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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 23

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Hi, I tried answering a few requests from Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Redirects and categories, but the script (on Chrome) isn't opening. I'm not a typescript wizard, but the console seems to be worth looking at. Best, NotAGenious (talk) 14:50, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

@NotAGenious After testing a couple of submissions after reverting your removals, it still seems to work... what errors are you getting in your console? ~ Eejit43 (talk) 14:57, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
@Eejit43 : when clicking from "more" dropdown:
VM1527:1 Uncaught SyntaxError: "undefined" is not valid JSON
at JSON.parse (<anonymous>)
at getPageText (AFCRHS.ts:815:23)
at redirectInit (AFCRHS.ts:38:20)
at HTMLLIElement.<anonymous> (AFCRHS.ts:1093:4)
at HTMLLIElement.dispatch (jquery.js:5145:27)
at elemData.handle (jquery.js:4949:28)
getPageText @ AFCRHS.ts:815
redirectInit @ AFCRHS.ts:38
(anonymous) @ AFCRHS.ts:1093
dispatch @ jquery.js:5145
elemData.handle @ jquery.js:4949 NotAGenious (talk) 15:04, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
Hrm I still cannot reproduce that... what do you mean by the "more" dropdown? Also try clearing your cache and retrying. ~ Eejit43 (talk) 15:14, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
I meant "tools" on Vector. Still nothing. NotAGenious (talk) 15:37, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
I've modified the way the page's content is fetched- after purging your cache again do you still get the same issue? ~ Eejit43 (talk) 16:03, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
It works now. Thank you so much!! NotAGenious (talk) 16:14, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
Yahoo!! ~ Eejit43 (talk) 16:15, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

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R from draft namespace

Hey Eejit43, just wanted you to know that {{R from draft namespace}} isn't being listed as a possible rcat in redirect-helper. Could you take a look at that? Thanks. – Hilst [talk] 21:09, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

I'll check on that shortly, thanks so much for pointing that out!! ~ Eejit43 (talk) 22:44, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
@Hilst Sorry that took so long, all fixed now! ~ Eejit43 (talk) 00:05, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
Thank you! – Hilst [talk] 00:08, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

Hey, you keep overwriting the redirect at Metric engine but you aren't providing any sources. You need WP:reliable sources for all content on the project, or else anyone is allowed to challenge and and remove it. Remember, the WP:ONUS that information must be verifiable for inclusion in an article ... and that ... [t]he responsibility for achieving consensus for inclusion is on those seeking to include disputed content. microbiologyMarcus (petri dish·growths) 04:47, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Seems like Cielquiparle retargeted it to an appropriate destination. I'm well aware of WP:RS, but the target of Metric system made no sense, and in my view an unsourced article is better than that. I'm happy with this new destination, however. Thanks! ~ Eejit43 (talk) 14:46, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

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Eejit43Bot Task2

If this is a simple thing to add, that would be great, if not, no worries.

This isn't much of an issue, but when your bot bullets things in External links, could it look to see if {{Authority control}} or {{"some random navbox"}} follows the link on the same line? Case 1 Case 2 When the external links got bulleted in these two cases, it also made these templates bulleted from the shared line, causing a "Multiline table in list" error (and looks odd/indented on page). If simple, could the bot add a new line to separate the template from the link in cases like these? If not simple, no worries, the manual fix takes 10 seconds, and these errors are easily trackable and are (so far) not frequent (three that I know of in the last hour).

And not directly related, in clearing the third, I found this category issue, not sure if I cleared it correctly since it is a red cat, so feel free to adjust. Thanks, Zinnober9 (talk) 03:07, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks so much for pointing that out! However, I do think it might be a bit too complicated for this case as it would take a fair amount of testing. Hopefully the bot won't have too many more pages to run on, and I will check the lint errors afterwards!
Additionally, I've removed the category you mentioned from Voter ID (India) as redlinked categories shouldn't be added per WP:NORED. :) ~ Eejit43 (talk) 03:15, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
Thanks. Wasn't able to check when that broken cat was added, but I am now, and it was junk. Thanks for removing completely. Like I said, the lint error isn't a big issue. Just thought if it was a quick and simple something to add to the bot, great, otherwise, not a big deal. And it is a far more enjoyable error to fix than some others I've dealt with! :) (tidy fonts, yuck). This Table in List error's been eradicated from the site for a while, so whenever it pops up (and it regularly does, bot or no bot), it usually get corrected pretty quickly by one of the delinting regulars since eradicated errors tend to be are a little more visible on our tools due to the smaller quantity. Thanks again! Zinnober9 (talk) 01:53, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

Background color of redirect-helper

Would you kindly remove the green background from User:Eejit43/scripts/redirect-helper? It sticks out among the Wikipedia interface theme a lot, and users could always change the background color of it if they wanted to. (Note that they currently can't because the styles are inline which always override other unimportant rules)

Also, maybe consider a migration to codex? Aaron Liu (talk) 16:53, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

I've created a pull request on the GitHub for this. It's number... 69‽ That's like the third time I've see that number pop up in my personal life this week Aaron Liu (talk) 16:55, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
I've merged your PR, thank you! I think I might make the background a bit gray to make it stand out, but I'll do some testing. I'll also use a stylesheet at some point instead of inline styles.
I'm not that familiar with Codex, but as far as my understanding goes it isn't a drop-in replacement to OOUI. Until it has the same or similar functionality, I think it would be far too cumbersome to migrate, at least right now. Let me know if I'm missing something though! ~ Eejit43 (talk) 17:07, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

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rmtr-helper bulletpoint

Hi Eejit43. Sometimes when users put requests at WP:RM/TR they don't begin a line with exactly 1 asterisk and 1 space before the template, i.e., * {{rmassist.

People using User:Eejit43/scripts/rmtr-helper.js will sometimes mistakenly remove them because of that, as with this recent example.

Would you edit the script to make the following replacement in the three locations it occurs?

\* {
+
[\*\: ]*{

Over at testwiki:WP:RM/TR, I have tested this change a bit using testwiki:User:SilverLocust/rmtr-helper.js as a fork of your script. SilverLocust 🃏 💬 01:57, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

Fixed, thanks so much for reporting and for finding the solution! :D ~ Eejit43 (talk) 02:08, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

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Erik John Anonby

Hi, I created Eric John Anonby's article. This article is not about me but about an academic person. I added many sources to it which are authentic and secondary. What else should I do for it? Iroony (talk) 18:51, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

@Iroony The reason I suspected you might have a conflict of interest was due to the text "references to my books". If that isn't what you intended to say, I apologize.
The reason I draftified the article was because it failed WP:GNG, the general notability guideline. It states that A topic is presumed to be suitable for a stand-alone article or list when it has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. From the current sources, most claims aren't backed up (failing WP:BLP), and almost all references are either simply research papers with the subject's name on it, unrelated links to associated entities, or simply listings of the subject from non-independent sources.
I would suggest looking at the links above, and if you make sufficient changes to prove the subject is notable (if they are), then the draft can be submitted and if successfully reviewed, will be moved to the mainspace. If you have further questions, I would suggest asking at the Teahouse. ~ Eejit43 (talk) 02:02, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello. Yes, I made a mistake about the title of my books. That part was a draft and was not supposed to be transferred to the Wikipedia environment. I hope you will accept my apology. I will put the article back in the review.Iroony (talk) 16:37, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
@Iroony again, the article doesn't pass WP:GNG so it will very likely not get approved. I would suggest making improvements to the article if you want it to be moved to mainspace. ~ Eejit43 (talk) 16:44, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

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Script changes

Hey. @Eejit43. I've been looking at WP:AFC/R a fair bit the last couple days, and I've noticed that @Raydann and @NotAGenious have processed a fair few requests without actually closing/replying to the discussions. I also noticed you made a change to your script. Any thoughts on why this might be happening and if it's related? For what it's worth, I processed a number of requests myself and those requests all replied to the page and closed the discussion. Hey man im josh (talk) 23:05, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

That latest change was simply minifying the code to improve load times, so there shouldn't have been anything that could have affected that. I would assume it is because nothing is done to a request if not all requests in a section are handled. Do you happen to have an example diff I could take a look at? Thanks so much for pointing that out! :) ~ Eejit43 (talk) 00:34, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi - The problem is that there is no diff. I handled a quite large (50+?) batch of requests last night and got ratelimited in the process, almost all redirects were created and talk pages tagged but the edit to AFCRC itself didn't get through. It might be worth to test adding an option to chabge thev edit interval, like what's at User:Awesome Aasim/redirectcreator. It would also work just to handle requests in smaller batches, a reminder could be added to the script for new reviewers.
I'll look into this later today and close the completed requests manually. Sorry. NotAGenious (talk) 08:44, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
Ah, I see, I'm sorry that happened!! I've been wanting to do a full rewrite of the script at some point, and this might be a good reason to start on one at some point. ~ Eejit43 (talk) 14:46, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
Then may I request 4 small buttons for accept, decline, comment, and no action instead of a drop down? Hey man im josh (talk) 14:56, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
Not a bad idea! I might use radio inputs instead, I'll see how I end up handling the rest of the dialog. ~ Eejit43 (talk) 14:58, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
No problem but hey, while we're at it, here are a few ideas I'd like to see. Don't be overwhelmed; the script works really well as is, these are just some quality of life features :D
  • When accepting a category request, add an option to populate the category with pages from the "Example pages which belong to this category:". This way reviewers shouldn't have to worry about WP:C1 tagging.
  • Change talk page tagging to use Template:Wikiproject banner shell as this seems to be the standard format. These are automatically converted by User:Cewbot, but it would save an edit if the script did it automatically.
  • Add rcats Template:R from remix and Template:R from person
  • When declining a category request for not being a category request, the script malfunctions, see the last section. {{subst:afc category|notcategory}} should be used instead. There are also pretty useful decline reasons at Template:AfC category and Template:Afc redirect that could be added.
  • Possibly add support for rest of the closing templates listed at Template:AfC b - I'd imagine that "r" for no response and successful and unsuccessful for when there was prior discussion regarding the request, could be useful.
We recently got consensus for a split to redirects and categories, so if you could update the script to work on WP:AFCC that would be awesome too. NotAGenious (talk) 16:25, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
Amazing, thanks so much! I'll try to implement all those features, but it will take a while to get the full thing up and running :) ~ Eejit43 (talk) 16:28, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
I noticed in Special:Diff/1206421802 you updated the script to run on WP:AFCR, but it should also probably run on WP:AFCC. — Qwerfjkltalk 09:17, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for pointing that out. I guess I thought that the script would need some modifications to work there but it should function just fine! ~ Eejit43 (talk) 13:05, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
@Hey man im josh @NotAGenious @Qwerfjkl I've created afcrc-helper though it currently only supports WP:AFC/R.
There are some issues with long loading times and some performance issues, and I am working to resolve them. The script doesn't handle rate limiting yet, so if you are testing the script out, keep that in mind. Let me know what you think! ~ Eejit43 (talk) 21:19, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
The loading and performance issues have been resolved! ~ Eejit43 (talk) 21:57, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
And rate limiting should now be handled properly! I'm going to move on to working on supporting WP:AFC/C soon. ~ Eejit43 (talk) 02:31, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
WP:AFC/C support is finalized, and the script is good to go! ~ Eejit43 (talk) 02:01, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

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For your high-quality, well-designed, typescript and aesthetically pleasing scripts. Aaron Liu (talk) 02:27, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
Thank you so much! Glad they are of use :) ~ Eejit43 (talk) 02:29, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

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Category:Your Sinclair Megagame award winners has been nominated for deletion

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