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Cite fixes

I see you have been fixing book citations that use the deprecated "coauthors" parameter, replacing it by "last4", "first4", "last5" etc. That is good, but be aware that it messes up citations that use the form {{sfn|last1|last2|last3|2001|p=123}}. They provide a link to the source description. If you check Peter M. Arthur, for example, you will see that the citations provide links to the sources. But some of those links no longer work. The fix is, when you add "last4" to a source description, change any "sfn" citations to {{sfn|last1|last2|last3|last4|2001|p=123}}. See this change to Arthur Dallidet for an example. Obscure, eh? Aymatth2 (talk) 13:35, 20 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That fixed it - and I found and fixed another one that was there all along! I don't think many editors use this style of citation, but some do, and to me it gives a fairly professional appearance. What you are doing is very useful. Thanks a lot, Aymatth2 (talk) 16:18, 20 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for catching this; I appreciate it, and I'm really glad you saw it before I did too many more pages without checking. There are only a few others affected, and I'm fixing them now. Thanks again. Suelru (talk) 16:29, 20 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There is a tool at User:Ucucha/HarvErrors that makes any problems jump out. I think it is useful. You might want to install it... Aymatth2 (talk) 16:39, 20 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, thanks, that's very useful. Suelru (talk) 17:34, 20 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Editions of Burghauser

Hello Suelru, this is Marlindale. I see that in the Dvoṝák article you have been changing the editions from older to newer ones.Of course it would have been preferable to use newer editions, but I got the information from the editions I cited. The page numbers will not be correct now. I don't have the technical knowledge to revert all those changes. Could you please do so? Thank you very much in advance. Best wishes. Marlindale (talk) 03:29, 7 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Marlindale. Thanks for pointing that out. I was try to get the links in the short citations to work properly, but obviously I just made things worse. I think I've fixed them all now—let me know if you catch any more. I've also changed the main date in the bibliography entry for the Burghauser catalogues to 1960 (the older edition), with 1996 listed as an alternative, partly to help with the short citations, and partly to make it a bit clearer which edition is meant. Let me know if that's made the citation incorrect in any way. Thanks again. Suelru (talk) 14:10, 7 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again Suelru, thanks for your work. As I said on the Talk page of the article, I mainly used and cited the 1966 edition. For the time being I don't have more suggestions. Marlindale (talk) 21:32, 7 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thanks. It seems another editor has been using the 1960 edition, so there are some of each, but the dates should match what was in your last edit from August now. Suelru (talk) 00:08, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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AWB use

Hi, some of your AWB usage are breaking infobox image. I have got 2 notifications from B-bot today mentioning a couple of non-free images I uploaded becaome orphan. --Tito Dutta (talk) 18:50, 5 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have figured out, it is because of a dash at the end. --Tito Dutta (talk) 18:53, 5 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry about that, and thanks for catching it. I'll keep an eye out for that in future. Suelru (talk) 20:06, 5 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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IMage size edit issues

Hello Suelru. Many of the infoboxes that you're editing do not have the parameter size or size1, so your automated changes are simply making a mess. Please could you make these changes manually and check what it's doing to articles rather than a mass AWB run? Thanks, Number 5 7 23:47, 31 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

My mistake. I'll go fix that. Suelru (talk) 23:50, 31 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

On a similar note, it is not necessary to set |Ship image size=300px in {{Infobox ship image}} because that is the default image size.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 02:50, 1 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

-Good to know. I just set up a regex to catch and reformat whatever size is in File:..., but I can leave out the 300px going forward.Suelru (talk) 02:52, 1 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Religion in infoboxes

Please don’t remove religion from an infobox without making sure it is also in the article, otherwise information is being lost. Thanks, Kerry

Oh, sorry about that, I'll keep it in mind going forward. Suelru (talk) 23:30, 6 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Blowing up a mosquito

Looks like you used high explosives against a mosquito. Please don't ever do this again, when all that was needed, was this. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 12:02, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, OK. I tend to avoid a lot of LDRs for precisely the reason that was problematic here: it's difficult to tell which ref is making things break when they're all defined in the same place. I mostly changed it so that if this happened again, another editor wouldn't have to search through all 150+ refs to find the one that broke, but I realize a page with this many references can also be cumbersome to edit with the refs inline (so I'll leave it as is). Cheers.Suelru (talk) 21:49, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

People have different opinions about LDRs. I happen to like them, because it make the wikicode so much easier to deal with, but my opinion wasn't relevant wrt this change; WP:CITEVAR was the only thing that applied, and I would have reverted in the other direction (away from my preference) if someone altered it conversely to how you did. However, I'm really mystified by your second sentence: one thing that LDRs are indubitably better at, whether one likes them in principle, or not, is that it is so much easier to find the reference that broke; it was trivially easy to find and correct that one, after the revert. Your parenthetical expression at the end is problematic: the implication is, that it would have been okay for you to change it from LDR to something else, and that you were being magnanimous by "leaving it as is". But it's not okay, it's against the guideline, so please don't do it, even when there aren't a lot of references inline, and even when it's not cumbersome. If an article has all sorts of different citations styles in use at the same time, and it's a big free-for-all, then it might be appropriate to change to one style or another for consistency; but in that case, I'd consider starting a discussion at Talk first before I did so; it could be it was consistent at one point, and later edits got in the way and added a bunch of different styles. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 23:44, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry about trying to change the convention on the page like that, and I definitely didn't mean to rock the boat. Is this a good place to suggest ?

Relatedly, I'm afraid I don't understand how LDRs make it easier to find the reference that broke in this case. All I saw in terms of an error message was the classic "cite error: $1" at the end of the references. How do LDRs help you tell which of the 150+ refs immediately previous caused that, apart from just reading/searching through them all (which is what I was heavy-handedly doing)? I said I find it easier with in-text citations because then the error happens in the middle of the text, where there is probably only a handful of refs that could be the culprit. Am I missing something basic (you say it's trivial, and I'd really like to be able to do this sort of edit quickly and non-disruptively)? I've been combing through Help:List-defined references to no avail. Sorry if this is something incredibly obvious; it's been a little while since I've dealt with many cite errors.

(Just as a further apology, I think my tone/wording were poor previously---I don't mean to leave the page like that to be magnanimous, but to avoid further complicating things, and of course to respect the status quo on the page.)

Thanks again, Suelru (talk) 00:26, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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