User talk:Vishnuvardhan leela/Archives/2020/February

Citation fixes

Thank you for your work on citations and especially for adding identifiers! Just to understand better: what does "replaced non pdf" mean, given the link [1] works and provides a valid PDF? Also, adding the jstor.org URL is not necessary when you've added the respective JSTOR identifier or DOI. See also Help:Citation_Style_1#Identifiers. Nemo 13:40, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

hello @Nemo bis:

i have read somewhere on wikipedia about avoid using direct download links to pdf files, hence replaced link. unknowingly if a person taps or clicks link, it might start download automatically, which does not make sense. on personal note, couple of times download started on my firefox lite browser, it annoyed me. you have got point, i will modify hyperlink to location at files, if available.

henceforth, i will desist to update more than one identifier. i have bookmarked it. Leela52452 (talk) 14:12, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

It's ok to add multiple identifiers: just don't add a URL which points to the same location as an identifier, whether existing or newly added. We have millions of links to PDF files, there's nothing wrong with them. Thank you, Nemo 20:14, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

Thank you again for your painstaking work on citations with errors. I'm a bit confused by such series of edits, where for instance you turn some titles into all caps. I understand that the objective is to split the list of authors, right? I believe that by far the fastest way to do that is to strip down all the references to be just {{cite journal|doi=<whatever the doi is>}}, so that the citation bot then fills all the other parameters with fresh metadata. You can then fix manually any mistakes that are left. Nemo 18:43, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

@Nemo bis: i have created an issue https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T245934 . I will use the code to minimise errors Leela52452 (talk) 01:21, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

I'm sorry but it's not a bug, you just need to use better tools. VisualEditor is not the correct tool to fix such citations. When there are so many citations, use wikitext editing, replace the broken citations with a "naked" {{cite journal}} having only the DOI as parameter, and be happy. Nemo 09:55, 23 February 2020 (UTC)