User talk:Rsjaffe/Archives/2021/December
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Typography side-effect of typo-fixing
This edit removed a few <small>...</small>. That formatting was correct by MOS and also matched the cited refs themselves. Do you know what AWB's basis was for that part of the change? DMacks (talk) 22:09, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
- No. And that's the first time I've seen that issue. Thank you for identifying the problem. I'll fix the edit. rsjaffe 🗩 🖉 22:20, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
- @DMacks: I've now found the policy that AWB is following, though it implemented it incorrectly. See Help:Advanced text formatting section 4.1, where the policy is to use the small text template instead of html markup. I'll leave the page alone as it is now. -- rsjaffe 🗩 🖉 22:26, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks for the quick-fix (and your other miles of fixes to various pages), and tracking down the origin! DMacks (talk) 03:27, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
- @DMacks: I've now found the policy that AWB is following, though it implemented it incorrectly. See Help:Advanced text formatting section 4.1, where the policy is to use the small text template instead of html markup. I'll leave the page alone as it is now. -- rsjaffe 🗩 🖉 22:26, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
Help with adding external links to many pages
Hi rsjaffe, in the discussion about deleting the drum RNA motif article, and many articles like it like it, I had written about the possibility of adding the Rfam database as an external link to the relevant pages, so that at least the membership in Rfam would be clear. You mentioned that there are ways of automating such multi-article edits. I noticed that you were about to find and edit the affected articles surprisingly quickly and precisely, so I'm wondering if you're familiar with such tools. Could you point me in the right direction to automate adding the external link? (No problem if I'm being optimistic, and you don't know this.) Thanks! Zashaw (talk) 18:48, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
- @Zashaw: You can use Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser. Follow the instructions there on getting permission and using it. Overall, I think that will be a good fit for you, as you are managing a lot of pages. Alternatively, if the edits are the same for each page, you can give me a list of the pages and the edit to make—I'd be happy to do it for you.-- rsjaffe 🗩 🖉 19:12, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
Thanks -- this sounds great! I'll have a look. Zashaw (talk) 20:21, 8 December 2021 (UTC)