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ReferenceBot – 71.229.133.175

User:A930913 {{User:A930913/BBresolved|yes}}

Page: New Year's Resolution

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Comment/question: The robot said my edits caused a bad reference line to occur. I went through them and didn't spot any errors.

71.229.133.175 (talk) 03:05, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

In the diff the bot provided, check reference 4. The problem was fixed by AnomieBOT which specializes in rescuing such broken references. Huon (talk) 18:54, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – ClintGoss

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Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_flute Diff: Clinton F. Goss (January 2015). "Native American Flute Ergonomics" (PDF). arXiv:1501.00910 Check |arxiv= value (help). Retrieved 7 Jan 2015. Comment/question: I am guessing that the arXiv checker needs to be updated, since it appears that, as of 2015, arXiv is issuing identifiers with 5 digits as their second component (e.g. 1234.12345 rather than the old format 1234.1234). ClintGoss (talk) 12:15, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

Yes, and people are already working on it. Huon (talk) 18:54, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Valetude

Page: Edsel Ford

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Comment/question: I was transferring two citations from the lede to the main article. I may have got the drill slightly wrong. I'm not sure about the significance of those brackets. I daresay you can fix this without trouble. Apologies.

Valetude (talk) 15:38, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

When you moved those references around, half of one of them was lost. The brackets close a citation template; without them the reference's formatting will be broken. Fixed. Huon (talk) 18:54, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Editor abcdef

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Page:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar

Diff:https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jaguar&curid=16217&diff=642139120&oldid=642138566

Comment/question:There is no reference error, I just edited and cited.

Editor abcdef (talk) 07:52, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

@Editor abcdef: If you check the diff provided by the bot instead of some other, you'll see a big red error message at the bottom. Your edits have since been reverted by Christina1969 (no opinion on the validity of the revert); thus the cite error also has been reverted. Huon (talk) 17:47, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – 172.56.40.237

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172.56.40.237 (talk) 02:46, 16 January 2015 (UTC) Hello,

Thank you for detecting the issue. I will promptly fix it.

You're welcome; thank you for fixing it. Huon (talk) 01:19, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Twang

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Page:Allotropes of phosphorus

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Comment/question:I got an arxiv date error message. According to the message that was auto-appended to the citation (before I removed the date I added so I didn't get spammed again), this is some problem with a CS1 module. Not my problem is it?? Kindly cease and desist with the BOT spam - I filled in the provided form with the proper date and I don't need BOT messages about system problems. Thanks for adding me to your BOT BLACKLIST.

Twang (talk) 16:58, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

@Twang: Firstly, this is not at all ReferenceBot's fault. The bot correctly notified you that your edit caused an error. And while there are some current issues with the change in format for 2015 arXiv IDs, that wasn't the issue here - you caused a genuine error that was fixed by Stamptrader; you used the "archiveurl" parameter which, as the name implies, should be a URL (such as a Wayback Machine link, meant for archived copies of web pages) to give the arXiv identifier. Secondly, the bot notifies editors only once about an edit; removing the arXiv ID did not save you any "spam". Thirdly, if you prefer not to be notified of the errors you cause you can use the {{nobots}} template to prevent ReferenceBot from editing your talk page; there's no central blacklist. Huon (talk) 01:19, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – 65.94.40.137

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Page: PKS 1302-102

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Comment/question: The CS1 module error (see User_talk:A930913/BracketBotArchives/_13#ReferenceBot_.E2.80.93_65.94.40.137). If this is a commonly alerted error generated by CS1 that ReferenceBot is placing in many user talk pages, it is not helping editors, and may be discouraging them, since there is nothing wrong with this format of arXiv link. Is there a way to discontinue generating missives for all users when the error is generated by the new arXiv format? And is there a timeline to fixing the CS1 module?

65.94.40.137 (talk) 05:16, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

I would assume that getting the bot to ignore this specific error would be a rather difficult fix for a temporary problem. I would also assume that the number of users who are notified for an error that shouldn't be one is rather small - 2015 isn't that old, and there aren't that many brand-new arXiv papers to be cited. Regarding the timeline you have already asked in a better place than here. Huon (talk) 21:34, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – DomingoMolina2

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DomingoMolina2 (talk) 21:16, 19 January 2015 (UTC) Sorry about that its just some other user put false information on the bands genre I am aware of this mistake sorry

That "false information" was based on a reliable source. Your edit has been reverted. Please do not remove sourced content merely because you, personally, disagree with it. Huon (talk) 21:34, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – CorinneSD

Page:Joseph Conrad

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Comment/question: I'm sorry, but I need help with this. I found the first one in the notes at the bottom of the page (I don't remember editing a note, but maybe I did within the article), but I couldn't edit the note. I couldn't find the second one. CorinneSD (talk) 01:06, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

I found and corrected both. CorinneSD (talk) 18:09, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! Huon (talk) 20:58, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – UhfjdjJ

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UhfjdjJ (talk) 12:02, 21 January 2015 (UTC)how can you detected that I edit bridgitte bardot

The bot is just that good... Thank you, though, for notifying us of your vandalism. I have blocked you from editing. Huon (talk) 20:58, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – 66.91.149.154

Page:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liliuokalani

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Comment/question:the assumed identity and changes made reflect the discussion. my edits may not seem popular and affront 'Americanism'. i aim to correct the history as recorded by the occupier with truth. ther was no overthrow of the hawaiian kingdom, there was no annexation. referring to outdated refuted text as resource material is propagating the lies. it is my responsibility and all those honorable to promulgate correct 'history' no matter how many generation believe false wiki they read

66.91.149.154 (talk) 17:16, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

And you're telling this A930913 because...? A discussion about the validity of your edits should be held at the article's talk page, not at the talk page of some uninvolved editor. As an aside, you may want to read WP:TRUTH. Huon (talk) 20:58, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – 71.206.170.53

User:A930913 {{User:A930913/BBresolved|yes}}

Page: New Trier Notable Alumni

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Comment/question: I simply put up the names of some of my magazine articles, books, and a film that I produced and was also credited as a writer and on-screen presence in.

71.206.170.53 (talk) 13:48, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Writing about yourself on Wikipedia is strongly discouraged due to the inherent conflict of interest. That said, see WP:Referencing for beginners on how to easily create nicely-formatted footnotes. Huon (talk) 01:14, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Mischtmail

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Mischtmail (talk) 09:10, 23 January 2015 (UTC) Thanks for your help. It is my first citation so I am doing my best to follow the instructions but I have been unsuccessful so far...

The issue the bot notified you about was unrelated to the citation; you had added a closing parenthesis without a corresponding opening parenthesis. Huon (talk) 01:14, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Mikalra

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Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerontology

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It claims two citations I introduced have (respectively) an erroneous DOI and an erroneous ISBN. I have just checked these against the paper and several online vendors for the book, and all appear to confirm the numbers I gave.

Mikalra (talk) 00:55, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

@Mikalra: This was not an issue of numbers but of format; fixed. Also, the "accessdate=" parameter is meant for websites that might change at any time; it doesn't really make sense for journal articles or printed books. Huon (talk) 01:12, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Woodstone

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Page: earth

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Comment/question: cannot find cite error

Woodstone (talk) 12:46, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Your edit removed the instance where a list-defined reference was used, causing an error message in the "Notes" section because it left the article with an unused list-defined reference. I have removed the note entirely. Huon (talk) 23:05, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Salmon of Wisdom

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Salmon of Wisdom (talk) 02:53, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Just want to you know that I'm new to how the page works, I'm still learning. While, I understand and except that you have removed what I wrote in brackets as well as the stuff that seemed surplus to needs on that page. Some of those questions have ben answered. I asked on the 2000AD Online from where in the entire Slaine Saga can I find Melga. Aside from that I pretty much know Pre-Horn-God Slaine back to front.

I'm wondering why somebody, probably not you... insists that Morgoth's Daughter (I'll been damned if I can remember the correct spelling of her name!) was scarred or killed by a Cythron Laser Sword, Gun, or Cannon. If you or that other person/people re-read "Time-Killer/Tomb of Terror" again. She is getting a facial via the spittle of a Giant-Time-Worm./ Slaine shielded her from being hit directly in the face, but not entirely and she was thus partially scarred with old-age and then later swallowed by the great purple dragon Nidhugg. Unless people are really offended by the money-shot reference, I don't why this information has been miss entered.

Please explain?????

There's currently no reliable source for the cause of Tlachtga's disfigurement, and reliable third-party sources are in very short supply in the entire article. Instead we're given "references" like Strabo, who I seriously doubt has anything to say about a 21st-century comic strip. The "laser beam" has been removed again, but whether it's breath, spittle or something else entirely that ages her - who knows? Not the given reference, that's for sure. Personally I'd say pretty much the entire article should be rewritten from scratch. Huon (talk) 00:55, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – 69.112.185.249

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Comment/question: the verijont comment makes no sense, because the word and place do not exist, the article reads much better with just calling them rubber soled shoes, and the detail is insignificant now anyway

69.112.185.249 (talk) 02:15, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Possibly, but you should also have removed the then-useless "Notes" section. Done by Daniel Case. Huon (talk) 18:56, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Just wanted to say thanks, you have a really nice program, BracketBot

CHEERS !!

David Adam Kess (talk) 5th of January 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – AndyFielding

Re my edit to Pyongyang

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=640357059

As you can see, I didn't edit that part of the text, so I assume this was an existing problem. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about that formatting syntax to presume to fix it.

Cheers, AndyFielding (talk) 09:51, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

@AndyFielding: You did edit that part of the text, possibly by accident? Check the lowest of the added lines or search the diff for "69LW4b6aw", and you'll find that you duplicated some of the code at the bottom of the page - minus two curly brackets. Fixed. Huon (talk) 10:26, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Oh, okay. Sorry & thanks. – AndyFielding (talk) 08:20, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – June w

Calico Jack

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cannot figure out how to get the age at death to display, despite looking at the formulas on other Wikipedia pages, so I just changed birth/death dates to text only so that the info is accurate - that is, matches the info in the article's first paragraph, including the citation

June w (talk) 20:47, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

@June w: Fixed. The {{death date and age}} template needs both the death date and the birth date to calculate the age. Huon (talk) 13:42, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Charles Edwin Shipp

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It is the two references for the last sentence of: Mitt_Romney#Subsequent_activities

Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mitt_Romney&diff=644865327&oldid=644862898

Comment/question: Thanks for your help. I have put in many references before and don't understand why these two references are causing a "help,error". It says there are vertical bars without text inbetween, or an '=' with nothing after. I can't see that. It looks OK to me.

If you follow the URL-links, they work OK. Here are the two web cite references (they both have the identical error.)

"Romney announces he will not run for president in 2016". FoxNews. January 30, 2015. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help); Text "http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/01/30/2016-scramble-former-romney-backers-strategist-shifting-to-bush/" ignored (help)
"Text of Romney's Statement on Decision Not to Run in 2016". WSJ. January 30, 2015. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help); Text "http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/01/30/text-of-romneys-statement-on-decision-not-to-run-in-2016/" ignored (help)

THANKS FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE; This will be instructive to me!

Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 06:01, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

@Charles Edwin Shipp: You forgot the "url=" name of the URL parameter: Instead of {{cite web|http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/ ... it should be {{cite web|url=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/ .... Huon (talk) 13:42, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – 122.164.33.25

Page:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tamil_films_of_2012

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Comment/question: I never made any edit in any of the Wikipedia pages including the mentioned, why am I getting this message form the Bracket Bot?

122.164.33.25 (talk) 07:53, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

If you check the date of the notification, you'll find it dates back to 2013. Now if you check your IP's contributions, you'll find that the IP address you now use back then indeed did edit the List of Tamil films of 2012. If those edits weren't made by you, then probably the IP address was assigned to someone else back then. If you want to avoid getting messages that are meant for other people sharing your IP address, you may want to create an account. Huon (talk) 13:42, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – 71.100.59.191

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Comment/question: I didn't edit Mayotte. Eric 71.100.59.191 (talk) 00:14, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

Someone from your IP address did. Ironically, they fixed one of two mismatched brackets on the page and didn't cause a new problem. I've now fixed the other mismatch, the one that BracketBot thought was caused by your IP's edit. If you want to avoid getting messages that are meant for other people sharing your IP address, you may want to create an account. Huon (talk) 00:38, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – 95.103.72.249

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95.103.72.249 (talk) 09:37, 2 February 2015 (UTC) hello Bgwhite,

I am editing genealogical resources for all villages(Slovakia) step by step to wikipedia. I do this nearly for 1 whole year. I recieved a message from you that I made some mistakes there, I stop editing for now and I must clear what I edited wrong there. please write me back, ... I am just simple skilled with computers, please excuse my few mistakes

I recieved your message on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Slovakiaman#February_2015

I will correct all mistakes, just I do not know how to be in contact with you. I write here... Is it ok to write to you here?

thank you for your understanding

Juraj Slovakia

Several issues. Firstly, this talk page belongs to the operator of BracketBot, not to Bgwhite. I'll notify him that something of interest may be discussed here, but technically this is the wrong place. Secondly, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a library catalogue. I don't see what the availability of genealogical data tells our readers about those villages. I'd strongly advise you to seek wider community input on whether adding such information on the availability of genalogical data is considered beneficial; personally, as I said abouve, I don't think so. This is not about some easily-fixed editing problems, but about the usefulness of your entire project. The talk page of a relevant WikiProject, such as WT:WikiProject Slovakia would be a good place for such a discussion; in fact I'll leave a message there myself. Huon (talk) 22:10, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Peter Dzubay

User:A930913 {{User:A930913/BBresolved|yes}}

Page:Relient K

Diff:https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Relient_K&diff=prev&oldid=645088484 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Relient_K&diff=prev&oldid=645087999

Comment/question:Because sources are published by the members of Relient K about Relient K, Twitter, Facebook, and Matthew Thiessen's Pack of Wild Blogs are considered acceptable and reliable sources under Wikipedia guidelines.

Peter Dzubay (talk) 16:15, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

@Peter Dzubay: See WP:PRIMARY. Even if we were to agree that those sources are reliable ("It's true, I read it on Twitter!" - yeah, right), primary sources such as those are not waht Wikipedia content should be based on, and they cannot establish significance. We don't need to cover everything the band published on social media. And in this particular case, there are multiple paragraphs covering years of the band's existence based on nothing but their own word. That is problematic. Also, ReferenceBot didn't notify you because it was unhappy with the primary sources (it's too dumb to care about that), but because when you removed the maintenance tags, you also removed a </ref> tag, breaking the reference in the process. Huon (talk) 22:10, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Slambo

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Page: ČSD Class 387.0

Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=645331600

Comment/question: My edit was to use the citation templates, so I don't have a copy of the original reference. The ISBN on that entry is unchanged from the previous editor's entry. I was unable to find a valid 10- or 12-character ISBN value for the work cited, although I did find it mentioned on several other sites (such as [2]) with a scan of the book cover, and some sites ([3], [4]) show the same short ISBN.

Slambo (Speak) 04:13, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

@Slambo: ISBNs come in either ten or thirteen digits. Whatever that nine-digit number is, it's not an ISBN. I have found the book at both WorldCat and the Library of Congress, and neither gives an ISBN. I suspect the book is too old to have been assigned one, and what those references call an ISBN is something else, possibly a Czechoslovakian numbering scheme. Huon (talk) 22:10, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Ntideman

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Page: Agrarian Justice

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Comment/question: I'm new to editing and it took a couple of tries before I had gotten the syntax of references right. I believe that the error that ReferenceBot detected was quite short-lived. Nicolaus Tideman

Ntideman (talk) 14:33, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

It was fixed a day and a half later by Stamptrader. Huon (talk) 23:05, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Caro89

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Page: Vic & Bob

Diff: Vic & Bob#Advertising

Comment/question: Hello, on my talk page I was told there was an ISBN error within an edit I made to the Vic & Bob#Advertising section. I've checked the ISBNs and they are correct (they link to the correct source when tested/checked), and they don't use anything other than a simple hyphen between them. I'm not sure what else I can do to stop this error from appearing, please help! (I am new to Wiki.) Thank you very much.

Caro89 (talk) 13:15, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

@Caro89: The ISBNs are correct now because Stamptrader, who keeps an eye on the relevant maintenance category, fixed the incorrect one. Huon (talk) 18:58, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank you very much @Huon: and Stamptrader, I will be more diligent in future! Caro89 (talk) 20:50, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – SidP

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Page: Shooting of Amadou Diallo

Diff: I couldn't find an error to correct.

Comment/question: Possible false positive?

SidP (talk) 18:41, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

@SidP: The bot was right. If you check the ninth reference in the diff the bot gave you, you'll see a red error message: "Unknown parameter |firstr2= ignored". The issue was since fixed by Stamptrader. Huon (talk) 19:01, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. I now know where to look for future issues should they appear.--SidP (talk) 19:10, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – 86.1.229.150

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86.1.229.150 (talk) 00:23, 9 February 2015 (UTC)have you any idea how I can talk to historians about the science I have un-covered in the Anglo-saxon translations available now please.

No, but writing about the science you have uncovered on Wikipedia would be considered original research, which is not acceptable. Huon (talk) 00:37, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Cuppysfriend

Cazenovia, New York

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The first "error" detected by the bot was a failure to close parentheses; but this is an error in the title of the file that I added to the page. It does not affect the display or caption of the file. I couldn't find the second reported error, but again, there seems to be nothing that affects the appearance of the edit. Cuppysfriend (talk) 23:14, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Yes, those are two false positives. The Google Art Project is well-known for it file names with mismatched parentheses, and BracketBot doesn't know how to ignore brackets within file names. The other supposed "error" is more tricky; {{NRHP header}} serves as the header of a table, leaving the bracket at the end of the table without a match. The bot doesn't have much of a chance to recognize that. Sorry for the incorrect notification. Huon (talk) 00:34, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Navudt

Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau

Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Navudt#February_2015

Comment/question: my apologies, must have been a typo. I've fixed it. please check edited by Nav 22:31, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

I have reverted your edit since the Walden Woods Project already was mentioned among the external links where it belongs, while you had by accident removed the hatnote about the disambiguation page at Thoreau (disambiguation). Huon (talk) 23:17, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Kathydi1977

Please contact me as I am endeavouring to get this post up and am having difficulties Need to speak with the operator please. {{User:A930913/BBresolved|yes}}

Page: Problems with the Clash/Keith Levene submission. I just went through mediation last night and put up the revision this morning. It keeps disappearing. Diff:

Comment/question: Thank you. Kathydi1977 (talk) 10:55, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

@Kathydi1977: This probably is moot since you are currently blocked for making legal threats. That said, the article already amply covers Levene's role in The Clash and should not at length present his own view based on nothing but his own word. We're not a platform for Levene's self-promotion. That's not even taking into account issues of plagiarism or copyright which might also have been an issue. Finally, Levene's unhappiness with Wikipedia might possibly be relevant to Levene, but it's utterly irrelevant to a band that was disbanded long before Wikipedia was founded. The article should be about The Clash, not about itself. Huon (talk) 22:19, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – MildredJirak

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MildredJirak (talk) 15:02, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

<ref>{{cite news|last=Dervan|first=Michael|title=Irish Masterclass|accessdate=14 February 2014|magazine=International Piano|date=January–February 2014}}</ref>

Hello bracket bot. I have looked at the brackets in my citing which appears above and they appear to be correct. Please advise. Thank you MildredJirak (talk) 15:02, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

@MildredJirak: They're correct now because you fixed them with this edit. Huon (talk) 21:15, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Rupert Clayton

Page: David Roberts

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Comment/question: BracketBot detected two unpaired brackets in my edit. In fact neither one appears to have been an issue. Thoughts?

Rupert Clayton (talk) 01:37, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

The one in the file name is a false positive or, depending on your point of view, a mismatch that' so difficult to fix that it's not worth the trouble. You fixed the other yourself with this edit. Huon (talk) 00:15, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

Ah, the second one was a parenthesis. I thought it was a square bracket and they all seemed good. Thanks. Rupert Clayton (talk) 05:02, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Jadams7831

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Comment/question: Thanks. i just looked at Julie Christie again and it seems OK( I didn't see your Bracket issue)

Jadams7831 (talk) 16:15, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

That note was from August 2014, and your edit has since been reverted by Jojhutton, fixing the bracket issue (which indeed broke the infobox). Huon (talk) 23:21, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Bill Cassara

Page: Ted Healy

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Comment/question: I did a major edit on the Wikapedia pertaining to Ted Healy. Who ever put the original information was well meaning but there are some important details that are wrong. I know something about this subject, I literally wrote the book about him. "Ted Healy-Nobody's Stooge" (Bearmanor Media) Dec. 2014 ISBN#: 978-1-59393-768-3. His name wasn't Charles Nash, it was Ernest Lea Nash. I obtained all my data from public records and baptism records and traced his life. I would like to add my book as a reference to this site, but details need to be cleaned up first. Bill Cassara (talk) 07:41, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Bill Cassara Wrong place, this talk page is concerning broken brackets. Try asking your question at the Teahouse. Bgwhite (talk) 08:06, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

@Bill Cassara: I am rather skeptical about the motives of somebody who takes the article on Ted Healy and adds a paragraph on how well-received his own book is - that's rather obviously irrelevant to our readers' understanding of Healy and only serves to promote your own work. If you are an expert on Healy and want to improve Wikipedia, surely you know of sources other than your own book that make the same points? For example, threestooges.com, the source we currently cite for Healy's name, already says his name was Ernest Lea Nash - "Charles" isn't backed up by that source and appears to have been vandalism. The article on Healy could do with some more attention (as a trivial example, his "citizenship" is hardly "Holy Innocents' School" as the infobox currently says), but given your obvious conflict of interest it may be a good idea to propose specific changes on the talk page and let uninvolved editors decide on implementation. Huon (talk) 11:02, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Twofingered Typist

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Page:Eric Heinze

Diff:https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=651235289

These references appear to me to be correct

Twofingered Typist (talk) 11:56, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

AnomieBot rescued the reference that was broken because you removed the name="BlakeDayle" parameter from the other occurrence, and you subsequently tidied up that occurrence, too (thanks!). In the reference list of the diff ReferenceBot linked you to, however, you'll still find the red "broken reference name" warning. Huon (talk) 14:41, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Elvey

User:A930913 {{User:A930913/BBresolved|yes}}

Apropos this notification:

Comment/question: Can you please stop notifying me (and other folks) of use of archiveurl without archivedate, when instead, your bot could pull the date from the url. TIA.

Elvey^(t•c) 19:53, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

@Elvey: The "archiveurl" parameter isn't merely for the Wayback Machine, and a bot cannot reliably determine which date-like part of an archive URL is the archivedate, if any. Huon (talk) 23:06, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Twofingered Typist

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Page:Eric Heinze

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These references appear to me to be correct

Twofingered Typist (talk) 11:56, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

AnomieBot rescued the reference that was broken because you removed the name="BlakeDayle" parameter from the other occurrence, and you subsequently tidied up that occurrence, too (thanks!). In the reference list of the diff ReferenceBot linked you to, however, you'll still find the red "broken reference name" warning. Huon (talk) 14:41, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Elvey

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Apropos this notification:

Comment/question: Can you please stop notifying me (and other folks) of use of archiveurl without archivedate, when instead, your bot could pull the date from the url. TIA.

Elvey^(t•c) 19:53, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

@Elvey: The "archiveurl" parameter isn't merely for the Wayback Machine, and a bot cannot reliably determine which date-like part of an archive URL is the archivedate, if any. Huon (talk) 23:06, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

I disagree. In the case of the most commonly used archive, a bot can reliably determine which date-like part of an archive URL is the archivedate.--Elvey^(t•c) 17:06, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Elvey, please post your request at Wikipedia:Bot requests. ReferenceBot does not have the feature you are requesting. Its function is to notify editors when they have created a referencing error in a page, not to fix errors. See User:ReferenceBot for more information, especially the part that says "ReferenceBot does not fix any errors." – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:00, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – 223.141.179.13

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Velocite bikes

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Comment/question:

Reference format has been corrected in the article, but the reference list still shows the original incorrectly formatted references.

223.141.179.13 (talk) 01:39, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Fixed. – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:10, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – EoRdE6

Resolved

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Page: The Singing Nun

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Comment/question: I fixed a unbalanced bracket because a user had forgotten a bracket. No error here

EoRdE6^{(Come Talk to Me!)} 01:06, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

EoRdE6, your edit revealed another error in this citation, an unsupported parameter (really an unnamed parameter and a missing pipe) that was added in an edit prior to yours. If you scroll to the bottom of the article version linked from your diff, you'll see a red error message. I have fixed it. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:43, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Ghostofnemo

Resolved

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Page: Arsenic poisoning

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Comment/question: Looks ok to me....

Ghostofnemo (talk) 04:27, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

Scroll down to citation 28 to see the red error message. You wrote "url-" instead of "url=" in a citation parameter. An editor fixed it for you. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:56, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – 14.192.213.47

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Page: Expansion of Major League Soccer Diff: what is diff? Comment/question: I do not recall editing this page. And I tried to search which part that gets editted but was not able to detect where the broken referencing occurs. 14.192.213.47 (talk) 22:53, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Someone using the same IP address as you made that edit. The article has been heavily edited since, and the broken reference issue was fixed by Barryjjoyce with this edit. Thanks for looking into it, thoug. Huon (talk) 02:03, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Dingsuntil

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Page: Julius Evola

Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=653226146

Comment/question: Bot detected the error correctly, but it was also correctly reverted by AnomieBOT. Is this an error? Dunno.

Dingsuntil (talk) 04:04, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

More of an unfortunate lack of synergy. ReferenceBot notifies editors about reference errors they introduce. AnomieBot fixes some of those, the ones that don't need a human to look into them. From ReferenceBot's perspective it would be rather difficult to tell which reference errors are ones AnomieBot would fix anyway, thus it leaves notifications about all reference problems. Huon (talk) 02:03, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – ApprenticeFan

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Page: Survivor: Caramoan

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Comment/question: Number 51 reference made an error and it's un-clickable.

ApprenticeFan ^work 05:47, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Fixed. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:03, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Holyjoe722

Theremin

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theremin&oldid=653299574&diff=prev

Twice the content that I had added has been reverted. The first time, I presumed it was due to an incorrect syntax on the reference, however the second time the reference was correct, but no reasonable explanation was given by user Andy Dingley (the person reverting the content). As far as I can tell, I followed correct protocol for submission.

Holyjoe722 (talk) 14:00, 30 March 2015 (UTC)HolyJoe722

This is the wrong page for this message. The correct place is that editor's talk page, or Talk:Theremin. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:08, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – WillemienH

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Page: Ultraparallel theorem

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Comment/question:

The book referered to is http://www.amazon.co.uk/Non-Euclidean-Geometry-Mathematical-Association-Textbooks/dp/0883855224/ref=la_B001ITYBRA_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1428884471&sr=1-10

I tried the lookup function on ISBN-10: 0883855224 and ISBN-13: 978-0883855225 but neither worked

By the way I like the lookup function , can you also make it useable for just general references (to use for mentioning related publications, not as part of a reference)

WillemienH (talk) 00:29, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

WillemienH, I fixed the ISBN error in that article. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:55, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

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Muktadir75 (talk) 08:44, 13 April 2015 (UTC) Bangladesh Air Force Operate only 8 Mig-29.But wiki was saying Bangladesh Air force operate 16 Mig-29,Bangladesh didn't order Another 8 mig-29. Thats why i changedMuktadir75 (talk) 08:44, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Sfarney

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Page: E-meter

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I believe it is fixed now.

Comment/question:

Just found and fixed it before your bot notified me. :-)

Slade Farney (talk) 00:30, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

It's fixed, thanks! Huon (talk) 01:15, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Daylon124

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Page: Cherry Bomb (album)

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Comment/question: False Positive report: I've tried all links that I edited in this diff, nothing shows up in error. Regards,

∫ A Y ^™ 18:40, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

@Daylon124: In the diff the bot gave you, check reference 9. That URL is missing the leading http:// - fixed by Spiderjerky. Huon (talk) 01:01, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

@Huon: Oh, Thanks! I thought that would work as it's still a rfc 3986 allowed URI. ∫ A Y ^™ 13:31, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – 24.216.199.36

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_A._Kay

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The DOI of reference #6 is from NCBI website, I have no idea why it is reported to be invalid. Thanks! NCBI link attached: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1425852/. thanks!

24.216.199.36 (talk) 01:32, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

Fixed. The DOI had a stray period at the end that was causing it to not work. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:52, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Blouis79

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Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatigue_Detection_Software

Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fatigue_Detection_Software&diff=659942484&oldid=659745809

Comment/question:

The error in reference was an automatically generated reference from Zotero. It would be helpful to be able to automatically correct this or else submit a revision request to Zotero developers. Which is preferable??

Blouis79 (talk) 21:36, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

Please submit a revision request to the Zotero developers. Once this sort of formatting makes it to WP, it requires a human to fix it. You can point the developers to this help page for an explanation of how the pipe (vertical bar) characters should be represented in citations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#text_ignored

ReferenceBot – Tom.Reding

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Page: ULAS J1120+0641

Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=659795170

Comment/question: There is no redundant parameter error as far as I can tell. |display-authors=etal is a new parameter, and ReferenceBot could be mistaking |authors= and |display-authors= as duplicates b/c they both contain "authors".

~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf) 00:32, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

@Tom.Reding: You may want to double-check how those references actually were displayed. The display-authors parameter apparently doesn't work in conjunction with "authors=", but only "author1=", "author2=" and so on, or "last1=", "last2=" and so on. If you use "authors=" to write out an explicit list anyway, there's no benefit to not adding the "et al." to that list directly. Huon (talk) 00:51, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

I see. Thanks! ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf) 01:19, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

It looks like the new |display-authors= parameter conflicts with |authors=. This is either a bug, something we need to document, or something else. We should bring this up as a question at Help talk:Citation Style 1, with a link Tom.Reding's diff. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:00, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Jeremy Broun

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Jeremy Broun (talk) 07:32, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Hello, I have visited my page for the first time for a long time and am surprised to see that its authenticity is being challenged. This happened several years ago. Please tell me what the actual problem is? If it is a minor punctuation error please let me know.

@Jeremy Broun: As the name implies, BracketBot is an automated program concerned with mismatched brackets, and in the edit it pointed out on your talk page you added an opening bracket, but no closing bracket. I fixed that, but the article has more severe problems: It does not cite any reliable sources with the possible exception of An Encyclopedia of Chairs - and it doesn't provide much bibliographical information about that one, making it hard to identify. Wikipedia content should be a summary of what reliable third-party sources such as newspapers or reputable magazines have reported about a person. You may also want to take a look at our guideline on conflicts of interest; writing an autobiography is strongly discouraged because it's difficult to maintain a neutral point of view when writing about oneself. Huon (talk) 08:13, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Sebastienroblin

I have received a duplicate page number error in the article Titans_Dungeons and Dragons, because two sources (Monster Manual, and Monster Manual II) are cited as occurring on p.120-125. This is not an error, however, but instead a coincidence. The relevant pages happen to be p.120-125 in both publications.

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Sebastienroblin (talk) 02:55, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

fixed. Sebastienroblin, the red error message in the article indicated the citation with the error in it. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:40, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – AndyFielding

Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_McCartney

Diff: ? Sorry, I don't know how to do this

Comment/question: The cited brackets look okay to me... A bug in the checker?

AndyFielding (talk) 23:18, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

The bot notified you in January 2015 about this edit, where a partial link ended up at the very end of the article. Your edit was fixed less than seven hours later, which is why the article looks fine now. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:28, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – 172.56.26.123

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i do not edit anything on wikipedia, some one might have hacked my computer and is using my ip address, do not send me any more messages please

Comment/question:

172.56.26.123 (talk) 17:13, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

It seems more likely that yours is a shared IP address that was assigned to someone else. If you had given an indication of where the note was left I could have taken a look and fixed whatever issue the bot pointed out, but unfortunately you didn't do so. For registered users it's possible to tell ReferenceBot not to notify them of their mistakes (and a registered user wouldn't receive messages meant for other people either), but there's not much of a point to doing something about IP addresses you share with others and likely won't be using again the next time you visit Wikipedia. So there's nothing to do here. Huon (talk) 19:38, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Shhrdinz

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Page: Oilskin page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oilskin

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Comment/question: I have undo the ^[when?]and input (early 1930s)after that. Is this correct? - Shhrdinz (talk) 05:04, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

Fixed. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:35, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – 70.192.24.29

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70.192.24.29 (talk) 18:47, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Since you didn't give any indication of what this is about, there's nothing to be done about it. Huon (talk) 01:26, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Plantagenet v

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Comment/question: I don't know how to fix the info box

Plantagenet v (talk) 06:40, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

Plantagenet v What article? Bgwhite (talk) 06:43, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

Edward iv of England — Preceding unsigned comment added by Plantagenet v (talk • contribs) 06:45, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

Fixed. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:26, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Tenzing1620

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Tenzing1620 (talk) 07:00, 15 May 2015 (UTC)The Information is accurate to the knowledge of USA think tanks.

These edits introduced bracket problems. They have been fixed. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:24, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Rapidim

Comment/question: I did a very simple bracket error, for references. It could have been corrected automatically, or we could get warnings when cases like this happened. A just put an extra ']' when adding references with text - one of two should be wrong, or (maybe) I could have missed an opening bracket.

Rapidim (talk) 12:34, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

The editor fixed this problem after a bracketbot notification. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:29, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – 103.225.100.66

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103.225.100.66 (talk) 11:08, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

www.annualtaxreturn.co.uk is the link I wished to add please help me rectify this change

The edit has been reverted as spam. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:02, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Slyten674

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Slyten674 (talk) 08:26, 27 May 2015 (UTC) Slyten674 Thanks for checking my mistake

You're welcome; I repaired the link. The "jidai" in "Sengoku jidai" means "period", so "Sengoku jidai period" would be redundant. Huon (talk) 18:47, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Collier09

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Collier09 (talk) 18:25, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up, appreciated. Fixed it.

Collier09 (talk) 18:25, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing it. Huon (talk) 18:47, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Judithfitzgerald

Page: Dwight Yoakam Diff:

Comment/question: Could you please correct the syntax, BracketBot? I'm lost in my new book and don't know much about WikiSyntax at all. Thanks, truly, if you can help. Judith Fitzgerald Judithfitzgerald (talk) 22:47, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

Firstly, as the name implies, BracketBot is a bot, an automated program, and it's not set up to fix bracket issues, only to notify human editors about them. Secondly, that was back in March - March 2014, that is. It has been fixed by others for quite some time. Huon (talk) 18:47, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – SusunW

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Page: American Indian boarding schools Diff: The ISBN I used from the book was 978-0-8061-1458-4 https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=HiP-sWiqYL4C&lpg=PP1&pg=PR4#v=onepage&q&f=false which matches what is printed. I checked in ISBN search and it comes up negative, so I searched Amazon and found a different ISBN http://www.amazon.com/Oklahoma-History-Centuries-Arrell-Gibson/dp/0806117583 which cleared the page error Comment/question: Don't know if reference will be used again, but the printed reference in the book is what I originally input. Is there a way to program Wikipedia to point the 978-0-8061-1458-4 to the correct number 978-0806117584 if someone inputs it, like I did, from the Google site? SusunW (talk) 01:04, 31 January 2015 (UTC) SusunW (talk) 01:04, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

@SusunW: So the book misprinted its own ISBN? While technically it might be possible to add a list of ISBN "redirects", I rather doubt it's common enough an occurrence to justify the huge effort, which would probably include significant changes to the Mediawiki software, not just to templates or other user-designed content. (Out of curiosity, did you check a physical copy of the book, or did you rely on Google Books' digitalization? My trust in the accuracy of scanning was recently shaken, and I'm not sure I'd consider a pattern matching error during digitalization less likely than a misprint in the physical book.) Anyway, I'll leave a note at Wikipedia talk:ISBN, but I don't really expect any positive results.

A930913, what I'm much more concerned about is that apparently the edit that caused the ISBN error was [8] while SusunW was notified about the earlier diff [9]. Huon (talk) 13:42, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks anyway. At least we got the right one on the file. I would never have known it was printed wrong in the book. And no, I have no access actual to English language books here in Mexico, only web versions. SusunW (talk) 15:46, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

I think we've come across about 3 or 4 books with a misprint in their own ISBN. It may be worth inserting an HTML comment to stop people "fixing" these, and I suppose we could also add it to AWB's list of typos -but people over there were getting a bit squiffy over the size of some of the replacement tables (for no good reason that I could see). All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:28, 3 April 2015 (UTC).

I fixed about five thousand ISBN errors in the past year or so, and I found ten or twenty instances of invalid ISBNs printed in sources. In some cases, where the invalid ISBN actually worked as a link to worldcat.org, I inserted an HTML comment in the citation and used a parameter to suppress the error message (since the point of the linked ISBN is the help the reader locate the source, and that function was actually working). In other cases, I replaced the ISBN with an OCLC or other identifier that leads to the book. – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:11, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Cordless Larry

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Page: Classification of ethnicity in the United Kingdom

Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=650658688

Comment/question: I can't see a URL error in that reference - there's not a URL field used as it's a book. There was a URL error in this edit though, so perhaps you meant that one?

Cordless Larry (talk) 08:39, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Cordless Larry: ReferenceBot should have told you that you introduced an "unsupported parameter" error by adding the parameter |publiisher=. It looks like ReferenceBot made a slight mistake. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:26, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Ah, thanks Jonesey95. My bad. Cordless Larry (talk) 14:34, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Srich32977

Page: Bob Barr Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Barr&type=revision&diff=665421045&oldid=663796014 Comment/question: The "<" 'bracket' was added to designate "less than". Thank you Bracket Bot. You do provide a wonderful service. – S. Rich (talk) 04:38, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Rwhiting10

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Hello, I'm BracketBot. I have automatically detected that your edit to Ichiro Suzuki may have broken the syntax by modifying 1 "()"s. If you have, don't worry: just edit the page again to fix it. If I misunderstood what happened, or if you have any questions, you can leave a message on my operator's talk page.

List of unpaired brackets remaining on the page: demanded by the father. According to Ichiro, "It bordered on hazing and I suffered a lot." (Whiting, Robert (2004). The Meaning of Ichiro. p.6 Grand Central Publishing. ISBN 978-0-446-53192-4.

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Rwhiting10 (talk) 01:33, 6 June 2015 (UTC) There was an indication that a source was needed for the Ichiro quote, so I provided it. It came from one of my books. I had intended to use it as a footnote or end note, but the book citation wound in in the main text in a parentheses. I don't know how to fix it. If you can, please do so.

Robert Whiting

Fixed. – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:49, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Shashtah

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Sarmatians:

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The bot says there is an ISBN. I have the book in front of me. (It is my own book.) The ISBN reads: 978-0-8153-3566-5. It looks to me as if that is what I typed on the edit.:

Shashtah (talk) 02:20, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Fixed. – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:45, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Irenefdezperalta

Romanticism

Diff.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism#Romantic_heritage

Hello, I do not understand what do I have to change on my contribution in Romanticism page, so, could you please be more specific? What did I modify which is a mistake? Thank you.

Irenefdezperalta (talk) 09:53, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

This unsourced text that broke a bracket has been reverted. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:26, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Risssa

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I had nothing to do with this change. I don't know who did. Thank you.

Rissa, Guild of Copy Editors (talk) 01:20, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

Risssa: The article's history shows that you deleted a named reference that is in the references list, which caused a red error message at the bottom of the article. I fixed it.

BracketBot – Theinklings

Page: House Church Page

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Comment/question:

I tried to correct the broken syntax you mentioned. If it has not done so, please correct it yourself, or any other difference in th edit to the normal style of the page Theinklings (talk) 01:23, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

Fixed. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:23, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Lukedehart

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Page: I apparently had a citation error. Diff: I am unsure what to do to rectify this situation as my citation was accurate although the theoretical conjecture above my comment is unfounded. It is based on the assumption that water molecules can store and compound energy from photons which is simply untrue. Comment/question:

Lukedehart (talk) 06:12, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – JonsmithNYC

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JonsmithNYC (talk) 21:42, 20 June 2015 (UTC) Hello, I'm BracketBot. I have automatically detected that your edit to Swing! may have broken the syntax by modifying 1 "[]"s and 1 "{}"s likely mistaking one for another. If you have, don't worry: just edit the page again to fix it. If I misunderstood what happened, or if you have any questions, you can leave a message on my operator's talk page.

List of unpaired brackets remaining on the page: The original cast album was nominated for a Grammy in the "Musical Show" category. ^[1]

You can go ahead and fix it for me . . . I'm not sure how it works.

Yobot fixed it. – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:47, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

References

^ [http://www.digitalhit.com/grammy/43/nominees.shtml

BracketBot – Presidentman

Page: Party of European Socialists
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Comment/question: The bot mislabeled the bracket in the {| class="wikitable" and the first bracket of a template as unpaired. Presidentman talk · contribs (Talkback) 12:26, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

The open "Composition bar" template was the real error. It has been fixed. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:23, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – 95.91.243.202

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95.91.243.202 (talk) 07:52, 21 June 2015 (UTC) Hi. Your bot detected a possible reference problem when I edited the page on civil service. I have checked it and belive it is a false positive. Thanks95.91.243.202 (talk) 07:52, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

Exurbis67, you deleted a reference that was used later in the page. AnomieBOT rescued the reference for you. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:25, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – 64.250.84.75

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64.250.84.75 (talk) 22:57, 22 June 2015 (UTC) Why are you not disclosing the religious affiliation by taking it out?

You'll want to post your question at Talk:David Ben-Gurion, not here. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:23, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – 24.85.113.197

Page: doom metal Diff: "I have automatically detected that your edit to Doom metal may have broken the syntax by modifying 3 "()"s."

Comment/question: "Sunn O)))" is the name of the band. The three right-parentheses are deliberate. It does not break syntax. See also: Sunn O))) 24.85.113.197 (talk) 21:24, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

That's indeed a false positive, though hardly one the bot can be blamed for. Huon (talk) 21:59, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – 78.0.245.157

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78.0.245.157 (talk) 20:34, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

Fixed. Huon (talk) 21:59, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Amishah78

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Vinod Tawde

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I have removed duplicate content that seemed vandalism. There is one statement that I have not removed from overall content and potentially that leads to the referencing error. The statement is an inference from discussion on various social platforms and there's no direct reference by any news source.

Amishah78 (talk) 04:26, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

The citation you added used |publishdate=, which is not a valid parameter in citation templates. I fixed it for you. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:23, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – 187.75.16.53

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Comment/question:False positive, fixed in ulterior fix.

187.75.16.53 (talk) 05:09, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

Not a false positive. AnomieBot rescued the reference that was deleted. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:26, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

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Comment/question: Correcting the reference right now. 209.2.233.115 (talk) 17:14, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

OK, thanks for fixing it. Huon (talk) 19:20, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Andyangys

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unknown parametr error of my edit on Page: Fernando Torres,Samuel Eto Diff:

Comment/question: Why am I not allpwed to reverse it, I made a proper and legal edit.

Andyangys (talk) 01:48, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

Fixed both. – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:18, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

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Selva1979 (talk) 07:18, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

@Selva1979: If you mean that some other editor changes content you added, that's the way Wikipedia works: It's a collaborative project. If you disagree with those other editors' edits you can modify or revert them, but it's often helpful to leave an explanation on the article's talk page. If you mean that edits are made by your own account that aren't yours, then your account has been compromised, and you should notify admins about that. Huon (talk) 18:04, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

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Somehow those two diffs may have appeared, but "how" is beyond my grasp, as I was not aware they were even there, and I didn't knowingly write them.

--00:20, 6 July 2015 (UTC)Dean Striker (talk)

Your edits have been reverted, fixing the bracket issues. Huon (talk) 23:20, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

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Comment/question:false positive. this link is OK - url=www.parl.gc.ca/Content/SEN/Committee/412/banc/rep/rep12jun15-e.pdf

OntarioBoy 10:31, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

The bot was right, but you fixed the issue yourself. Huon (talk) 23:20, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Marilyn Leask

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Page: Sarah Younie Diff: A broken link was detected Comment/question: I think I have fixed it. I checked all references and removed http:// from two places. Marilyn Leask (talk) 07:51, 8 July 2015 (UTC) Marilyn Leask (talk) 07:51, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

The issue wasn't a surplus http:// but a named reference that was referred to, but that wasn't defined anywhere. You fixed that too, though. Huon (talk) 18:31, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

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Comment/question:Fixed. Current edit is reporting no errors.

Brokor (talk) 23:55, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

Another bot fixed the probllems. If you add footnotes, you should also add a dedicated "References" section at the end that contains a {{teflist}} template which displays the footnotes. Huon (talk) 11:22, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

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109.99.34.193 (talk) 02:02, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

Jerodlycett fixed the issue and added the missing </ref> tag at the end of the footnote. Huon (talk) 11:22, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Amitgupta1996

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raichur_railway_station:

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Amitgupta1996 (talk) 06:15, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

Adding a space within a template's parameter name broke that parameter. Huon (talk) 11:22, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

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I found a wrong information on the page of Darius the great , so I tried to correct it  which brought to my attention that is not easy to correct a wrong , without knowing the whole concept of editing,  I hope you can help me, or you can correct the wrong information giving in to the early life of Darius, where is written :

Before Cyrus and his army crossed the Aras River to battle with the Armenians. this is not correct because

according to Herodotus Cyrus went to war with the Massagetae a the  river Jaxartes or Syr Darya, is the name of the river he crossed . Thank you

Comment/question:

correctme 13:46, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

Herodotus may not be the most reliable source for the finer details of Persian history. The history book we cite for that paragraph explicitly says it was the Araxes ie Aras. Huon (talk) 11:22, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Jgrantduff

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Page: Theodor Herzl

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Comment/question: Please do not use ReferenceBot on my pages. I do NOT like ReferenceBot. I would like to ban ReferenceBot, it is nothing but a nuisance. Nothing positive from it. Please desist from any more uhelpful attempts to delete and demolish my account! Justin Grant-Duff 08:02, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

@Jgrantduff: This was not a false positive unless the big red warning about a missing </ref> tag was deliberate. Given how often you cause cite errors of all kinds, rather than complaining about ReferenceBot pointing out your mistakes you may want to learn to fix, or better yet avoid, those errors. Huon (talk) 11:22, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

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Boergelau (talk) 07:46, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

You fixed that yourself, but you may want to check out the preview to avid making a half-dozen edits to get one link right. Huon (talk) 11:22, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

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Comment/question: In the Template:IPA link, a single less-than sign ⟨<⟩ is a switch for turning on angle brackets. For instance, {{IPA link|ə|<}} will produce <. If it is possible, the BracketBot should not bug users who do this. --mach 🙈🙉🙊 07:10, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

It's rather difficult for the bot to determine the comparatively few places where "<" are deliberately used singly. On the other hand, they are used in HTML and pseudo-HTML tags (say <ref>) where a mismatch can have severe consequences. Thus I'd say the false positives are worth the benefit. Huon (talk) 11:22, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

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123.252.207.38 (talk) 08:00, 17 July 2015 (UTC) I have not even tried to make any changes on the webpage. If anything has happened, please treat it as inadvertent action.

Regards

Since you have not provided any information on what page this is about and BracketBot never notified this IP addresss, there's nothing to be done here. Huon (talk) 11:22, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – FishTox2000

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Looks like a false error. I was just posing a question and using an example:

FishTox2000 (talk) 00:35, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

Since some help pages do contain footnotes, it's rather difficult for the bot to determine when they're not meant to really be footnotes. Huon (talk) 11:22, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

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Comment/question: Thanks for the tip! I'm correcting the code now. Mrdnartdesign (talk) 11:06, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for fixing it. Huon (talk) 01:30, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

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AtaraMalka (talk) 21:03, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

Hello BraketBot,

I am just replying to your message of 5 days ago in which you noted that a syntax issue had been created during my modification of the Harland and Wolff page. I am new to editing Wikipedia and I don't understand your message fully as it contains so many signs and symbols I am unfamiliar with in the context. Please could you explain longhand specifically what syntax problem you believe has been caused?

I looked at the page again and saw that I had left out a space after a bracket and a word that followed. I have corrected this typo but can't find any other problems there.

Many thanks!

Atara Malka

@AtaraMalka: When you removed that bizarre "postnominal", you also by accident removed one of the brackets that turned Gustav Wilhelm Wolff's name into a link to the article on Wolff. That has since been fixed by another bot. Huon (talk) 01:30, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – 71.79.77.69

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71.79.77.69 (talk) 01:29, 22 July 2015 (UTC)Someone edited the Kiss album discography with immature album names just tried to straighten it up with the real album names.

Thanks for trying to repair that; it's all fixed now. You may want to check out Help:Undo; that explains how to easily revert unhelpful edits. Huon (talk) 21:49, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

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I think I fixed it.

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Danafr3 (talk) 13:58, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

@Danafr3: You did, but unfortunately IMDb is not considered a reliable source, and I'd be rather surprised if it backed up the statement for which a citation was requested - usually it doesn't discuss how significant a role is. Huon (talk) 21:49, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – TrishApps

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Comment/question:I used the reference code to make notes about references on this page. I'm very new and had never added "Notes" before so I'm not surprised I did something wrong! :) I got frustrated as an editor kept reversing changes I made to the page with comments that weren't very mentoring or generous. Instead of writing, "citation needed" on my changes, he deleted them. Background: In March/April a big cull was made to the page and a lot of good, if not well presented information (put up by newbies), was lost. Subsequently, authors not empathetic to what the page represents, have put up a lot of information showing why or how they dislike it. The Notes I wrote up, that the ReferenceBot flagged, identify the first principle or first stage of error with some of this unsympathetic information. That is, the choice to use Chinese and Japanese language symbols currently in use in Japan and China which are, in fact, not the symbols used to represent the name, Reiki. Thanks for your time on this!

TrishApps (talk) 08:00, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

@TrishApps: You'll want to check out maintenance templates such as {{citation needed}} or {{who}}. For longer editorial comments, please use the talk page, not footnotes within the article itself. I have moved your comments over to the talk page and left a comment of my own. Huon (talk) 11:22, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

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Comment/question: The edit I made caused an error because there's no url=, just an archiveurl=. The original link has been dead for years; is any purpose served by putting in a dead link into a reference? Argyriou (talk) 00:43, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

Yes there is; it immediately shows what source we originally cited, without the need to go through the web archive. After all, the web archive is only reproducing that now-gone original, it's not a reliable source in its own right. In more practical terms, the citation template will add an "archived from the original" link, which obviously is impossible without the original URL. Huon (talk) 02:15, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

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2001:558:600B:8:612B:B25:96D9:B799 (talk) 11:31, 25 July 2015 (UTC) -- I cannot find a [] that i broke on Reason. bad pagename or url by backetbot. hint pls?

It appears someone reverted your edit (which to me looked more like a personal comment than encyclopedic content); the error was a missing bracket in the "Logos" link (the corresponding closing bracket is highlighted in red in BracketBot's message). Huon (talk) 02:15, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

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  Hello, I still don't understand why you program your computer to cut out my input about Nene.

Comment/question:

Peter Mamara (talk) 06:33, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

In short, because an extraordinary claim such as that Bulgarian and Romanian honorifics have a Chinese etymology should be backed up by reliable sources. Those edits weren't reverted automatically, though; other humans removed them. Huon (talk) 02:15, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Eagledj

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Cornelia Fort Airpark:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=673061912:

Cornelia was misspelled as "Conerlia" in the last line of section "History". I merely corrected the spelling. The URL link was already broken. The problem is that The Land Trust for Tennessee does not have any document by the title given in this reference. The spelling, right or wrong, is in the text of the article and does not affect the reference.

Eagledj (talk) 17:35, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

@Eagledj: The problem wasn't the broken link (which I fixed by providing an arcived copy of that page) but the fact that the parameter for the access date is named accessdate without a space. Adding that space breaks the parameter, causing the reference error. Huon (talk) 02:15, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

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BIAFRA:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biafra#/editor/0:

please how can I lock that page to avoid edits from other users?:

Ifecomito (talk) 16:51, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

The first step is to raise your concerns at Talk:Biafra by creating a new section describing the edits that you see as a problem. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:14, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – 89.180.106.113

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89.180.106.113 (talk) 00:00, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

Help me change Official Language of Malawi to only English as it is the only Official Language. You can verify this by going to the Official Malawi Government Website at http://www.malawi.gov.mw

89.180.106.113 Wrong place to ask, but fixed nevertheless. Bgwhite (talk) 00:43, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for fixing this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.180.106.113 (talk) 01:17, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Columbia37

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 I did some major edits on "David Holman" who is me.  There were several errors and omissions, however I accidentally deleted a line or two of references since this was the first time that I had registered and done any editing on any person or subject.  I've read the instructions on correcting these errors, but do not understand how to accomplish it.  Help!  Signed: Columbia37

Comment/question:

Columbia37 (talk) 21:57, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

@Columbia37: Others have fixed the references, but the content you added largely does not seem to be based on the reliable sources cited in the article. For example, "Holman currently lives with his life-partner Tom Young and their Westie "Mactavish" in Surprise, AZ, and Holman continues to do creative writing and has been speaking to numerous film & TV students in Texas, California, Illinois & New Mexico." - how can our readers verify that statement? Huon (talk) 11:14, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Hexafluoride

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Page: Health care in Israel

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Comment/question: I can't find errors in the refs mentioned in the diff by ReferenceBot. I created a sample <ref> using ProveIt, and it matches the refs I created. I also checked {{cite web}}'s documentation, and it seems the reported offending refs are in order. RefToolbar also returns no errors.

¬Hexafluoride ^(talk) 16:49, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Hexafluoride: Fixed. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:59, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

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Mr3abd (talk) 23:50, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Another editor fixed it. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:43, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – 58.174.200.187

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58.174.200.187 (talk) 13:51, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Fixed. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:38, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Mark Lincoln

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Page: List of sounding rockets

Diff: List of sounding rockets: Difference between revisions and the style of urls given as sources.

Comment/question: Most of the examples given by the ReferenceBot are false positives. The page has the following comment: "This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it." I am adding entries (rockets) and supplying citations for those already listed on the page. This seems to have freaked your ReferenceBot out. I see nothing wrong with the edits. Sometimes the ReferenceBot has flagged "errors" which are in the urls of the pages cited to as in he example "cite web |url=http://www.astronautix.com/fam/skylark.htm#more |title=Skylark |publisher=Encyclopedia Astronautica |accessdate=2015-08-05". I am not responsible for the urls used at my sources.

Sometimes the ReferenceBot has flagged instances where I added citations such as the change from "* Kumulus" to "* Kumulus^[1]".

In other cases the ReferenceBot has flagged an instance where I changed the entry from one citing specific versions to one referencing a "family as in "Skylark". There are 26 Skylark versions. I may yet list them all. I am just trying to fulfill the request "This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it."

In the instance "Disambiguation link notification for August 7" I fixed it.

Regarding "Editing User talk:A930913 (new section)." I feel my comments on the talk page have not violated Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines. I have tried to explain why certain actions were taken. This is done to comply with the talk guideline "The purpose of a Wikipedia talk page (accessible via the talk or discussion tab) is to provide space for editors to discuss changes to its associated article or project page." I have also complied with the guideline "Use separate subsection headings to discuss multiple changes:" I have taken pains to document the reasons for my actions and supply citations to the sources for those actions. This meets the instruction "Discuss edits: The talk page is particularly useful to talk about edits." I even cited NASA's definition of "Sounding rocket" so that editors would know what criteria I am using to decide what is, or is not, a sounding rocket. I did state an opinion in the "V-2 and Bumper" section when I gave a reason for including Bumper as a sounding rocket. The talk page guidelines state " It is a generally accepted standard that editors should attempt to follow, though it is best treated with common sense, and occasional exceptions may apply." I feel that that example is within the realm of "common sense" when giving an explanation for including Bumper despite it having been a test vehicle.

As for the spelling of color I can only quote George Bernard Shaw "England and America are two counties separated by a common language."

Thank you. Mark Lincoln (talk) 21:48, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Mark Lincoln (talk) 21:48, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Fixed. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:29, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

References

^ "Kumulus". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Retrieved 2015-08-05.

BracketBot – Artscribbler

The On Kawara Wikipedia Page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Kawara#Exhibitions

I don't understand the problem with my edit. I have just added information about an exhibition and added it's link. The syntax is not broken as being suggested by BracketBot:

Artscribbler (talk) 16:23, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

The syntax was broken, but you added the missing square bracket yourself with this edit. All fixed now. Huon (talk) 14:26, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Fansdisney

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Page: Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero

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Comment/question: I don't understand why the bot thought that my edit "introduced errors". It seems alright on my laptop...

Fansdisney (talk) 18:23, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Fixed. Fansdisney, if you look at your edit, you will see that you introduced a big red error message in the References section. I have fixed it for you. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:58, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Observer6

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Thanks. but... Thanks for notice about missing bracket(s) on 'Bishop'. I have corrected mine, and thanks for pointing it out. But you also mention another missing bracket in opening line re ....Testament]] Greek ἐπίσκοπος, epískopos, "overseer", "guardian") is an ordained or consecrated member of the [[Clergy#Christian... etc I thought I could fix that too! But it seems that there is actually a pair () of brackets already there, and any 'fix' I attempt only makes it worse! So I've left it as it is! Regards --Observer6 (talk) 16:47, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Observer6 (talk) 16:47, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

@Observer6: Thanks for fixing that. The other unpaired bracket is a false positive in the first reference, where {{LSJ|e)pi/skopos1|ἐπίσκοπος|ref}} is used to produce a certain accent on the epsilon. I don't think the bot can reasonably resolve such uses. Huon (talk) 11:01, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – 98.122.20.56

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Page: Scotch-Irish American

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Comment/question: I was informed of "duplicate page numbers". I used the automatic citation tool. I think I fixed the problem, but I wasn't sure whether to use the 'page' or 'pages' variable. I choose 'page'. Also, the reference was found in the preface of a book, which are often numbered in Roman numerals. I assume there is no problem with that. Please let me know if I corrected it. Thanks. --98.122.20.56 (talk) 01:09, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

98.122.20.56 (talk) 01:09, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

You've corrected it, thanks. If it's a single page, use "page"; if it's several (say, pp. 5–7), use "pages". There's no problem with using Roman numerals. Huon (talk) 11:01, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot - 74.82.68.144

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My name is Mary and I received several notices that I tried making changes/edits to many web pages I don't recognize visiting. I'm not tech saavy and did not knowingly contribute ANY editing to any pages and apologize if it appears so. I don't know why its being linked back to me. As I only read wiki and am not knowledgable on such matters as editing and attributing materials. I don't even know how to create web sites.

Comment/question:

74.82.68.144 (talk) 15:46, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

Hello Mary, you will see messages meant for everybody who edits from the same IP address as you. If you don't want to get those notifications meant for other people, you may want to consider creating an account; it's free and simple. Huon (talk) 11:01, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – OwenBlacker

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Page: Typhoon Soudelor (2015)

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Comment/question: I made an edit to a reference that already had an archiveurl error, but I did not introduce the error myself. I guess that counts as a false positive :o)

OwenBlacker (Talk) 05:56, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

@OwenBlacker: You did cause that error because you accidentally removed a pipe from the reference. Fixed. Huon (talk) 11:01, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

@Huon: So I did. My apologies! :o) — OwenBlacker (Talk) 13:13, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – 78.17.182.206

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Page: On the Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015 page, your edit caused a URL error (help). (Fix | Ask for help)

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There are no highlighted errors on the edit I made

Comment/question: I cant see the error

78.17.182.206 (talk) 07:58, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

@Theorignal JD: URLs on Wikipedia must begin with http:// (or https:// if applicable). The issue has since been fixed. Huon (talk) 11:01, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Typ932

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Dacia Sandero

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what is the error?

>Typ932 ^T·C 18:45, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

@Typ932: The problem was with this code:

{{cite web|author=Nov 27, 2012 William Diem | WardsAuto |url=http://wardsauto.com/europe/european-malaise-not-slowing-down-renault-s-dacia |title=European Malaise Not Slowing Down Renault’s Dacia |publisher=Wardsauto.com |date=2012-11-27 |accessdate=2015-08-17}}

There's a "WardsAuto" that's interpreted as a parameter name (but not recognized) by the citation template, causing the error. Fixed. Huon (talk) 11:01, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

send this to User:Dispenser/Reflinks not for me -->Typ932 ^T·C 11:51, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – 71.185.197.144

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I meant to add a name to the Great Valley High School page and the system seemed to go ballistic. I made an unintentional mistake.

The notable graduates category was unintentionally eliminated. Thom Nickels Comment/question:

71.185.197.144 (talk) 04:16, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

@ThomasOrthodoxConvert: The reference problem was [ fixed by Bgwhite], but lists of notable people on Wikipedia generally are meant to include only those whom we have articles about. Thus I'll remove that entry (and the reference, which for all I can tell didn't mention Great Valley High School anyway). Huon (talk) 11:01, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Box73

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Page: Template:Amphetamine base in marketed amphetamine medications

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Comment/question: This template is a table used in 2 articles. These articles have <references group="note" /> defined and my notes fit there. When I add this section to the template itself, it grabs all the notes on each article and leaves empty sections for notes in the article itself. I will leave it like this until someone provides a solution. Can you offer a solution?

Box73 (talk) 07:35, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

@Box73: You can use <noinclude> tags to add content to the template page that won't be added to the pages where the template is transcluded, such as sections for the template's references and notes. I did so. See Help:Template#Noinclude, includeonly, and onlyinclude for more details. Huon (talk) 11:01, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

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[2] "Kumulus". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Retrieved 2015-08-05.

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