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ActivelyDisinterested, or AD, or they, but not LCU. I generally deal with technical issues around WP:V, one day I hope to upgrade Wikipedia's perceived reliability from meme worthy to just unreliable.

If I've made a comment, and it appears backwards to a previous comment I've made or doesn't quite make sense, then it's likely I've missed "n't" or "not" somewhere. No I don't know why I do that.

If I corrected an error that you couldn't see any error message for, you need to turn these error messages on as detailed in Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors.

Backlog: Harv and Sfn no-target errors
Goal: 0 articles
Current: 4,802 articles
Initial: 26,200 articles
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If you are trying to deal with an new editor/IP (creating pages with / adding content that is) broken and poorly translated about Papua New Guinea see LTA Sony Esau Mbisikmbo.


Stuff to remember

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{{harvc}}, {{Db-r2}}, {{Copyvio-revdel}}, MOS:SANDWICH, MOS:IMGSIZE, MOS:SECTIONLOC, MOS:CURLY, WP:PAREN, MOS:ORDER, WP:CS:EMBED, Module:Footnotes/whitelist, phab:T355914, as I'm always forgetting the right links.

For when I need to edit them:
User:ActivelyDisinterested/common.js
User:ActivelyDisinterested/common.css

{{navbox}} automatically adds the class nowraplinks which can be overridden, for example with |listclass=wraplinks.

Editting

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In general I'm currently I should be fixing no target errors, such edits usually have a summary including the tracking category:
Harv and Sfn no-target errors(4,802)
For when it doesn't update correctly
These seem to have some common causes.
Process for whitelisting False positives

I edit nearly exclusively on mobile using the desktop site, and apart from a few edits using reFill to de-duplicate refs or InternetArchiveBot to add archives, all my edits are done manually in source.

@&#£ing @&#% Category:Pages with broken anchors has 68,306 entries.

Checkwiki

Things to check on

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Unreliable sources:
Not a reliable source
Not a reliable source either
Use of w.wiki, it's going to become a problem

All the same things, but I can't get the regex right:
Sneaky uses of Wikipedia as a reference (a)
Sneaky uses of Wikipedia as a reference (b)
Sneaky uses of Wikipedia as a reference (b)

Misspellings:
Yhere
Yhey
Yhe

Formatting issues:
harvnb used in |ref=

Clear-up:
sfn whitelist clear-up

Retracted papers:
Category:Articles citing retracted publications(118)
Category:Articles citing publications with expressions of concern(78)
Category:Articles citing publications with errata(63)

Useful stuff

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Wikipedia Library
Earwig's Copyvio Detector
For when you're being lazy
InternetArchiveBot
PetScan because why would you name it CatScan that would be to easy to find.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors
Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request
Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia
Reporting usurped links

Keep an eye on these:
Filter 1254
Replication lag
Category:Module:Wd reference errors(63)
Special:TopicSubscriptions

Well that's weird.

Alternative account

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I have an undisclosed single purpose account used to maintain privacy.[1][2] Its work is completely unrelated to this account.