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Bulk RfD nomination

There are around 179 redirects to OmniScriptum that I'd like to nominate at RfD. Is this something that can be done through AWB, if I paste the list and the rationale here? (I'm not entirely sure how this is supposed to work and am going off a 2015 discussion that I never followed up that indicates it's possible.) – Arms & Hearts (talk) 19:41, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

@Arms & Hearts: I'll do it if it just involves adding the RfD template. ― Qwerfjkl talk 19:50, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

@Arms & Hearts: Yes, this can certainly be done. Please create the nomination first (with the list of pages), so that the correct section can be linked to, and then let us know. @Qwerfjkl, this would probably also include notifying the redirect creator(s). Tol (talk | contribs) @ 20:57, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

@Tol: I thought so. I could still probably do it, but I'd rather leave it to someone more experienced in this area. I'll happily do this if there's a low enough number of redirect creators so it can be done manually. ― Qwerfjkl talk 21:00, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

@Qwerfjkl: That's fine; I can do it. Tol (talk | contribs) @ 21:04, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

@Qwerfjkl and Tol: Thanks both for advising. I've started the discussion, with the list of redirects, at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 January 14#"Get Morebooks!". It looks as though User:Playmobilonhishorse is the creator of all of them, though I haven't checked them all so can't entirely rule out there being others. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 13:45, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

@Qwerfjkl, @Arms & Hearts: I've notified the three other users who have created a redirect in the list (

1
2
3

). Tol (talk | contribs) @ 15:55, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

Thanks again Tol! – Arms & Hearts (talk) 16:43, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

You're welcome! Tol (talk | contribs) @ 16:46, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

Idea: Floating out a general idea about the topic, would a bot that can routinely do this be helpful? I've seen many similar requests here before. 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 22:44, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Hmm, perhaps. I think a better solution may be an OAuth tool, so that users can make the edits on their own accounts. If it were a bot, then either the bot operator would have to take requests and run it manually, or the bot could be run by any user and potentially misused. Tol (talk | contribs) @ 01:07, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Just saw this now, but I have a bot with general approval for addition of XfD notices. Ping me and I can run it whenever. I guess it's possible to do some kind of system to allow others to run it, but that's more effort than I feel like putting in right now. --Trialpears (talk) 01:13, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Twinkle has been suggesteed to have a "nominate multiple pages" functionality multiple times. Unfortunately, it isn't actively maintained right now. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 08:19, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Twinkle has some activity. I've written about 25 patches for it the last few months, and SD0001 is active reviewing and approving pull requests. Just make sure there is an open ticket for this feature request in GitHub, and comment on it to help bump it/bring it to our attention, and we'll look into it. If there is no ticket, please create one. –Novem Linguae (talk) 14:46, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Replacing one type of list with another

See this discussion for more background, but basically I need to check various parameters of an infobox and replace any uses involving {{plainlist}} or <br> with bulleted entries. I've been going back and forth with various coding options to figure this out, and through a combination of lack of time and not really sure what's going wrong I haven't been able to figure it out. I've already got a module setup where I have each param pulled out of the infobox call already, so really it's just a case of finding an AWB-module-style code that checks the parameter value in each KeyValuePair against the requirements listed above. Many thanks for anyone who can help. (please do not ping on reply) Primefac (talk) 20:56, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

Bump. Primefac (talk) 19:53, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

Case corrections in about 17000 tennis articles

I have a JWB settings file with robust replace patterns to fix over-capitalization in nearly 17,000 tennis articles. Is this something for which someone has a bot that we could seek approval for? See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tennis#Cleanup edits and User:Dicklyon/Tennis cleanup JWB JSON. Or should I take this to bot requests? Dicklyon (talk) 04:45, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

If it affects 17000 articles and there are no/very few errors, then take this to Wikipedia:Bot requests. ― Qwerfjkl talk 07:06, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

OK, I will. Dicklyon (talk) 15:31, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

CfD rename implementation

Hi, I closed the CfD discussion at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2021_December_4#Recording_artists as rename using XfDcloser, and the outcome wasn't implemented automatically. The categories to be renamed are:

–LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 05:05, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

EDIT: Already done by Ymblanter (talk · contribs) via WP:CFDW. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 17:54, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

Bot to correct around 250 Start articles from 2010 about dams in India

Moved from Wikipedia:Bot requests § Bot to correct around 250 Start articles from 2010 about dams in India

– ― Qwerfjkl talk 17:54, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

In 2010, 250 pages were generated on Wikipedia relating to dams in India. https://xtools.wmflabs.org/pages/en.wikipedia.org/Suresh.andhale lines 1 to 252, less a few disambiguation pages, links them. All I have checked so far have transferred cubic volumes from referenced source material to the article incorrectly, changing units of 1000 cubic meters into cubic kilometers. The dams therefore appear in the articles to be larger than they are in fact. JohnHarris (talk) 17:49, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

Can you correct one of the articles then provide a diff here? Would be helpful for visualizing the job. –Novem Linguae (talk) 17:51, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazare_Dam#Specifications JohnHarris (talk) 18:02, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

Diff. –Novem Linguae (talk) 18:08, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

@JohnHarris, @Novem Linguae: I moved this because only ~250 articles are affected. ― Qwerfjkl talk 17:56, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

@JohnHarris, something like /\{\{[Cc]onvert\|(\d+)\|km3/ → {{Convert|${1}000|m3 should do this. If you provide a list (plaintext preferably), I'll fix these. ― Qwerfjkl talk 22:06, 15 February 2022 (UTC)

CfD rename implementation 2

Same issue as above, with Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2022_February_3#Category:College athletic coaches in the United States. Is there a sleek way to accomplish this other than me manually editing every member page?

Jehochman ^Talk 17:22, 15 February 2022 (UTC)

@Jehochman: Aren't there bots approved for this? GoingBatty (talk) 17:36, 15 February 2022 (UTC)

@Jehochman: I've added them on WP:CFD/W for you. bibliomaniac 1 5 17:44, 15 February 2022 (UTC)

Thanks! Next time I will go the right place. Jehochman ^Talk 18:20, 15 February 2022 (UTC)

Trialpears has general approval for addition of XfD notices. 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 00:57, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

Bulk AfD nomination

175 articles in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Index of Abkhazia-related articles will need to be tagged using AWB. If I unknowingly caught an item that is already proposed for deletion, it can be removed from the list, but I don't think there are any.

Full list

–LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 08:40, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

Poking Trialpears. Primefac (talk) 08:55, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

Doing with JWB. Tol (talk | contribs) @ 00:03, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

@LaundryPizza03:

Done 173 pages (Index of Algeria-related articles was listed twice). Tol (talk | contribs) @ 00:08, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Apologies to followup this request to do the exact opposite, but I just closed the debate as "no consensus". Now these pages need to have the AFD template removed and the talk pages tagged with the following: {{Old XfD multi|date=20 February 2022|result='''no consensus'''|page=Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Index of Abkhazia-related articles}} ✗plicit 13:09, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

@Tol, you might want to mass-rollback this, which should be faster than editing the pages one-by-one. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 13:19, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

Good shout, which I've done now. A handful that still need manual editing though. Primefac (talk) 13:21, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, I hope you flagged the edits as bot or else you'd have generated quite a few notifications. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 13:41, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

Removing the AFD tags, by any means other than with a bot, would generate a notice, so it's kind of irrelevant (and last I checked I was not a bot ;-) ). Primefac (talk) 13:47, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

I mean the "your edit has been reverted" notification, and I mean the bot=1 URL parameter. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 14:03, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

Ah, yes, good point (and my apologies to Tol for that slew of pings then); will try to remember that for future use. Primefac (talk) 14:21, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

No worries! (The "99+" notifications were a little shocking, though!) Tol (talk | contribs) @ 20:09, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

Imagine not being used to seeing two "99+"s in the personal navbar... ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 21:09, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

ENGVAR redirects for Wikipedia:Language learning centre subpages

Moved from Wikipedia:Bot requests § ENGVAR redirects for Wikipedia:Language learning centre subpages

– ― Qwerfjkl talk 17:18, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

Can a bot please take all subpages of Wikipedia:Language learning centre (note the spelling of the last word) on all levels, and create a redirect from the corresponding subpage of Wikipedia:Language learning center? Animal lover 666 (talk) 14:46, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

There are only 33 pages that meet this criteria. It can be done manually or with AWB. Primefac (talk) 14:51, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

Doing... 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 18:44, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

Done Please let me know if I missed anything. 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 22:26, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

Module name correction

Moved from Wikipedia:Bot requests § Module name correction

– ― Qwerfjkl talk 07:52, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

Module:Location map/data/Sool, Somaliland was renamed to Module:Location map/data/Sool. 24 items have to correct.[1] We have to change Infobox settlement parameter "| pushpin_map = Sool, Somaliland" to "| pushpin_map = Sool." Some parameters are complex. For examples, in Las Anod, "| pushpin_map = Sool, Somaliland#Somaliland#Horn of Africa#Africa" to "| pushpin_map = Sool#Somaliland#Horn of Africa#Africa." Some pages require extended confirmed rights.--Freetrashbox (talk) 02:11, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

Done all the ones in infoboxes. Haysimo and Qoriley are more complex but can be replaced manually. Cheers! 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 17:36, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

I have confirmed the change. Thank you for your prompt response.--Freetrashbox (talk) 22:28, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

Add category header templates to categories

Please add following templates to mentioned categories:

Template:Roman Catholic churches completed in year category header to all subcategories of Category:Roman Catholic churches by year of completion
Template:Roman Catholic churches completed in decade category header to all subcategories of Category:Roman Catholic churches by decade of completion

These templates are working fine and tested on Category:Roman Catholic churches completed in the 1710s and Category:Roman Catholic churches completed in 1710. All parent cats already exist (templates consist of category content in, for example, this version) and i will create non-existing ones (if any). Jeeputer (talk) 10:17, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Note: Templates should replace category content. which means the wikitext of pages should only consist of the category header template. Thank you. --Jeeputer (talk) 10:21, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Doing... Bsoyka (talk) 13:29, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Done, sorry for the slight delay. All pages updated. Bsoyka (talk) 20:33, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

@Bsoyka: Thank you. that was fast enough. :) Jeeputer (talk) 08:19, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

Two task requests

Hi, there are two tasks that I would be grateful if anyone could undertake:

In this list (131 items), replace (regex) "in the \[\[(g|G)rand (s|S)lam $tennis$\|Grand Slam T" with "in the [[Grand Slam (tennis)|Grand Slam t"
In these two lists (362 items), replace (non-regex) "|Mixed]]" with "|Mixed doubles]]" (not every article will need this change).

Thanks. --Letcord (talk) 21:30, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

Doing... 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 22:12, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

I just made some very rapid edits that I apologize for; I accidentally held down the save button in JWB and made them too fast.

Still doing (but slower)... 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 22:22, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

Obsolete discussion about request 2. Letcord (talk) 11:58, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Why do we need Mixed doubles? These are supposed to be short titles and there's no such thing as Mixed singles. I think Singles, Doubles, and Mixed is all we really need. Fyunck(click) (talk) 22:33, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

I started doing these since I thought they made sense. Looking at Mixed doubles, it seems like this is the common term? I'll pause the changes for now pending discussion. 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 22:38, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

Yes, "mixed doubles" is the proper term, "mixed" alone is informal. These articles all had either "mixed draw" (which is also informal) or "mixed doubles" until about a week ago, when consensus was found to remove "draw". "Doubles" was also removed from "mixed doubles" (without discussion) from those articles that had it, but I realize now that that was done in error. Wolbo reverted a change to "mixed" alone with the edit summary "Mixed doubles is the name of the event, mixed is never just in isolation". Do you agree @Fyunck(click), so this task can be completed? Letcord (talk) 22:57, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

To be honest I'm not sure I do agree. I see no reason to use anything but Mixed. I like it much better as we have at 1992 WTA Tour It keeps it a single word like the other two disciplines, at least at the tennis year articles. It's not a big deal but it might be good to hear what tennis editors would like on the chart. Fyunck(click) (talk) 23:25, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

The tennis project is currently bogged down with the great "Win–Loss" vs "Win–loss" debate and similarly significant capitalization issues. "Mixed doubles" is the status quo ante for these articles [2] and was changed without discussion and then objected to by another editor. Do you feel strongly enough about this one to stand in the way of the reversion, or can you let it slide? Letcord (talk) 23:47, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

Seeing as there is lukewarm opposition and mixed opinions by multiple editors, I would recommend a RfC before proceeding. 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 00:28, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

As shown in my link, it is not the status quo. There were some of "Mixed" and some "Mixed draw", and some "Mixed Doubles." Changing them all to "Mixed doubles" with no discussion seems wrong to me. And remember, Tennis Project as a whole is not bogged down in that debate... that would be tennis vs outside editors. That's fine and dandy and it happens sometimes, but "Mixed" would be more of an internal debate among tennis editors about what works best in the charts we created from scratch. That might not need and RFC but would require at least a little discussion before changing all of the charts to one particular style. Fyunck(click) (talk) 00:37, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

"status quo ante" is what I wrote, not "status quo". Please read the definition I linked if you don't understand the difference. My link showed the article you linked before the recent change, which had "Mixed doubles". I am requesting here for an editor to assist getting back to "Mixed doubles". If you obstruct, the only difference is that I'll have to spend an hour reverting the edits manually, which I will do if necessary. You are the sole person standing in the way of this process-abiding change - per WP:BRD myself/Dicklyon boldly changed to "Mixed", Wolbo then reverted, this task would just complete the reversion, and then changing to "Mixed" can be discussed later. Can you please let this task be completed unopposed? Is that possible? Letcord (talk) 01:10, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Oh, this involves Dicklyon's proposed changes. I filed a bot request with related (but not identical) changes, which I withdrew. The comments on that page might be helpful. 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 01:13, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

That's unrelated. Dicklyon (talk) 00:14, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

For task 2, I've now manually reverted to the status quo ante "Mixed doubles" to complete the R of the WP:BRD process. Thanks to EpicPupper for the help with task 1, and thanks to Fyunck(click) for the obstructionism. Letcord (talk) 11:58, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Always there to help keep wikipedia safe for our readers. Fyunck(click) (talk) 20:17, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Updating format of WTA IDs

If someone could please (regex) replace "(\{(WTA|wta) ?(profile)? *\| *\d+)\/[^\|\}]+(\||\})" with "$1$4" for the articles in Category:WTA template with ID different from Wikidata, that would be appreciated. Only the numeric part of the WTA IDs has been needed for some time now, and this will bring these few articles with the old ID format in line with their items on Wikidata and the rest of the player articles on Wikipedia, thus clearing this maintenance category. Thanks, --Letcord (talk) 11:57, 19 March 2022 (UTC)

Doing ― Qwerfjkl talk 12:02, 19 March 2022 (UTC)

Done @Letcord. ― Qwerfjkl talk 12:31, 19 March 2022 (UTC)

@Qwerfjkl, thanks! I've cleared the last few, which required manual checking. Letcord (talk) 02:47, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

@Qwerfjkl, if you could please re-run this job that would be great, as the category has been re-populated after all IDs were transferred to Wikidata, exposing the last articles still using the old ID format. Letcord (talk) 22:11, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

Done. ― Qwerfjkl talk 07:45, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Replace obsolete ITF IDs

All 1300 articles in Category:ITF template using numeric ID use obsolete ITF IDs with Template:ITF profile. For example, Justine Henin has {{ITF profile|20010490}} which links to https://www.itftennis.com/procircuit/players/player/profile.aspx?playerid=20010490, a dead link (HTTP 500 error) that used to redirect to the new profile but does no longer. Fortunately, every article using this old ID format has the new format attached to their Wikidata item, which can be pulled just by using the template without parameters: {{ITF profile}}. I've checked through Wikidata queries that all the new IDs are there and correspond to the old ones currently used in the articles, so all that needs to be done is to replace "\{\{ *[Ii][Tt][Ff]( (fe)?male)?( profile)? *\|[^\}]+\}\}" with "{{ITF profile}}" for all articles in that category. Most players' articles already pull these IDs from Wikidata (Category:ITF template using Wikidata property P8618), so this is nothing new. Thanks, Letcord (talk) 05:11, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Doing. ― Qwerfjkl talk 07:45, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Done. ― Qwerfjkl talk 10:42, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Thanks again! Letcord (talk) 11:18, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Habsburg Monarchy --> Habsburg monarchy move cleanup case fixes

There are about 267 articles in which overcapitalization of "Habsburg Monarchy" is visible in the displayed article, which should eventually be changed to "Habsburg monarchy" per the RM consensus there. Some are plain unpiped links, easy to replace with an explicit pattern, and some are not part of links, and need to be distinguished from occurrences in filenames (e.g. File:Flag of the Habsburg Monarchy.svg, File:Habsburg Monarchy 1789.svg, and others) and reference titles (Fall of the Habsburg Monarchy, Reassessing the Habsburg Monarchy, maybe more). They need to be watched carefully for more filenames and ref titles, so not bot-suitable (unless someone is a wiz at regular expressions for such things). A list of candidates can be generated by files linking to Habsburg Monarchy or Habsburg monarchy -- and there may be others that use the term without linking. There a few weird cases like Relief of Cetingrad which has "Habsburg Monarchy Army" that should be changed to be not a pretend proper name, perhaps as "Habsburg army". I'm about to go away for a while so won't be able to keep working on this move cleanup. Dicklyon (talk) 20:58, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

Perhaps see WP:ANI#Dicklyon and pointless edits once again and the lack of consensus for these changes or the need for them. Fram (talk) 07:37, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

This proposal is for just the edits that were not objected to; not the changes to piped links that are less visible that you objected to. Dicklyon (talk) 15:14, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Category tagging for CfD nomination

Would someone be willing to copy the CfD tag in Category:People from Benfeld to all categories listed in Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2022_April_9#People from populated places in France? Thanks a lot in advance. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:19, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

Doing. ― Qwerfjkl talk 08:55, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

Done @Marcocapelle. ― Qwerfjkl talk 09:12, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

Category tagging for CfD nomination (2)

Would someone be willing to copy the CfD tag in Category:11th century in Germany to all categories listed in Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2022_April_11#Germany_1000-1803? Thanks a lot in advance. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:57, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Doing. Tol (talk | contribs) @ 19:34, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

@Marcocapelle:

Done. Tol (talk | contribs) @ 19:50, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Category tagging for CfD nomination (3)

Would someone be willing to copy the CfD tag in Category:People from Baborów to all categories listed in Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2022_April_14#People from populated places in Poland? Thanks again in advance. Marcocapelle (talk) 01:33, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

Doing.... Bsoyka (talk) 02:06, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

@Marcocapelle:

Done. Bsoyka (talk) 02:20, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

Regarding my April 13 RfD

On Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 April 13#Gold silver ratio-related redirects, a list of redirects are shown to be pointing to Silver as an investment. Please change them to indicate that they are in fact pointing specifically to Silver as an investment#Silver price. --NotReallySoroka (talk) 04:10, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

@NotReallySoroka:

Done. AWB unnecessary, as only a single page needed to be edited. Tol (talk | contribs) @ 04:36, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

Category tagging for CfD nomination (4)

Would someone be willing to copy the CfD tag in Category:People from Adamantina to all categories listed in Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2022_April_16#People from populated places in Brazil? OR Would someone be willing to teach me how to do this myself (on my talk page)? I do not need to know everything about AWB, this is just single purpose. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:09, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Doing... and will let you know the steps I take on your talk page too.

Bsoyka (talk) 13:59, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Bsoyka, I left some instructions, and I left the task so @Marcocapelle could try them out. (I probably should have left a note here too). Qwerfjkl talk 14:04, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

No worries, just saw that, it's all good. Bsoyka (talk) 14:05, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

@Bsoyka, I don't actually use AWB (I'm on a mobile device), so I'd appreciate it if you checked my instructions. ― Qwerfjkl talk 14:06, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

LGTM, added a bit more detail on the regex part. Bsoyka (talk) 14:42, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

(edit conflict) @Marcocapelle: Ah, someone else already went over to your talk page.

Let me know if you'd like to do this, or I can. Bsoyka (talk) 14:04, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Done by @Marcocapelle.

Bsoyka (talk) 18:27, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Railroads in...

Could you start with Special:Allpages/Rail transport in and create "Railroads in..." redirects for every place that has a "Rail transport in..." page? If "Rail transport in" is an article, "Railroads" should redirect to it, and if "Rail transport in" is a redirect, "Railroads in" should redirect to the same target as "Rail transport in". For example, Railroads in Belize would target Rail transport in Belize because it's an article, and Railroads in Bahrain would target Transport in Bahrain#Railways because Rail transport in Bahrain already goes there.

There are a few "Railroads in" pages, such as Railroads in Mexico, so before you start creating pages en masse, those titles should be removed from the list you're working with. 49.198.51.54 (talk) 02:11, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

49.198.51.54,

Doing... Qwerfjkl talk 16:51, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

Done. Qwerfjkl talk 17:14, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

Thank you, User:Qwerfjkl. Could you do a similar project with "Railways in" pages, e.g. Railways in Belize redirecting to Rail transport in Belize, and Railways in Bahrain redirecting to Transport in Bahrain#Railways? There are already almost 100 of these titles, so it will take less work. 49.198.51.54 (talk) 19:51, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

49.198.51.54, sure. (I just leave the bots to clean-up double redirects; it's not worth the time to fix them.) Qwerfjkl talk 19:55, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

Done Qwerfjkl talk 20:25, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

Good Time

[[Good Time (album)|Good Time]] -> [[Good Time (Alan Jackson album)|Good Time (Alan Jackson album)]]. Cleanup after page move. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 22:47, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Mostly

Done. ― Qwerfjkl talk 19:17, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

@TenPoundHammer, @Qwerfjkl: I fixed the link on File:GoodTimeJackson.jpg. GoingBatty (talk) 02:17, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Counterterrorism categories

Please could someone tag these categories for speedy renaming? (not including Category:Counter-terrorism policy of the United States which is a redirect)

The renaming is to remove hyphens from these category titles (to match the main article Counterterrorism). 1857a (talk) 00:34, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

Doing... 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 03:29, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

Done, some have duplicat tags but that’ll be fixed by the bot (I hope…) 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 04:36, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

John Berry

[[John Berry (singer)|John Berry]] -> [[John Berry (country singer)|John Berry]] Seems piped links were not cleaned up when the page was moved. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 03:52, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

@TenPoundHammer,

Done ― Qwerfjkl talk 16:03, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

Spelling error in reference in Mexican wrestler-related articles

Find & replace: HarperColins Publisher –≥ HarperCollins Publishers. Link to 851 articles with this error. It comes up so often because this source is often copy and pasted through articles. Searching by Category:Mexican male professional wrestlers, Category:Mexican female professional wrestlers and Category:Masked wrestlers will probably isolate most of them. EstrellaSuecia (talk) 13:42, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

That could also make a good addition to /Typos. Certes (talk) 13:48, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

@Certes

Added "HarperCollins" and "HarperCollins Publishers" to WP:AWB/Typos. GoingBatty (talk) 13:57, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

@Certes

Fixed all the typos that AWB would fix. GoingBatty (talk) 23:52, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Doing... Hey man im josh (talk) 13:56, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

Done for the categories mentioned, that lead to 541 total edits. I'm now working on other wrestling categories which I'm finding from the pages that still remain in your search link. Hey man im josh (talk) 15:05, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

Done 197 more with AWB (finished) Qwerfjkl talk 15:51, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

Po' Folks

[[Po' Folks]] -> [[Po' Folks (Nappy Roots song)|Po' Folks]] Cleanup links to dab page Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 20:39, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

@TenPoundHammer,

Done ― Qwerfjkl talk 21:01, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

CARNet -> CARNET

CARNet -> CARNET. Cleanup after page move, please and thank you. Somers-all-the-time (talk) 22:21, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

@Somers-all-the-time - I think the first step would be to edit the CARNET article to change each instance of "CARNet" to "CARNET". I just tried doing that and encountered an edit conflict. GoingBatty (talk) 22:27, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

Hi, I think I got all of relevant ones with this edit. Granted, if you search for CARNet in the article, there are a few left in filenames of images. Somers-all-the-time (talk) 23:17, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

@Somers-all-the-time -

Done! GoingBatty (talk) 00:12, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

Infobox music genre colors

The bgcolor parameter of {{Infobox music genre}} has been deprecated per consensus at WP Music, and can be automatically removed from all instances of this template. There are about 900 transclusions that still have the bgcolor parameter. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 23:21, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

@Xaosflux: I believe you operate a bot for this? ― Qwerfjkl talk 11:23, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

@Qwerfjkl that's not something I would normally do with User:Fluxbot. — xaosflux ^Talk 11:47, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

Doing... Hey man im josh (talk) 17:38, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

Done. I created a list from pages which linked to the template and then removed it. I did a second pass through of the list just in case, which was a good idea, because I found several instances where the template was used more than once on a page. Hopefully someone can update this link soon just so that I can be sure I caught it all. Hey man im josh (talk) 19:15, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

@Hey man im josh, The parameter has been removed from the list of known parameters and all remaining uses are listed here now: Category:Pages using infobox music genre with unknown parameters Solidest (talk) 12:57, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

Oh that's fantastic. I'll start chipping away at that shortly. Hey man im josh (talk) 13:03, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

@Hey man im josh, Could you also please write regex to remove empty parameters as well while you're removing bgcolor? :) As I've asked to enable empty invalid parameters tracking as well so that would helpful. Solidest (talk) 13:15, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

To be quite honest, I'm not far enough in with AWB to know how to properly do that. I would also argue against removing empty parameters so as to encourage others to fill them in. Many editors aren't aware of all the parameters that each infobox may have. Hey man im josh (talk) 13:17, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

Well, as for the benefits – that's debatable. They are not forbidden, but in general their usefulness is questionable. We even have tracking categories for blank parameters: Category:Pages using infobox event with blank parameters. And many of these parameters will never be filled anyway for 98% of infoboxes (current year portal / subgenreslist / footnotes), so I usually delete them when I edit infoboxes. (And those who don't know about all the parameters would rather use the visual editor, which shows all the existing ones and corrects formatting errors. And those who edit code are more likely to find a complete list of them) Anyway, I ran AWB from A to C myself with removing them, but you took the initiative further, so it's too late to argue anyway :) Solidest (talk) 13:33, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

Definitely debatable, as you said. I can see where you're coming from in your stance, and both sides of it, except for 1 point you mentioned regarding the visual editor. I do not use the visual editor and I'd say at least two thirds of my edits are related to the NFL, and at least half may be related to updating the NFL infobox parameters on articles. I still don't know every parameter but I do make the effort to fill blank ones in that I find when I do see them while editing.

As you mentioned there's a maintenance category for the empty parameters, so you can still remove them if you'd like to. It's just not something I'd prefer to do for the reasons I mentioned. Hey man im josh (talk) 13:53, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

Done, the whole category is cleared out now. Hey man im josh (talk) 14:46, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

Tribute to Tradition

Tribute to Tradition and A Tribute to Tradition -> [[A Tribute to Tradition]] Introduce wikilinks now that the album has an article. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 23:47, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

Doing... 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 00:12, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Done. Sorry EpicPupper, I started this one and forgot to use the

Doing... tag. I avoided wikilinking these when they showed up in a cite template. Ended up wikilinking about 20. TenPoundHammer, you may want to spot check and see if we missed any edge cases. For example, if it had weird capitalization. –Novem Linguae (talk) 00:17, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Done on my end too :) Managed to make 1 edit. Cheers! 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 00:18, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

2016 Australian census

[[Census in Australia#2016|2016 census]] -> [[2016 Australian census|2016 census]]
[[Census in Australia#2016|2016 Census]] -> [[2016 Australian census|2016 census]]
[[Census in Australia#2016|2016]] -> [[2016 Australian census|2016]]
[[census in Australia#2016|2016 census]] -> [[2016 Australian census|2016 census]]

Link to the more specific article instead of a section of the general article. I started fixing these by hand but there are too many of them. —Mx. Granger (talk · contribs) 07:07, 28 May 2022 (UTC)

1540. Happy to chip away. Neils51 (talk) 21:24, 28 May 2022 (UTC)

I will get to work on that as well, not sure whether I will finish it all, but I will try. | Zippybonzo | Talk | 12:18, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

Although I think that most of it has been done or I am just really incompetent when it comes to using AWB. | Zippybonzo | Talk | 12:22, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

Still ~1k left. 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 00:13, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Done (I think) - 554 edits. ― Qwerfjkl talk 11:20, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Still not done, I'm afraid. This search finds lots of articles that still need this to be fixed. —Mx. Granger (talk · contribs) 11:21, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Oops, I forgot a ? in my regex.

Doing. ― Qwerfjkl talk 11:35, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Done. ― Qwerfjkl talk 11:52, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

I'm afraid it still looks like there's 256 instances. 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 16:28, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

I've tidied up a few others that were slightly different from the strings I posted above. I think that's all of them (correct me if I'm wrong). Thanks for the help, everyone! —Mx. Granger (talk · contribs) 11:04, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

Remove parameters from cathead template transclusions

Please remove parameters in all transclusions of Template:EstcatDecadeType as the updated version needs no parameters. Jeeputer (talk) 03:24, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

Doing... NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 03:37, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

...and

Done. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 03:46, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

@NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh: Thank you for your immediate action. :) Jeeputer (talk) 03:49, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

A request

I am making many edits with AWB on one of the projects that are not in the English language. In one of those projects, I realized that the {{PAGENAME}} function—which is used on thousands of pages—doesn't need to keep in the pages, and I removed it as mass. However, this—along with the deletion of the function—resulted in the same templates being left on the pages. I'd like to clean up them.

To clarify the situation

Before I haven't edited:

===Verb===
{{eu-verb}}
{{eu-verb|{{PAGENAME}}}}

After I have edit:

===Verb===
{{eu-verb}}
{{eu-verb}}

Thank you. --Victor Trevor (talk) 07:33, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

Are you asking us to do the cleanup? Need more info than this. Example diffs? Link to search results? –Novem Linguae (talk) 07:51, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

No, @Novem Linguae. I guess I can do this cleaning with a module, but I can't write code. Basically, deleting one of the same two templates on a page --like that, as I've mentioned above. --Victor Trevor (talk) 08:08, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

Are the templates always right next to each other and separated by a line break? Could possibly do a regex replace. Search: /(\{\{([^\}]+)\}\})\n\{\{\2\}\}/, replace with $1. Would need a list of affected pages to plug into AWB though. RegEx101. –Novem Linguae (talk) 08:14, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

I am not sure the exact. I've seen a few revisions that weren't separated by a line break, but it was rare.

Thank you so much for the code. --Victor Trevor (talk) 08:37, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

Abbreviation redirects for months "month year" format

I've worked on this a little today and quickly realized this is a pretty stupid waste of time for me to do manually when I don't have access to the autowikibrowser. Jan Feb Mar Apr Jun Jul Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec (not including May, since no abbreviation, already 3 letters) then the year do not redirect to the appropriate article in any instance, it seems, based on the few I checked. So now the ones I did today - Jan 1900 to Dec 1902, and only "Jan" - no other months - for years 1903-1949. might be the only ones existing. so there are 119×12=1428 articles that should have these redirects from 1903-2022, minus the Januarys to 1949, so at least 1382 needed. Format "Jan 1950" redirect to article "January 1950", other examples "Oct 1964" "Dec 1979" "Feb 2010" "Sept 1989" "Aug 1990" "Jul 1932" "Jun 1924" "Jan 1974" "Sept 1937" "Mar 1944" Led8000 (talk) 03:13, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

@Led8000, I don't have time to do this now, but I'll try to get it done by the end of the day. ― Qwerfjkl talk 06:06, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Why? Why do we need this many redirects? Primefac (talk) 09:25, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

I'm also not sure that this is of any benefit, but if it is:

Should we target the month where it exists and the year section where not? (E.g. Mar 1973 → March 1973 but Mar 1974 → 1974#March because March 1974 is a redirect.)
Do we want Sep, Sept or both?

– Certes (talk) 12:33, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

@Certes, presumably one of the double redirect fixing bots would fix this. ― Qwerfjkl talk 20:23, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Probably. I'm not sure how clever they are about section redirects. But it would be better to get it right first time, if it's wanted at all. Certes (talk) 20:39, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

I would say use {{subst:Module:Redirect|main|target}} but I think that strips sections. ― Qwerfjkl talk 20:58, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Sounds like this task needs consensus first. Rosguill, any thoughts on whether a series of redirects like this would survive RFD? –Novem Linguae (talk) 21:42, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

They seem harmless and slightly useful to me. _signed,Rosguill ^talk 22:54, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Well that's good enough for me. I'll start work on this tomorrow morning if nobody else does (feel free to if you want to). Hey man im josh (talk) 00:42, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

I did say I'd start on this in the morning, but honestly, I think this might be a little much for me to take on. I'm not actually sure how to properly automate this after giving it more thought. Hey man im josh (talk) 12:01, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

@Hey man im josh, I've just written a pywikibot script to run on this (code). ― Qwerfjkl talk 14:04, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

That's awesome, thanks for taking this on! Hey man im josh (talk) 14:33, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

@Qwerfjkl, looks like you have a typo. "Febuary" instead of "February". Hey man im josh (talk) 14:39, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

@Hey man im josh, Thanks, fixed. ― Qwerfjkl talk 15:37, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

Afghanistan flag change post-Taliban takeover being disruptive on pre-takeover articles (need cleanup)

Hi all, Template:Country data Afghanistan was updated with Taliban's flag as the default following Afghanistan's takeover by them. But articles before takeover should not show Taliban's flag. I see Ashraf Ghani's name alongside Taliban's flag at Template:International military intervention against the Islamic State infobox, while it should use the flag of Ghani's government. There were more such articles I've come across before. If someone can do the cleanup work with AWB, that'd be great. Just add the correct year parameter at the end. Thanks! —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 08:05, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Growin' Up

[[Growin' Up]] -> [[Growin' Up (song)|Growin' Up]] Clean up after page move. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 01:07, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

@TenPoundHammer ~~Doing...~~ with WPCleaner, which I enjoy using for disambiguation. GoingBatty (talk) 04:06, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

@TenPoundHammer

Done by someone else. GoingBatty (talk) 04:08, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

Loring Park

All these links need to be changed from Loring Park to Loring Park, Minneapolis CTF83! 00:35, 7 July 2022 (UTC)

@CTF83! Alt,

Done at WP:BOTREQ. ― Qwerfjkl talk 19:45, 7 July 2022 (UTC)

I think all those links point correctly to the park rather than the neighbourhood, but please feel free to fix them if I'm wrong. Certes (talk) 20:14, 7 July 2022 (UTC)

Creating a large number of date redirects in a particular format

I seek to create about 330 new redirects of the form "Nth of Month" to date articles in Category:Days of the year, e.g. 13th of March → March 13 or 21st of July → July 21, of course skipping those that are already occupied by existing pages. Consensus that this is the primary topic is likely established by Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2017_November_28#9th_of_October. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 15:58, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

@LaundryPizza03, I can reuse my code from this request. I'll try to do this by tomorrow. ― Qwerfjkl talk 16:06, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

@LaundryPizza03,

Done (~262 redirects created). ― Qwerfjkl talk 21:02, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

THECAPS

Is there any chance that someone with AWB would be able to change all instances of "The Mill" to "the Mill" on pages on Template:Doctors per MOS:THECAPS? Or is the change too small to be picked up on the system? I change them as and when I see them, but if it was possible for someone with AWB, it would help a lot. – Meena • 09:56, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

I'm not sure which capitalisation is best here. Sources are inconsistent [3] [4] even within the BBC's own website [5] [6] and its TV guide [7] [8]. Certes (talk) 11:25, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

I think that MOS:THECAPS might have guidance if @Meena can walk us through which variant of the rule is supposed to be used.

> There are special considerations for: band names · institution names · nicknames · titles of works · trademarks.

(It seems really complicated for folks unfamiliar with the content)

Mason (talk) 17:00, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

Hi – "the Mill" or "the Mill Health Centre" would be the appropriate option as it is a building on the series that exists in real life. Think of it as similar to the Eiffel Tower. The the wouldn't be capitalised as it is not strictly part of the name. – Meena • 17:05, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

Event though it's got a capital T over the door? Certes (talk) 22:01, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

Mass PROD request

I would like to PROD a large number of Carlossuarez46 (talk · contribs) articles about villages in Iran that begin with "PrefixIndex/Chah" or "PrefixIndex/Chah-e" and do not have geocoordinates, since chah (چاه) means well in Persian and we cannot verify that they are villages. Specifically, the rationale would be:

Mass-created Iran geostub by User:Carlossuarez46. Name is of a well, and no geocoordinates are given to confirm that this is a populated place.

See also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abadi Zavarzmand Shomareh Mowtowr 55. I have already done all the Chah-e places A–J. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 19:20, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aliabad-e Qotb ol Din

I have opened a bulk AfD with 115 Carlossuarez46 (talk · contribs) geostubs containing a specific keyword, and they will need to be AfD tagged. I don't think any of them have already been nominated for deletion. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 03:18, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

Done 0xDeadbeef 03:58, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

216 articles in a bulk AfD

None of the articles in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Agro-Industry Complex have received a deletion tag, except for the header article Agro-Industry Complex. I have redirected one of the remaining pages out of process, and it is possible that the same has happened to the others. In tagging the rest of the articles, you may leave a notice of which pages have been tagged or deleted out of process. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 01:05, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

Done by RobertskySemi. —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 07:11, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

Mass categorisation/revert

Category:Gandhians has been recreated per WP:REFUND and needs to be repopulated. This can be done by reverting every edit by JJMC89 bot III from this edit (07:39, 4 August) to this edit (07:48, 4 August) inclusive (232 edits in total). Can this be done using AWB? If a list of articles needs to be provided I can do that. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 14:21, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

If you made a page with links to all the articles, it should be pretty easy to add the category to each of them. Van Isaac, MPLL^cont_WpWS 15:30, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

@Arms & Hearts,

Done via Cat-a-lot and Writ Keeper's massRollback script, both of which can work on contributions lists. ― Qwerfjkl talk 15:33, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

Many thanks Qwerfjkl. That saves me a lot of faffing trying to turn the contributions into a usable list. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 15:40, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

@Arms & Hearts, maybe I should restart this at some point. ― Qwerfjkl talk 15:47, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2022_August_2#Category:WikiProject_New_York_City_Public_Transportation_templates

At this CfD, it has been requested that talk pages of templates in Category:WikiProject New York City Public Transportation templates be tagged with {{subst:WikiProject New York City Public Transportation}} if they are not already in Category:Template-Class New York City public transportation articles. There are about 200 candidates for merger. See the CfD for details. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 19:01, 10 August 2022 (UTC)

I'll get started on this for you. Hey man im josh (talk) 20:59, 10 August 2022 (UTC)

@LaundryPizza03, how'd you get only 200? I'm finding 508 that are not in the destination category. Hey man im josh (talk) 21:07, 10 August 2022 (UTC)

@Hey man im josh, can you ping me when you're finished? I'm planning on closing the discussion, and it'll be easier if this is taken care of. ― Qwerfjkl talk 21:12, 10 August 2022 (UTC)

Sure, will do. Hey man im josh (talk) 21:16, 10 August 2022 (UTC)

Done. Pinging @LaundryPizza03 and @Qwerfjkl. Approximately 500 pages have been added to the requested category by adding the WikiProject tag. Hey man im josh (talk) 22:11, 10 August 2022 (UTC)

Special:Search/"reflist"

This slang term should not be used in section titles; please replace it by "References". 1234qwer 1234qwer 4 15:46, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

@1234qwer1234qwer4,

Done. ― Qwerfjkl talk 19:38, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

236 pages in a bulk RfD

I just opened Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2022_August_20#3000s, which covers 236 decade redirects to Timeline of the far future following the deletion of 6100s at RfD. All of these should be RfD tagged. It is not necessary for the redirects to point to the section, since every RfD nomination includes an anchor from the name of the redirect. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 21:39, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

Can you link to a diff with the exact code you want added to these pages? Van Isaac, MPLL^cont_WpWS 21:44, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

Done — JJMC89 (T·C) 21:55, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

73 Redirects in bulk RfD

I just opened a RfD Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2022_September_1#Bus_garages_in_London, covering 73 redirects. I have tagged the first one but the remainder need tagging. Could someone please save me by using AWB to tag these all? Many thanks. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 16:12, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

@Sirfurboy,

Done. — Qwerfjkl talk 16:38, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

Move my talk page archives

cluebot works now after mass rename! Andre🚐 15:08, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

I recently adopted ClueBot for old manual talk page archives and I think the reason why the bot isn't archiving correctly, is because my talk page archives are of the form User:Andrevan/Archive54 but ClueBot wants them to be more like User talk:Andrevan/Archives/1. Could someone move all my User:Andrevan talk archive pages to User talk:Andrevan with the same number so I can get ClueBot to archive in a way consistent with my old manual archives? Andre🚐 05:54, 10 September 2022 (UTC)

Might be worth posting at ~~User talk:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis or~~ Help talk:Archiving a talk page or WP:VPT to see if someone can just fix your User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis template. In theory |archiveprefix=User:Andrevan/Archive should cause the desired behavior, so there must be some other little thing somewhere throwing it off. –Novem Linguae (talk) 06:36, 10 September 2022 (UTC)

OK, I'll try that. I posted to User talk:ClueBot Commons previously. Andre🚐 06:41, 10 September 2022 (UTC)

I looked into doing this in AWB tonight just in case. I created a list of pages to move at User:Novem_Linguae/sandbox. Looks like the AWB person has to be an admin to use AWB's "move" button though, per Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/User manual#Start. –Novem Linguae (talk) 08:53, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

I can help with the page moves using User:Ahecht/Scripts/massmove as I have pagemover right. Please let me know if you would like me to do that. —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 10:04, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

@CX Zoom, you beat me to it. — Qwerfjkl talk 11:33, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

Yes please, if you can, that would be helpful Andre🚐 16:25, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

Sure thing. —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 17:15, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

@Andrevan: Should I leave a redirect or not? —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 17:19, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

Yes please. Andre🚐 17:20, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

@Andrevan:

Done, all except User:Andrevan/Archive1 because target page already exists so can't move to it. —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 17:28, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

Also thanks to Novem Linguae. Their archives listing was helpful. —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 17:35, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for the help CX Zoom! I'll clean up and hopefully the bot will be happy. And thanks to everyone who helped figure out what was going on. Andre🚐 17:38, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

For future reference @Novem Linguae, User:ClueBot III#Required parameters, says This parameter must be set to a fully qualified page name under the page you wish to archive, which I did not understand correctly when I set it up, thus this mass rename being needed. Thanks! Andre🚐 19:35, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

@Andrevan. Good to know. Sorry for the wild goose chase. I'm glad you got your talk page fixed :) –Novem Linguae (talk) 20:03, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

No problem, appreciate the help. Andre🚐 20:04, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.