't sure if you were aware (a LOT of people aren't!) - if it's been OK'd at Requests for approval then I see no reason why you shouldn't carry on. If the boxes are going to have a nationality value then it is better if it's correct. DuncanHill (talk) 01:39, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@DuncanHill - In addition to improving the text and removing overlinking, hopefully the bot edits also brings the articles to attention to editors like you who can manually review and improve the articles where needed. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 01:45, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'll take a look at any that come up on my watchlist. All the best, DuncanHill (talk) 01:46, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Thirteenth First Edit Day!

Hey, GoingBatty. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!
Have a great day! Chris Troutman (talk) 14:34, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Maha Trade Market Pune (07:34, 30 January 2023)

If I want to publish my own article or page, is it compulsory to do atleast 10 edits? --Maha Trade Market Pune (talk) 07:34, 30 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Maha Trade Market Pune: Hi there! Creating a new article is one of the hardest things to do on Wikipedia, especially if you have a conflict of interest (COI), such as writing about your own business. To learn how to edit, I suggest you start at Help:Introduction. I suggest spending a significant amount of time editing existing articles to hone your skills. When you're ready to create an article, you would gather multiple published independent reliable sources that have provided significant coverage of the subject, and determine whether they demonstrate that the subject meets Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, called "notability". If so, you would declare any COI on your user page. Then follow the instructions at Help:Your first article, and be prepared for a process that may include months of waiting for review, rejections, and rewrites, before an article is created. If you are successful, then you could never edit the article directly if you have a COI, but could submit edit requests on the article's talk page.

Please also read the Wikipedia:Username policy and change your username accordingly.

Hope this helps! GoingBatty (talk) 13:44, 30 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrainChip

this is newly published article. that was just bearly accepted

can you look it over? RJJ4y7 (talk) 20:07, 30 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]