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Add a country satellite photo to all the pages listed at User:The Transhumanist/Country list

Find (on Wikipedia or Commons) and add a satellite photograph (preferred) or topographical map of the country, at the top of the Geography section [[Image:imagename|thumb|right|300px|caption]].

See the following country outlines for examples:

Albania • Algeria • Angola • Australia • Austria • Canada • Ecuador • Egypt • France • Germany • India

By the way, be sure to turn off all of AWB's automatic fixes (wikification, etc.) There's some non-wikified stuff in these that we need in them for now.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist 20:57, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Fill in currency on all the pages listed at User:The Transhumanist/Country list

In the "Economy of x" section, each country needs the following item filled in:

  • Currency of x:

(where x is the name of the country)

For example, in Topic outline of France, that item looks like this:

There are many other items to fill in (president, prime minister, population, size, economic rank, etc. etc., and it would take me over a year to fill them all in. I need your help. Filling in the currencies would be a big help.

Right now, these pages aren't even part of the encyclopedia itself. When the pages are complete enough, they'll all be moved to article space. (So far, 27 have been moved there. Yeah!).

By the way, be sure to turn off all of AWB's automatic fixes (wikification, etc.) There's some non-wikified stuff in these that we need in them for now.

Thank you.

If you have any questions on this or what else needs to be done, please contact me.

The Transhumanist 21:12, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Fill in population on all the pages listed at User:The Transhumanist/Country list

The...

  • Population:

...entry needs to be filled in on all of these pages.

For example, this entry for Albania looks like this:

All the rest need to be completed in the same way.

The data can be found in the info box on the article for the country.

Be sure to turn off all automatic fixes (wikification, etc.) There's some non-wikified stuff in these that we need in them for now.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist 00:10, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Fill in size on all the pages listed at User:The Transhumanist/Country list

The...

  • Size:

...entry needs to be filled in on all of these pages.

For example, this entry for Albania looks like this:

All the rest need to be completed in the same way.

The data can be found in the info box on the article for the country.

Be sure to turn off all automatic fixes (wikification, etc.) There's some non-wikified stuff in these that we need in them for now.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist 00:10, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Fill in economic rank on all the pages listed at User:The Transhumanist/Country list

The...

...entry needs to be filled in on all of these pages.

For example, this entry for Algeria looks like this:

All the rest need to be completed in the same way.

The data can be found in the List of countries by GDP (nominal).

Be sure to turn off all automatic fixes (wikification, etc.) There's some non-wikified stuff in these that we need in them for now.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist 00:13, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Fill in commander-in-chief on all the pages listed at User:The Transhumanist/Country list

The...

...entry needs to be filled in on all of these pages.

For example, this entry for Albania looks like this:

All the rest need to be completed in the same way, presenting the position followed by the current office holder.

The data can be found in the Military of x article for each country, where "x" is the name of the country.

Be sure to turn off all automatic fixes (wikification, etc.) There's some non-wikified stuff in these that we need in them for now.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist 00:10, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Could someone please quickly replace the 80 or so instances of http://www.stats.govt.nz/NR/rdonlyres/A886F4B5-9477-4DE8-84E7-3CFEA89D673E/39402/snpeat30jun08alltablesprov1.xls with http://www.stats.govt.nz/~/media/Statistics/methods%20and%20services/tables/subnational%20population%20estimates/subnational-pop-estimate-jun2008-all-tables.aspx? Statistics New Zealand have decided to "improve" their URLs while not providing redirects. Cheers! - Gobeirne (talk) 19:53, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

 Doing... Alan16 (talk) 20:00, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Alan - I just fixed one template that's responsible for many of them. Cheers - Gobeirne (talk) 20:01, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Removing extra apostrophes in {{Infobox Court Case}}

Help is needed in removing extra apostrophes surrounding the |name= and |full name= parameters in {{Infobox Court Case}} transclusions into articles. The change is needed because the infobox template has been amended to italicize the case names there. Thanks. — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 02:15, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

 Done 229 changes out of 393. ZooFari 19:45, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! Why not all 393, though? — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 00:43, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Only 229 needed the changes, out of 393 infoboxes :-) ZooFari 01:28, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Oh, I see. Thanks again! — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 01:35, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Username capitalization in sockpuppet template

Due to some problems with ucfirst, Template:Sockpuppet can no longer automagically capitalize the username passed to it. Everywhere this template is passed a username starting with a lower case letter needs to be changed to an uppercase letter. I have made a list of these pages and posted it at Template talk:Sockpuppet. I am not sure how to automate this in AWB, but hopefully someone here with more experience can figure it out (if so, please do let me know how). Thanks! --Pascal666 23:15, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

Actually, the list I posted is those that were in a valid category before the template change and are now not. It is not a complete list of those passed usernames starting with a lowercase character. If the complete list of pages that transclude Template:Sockpuppet is loaded into AWB, I wonder if there is a way to have it go through them looking for first parameters starting with a lowercase letter and fixing them. Other than those in the above list, they would still all be in non-existing categories, but at least they could be found if the category gets more populated in the future. --Pascal666 23:39, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

These templates refer.

Each of the above templates is also in a content category, which should be avoided per Wikipedia:CATEGORY#Project categories. Please update the relevant link (in the <noinclude></noinclude>-section) to read {{Cat see also}} instead (example).

Thank you, G.A.Stalk 18:32, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

 Done by requester (manually). Heds (talk) 04:10, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Cleanup of Category:Biography articles without persondata

There are currently about 200 articles in this category which already have persondata [1]. Any chance someone could work through them and remove |needs-persondata=yes from the {{WPBiography}} banner? PC78 (talk) 16:29, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

 Done Heds (talk) 06:52, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
Marvelous, thanks! :) PC78 (talk) 13:50, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Outline of Knowledge task request

Using AWB on the pages with the path Wikipedia:WikiProject Outline of Knowledge (and not including pages in under the Drafts subpage), please change "[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Outline of knowledge" to [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Outline of Knowledge".

Please contact me to let me know you've taken on this task, so I know when to watch.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist 23:44, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Indic Scripts

In Indic scripts, vowels are written as marks attached to the consonants that precede them. Every syllable involves a consonant cluster followed by a single vowel. In most cases, a vowel cannot exist on its own and attempting to type a vowel in unicode produces a circular placeholder character (ा े ी ि). This dotted circle is not part of any Indic script and should not really appear anywhere on Wikipedia, except perhaps in articles related to Unicode etc. I most often see the placeholder with the the short i, ि. As in other cases the consonant is typed first followed by the vowel but the two combine into a single ligature with the i preceding (त ि -> ति). If you type them in their logical typographic order you get something similar but with the placeholder in the middle ित. If this can be fixed, I can provide a full list of the characters involved with their hexadecimal codes or whatever is needed. Basically: [vowel or word boundary]ि[consonant cluster] -> [vowel or word boundary][consonant]ि Examples:[2][3][4]. Thanks --Lo2u (T • C) 12:54, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

WPBiography (tough)

Ok, I want to help DO this, but cannot figure out the setup. -- Mjquin_id (talk) 05:30, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
On talk pages that use Template:WPBiography that do NOT already have a "listas" parameter...we need to add one; the value could come from a "DEFAULTSORT" if one exists (possible on the article, not talk page) OR from trying to reverse the page name...meaning "Abraham Lincoln" needs to become "Lincoln, Abraham". Anybody? There are a couple of thousand pages....
Maybe two passes; one to add the param and one to add the missing value?

Couple of thousand. Various people have been working on this since it was 360,000 articles. I have done some thousands with AWB manually, mostly where the first name is definately Western, and the name is a simple format like First Last or First M. Last. The problem with reversing the name is this isn't appropriate for Arabic names, Chinese names etc. Also some names it is hard to determine what the "last name" is. Rich Farmbrough, 02:41, 1 August 2009 (UTC).
The key here is Category:Biography articles without listas parameter. Rich Farmbrough, 03:13, 1 August 2009 (UTC).
Curently about 46000 articles. Rich Farmbrough, 04:32, 1 August 2009 (UTC).
MadmanBot (talk · contribs) is working on these in a semi-automatic fashion right now (I'm confirming each edit, since I don't want to screw with biographies, even with biographies' talk pages.) It's checking the article to see if any sortkeys are explicit for one or more categories. If only one is, then it suggests a listas parameter for me to amend and approve. I don't think it's going to make much of a dent in 45,000 articles, though. :( — madman bum and angel 02:51, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
We got this under 30,000, however I have been finding a lot of uncategorised living people articles and these will probably get WP-bio added by YoBot in due course. It did some 14,000 in September but we kept up with that. Rich Farmbrough, 01:27, 10 October 2009 (UTC).

Infobox church

Following a talk page discussion, {{Infobox church}} has been updated so that when the template {{coord}} is used with the |coordinates= parameter, it can display the geographic coordinates of a church at the top of an article without the parameter label "Coordinates" appearing in the infobox without any value. It would be great if you could use AWB to check all articles transcluding this template and convert the parameter |display=title,inline or |display=inline,title inside {{coord}} to |display=title. Thanks. — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 11:03, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

 Done --AK Auto (talk) 07:00, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Thanks! — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 17:30, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, there is some disagreement on whether {{Infobox church}} should behave in this way, so the change has been reverted for the time being. Could you please convert the parameter |display=title inside {{coord}} back to |display=inline,title? Thanks very much. — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 11:58, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

All right, I'll get on it. --AK Auto (talk) 10:15, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
I have reverted all 462 edits. Thank goodness for rollback :). --Andrew Kelly (talk) 12:18, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for your help! — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 15:04, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

New task

Can someone please go through and replace [[Josh Leo (musician)|Josh Leo]] with [[Josh Leo]]? The article was just moved, so the piped links are no longer necessary. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 21:45, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

I don't think that is really necessary. A Redirect will work just fine. Tim1357 (talk) 03:17, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
I think it is. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 02:48, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
 Done. Wasn't really necessary, but no harm if done. ZooFari 01:40, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

Changes to Infobox Legislation

It would be much appreciated if articles transcluding {{Infobox Legislation}} could have the following parameters updated:

Old parameter New parameter
|Logo of that parliament or congress= |image=
|Parliament/Congress/Senate it was passed in= |enactedby=
|datepassed= |dateenacted=
|relatedlegislation= |related=

Thanks! — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 10:18, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

 Done ZooFari 02:10, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
Much appreciated. — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 04:29, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Could someone please go through and change [[Livin' It Up]] to [[Livin' It Up (album)|Livin' It Up]]? The page was moved. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 02:48, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

 Done. All disambiguation links fixed. ZooFari 01:21, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

Updates to Infobox church

Some parameters in {{Infobox church}} have been changed. Please help by updating articles transcluding the template as follows:

Old parameter New parameter
|church name= |name=
|tradition= |churchmanship=

Thanks very much. — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 22:57, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

 Doing... ZooFariBoo! 23:13, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
 Done. None had "church name" though. They were already under "name". Anything else? ZooFariBoo! 05:09, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Java templates

Add {{WikiProject Java}} on the talk pages on all pages recursively under Category:Java platform. --Ysangkok (talk) 02:28, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

 Done ZooFari 02:40, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for helping out ZooFari. --Ysangkok (talk) 21:40, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
You're welcome. ZooFari 22:56, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Add a general map to the pages listed at Portal:Contents/Outline of knowledge/Geography and places

For each political division outline listed at WP:OOK#Geography and places:

Find (on Wikipedia or Commons) and add a general map of the country, preferably just under the flag and coat of arms to the right of the TOC. [[Image:imagename|thumb|right|300px|caption]].

See the following country outlines for examples:

Albania • Australia • Canada • Ecuador • Iran • Iraq • Israel • Japan • Mexico • Thailand

By the way, be sure to turn off all automatic fixes (wikification, etc.) There's some non-wikified stuff in these that we need in them for now.

Be sure to skip non-existing pages.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist —Preceding undated comment added 21:35, 6 October 2008 (UTC).

Add photos to all the pages listed at User:The Transhumanist/Country list

These country outlines need photos.

Rather than place the same ones found around Wikipedia, it's best to find them on Commons. But if nothing suitable can be found for a given section on Commons, then of course use a pic found on Wikipedia.

Use the format [[Image:imagename|thumb|right|300px|caption]]. (Replace "caption" with a brief description of what the picture presents).

For examples of image placement, see the following country outlines:

By the way, be sure to turn off all of AWB's automatic fixes (wikification, etc.) There's some non-wikified stuff in these that we need in them for now.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist —Preceding undated comment added 21:40, 6 October 2008 (UTC).


Template removal

I need someone to remove all usages of {{Vgy}} (e.g. {{Vgy|1993}}, which creates a piped link to 1993 in video gaming"). This template should not be used,since the MoS frowns on linking years at all, much les pipe-linking them. Just change it to a plain, unlinked date. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 20:48, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Shouldn't you generate consensus to remove it first? –xenotalk 21:27, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
Consensus has already determined that similar links for years in television, music and other similar "Years in [subject]" links should be removed, and that years shouldn't be linked at all. I don't see how it'd be any different here. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 21:29, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
Because video games are not television or music and the VG project has used this template for some time. –xenotalk 21:51, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
So? Wasn't it the entire community that decided that dates shouldn't be piped in any article? I see no reason why we should disallow pipelinks in some places but not others. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 21:52, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
I don't remember deciding that, no... –xenotalk 22:14, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
  • Because the template automatically converts 19xx to 19xx in baseball/video games/whatever. Remove that coding and you have a template that does nothing but place the date, unlinked. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 23:38, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
  • Yes, but what would be the point in changing the template? If we did that, the template would be entirely useless and would still have to be removed from the articles. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 01:35, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
  • No, not necessarily. It could stay (as a harmless vestige) and be removed gradually. In any case, you should still generate consensus to do this. –xenotalk 01:42, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
 Not done. Please refer this matter to templates for discussion. Andrea105 (talk) 01:28, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Passed away

There are 36,417 instances of passed away instead of died. 98% of which are non-quotation euphemisms. More are being added every day. Kittybrewster ☎ 11:39, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

Will start, no promise to finish.SADADS (talk) 23:10, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
 Done Someone already did that <100 instances left, not all euphemism.SADADS (talk) 23:17, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
 Not done. Just checked. Kittybrewster ☎ 08:40, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
I began with a Google-generated list which I pre-parsed down to about 650 pages, and completed all of the applicable ones (which was most of them). I'm sure many more remain. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 00:53, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
I've completed another batch of almost 600, generated from a Wikipedia search. As I'm through with both the Google and Wiki searches, I'm done. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 20:42, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Remove "* Platinum Range" from See also

Resolved

The task is to remove 

* [[Platinum Range]]

from the See also section of any game where it is linked, and remove the ==See also== header if there are no longer any items. –xenotalk 23:14, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Why? It doesn't look like this task is suitable for AWB, since the link may be appropriate for the "see also". Is there any consensus? ZooFari 23:19, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
It's not suitable for see also imo; thread started. –xenotalk 22:19, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
 Done [5]. Andrea105 (talk) 02:16, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
Thanks =) –xenotalk 14:21, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Infobox church: Replacement of parameter

Resolved

I recall filing a request a while back but not hearing anything about it, and I can't find it in the archives. Anyway, could someone help to check if all occurrences of the parameter |tradition= in {{Infobox church}} have been replaced with |churchmanship=? The change is required due to the renaming of the parameter. Thanks. — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 05:05, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

I can do that around 22-01 UTC today, unless someone else takes the request. Regards, The New Mikemoral ♪♫ 06:13, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
 Done 7 edits (mostly to userspace) and 1,675 ignored. See File:AWB-Find and replace.png for the settings I used. --The New Mikemoral ♪♫ 00:17, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
Thanks very much! — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 00:23, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Linked dates in non-article space

Now that Full-date unlinking bot (talk · contribs) has completed its job of delinking dates in article space, there are other instances where dates are linked

1. in non-article space e.g.

2. linked solitary months have not been treated by the bot although the rationale for linking is the same as for dates in the vast majority of cases.

Would anyone like the job of de-linking these? Ohconfucius ¡digame! 03:01, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

"more then" → "more than"

Moved here from WP:BOTREQ#A common typo. --Amalthea 14:09, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
It turns out that we have about a hundred articles with "more then" instead of "more than": 1. An opportunity of fixing them manually doesn't inspire, is it possible to shift this labour onto one of bots? --Microcell (talk) 11:16, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

That's probably easiest done with WP:AWB, you might want to post that at WP:AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks. Might also already be among the standard fixes. Amalthea 11:48, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
I can fix this. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:40, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
Two cases in which "more then" is correct: "According to foo.com 'They sold more then [sic] a million tickets'!", "They ate more then than now". -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:57, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
:) OK, don't add it to the standard fixes, then. Cheers, and Thanks, Amalthea 16:07, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
I am doing the job manually but I didn't except to find... 1,000 mistakes! -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:10, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
Huh, Wikipedia search only turned up around 150? Amalthea 16:37, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
I used wikisearch (text) in AWB for "more then" (without quotes). It created a list of 1,000 items. I 've done 55 saves and ignored 157 articles (5-6 of them had "sic" next to more then). -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:16, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
 Done Surprisingly, procedure ended with only 90 edits. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:08, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
Thank you, again (even though the task didn't come from me) :) Amalthea 18:57, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
Thanks! --Microcell (talk) 20:36, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
There are a few "morethan"s. Kittybrewster ☎ 18:38, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
I took care of about a dozen "morethan"s (others were things like URLs). I also fixed another 35 "more then"s which sprung up. Additionally, I've corrected hundreds of instances of "less then", "greater then", "fewer then", and "better then", and am working on other variations such as worse, taller, higher, and so on. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 20:09, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Quick clean-up up in a category

 Done Basically I'd need someone to do some cleaning up in Category:Other images that should be in SVG format. I've created a list at User:Lokal Profil/botlist of images where {{svg}} (or one of the other alternative names for the same template) should be replaced by {{svg|fairuse}} thereby putting it in the correct subcategory of Category:Images that should be in SVG format.

The list was generated using [6] and the job should be a simple case of "Find and Replace" for the relevant templates.

Cheers Lokal_Profil 23:06, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

 Doing... --ZooFari 23:24, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
 Done. The following files were not done because they use {{svg|logo}}:

--ZooFari 00:08, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks =) /Lokal_Profil 13:25, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
logo is actually an invalid parameter for {{svg}}. But since the correct parameter needs to be decided manually it's probably best to exclude them if i do future lists. Once again thanks =) /Lokal_Profil 13:30, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

"outside of" -> "outside"

Has this been considered? Most style guides depreciate "outside of", eg [7]. -Arb. (talk) 01:18, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

Oooh, yes please. Kittybrewster ☎ 01:38, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
It'll be tricky. "Outside of wedlock" is an obvious exception. You might start with "outside of the" -> "outside the", but I don't know if AWB can properly search for those (I'm not an AWB user); the standard Wikipedia search function can't handle that. Chris the speller (talk) 17:17, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
I'm probably being thick but what's wrong with "outside wedlock" or "out of wedlock"? A quick Google yields nothing that could not be converted to one or the other. -Arb. (talk) 18:32, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
100% agree. Kittybrewster ☎ 18:51, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Copied from Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 45#Link fixing bot. Graham87 02:27, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

There are hundreds of pages that link to The Sun when they should link to The Sun (newspaper). The former page redirects to Sun after this requested move. The links that go to the wrong place should be fixed, but this task probably shouldn't be fully automated, in case there are some links that actually were meant to point to "Sun" or some other use of the term. Graham87 00:55, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Sounds like an AWB task doesn't it? Rd232 talk 16:29, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
 Doing... MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 07:57, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
 Done. In addition to fixing the links, I also italicized The Sun where needed, and replaced some incorrect Cite parameters (such as publisher=The Sun → work=The Sun). I fixed about 1100 articles with links to The Sun. Of these, only 8 actually pertained to the Sun, about 14 referred to a band, film, another publication, or other use, and the rest referred to The Sun (newspaper). MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 05:30, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
Note. There is currently a discussion of the redirect if anyone's interested. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 23:48, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
Thanks, I've commented there. I didn't get your previous message about finishing the link fixing because of some bad watchlisting. Graham87 06:31, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Big Task... (8000 articles, requires editor discretion)

This is a somewhat long task, and takes a bit of discretion.

Set AWB to include all subcategories of [[Category:South Korean people]] Then, look for people with traditionally ordered Korean names (last name first) Make it skip articles that have "{{Korean name" Then the template Korean name must be used. (Under maintenance tags, above article)

It took me forever to accumulate this list of different formatting for all of the following names The following is the ones I've accumulated

I started this, and I just don't have the time to finish it. All help is appreciated ;) If you have any questions, post them on my talk page.

Examples:

  1. Bob Park (Don't do anything, the family name is last)
  2. Park Jung-Ho (prepend
    In this Korean name, the family name is Park.
    )

Database of possibilities (that I've encountered so far)

In this Korean name, the family name is Ko.
In this Korean name, the family name is Lee.
In this Korean name, the family name is Myung.
In this Korean name, the family name is Park.
In this Korean name, the family name is Ryu.
In this Korean name, the family name is Shim.
In this Korean name, the family name is Son.
In this Korean name, the family name is Song.
In this Korean name, the family name is Soo.
In this Korean name, the family name is Suh.
In this Korean name, the family name is Yeo.
In this Korean name, the family name is Yoon.
In this Korean name, the family name is Yu.
In this Korean name, the family name is Go.
In this Korean name, the family name is Cha.
In this Korean name, the family name is Jo.
In this Korean name, the family name is Gong.
In this Korean name, the family name is Han.
In this Korean name, the family name is Yoo.
In this Korean name, the family name is Jeong.
In this Korean name, the family name is Jang.
In this Korean name, the family name is Jin.
In this Korean name, the family name is Jung.
In this Korean name, the family name is Kim.
In this Korean name, the family name is Lim.
In this Korean name, the family name is Moon.
In this Korean name, the family name is Oh.
In this Korean name, the family name is Ryu.
In this Korean name, the family name is Shin.
In this Korean name, the family name is Song.
In this Korean name, the family name is Uhm.
In this Korean name, the family name is Wang.
In this Korean name, the family name is Yeom.
In this Korean name, the family name is Choi.
In this Korean name, the family name is Bang.
In this Korean name, the family name is Hwang.
In this Korean name, the family name is Kyeon.
In this Korean name, the family name is An.
In this Korean name, the family name is Bae.
In this Korean name, the family name is Bak.
In this Korean name, the family name is Chae.
In this Korean name, the family name is Eom.
In this Korean name, the family name is Kang.
In this Korean name, the family name is Kwak.
In this Korean name, the family name is Kwon.
In this Korean name, the family name is Mun.
In this Korean name, the family name is Pyo.
In this Korean name, the family name is Rhee.
In this Korean name, the family name is Seong.
In this Korean name, the family name is Sin.
In this Korean name, the family name is Tak.
In this Korean name, the family name is Yang.
In this Korean name, the family name is Atta.
In this Korean name, the family name is Kyong.
In this Korean name, the family name is Sung.
In this Korean name, the family name is Heo.
In this Korean name, the family name is Young.
In this Korean name, the family name is Chang.
In this Korean name, the family name is Hong.
In this Korean name, the family name is Hyun.
In this Korean name, the family name is Bong.
In this Korean name, the family name is Ha.
In this Korean name, the family name is Im.

Props anyone (or group of people) who does this, it's a big, time consuming task. NativeForeigner Talk/Contribs 05:41, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

No reason to do it like that. If you determine that it's a Korean name then parse the pagename and take the first part. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:29, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Can you tell me how, if I know I can do it :) NativeForeigner Talk/Contribs 18:53, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
This seems to be something to sort out using DefaultSort and ListAs. I have looked at a few and frankly find it hard to be sure - but I think the defaultsort was missing on one and the listas was wrong on two. So I fixed them. What is the betting they will soon be "corrected" back? Presumably the same problem applies with Chinese, Japanese and Vietnamese names. Kittybrewster ☎ 18:54, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
Hmmm. NativeForeigner Talk/Contribs 02:03, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

M1 Line → M1 Line (Bucharest Metro)

The help with links correction is needed as I am going to usurp the article name later (not on Windows right now so can't use AWB myself :( ). SkyBonTalk/Contributions 17:41, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

 Doing... —Akrabbimtalk 20:41, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
 Done, at least I'm pretty sure. You'll have to wait for WhatLinksHere to update to know for sure, though - it seems to be lagged. The biggest change I made though wasn't with AWB, it was an edit to {{RATB lines}}, which controlled all the {{s-line}} templates. —Akrabbimtalk 21:42, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

[[Keep On Loving You]] -> [[Keep On Loving You (song)|Keep On Loving You]]. All incoming links are in reference to the REO Speedwagon song, which I moved to Keep On Loving You (song) to make way for a disambiguation page. I want to get rid of all the incoming links to the dab page. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 13:56, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

 Done —Akrabbimtalk 17:00, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Gerald Aungier

A substantial number of articles' talk pages wrongly have listas=Aungier, Gerald. Kittybrewster ☎ 12:53, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

 Doing.... I plan to fix the "listas" with AWB, then go through them manually to determine if the "living", "class", and "politician-work-group" parameters need to be fixed. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 00:01, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
 Done. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 00:48, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Incorporation of DYK talk functionality into ArticleHistory

Resolved

The functionality of the template {{DYK talk}} has now been incorporated into {{ArticleHistory}}. It would be great if an editor could look for article talk pages where both {{DYK talk}} (or {{dyktalk}}) and {{ArticleHistory}} appear, and do the following:

1. If the {{DYK talk}} template states as follows:

  • {{DYK talk|3 June|2008|... that in January 2006, [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Paralympic Games|Paralympic]] [[sprint (race)|sprinter]] '''[[John McFall]]''''s racing [[prosthesis]] was stolen, but anonymously returned a week later?|num=219}}; or
  • {{DYK talk|3 June|2008|entry=... that in January 2006, [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Paralympic Games|Paralympic]] [[sprint (race)|sprinter]] '''[[John McFall]]''''s racing [[prosthesis]] was stolen, but anonymously returned a week later?|num=219}},
then add the following parameters to {{ArticleHistory}}:

|dykdate = 3 June 2008
|dyklink = 219
|dykentry = ... that in January 2006, [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Paralympic Games|Paralympic]] [[sprint (race)|sprinter]] '''[[John McFall]]''''s racing [[prosthesis]] was stolen, but anonymously returned a week later?

2. Then delete the {{DYK talk}} template.

Thanks! — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 18:51, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Anyone?? — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 14:28, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

This would probably be a better task to be given to a bot, first because it doesn't really take any manual supervision, and because AWB doesn't have any mechanism (that I know of) to automate this task. It shouldn't be much problem for a bot programmer though, so try it out at WP:BOTREQ. —Akrabbimtalk 23:30, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
Oh, right. Thanks for the advice. — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 18:51, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Southern Voice

[[Southern Voice]] -> [[Southern Voice (newspaper)|Southern Voice]]. To repair links to disambiguation page. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 21:57, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

 Doing... I can reuse my settings from a similar task for The Sun (newspaper) to also italicize where needed, and fix incorrect citation parameters. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 03:01, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
 Done. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 03:34, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

List of British generals

Resolved

Any chance of somebody please (a) sorting these into strict alphabetical order and (b) adding the opening and closing square brackets to make them all into links and (c) removing the three trailing spaces at the beginning of some entries? Kittybrewster ☎ 09:27, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Linking done, including piping where disambiguation not necessary within the list. I'll leave it for someone else to alphabetize. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 11:16, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

All Over Me

[[All Over Me]] -> [[All Over Me (film)|All Over Me]] Film article was moved to make way for a dab. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 15:45, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

This has already been completed (by a non-AWB user, using popups). MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 01:09, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Small Town Girl

[[Small Town Girl]] -> [[Small Town Girl (album)|Small Town Girl]]. Result of creating a dab. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 02:27, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

 Done —Akrabbimtalk 03:30, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Waterloo

[[Waterloo (song)|Waterloo]] -> [[Waterloo (ABBA song)|Waterloo]]. Waterloo (song) was retargeted to Waterloo since more than one song exists with this title. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 21:22, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

 Done —Akrabbimtalk 22:00, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Industrial design

I don't even know if I'm on the right page to ask this favor... We're into tagging some English Wikipedia talk pages with the {{WikiProject Industrial design}} banner:

Thanks if somebody can do it, --AlainR345Techno-Wiki-Geek 04:23, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

I can do it. Do you want only category talk pages to be tagged? -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:39, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
I did all the category talk pages found in Category:Furniture and its subcats. Total: 183 pages (147 just created) -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:05, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
Yep, it's a great help, thanks many, --AlainR345Techno-Wiki-Geek 06:11, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Spelling

alledgedly -> allegedly. - Kittybrewster ☎ 17:44, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

 Done, including other forms of the word. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 21:23, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Removal of {{By}}

I don't know if this is possible with AWB, but is there an easy way to remove transclusions of {{by}}? Almost every instance is in the form {{by|2010}}, which produces a pipelink in the form of [[2010 in baseball|2010]]. Such piping is deprecated per WP:EGG, so the template needs to be removed. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 17:56, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Have you run this by the baseball project? –xenotalk 21:25, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
Notified. Another user told me that this probably isn't doable in AWB, but if it is, please do. Otherwise, feel free to help me remove by hand. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 12:32, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
It's doable but it's probably better suited for a bot. Either way, you need the project to agree because these are or were at one point the order of the day. –xenotalk 12:34, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
Withdrawn. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 13:21, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Baptist-->Baptists

What is now the Baptists article was recently moved from Baptist. All of the templates have been updated, but hundreds of individual articles still link to Baptist. Whatever text is currently visble on an article linking to Baptist (whether it is unpiped as Baptist or a piped Baptist church or whatever) should stay the same, but the link should now point to Baptists. Thanks! Novaseminary (talk) 03:55, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

That's a little over 4,000 pages that would need editing. I think Wikipedia:Redirect#Do not "fix" links to redirects that are not broken probably applies here. --Andrew Kelly (talk) 07:10, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
Ah, I hadn't seen that before. You're right. With the templates already changed, it looks like we are already good to go. Thanks! Novaseminary (talk) 13:49, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Cleanup of redirects RfD

There are several hundred redirects to Album, many of which are completely unrelated to the subject matter of the article - but are instead for non-notable albums - thus need deleting. There are too many to do manually. Ohconfucius ¡digame! 16:42, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

I guess we would need an administrator for this, unless you wanted someone to just go through with CSD tags. And, is there a specific RfD discussion about this? I couldn't find one when I looked. —Akrabbimtalk 12:33, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Wheels

[[Wheels (song)|Wheels]] -> [[Wheels (Foo Fighters song)|Wheels]]. More than one song with this title. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 17:19, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

 Done —Akrabbimtalk 12:40, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Also [[Walk on By]] and [[Walk On By]] -> [[Walk On By (Dionne Warwick song)|Walk On By]]. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 19:44, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

 Done —Akrabbimtalk 16:23, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

War on Terror

War on Terrorism -> War on Terror. The title of the article has changed recently and it would be nice if that was reflected on the rest of the articles. --JokerXtreme (talk) 12:13, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Is there consensus for a complete change in terminology, solved with a pure find-and-replace, or do we just need to pipe the links and worry about the wording on an article-to-article basis? —Akrabbimtalk 12:10, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
Well, the article name is established as you can see in the article talkpage itself. Why pipe the links? --JokerXtreme (talk) 12:59, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
Well, I just looked and there are almost 900 articles that link to War on Terrorism. Given that the term is not inaccurate (it is mentioned as an a.k.a. in the lead sentence), and the redirect does just what it is supposed to, I don't think it's worth the time (I would estimate 1.5 to 2 hours). —Akrabbimtalk 00:24, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
An automated find-and-replace wouldn't suffice? I don't think there are any instances of a linked War on Terrorism that can't be changed safely to War on Terror. But you can add a notification, something along the lines:"You can revert the changes, if you feel it is not appropriate.". Anyway, I will do it myself, if you don't, but I must get approval first. --JokerXtreme (talk) 06:51, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
I don't think that the edits would meet resistance at all, just an automated find-and-replace would still take a long time. When I am confident that I don't need to look over the diff, taking into account the time for the page to load and the edit to be processed, I usually run at about 8 edits per minute. With 950 edits, that is almost two hours. So if you're still willing to do it yourself, go ahead, but I don't think it is necessary. —Akrabbimtalk 13:56, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
Yeah, I guess I will. Well, it's not absolutely necessary, I just think it's more accurate. Just out of curiosity; once the task starts, does it need human supervision or it can go on by itself? --JokerXtreme (talk) 14:42, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
AWB is semi-automated, which means you have to sit there and click "Save" every time. Any script or whatever that would be more automated would need bot approval. —Akrabbimtalk 18:09, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
I see. Ok thanks. --JokerXtreme (talk) 18:35, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

List of Vanity Fair caricatures

Please would somebody go through this vast list correcting the consistent solecism concerning baronets and knights. Namely that baronets and knights should not be known by their initials but rather by their first name. Example: EWD Ward ->Sir Edward Ward, 1st Bt. I am not particularly suggesting that the hyperlink be changed (although it should be in this example becuase he has an article) – just that the list be corrected so EWD Ward becomes Sir Edward Ward, 1st Bt. Sir JS Pakington should become Sir John Pakington and not Lord Pakington (because the caricature is of him before he was ennobled). - Kittybrewster ☎ 07:59, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

 Not done - not a task suitable for AWB. This is all one page, so it looks like someone is going to just have to work their way down the page, making changes as appropriate. AWB is better suited to tasks where the same change needs to be made on a bunch of different pages. --Darkwind (talk) 02:36, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Route Diagram Template -- filename changes please

I don't know whether AWB is the right tool for this task or not (in which case, please point us in the right direction!) but it will take forever to do manually.

Route Diagram Template provides all the route maps seen in railway/canal/road articles. Recently some files were moved at Commons, and the icons no longer point to the right file. We're talking hundreds of files here (I looked at the 'what links here' for one and counted over 500 pages). However, it looks to me like a straightforward search-and-replace text swap (inside a template).

The problem is described here: Wikipedia talk:Route diagram template#Broken Maps? Urgent attention required

The required changes listed here: Wikipedia talk:Route diagram template#Replacement

Can anyone help, please? -- EdJogg (talk) 20:06, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

I'm working on this now; it should be a fairly trivial task, just tedious. (even with AWB...) --Darkwind (talk) 02:10, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
 Done - Oops. I finished this last night, and posted in two other places, but not here. Please let me know if I missed any. --Darkwind (talk) 16:34, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
Thank you. I'm sure the other editors will let you know if anything has been missed. -- EdJogg (talk) 12:07, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Is it possible?

Is it possible to fix the links that are redirects in User:Woody/Sandboxes/Victoria Cross/All Recipients to the actual page title? I ask because I use this as an extended watchlist through Special:RecentChangesLinked but this does not follow redirects. Thanks. Woody (talk) 20:10, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

May be technically possible with AWB (but I'm not quite sure), but any how, I threw together a bit of C# code and used that instead. Should now be fixed, let me know if there's any problems :). Best, - Kingpin13 (talk) 20:31, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
That's brilliant, thank you very much. Woody (talk) 20:33, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

York Region Shooters

Please could somebody update all articles linking York Region Shooters and change it to York Region Shooters (1998). Another team has changed their name to York Region Shooters (Italia Shooters) TheBigJagielka (talk) 00:13, 17 May 2010 (UTC).

 Doing... CrimsonBlue (talk) 23:26, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
 Done -- The task has been completed... Cit helper (talk) 05:58, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Sao Tome

Hi. I have a removal task I need done. Can you do this to all of the articles on the populated places category for Sao Tome. Basically remove the "Other" header and the unreferenced sentence about GDP. Some articles don't have the GDP sentence but have the "other" header which will need removing. Thanks. Dr. Blofeld White cat 11:33, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

Moved from user talk:Xeno. (Unfortunately, I don't have time). –xenotalk 01:30, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
 Done -- someone has already done this task. Cit helper (talk) 05:24, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Spelling fix - Olympics

I noticed today that there are many articles with the word "Olympic" or "Olympics" misspelled. Common misspellings are "Oylmpic", "Olmypic", and "Olypmic". Would a bot be able to fix these spellings, or am I in the wrong place? Thanks, GaryColemanFan (talk) 03:05, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

I'm deferring your request to Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos#Defered_from_Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser.2FTasks...  Done -- Cit helper (talk) 06:09, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

LeClaire, Iowa

All links to this page that are spelled Le Claire, need to be changed to one word. source Thanks, CTJF83 chat 20:30, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

checkY Done. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 21:05, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
Thank you much. CTJF83 chat 01:31, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

A list of pages I've edited

Hello. I would like a list of all the unique pages I've edited - there are about 6000 of them - in a text file, one per line. I believe this is possible with AWB. If it is, could someone please send me the list? - Richard Cavell (talk) 12:11, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

 Done - Thanks. - Richard Cavell (talk) 12:26, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

Gaborone, Botswana

A lot of the in-line citations on the Gaborone page are inside the ending punctuation, They should be moved to the outside. Thanks! いただき (talk) 07:14, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

I'd take care of it, but AWB fixes that automatically only if 75% are already that way. Maybe somebody can customize things to take care of it, but that's beyond my expertise at this point. --Auntof6 (talk) 08:24, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
 Done diff. Rjwilmsi 13:14, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

Days Go By

[[Days Go By]] -> [[Days Go By (Dirty Vegas song)|Days Go By]] Change to a piped link since i moved the page to make way for a dab. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 05:20, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Looks like someone already did it? -- AnmaFinotera (talk ~ contribs) 06:29, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
 Done Also fixed a dab to that should point to Days Go By (Keith Urban song). —Arsonal (talk + contribs)— 06:32, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Replace .png with .svg

Replace instances of these files with applicable SVG images.  ℳono  05:33, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Looks like those need to be created as SVG files, so AWB would do nothing but make an awful mess at the moment. Courcelles 06:36, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

The Incredible Machine

[[The Incredible Machine]] -> [[The Incredible Machine (game)|The Incredible Machine]]. I converted The Incredible Machine to a dab page and want the incoming links changed accordingly. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 18:00, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Fixed 90% of them. There was at least one I thought ought to be pointing to the album, and one or two more that AWB just didn't want to work with, or redirects that are ambiguous as well. Courcelles 18:40, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Request for AWB help SK Hwys

User:Pomte/Template:SK hwy tiny shield & User:Pomte/Template:SK road shield there is a discussion that a template in user space should not be used in article space. Can someone with AWB experience place an article space template on Sk Highway article space articles? Thank youSriMesh | talk 21:55, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

I'm a little confused. It doesn't look like any articles are currently using User:Pomte/Template:SK hwy tiny shield nor User:Pomte/Template:SK road shield for doing replacements? -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 22:12, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
From what I am gathering, SriMesh is asking AWB users to include his template on specific articles. SriMesh, if you would be able to provide either a list or category that the template needs to be transcluded onto, I can go and add it for you. Phuzion (talk) 12:38, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Educational assignment

The template {{Educational assignment}} (formerly {{EducationalAssignment}}) should appear on article talk pages, not on article pages themselves. Can you do the following?

  1. Check for articles that have the template on the article page.
  2. Check if those articles already have the same template on the article talk page, and if so, just delete the template that is on the article page.
  3. If there is no {{Educational assignment}} template on the article talk page, copy it from the article page to the talk page, and then delete the template that is on the article page.
  4. Change {{EducationalAssignment}} to {{Educational assignment}} (this is not vital as the former redirects to the latter, but if you want to tidy up the templates that would be great).

Thanks. — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 11:05, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

It only appears to be on eight articles, which could probably be done by hand faster than setting up AWB :-) -- AnmaFinotera (talk ~ contribs) 16:58, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
Is there any easy way to locate these articles without trawling through the category holding all the articles on which the {{Educational assignment}} template has been placed? — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 17:24, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
Click the "What Links Here" in the toolbox while looking at the template, then just change the name space to article :-) -- AnmaFinotera (talk ~ contribs) 17:29, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
Now that's a good idea! Why didn't I think of that? Thanks. — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 18:09, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
 Done Phuzion (talk) 12:34, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

I'll Go Crazy

[[I'll Go Crazy]] --> [[I'll Go Crazy (James Brown song)|I'll Go Crazy]]. Change to a pipelink because I'll Go Crazy is now a dab page. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 18:55, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

 Done, only had a dozen actual hits on AWB. The majority were linked through {{James Brown}}. —Arsonal (talk + contribs)— 19:25, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

I'll Be

[[I'll Be]] -> [[I'll Be (Edwin McCain song)|I'll Be]]. Article was moved to make way for disambig. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 02:15, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

 Done -- John of Reading (talk) 14:42, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Cry Cry Cry

[[Cry Cry Cry]] and [[Cry, Cry, Cry]] -> [[Cry! Cry! Cry!]]. The Johnny Cash song was punctuated that way, and the links need fixing. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 17:51, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

 Done, but I was not able to fix dabs in Shame, Shame, Shame (Shirley & Company song), Tribute to Bobby. —Arsonal (talk + contribs)— 07:21, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
These are different songs AFAICT. Rich Farmbrough, 23:07, 9 September 2010 (UTC).
Oh and Cry, Cry, Cry is a 1988 single written by John Scott Sherrill and Don Devaney and recorded by Highway 101. Rich Farmbrough, 23:08, 9 September 2010 (UTC).

Infobox athlete

{{Infobox athlete}} is intended for track and field athletes only, while {{Infobox sportsperson}} is a generic template for other sportspersons. I'd be grateful if someone would check for biographical articles that have either {{WPAthletics}} and/or {{Running project}} on their talk pages, and if the articles are using {{Infobox sportsperson}} instead of {{Infobox athlete}}, change the infobox to {{Infobox athlete}}.

Also, I'm not sure if this is feasible, but is it possible to do the reverse? In other words, check that a biographical article has a sports-related WikiProject banner or is in a sports-related category that has nothing to do with track and field athletics, and if that article is using {{Infobox athlete}}, change it to {{Infobox sportsperson}}. There might be too many variables, though. — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 11:32, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

In Progress... --Cit helper (talk) 00:21, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Great! Thanks for your help. — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 07:16, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

dab cleanup

In several disambiguation pages, you have stuff like

These should be fixed to

In the first case, anything like Foo (bar) can be replaced to Foo (bar) [anytime there are parentheses, whether it's Foo (novel), Foo (album), Foo (journal), etc... only the first part should be italicized). In the second case however, you need to check for the word "song" at the end. Otherwise you will break things like "Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)" to "Eh, Eh" (Nothing Else I Can Say). Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 03:03, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Regex

For the first part...

  • ''\[\[(.*)\s\((.*)\)\]\]'' → [[$1 ($2)|''$1'' ($2)]]

For the second part

  • "\[\[(.*)\s\((.*\ssong)\)\]\]" → [[$1 ($2)|"$1" ($2)]]


Seems to work for me. It would be a good idea to test it on a larger scale to see if there are problems with it however. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 03:03, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Looking into this. Rich Farmbrough, 03:07, 10 September 2010 (UTC).

In This Life

[[In This Life (song)|In This Life]] -> [[In This Life (Delta Goodrem song)|In This Life]]. Another ambiguous title no one else can be arsed to fix. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 01:43, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Job done. Courcelles 01:52, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Cheap Thrills

[[Cheap Thrills]] -> [[Cheap Thrills (Big Brother and the Holding Company album)|Cheap Thrills]]. Album article was moved. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 20:13, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

 Done Happysailor (Talk) 20:21, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Sine

Please find all the links to [[Trigonometric_functions#Sine.2C_cosine.2C_and_tangent|Sine]] and replace them with [[Sine]]. It's likely some link text will be "sin" too, in which case it should be replaced with [[Sine|sin]]. The capitalization should be preserved too (of course). —Pengo 11:34, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

I couldn't find any examples. As a check I modified my search to look for similar links for cosines and found just one example, at Bicycle and motorcycle dynamics. I suspect that articles have been linking to the old Sine redirect. -- John of Reading (talk) 12:33, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Thank you all the same. Thought there would be others. Ah well. —Pengo 19:01, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:BOTREQ#.7Cjournal_.3D_.2F_.7Cwork_.3D_disambiguation

The idea is to replace things like [[Nature]] with [[Nature (journal)|Nature]] in the citation templates. This should be coupled with a database run. The base regex could be something like \|(\s*)?(journal|work)(\s*)?=(\s*)?\[\[(FOOBAR)\]\] → |$1$2$3=$4[[$5 (journal)|$5]]. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 11:46, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

As an experiment I've done "journal=[[Nature]]" using "What links here" - Edits:63 Skipped:1374. I'll let someone else find an efficient way to tackle the other 1,908 journals and magazines mentioned in the bot request. But perhaps only a few are actually used in citation templates? -- John of Reading (talk) 20:00, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Template:The CW Television Network (The CW)‎

Can you add the template to all of the pages listed on it? The "Current programing" has already been added. ChaosMasterChat 03:37, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

 Done -- John of Reading (talk) 09:38, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
... but the redlink tells its own story. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:27, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

That's the Way Love Goes

[[That's the Way Love Goes]] -> [[That's the Way Love Goes (Janet Jackson song)]] and [[That's the Way Love Goes (song)|That's the Way Love Goes]] -> [[That's the Way Love Goes (Johnny Rodriguez song)]]. Someone made a mess by putting the Johnny Rodriguez song at "song". Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 22:03, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Doing... Courcelles 22:47, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Okay, as soon as the templates work their way through the job queue tonight, this should be done. Courcelles 23:04, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

png --> SVG

File:Soyuz-TMA-01M-Mission-Patch.png → File:Soyuz-TMA-01M-Mission-Patch.svg THENEWMONO™ 03:58, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

 Working Will look into this now. -- DQ (t) (e) 15:00, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
 Done with genfixes. -- DQ (t) (e) 15:27, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

Watchlist update needed

Hello. I would like to update Wikipedia:WikiProject Hawaii/Hawaii recent changes using AWB, as well as replace all instances of {{WPHawaii}} with {{WikiProject Hawaii}}. Could anyone help? Viriditas (talk) 04:41, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

 Working I will see what I can do. -- DQ (t) (e) 15:02, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
Stopped after 50 edits, this is over 500 edits. This will need to be done by a bot. Filing BFRA right now. -- DQ (t) (e) 16:03, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
Actually I need to know why you want to do this per WP:R2D, and need you to post that reason on The bot request page. Will notify your talkpage. -- DQ (t) (e) 16:18, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
 Not done Just found out I can't use AWB for this (although damage of 50 edits is done). If there was something more to do with this, then I might be able to do it, but for now, this can't be done without reason. -- DQ (t) (e) 16:27, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Banner standardisation. I am the editor responsible for the redirect[8] which was standardized by Rich Farmbrough on July 23, 2010.[9] In other words, I created the template which was moved and redirected to the standard name, and now I request completion of the standardization effort. If the watchlist update can be completed without updating the redirect, that is fine. Viriditas (talk) 19:12, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
The two are (almost) independent. The page simply needs updating, which hasn't happened since 2009. I am putting in a BRFA now, then going out. I will be back in about 3 hours and will update the list then - this will be a manual test of the bot code, so I would be grateful if no-one jumps the gun in the next little while. Rich Farmbrough, 11:41, 21 October 2010 (UTC).
'Tis done (though I have a fun UTF8 bug to chase). Rich Farmbrough, 18:58, 21 October 2010 (UTC).

Illinois Mycological Association's content has moved

If you take a look at this site, you'll note it was moved (a few years ago, actually). The site owner emailed OTRS asking of someone could fix all the dead links on Wikipedia and make them point to the new site which is here. You can see a list of all links currently on Wikipedia that use the old version here. Any links that start with http://www.ilmyco.gen.chicago.il.us/ should now start with http://www.mushroomthejournal.com/greatlakesdata/ . Hope that makes sense. Killiondude (talk) 01:49, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

 Working Dismas|(talk) 15:23, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
 Done Dismas|(talk) 15:29, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
Thank you. Killiondude (talk) 16:43, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Korea assessments

I need some help going through Category:NA-Class Korea-related articles and making sure that all categories are marked as |class=Category and all templates are maked as |class=Template in the {{WikiProject Korea}} banner template. Many are still marked as |class=NA, which is no longer correct. Thanks in advance for any assist! :) PC78 (talk) 00:26, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Doing. Courcelles 00:43, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
Done. 1,263 pages reassessed. Courcelles 01:45, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
Marvelous, thanks a lot. PC78 (talk) 02:19, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Cite BAILII

Hello! {{Cite BAILII}} has been updated so that the parameter |country= is now redundant. Can you please remove this parameter from all pages transcluding the template? Thanks. — SMUconlaw (talk) 16:23, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

I removed this for all the articles that I found containing it, but I wasn't able to find it used very often. I corrected a total of three or four pages. Jncraton (talk) 23:08, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
OK, thanks! — SMUconlaw (talk) 15:44, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Replacement of uses of "Findlaw us" with "Ussc"

The template {{Findlaw us}} has been deprecated since October 2009 as it has been replaced by {{Ussc}}, but cannot be deleted yet as it is still use in some articles. Can someone please replace all uses of {{Findlaw us}} with {{Ussc}}?

The format of {{Findlaw us}} is:

{{Findlaw us|[volume]|[page]|[title]|link=[article name]|year=[year]}}

The format of {{Ussc}} is:

{{Ussc|[volume]|[page]|[year]|[reporter]|[reporter volume]}}

{{Ussc}} neither displays case names (the third parameter in {{Findlaw us}} marked "[title]" in the example above) nor has the parameter |link=. Please deal with those parameters like this:

{{Findlaw us|320|81|Hirabayashi v. U.S.|link=Hirabayashi v. United States|year=1943}}
→ ''[[Hirabayashi v. United States|Hirabayashi v. US]]'' {{ussc|320|81|1943}}

Thanks! Once this is done, {{Findlaw us}} can be nominated for deletion. — SMUconlaw (talk) 16:43, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

I've edited 17 articles. The remaining 15 articles all have calls that look like {{Findlaw us|vvv|ppp}}, with no year; the documentation for {{Ussc}} says the year is compulsory. See especially Laurence Tribe where the year is displayed separately in its own sortable column. -- John of Reading (talk) 21:50, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
OK, thanks very much. I guess the remaining articles will have to be fixed by hand. — SMUconlaw (talk) 09:00, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Need a Savvy AWB person to fix "Saavy"

There are 180 occurrences of "saavy". Most are likely misspellings of the word "savvy". I could make it a several-day project and try to inspect and change them all manually, but this sounds like a great task for AWB. Can someone please help? Thanks. --Grandpa jlc (talk) 02:44, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

I will look through them with AWB. Sounds like fun. --Andrew Kelly (talk) 03:27, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
 Done - Most of the misspellings were in Wikipedia space, so I skipped them (except for one that I accidentally let slip through) because the edits would most likley alter a comment left by another user, which is not good etiquette. But I checked through the article space and also the Template:, File:, Portal:, and Book: namespaces. Hope this is what you were looking for. Cheers! --Andrew Kelly (talk) 03:39, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
WikiThanks
WikiThanks

Thank you for helping! It is an extra good thing I asked and you responded because I might have "corrected" some user comments. --Grandpa jlc (talk) 05:31, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

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