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BracketBot – 82.41.251.96

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Hi, yes, I've messed up the pic of the F-86 Sabre pic by attempting to alter the caption. Can you fix it? My attempts have proved rather fruitless so far... --82.41.251.96 (talk) 11:47, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

82.41.251.96 (talk) 11:47, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

Fixed. Huon (talk) 09:21, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Ai4ijoel

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Ai4ijoel (talk) 23:46, 22 August 2015 (UTC) I added the "open parentheses" because there was a "close parentheses" after his year of birth.

There also was an opening parenthesis before the IPA pronunciation guide. Stevietheman thus removed the parenthesis you added, fixing the issue. Huon (talk) 09:21, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – 74.136.159.171

Page: Henry Dodwell
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year=1736|publisher=J. Bettenham|page=616|quote=[K] His Dissertations upon Irenæus.] They were printed at Oxford 1689 in 8vo under the title of Dissertationes in Irenaeum.

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Comment/question: <nowiki>]</nowiki> html markup was ignored by BracketBot when it was in a citation template. 74.136.159.171 (talk) 02:56, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

The source of the notification isn't really that BracketBot didn't recognize some of the markup, but that the quote which you gave within the citation contains mismatched brackets, with two closing square brackets and only one opening square bracket. The bot cannot tell that's deliberate. Huon (talk) 09:21, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

What markup or template, if any? can be used so that BracketBot will ignore deliberate open brackets. 74.136.159.171 (talk) 20:45, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Treeenthusiast

Gunnera

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I have read it slowly twice and I just cannot find it. Comment/question:

Treeenthusiast (talk) 03:40, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot id'ed the wrong article in msg to user, error was in previous user's edit of Harmsiopanax ingens 74.136.159.171 (talk) 04:30, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

No it didn't. There was no closing parenthesis corresponding to the opening parenthesis in "(not including the thick, succulent leaf stalk ...". That's precisely what the bot pointed out. Fixed, among some other minor changes. Huon (talk) 09:21, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Altice

Sviatoslav I of Kiev. Page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sviatoslav_I_of_Kiev Diff:

Thanks for your comment. I hope that I managed to correct the mistake. Kind regards.

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Altice (talk) 14:43, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

@Altice: While you fixed the bracket issue, I don't think the article on Sviatoslav is improved by unreferenced speculation on what his teacher's name might mean. Consequently I have removed that content. Huon (talk) 21:21, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Nyttend

Page: Brunswick, Ohio

Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=677480554

Comment/question: A table was broken (someone had removed the closing bracket), so I added a single unpaired bracket to fix the table. Perhaps you could have the bot check to see if the page previously had any unpaired brackets?

Nyttend (talk) 22:53, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Nyttend Technically, the table didn't have unpaired brackets. The line just above your addition of |} was | K - 8th Grade} I don't think BracketBot detects table problems, just brackets. AWB will also not see that as an error. There are a couple of other cases that technically are not broken brackets, but the table is broken anyway. For example, tables that end in |-} or a line just containing }. CheckWiki error 28 does detect these table problems. Bgwhite (talk) 05:03, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – GioCM

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 Battle of Trenton

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Comment/question: I fixed the missing right paren. But I wanted to make it a better reference, by putting it into the refrence section. Bout that does not allow two publishers.

The original was published by MacMillan, around 1866, but just now (17 Auig 2015) has again become avilable as a reprint from the Iniversity of Michigan, It is the source of much of the inforamtion cited by the other major refrence in that section, Fischer. I'd like both publishers to show, just out of fairness. How can that be done? GioCM (talk) 00:48, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

GioCM Books can be from a multitude of publishers, think of how many publishers have put out Charles Dickens or Mark Twain books. Therefore, you use the publisher of the book that you are referencing. Every book can be different, amount of pages for example. If you refer to page 100 in one book, it might be on page 120 in another. Bgwhite (talk) 05:09, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – 207.81.21.229

Page:Dog Latin

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Hi BracketBot! Do whatever is correct. Thanks.

207.81.21.229 (talk) 00:29, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

I have removed the second example; there's no need for two to illustrate the idea. Huon (talk) 02:34, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Wkloot

Page: Battle of Tannenberg Diff:

Comment/question: Thank you for the feedback. The problem with [] seems to be solved. However there is a problem with the first references, which appear in the list but are not referenced in the article. I do not understand how to make the needed correction. Regards. Wkloot (talk) 08:59, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

I don't see any such issue at the Battle of Tannenberg article. The first few references are used in the infobox for facts such as the sides' strengths. Huon (talk) 02:02, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Falconjh

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Page:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_pepper/testcases

Diff:https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=677958358

Comment/question:The page in question is a testcases page testing the functionality of infobox code, yes obviously it isn't a real ref the point is code testing; I have other dummy references that I could assign a name to so that your bot is happy, but that itself is sort of silly: It is in the sandbox testcases as well, but that shouldn't matter in the slightest.

Falconjh (talk) 02:17, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

This indeed looks like one of the extremely rare false positives by ReferenceBot, but in fairness it would be rather hard for the bot to recognize that on that page broken references are unproblematic. Huon (talk) 02:02, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – AnimeDisneylover95

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Page:Tara Platt

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Comment/question:This is a misunderstanding, not to mention that I also fixed the mistake on the sortable

AnimeDisneylover95 (talk) 01:19, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

OK, thanks for fixing it. Huon (talk) 02:02, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Zoident

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Zoident (talk) 20:21, 31 August 2015 (UTC)it relates to the edit I made to the list of thrash bands that you changed. I included Aftermath and in May of 2014 you removed it. I was wondering how I can include the band without causing any syntax issue Zoident (talk) 20:21, 31 August 2015 (UTC)Zoident

I can't tell why the band was removed from the list, but it wasn't due to the formatting which by then you had fixed. Since the band article is currently nominated for deletion, however, it's probably a good idea to deal with that issue first; when that's resolved, you can simply re-add it to the list. Huon (talk) 02:02, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Starpchack

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Comment/question: for "list of governor's of Andhra" page list included from 1953.there list of governors of Hyderabad not included in that page by the same way list of chief ministers of Hyderabad state moved to Hyderabad state page Starpchack (talk) 06:48, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

@Starpchack: You should discuss that at Talk:List of Chief Ministers of Andhra Pradesh. The bot only notified you because you removed a reference that was used again lower on the page. Huon (talk) 11:55, 5 September 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Jerodlycett

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Page: Kepler College

Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=679878157

Comment/question: This appears to be a false positive.

Jerod Lycett (talk) 09:43, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

No, if you check the references section of the diff pointed out by the bot you'll find a big red error message. Fixed. Apparently part of the problem was that the infobox doesn't have an "address=" parameter; thus the code where the reference was defined was ignored. Huon (talk) 23:28, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – PaulW26

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PaulW26 (talk) 11:55, 8 September 2015 (UTC) Thanks for notifying me about the bracket error. I corrected what I thought was the error, but still seems improperly formatted. Must be another error that I cannot locate. More help, please.

@PaulW26: You removed the curly brackets at the end of the {{based on}} template, which in turn broke the infobox. Fixed. Huon (talk) 23:28, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Poem: Battle of the Teutoburg Forest

Page: Battle of the Teutoburg Forest

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Comment/question: Thank you for the reminding. Although my edit BracketBot said was not relating to the missing parenthesis, I removed the one BracketBot pointed out in a subsequent edit. Poem (talk) 19:53, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

@Poem: When you modify brackets and there's a mismatch after your edit, BracketBot sometimes mistakenly believes your edit caused that mismatch even if you fixed another problem. Huon (talk) 23:28, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

@Huon: Thank you for the explanation. Poem (talk) 06:18, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Adorno - section on Music last paragraph

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Spencerpiers (talk) 13:24, 10 September 2015 (UTC)Sorry -don't quite understand your query. Can you be a bit more explicit? The passage reads OK from my point of view. Thanks Spencerpiers

@Spencerpiers: That was back in 2013; the Adorno article was heavily edited since. The problem the bot pointed out was that there were two opening parentheses, but only one closing parenthesis, in "(Letter of 5 December 1949, quoted in Stuckenschmidt, Arnold Schoenberg: His Life, World and Work, trans. H. Searle (London: John Calder, 1977)". That has long since been fixed. Huon (talk) 22:11, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Jonyungk

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Page: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=680845794

Comment/question: I have read through the section in question and cannot detect a broken reference name. Is this a false positive? If not, could you please assist or give more info? Thanks

Jonyungk (talk) 00:54, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

@Jonyungk: Not a false positive. If you check the reference section of the diff the bot pointed out, you'll find big red warnings: "Cite error: The named reference marriage was invoked but never defined (see the help page)." That's because when you streamlined the content you removed the instance where that named reference was defined, but not another instance referring to the same source. Fixed. Huon (talk) 09:12, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks very much for tracking this down and fixing it. Appreciate it.Jonyungk (talk) 10:44, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Kent Livezey

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Kent Livezey (talk) 22:51, 16 September 2015 (UTC) Thanks. I removed the ).

@Kent Livezey: Thank you for fixing the brackets. However, I'm not sure the Barred owl article is a good place for general information on range extension among North American birds - how is, for example, the range of bluejays relevant to the owls? It might be more appropriate to use that content for the Colonisation (biology) article, to which range expansion redirects. Huon (talk) 09:49, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Bryson483

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Page:Petra Cetkovska

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Comment/question:I tried to edit something on the page, and it showed up as a citation error.

Bryson483 (talk) 11:55, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

@Bryson483: You removed the instances where references that were defined in the references section were used, but left them in the references section. I have now removed them from the references section, too. If there's still content in the article based on those references, they should be re-added. 09:49, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – DandyLizard

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Page: Ross McGowan

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Comment/question: The date of the tournament in question is correct.

DandyLizard (talk) 01:22, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

@DandyLizard: That's not what the bot noted. The bot's message was about a missing "url=" that Jonesey95 added with this edit, fixing the broken reference. Since the URL itself included an equality sign, the citation template interpreted the part of the URL before that equality sign as a parameter name (which it then didn't recognize) and the part after the equality sign as the value of that parameter. (If you had omitted the "url=" and the URL hadn't included an equality sign, the citation template still wouldn't have recognized that the parameter was supposed to be the URL, but the error message may have been a little more helpful.) Huon (talk) 09:49, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Gmandler

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Comment/question:The partial offensive reference has been removed. Let me know if anything else needs to be done

Gmandler (talk) 07:30, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

@Gmandler: You placed that reference into the middle of the heading of the "References" section; when you removed it, you also removed the end of that section heading. I fixed that. Nothing else needs to be done about the issue the bot pointed out. Huon (talk) 09:49, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Pianoball

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Pianoball 18:51, 19 September 2015 (UTC) Hi there! I was just trying to add the "Cinderella" music to Soundtruck listing in the article. I am not good with HTLM , so, I still cannot figure out how to do it correctly.

Thank you,

Pianoball

@Pianoball: The bot pointed out that you had a surplus bracket after "Romeo and Juliet" (or after "Cinderella"), but the main issue is that the source only mentions the former. If music from Cinderella is also used, please provide a source that confirms that. Huon (talk) 22:45, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – 2607:FB90:A90:451E:0:46:9F0:F001

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2607:FB90:A90:451E:0:46:9F0:F001 (talk) 21:04, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

No context provided. Huon (talk) 22:45, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Corriebertus

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Page: complaint on my Talk page, about page Turkey-ISIL conflict

Diff: this criticized edit of mine, 20 Sept.

Comment/question: I don't have the faintest idea what this 'error message' is alluding to. Can you speak in simple English without all that mysterious technical jargon? --Corriebertus (talk) 10:46, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

Corriebertus (talk) 10:46, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

@Corriebertus: If you check out reference 30 in the old version of the page the bot linked to on your talk page, you'll find this error message: Text "20 September 2015" ignored. That's because you forgot the "accessdate=". Fixed. Huon (talk) 22:45, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Paj

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Tuomo Suomalainen

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Comment/question: Wrong code quite well fixed. Thanks a lot. Paj (talk) 14:51, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

You're welcome, though the bot fixing the problem wasn't ReferenceBot. Huon (talk) 22:45, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Jg9443

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Hi I tried to put 2 genre that will help the article but i got confused with saving the page i know how to edit and save but this time when you click on the save page it does not save so i tried my best to fix it sorry about all of that i was not trying to violate any articles.Jg9443 (talk) 01:50, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

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Jg9443 (talk) 01:50, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

The page is fixed again. Take a look at the link Sergecross73 left at your talk page. Huon (talk) 22:45, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Will Perry

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Page: Draft:Convex relaxation hierarchy

Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=682469836

Comment/question: It seems odd to me (though maybe I'm not aware of convention) that ReferenceBot would report reference errors in the Draft namespace. The way I write my drafts, the page can have all sorts of errors until it's ready to go into the main namespace, so it's a slight annoyance to get warnings.

Will Perry (talk) 00:29, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot notifies users of possible problems when those problems are created, not when the pages are moved. It's now-or-never. Huon (talk) 22:45, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Longshot1944

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Longshot1944 (talk) 19:44, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

DC-2 page Dc-3 page

All latest edits derived from the most up-to-date info in Francillon's 'Skyleaders' book 2011 ^[1]

longshot1944 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Longshot1944 (talk • contribs) 19:44, September 25, 2015‎ (UTC)

Then you should cite that source on the article, not here on the bot operator's talk page. Huon (talk) 18:44, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

References

^ Francillon 2011.

BracketBot – Meyer2015

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Meyer2015 (talk) 18:24, 25 September 2015 (UTC) Hi, Thank you. I didn't posted the @viper message. Not sure If delete it or not. I'm still learning Wiki rules. I fixed the other mistake you said. You were right. Thanks!!

@Meyer2015: That's a false positive; it's a smiley, but the bot doesn't recognize those and thinks there should be a corresponding opening parenthesis somewhere. You can ignore that. Thank you for fixing the other issue. Huon (talk) 18:35, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Orelbon

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Page: Kazakhstan

Diff:https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=683543089

Comment/question:it detected a false positive

Orelbon (talk) 19:12, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

@Orelbon: Not a false positive. AnomieBOT rescued the broken reference, though. Huon (talk) 19:54, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Boruch Baum

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Page: History of the Jews in Bulgaria

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Hi.

Could be that I fixed the trouble, however the bot does not provide as much identifying information as it could about the reference that raised the alert. In my case, I had just finished correcting many bad references and citations on a single page, so it would have been useful for me to have included in the alert, say, a paste of the <ref> ... </ref> snippet that caused the error.
So I made what I think is the fix, and I would like to verify it by running the bot myself on that particular page. Is that possible? If it is possible, let me suggest to include instructions either in the alert posted to an editor's talk page, or on the bot's page. The (maybe obvious) advantages of this are that it saves editors' time, and avoids readers being confronted with a bad reference.

—Boruch Baum (talk) 00:55, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

@Boruch Baum: The errors are usually listed in bright red on the page, either at the position where the footnote is added in the text or in the reference list. In this case I fixed the remaining problems. Huon (talk) 19:54, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Michellegraham

Page:Caste

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Comment/question: My apologies. I think I've fixed it now. I inserted a ], when I should have moved it. The reference links 3 and 4 weren't working, but please feel free to adjust them. I just do very minor fixes. I don't think I've even done this right, tbh.

michellegraham 16:07, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

@Michellegraham: Looks good to me. Thank you for fixing it! Huon (talk) 18:55, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – 180.74.69.84

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180.74.69.84 (talk) 13:09, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

Without any information on the article where the problem occured, or the page where you were notified about it, there's nothing we can do about it. Huon (talk) 15:29, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Cmguy777

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Cmguy777 (talk) 06:35, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

Bracket issue fixed on Henry Wilson biography. Cmguy777 (talk) 06:35, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for fixing that. Huon (talk) 15:29, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Iss246

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Iss246 (talk) 13:40, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

I thank you for having the bot help out. Iss246 (talk) 13:40, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

@Iss246: You're welcome; I've fixed the issue the bot pointed out. Square brackets for external links are only needed when you add the external link directly, not within citation templates. Huon (talk) 15:29, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – 220.239.123.140

H.H.Holmes

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Bracket pair is there, two lines up, and I didn't change them. I deleted duplicate.

220.239.123.140 (talk) 07:04, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

When you removed the duplicate sentence (thanks for that!) you missed part of the reference. That was now fixed by Bgwhite. Huon (talk) 16:26, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Billy Hathorn

7-Eleven:

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Comment/question: I don't see a problem with [[]] or {{}}.Billy Hathorn (talk) 21:24, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Billy Hathorn (talk) 21:24, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Bgwhite fixed the problem. Huon (talk) 21:55, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Kamishiro

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Kamishiro&diff=next&oldid=678534113

Alleged broken reference seems to work as intended

Kamishiro (talk) 12:42, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

You removed the broken reference with this edit. Huon (talk) 21:55, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – NativeContributor

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Comment/question: Spencer Battiest

Made changes - please review.

NativeContributor (talk) 17:46, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

The reference issue is fixed, and the draft is correctly submitted for a review. Please be patient. Huon (talk) 21:55, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Joe of Idaho

Page: George Hamilton, actor

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Comment/question: Hi, it is my opinion the "syntax" did not change by my editing as the removal of the brackets made the article more readable as they were superfluous. Thanks, Joe Stokes Joe Stokes (talk) 14:21, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

You removed the opening bracket, but not the closing bracket. It should have been both or none. Fixed. Huon (talk) 21:51, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Mikeindiacharlie

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bucksville&direction=next&oldid=609559839

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Comment/question: You didn't notify me but I have a question regarding this Wiki page. Could you tell me why this page has been hidden from public view?

Mikeindiacharlie (talk) 01:27, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

Because the movie apparently doesn't meet Wikipedia's standards of notability. The page was a redirect before you turned it into an article on that film; now it's again a redirect. Huon (talk) 02:05, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Wtmitchell

Page: James Henderson Blount

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Comment/question: I looked. I don't see the problem.

Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 12:58, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

@Wtmitchell: Fixed. Huon (talk) 19:01, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Djfunkfunk

Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_%28musician%29#1991.E2.80.9394:_The_New_Power_Generation.2C_Diamonds_and_Pearls_and_name_change

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Comment/question: In my modification I used the syntax O(+> on purpose, since it is an approximization of the Symbol, Prince was known by.

DJ FunkFunk 17:00, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

I don't think the bot can be expected to recognize that symbol. Huon (talk) 19:01, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Brachney

See below pls:

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Dear Friend,

Thanks so much! I'm new to this fascinating hobby. I went to the page, and tried to edit as suggested, but failed to see the problem. Could you please make the correction and then send me a note, so that I don't make that error again. Here is your comment:

Hello, I'm BracketBot. I have automatically detected that your edit to William Pitt the Younger 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:

   and banking systems, and from that hour their boasted independence will be a mere phantom." (referring to the inauguration of the first National Bank in the United States under Alexander

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, BracketBot (talk) 00:55, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Brachney (talk) 01:05, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

See below. Huon (talk) 19:01, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Brachney

Brachney here again. I might have figured it out the William Pitt the Younger missing ), but please check it out to make sure! Thanks!!!

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Brachney (talk) 01:15, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

Yes, that was the missing parenthesis. Huon (talk) 19:01, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – CatRichardson31

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Doctor Who (series 9)

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=683337588:

I don't quite understand, as I am a bit new to editing. It appears to me that the ref link is correct, so I don't know what the issue is:

Catrichardson31 (talk) 19:38, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

Replied on user's talkpage. — Earwig ^talk 00:44, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – 88.105.205.19

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Page: 2015-16 Manchester City F.C. season

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Comment/question: How do I fix the link?

88.105.205.19 (talk) 10:19, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

Fixed. URLs on Wikipedia must begin with the protocol - http:// or https:// - to be recognized. Huon (talk) 12:29, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – 75.155.46.228

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75.155.46.228 (talk) 18:41, 26 October 2015 (UTC) Hi Hello can u please fix the thing on Out Of The Cellar page id sure appreciatre it man Thank you

Done. Huon (talk) 23:35, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Correctinform

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Correctinform (talk) 17:51, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Your edits have been reverted because the figures you added weren't for the city but for the district. That has also fixed the reference issue the bot notified you about. Huon (talk) 23:38, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Smkolins

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Page: Leonids

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Comment/question: a jstore number is an alternative to a url

Smkolins (talk) 00:30, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

@Smkolins: Apparently not for the purpose of an accessdate. It seems we expect JSTOR to be sufficiently stable that the content won't change with the date of access. Huon (talk) 20:09, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Corkythehornetfan

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Page: Dartmouth Big Green men's lacrosse

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Comment/question: What's the error? I cannot find it and need a second set of eyes to find the error. I also think it would be helpful if ReferenceBot would show the user the error that they made, instead of just leaving for us to find it ourselves. BracketBot does this and makes it very easy to fix the problem.

Corkythehornetfan 00:34, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

@Corkythehornetfan: The errors ReferenceBot points out are marked in red in the article proper. In this case, the error is Text "By MIKE PRESTON " ignored, affecting footnote 13. Fixed now. Due to the rather wide-ranging nature of the errors ReferenceBot notifies about, and due to the method of error detection which I presume makes use of Category:Pages with citations using unnamed parameters and the like, highlighting the error on the notified user's talk page in addition to the article itself would unfortunately be rather difficult. Huon (talk) 19:33, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

I can understand, thanks for your response! Corkythehornetfan 19:49, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Edmunddantes

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Edmunddantes (talk) 01:14, 6 November 2015 (UTC). I have automatically detected that your edit to Peoples Temple may have broken the syntax by modifying 1 "<>"s. If you have, don't worry: just edit the page again to fix it.

Dear Bracket: I don't know how to modify the 1"()"s and if you can do it, please and thank you. Signed, Edmunddantes aka Nancy Wong in San Francisco

Fixed. Huon (talk) 02:07, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Jc3s5h

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

Page: Bernie Sanders and Vermont

Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bernie_Sanders&type=revision&diff=689843184&oldid=689838658

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vermont&type=revision&diff=689843533&oldid=689745799

Comment/question: The cite news template seems to be detecting that http:// is not the preferred scheme, https:// is. However, the particular newspaper I am linking to has an invalid digital certificate, which creates browsing problems for readers who try to navigate to the site with TLS encryption. Thus I used the non-preferred scheme. Jc3s5h (talk) 14:27, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

@Jc3s5h: No. In both cases the pipe in front of the "first=" parameter for the author's given name was missing, mixing up the URL and the subsequent parameter. I've fixed both. Huon (talk) 21:31, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

Yogurt6972

I Sent A Message Can You Please Read itYogurt6972 (talk) 17:03, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

{{done}} Huon (talk) 23:53, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Cuquito717

Timbales

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Comment/question: Lots of the information post under timbales is totally incorrect If you can contact me I will give you correct info on timbales

Cuquito717 (talk) 11:28, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

Please remember that to add content to Wikipedia you'll need to provide reliable published sources that our readers can use to verify on their own that the information you add is correct. Huon (talk) 23:53, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – ShantanuSinghGaur

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ShantanuSinghGaur (talk) 16:22, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

@ShantanuSinghGaur: Unfortunately I had to revert your edit because it was a copyright violation. Please do not copy-paste content from elsewhere onto Wikipedia that isn't freely licensed. Huon (talk) 23:53, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – 69.200.228.170

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69.200.228.170 (talk) 09:18, 18 November 2015 (UTC) This was a time-consuming attempt to clean up a few (probably tacit) misimplications in an interesting, but I felt, inadequately and slightly misleading article written some time ago. I believe I've fixed the issue, but please contact me at (Curran.Altschul ...at gmail) [avoiding spambots) if there are further potential issues. Regards to any and all who've put work into this.

It seems the main issue was that you did nor provide any references for the content you added; it also discussed not just mangonels, but the Wikipedia article on mangonels. Such self-references should be avoided. See WP:RS for the kinds of references we're looking for, and WP:REFB on how to easily cite them in Wikipedia articles. Huon (talk) 23:16, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – MistByTheSea

Page: Beat]] (2009), Lady Saigo no Hanzai Profile (2011)^[1], and

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MistByTheSea (talk) 11:29, 19 November 2015 (UTC) Hello BracketBot,

This is actually a page completely in Japanese. That's why there are so many strange symbols. I couldn't find an English page with the information on that page. Should I delete the citation? Please let me know as soon as you can. Thank you very much.

MistByTheSeaMistByTheSea (talk) 11:29, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

DAJF changed the title to the Japanese. Having that bunch of special characters isn't helpful for our readers. No comment on whether the source is reliable in the first place. Huon (talk) 19:38, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Xavier enc

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

Page: Armorial of the Communes of Nord-1 (A–C)

Diff: latest revision

Comment/question: Your bot notified me of a cite error. I believe the cite error was corrected.

Xavier (talk) 04:13, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

OK, thanks for fixing it. Huon (talk) 19:05, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Bschandrasgr

Purandaradasa: To add original Kannada text of the poem

The site did not take my text; so put it above the last one Bschandrasgr (talk) 13:53, 29 November 2015 (UTC) Bschandrasgr (talk) 13:53, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

I have tidied up the link and fixed the bracket issue. Huon (talk) 20:31, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Primaler

Page: Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala

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Comment/question: the bot shouldn't notify about mismatched brackets if they are a part of a file name

Primaler (talk) 21:25, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

That's debatable. What's more likely, file names with mismatched brackets or typos in filenames without mismatched brackets? Personally I'd say file names should not have mismatched brackets in the first place, but I assume names such as this one are artefacts of some semi-automated upload process for Google Art Project images. Huon (talk) 00:21, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – "Greater than" signs on "inverse function" page erroneously detected as error

Page: Inverse function

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Comment/question: Hi, probably a difficult case to detect for a bot, but I thought I'd let you know that this notification was a false positive. Neither did I add those "greater than" signs (originally, that is), nor were they incorrect. Hope it helps, Matthiaspaul (talk) 14:26, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

That's a known issue. The bot keeps an eye on "less than" and "greater than" signs because they're used for HTML and <ref> tags where a mismatch can have rather severe consequences. It's not smart enough to distinguish between those uses and use as "greater than", so the latter will lead to false positives. You did add some instances of {{math|y > 0}} in the edit the bot notified you about, though. Huon (talk) 21:01, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Huiva

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

Page: Soft power

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Comment/question: I don't really understand what I did wrong (and consequently, why I received this message). False positive?

Huiva (talk) 22:07, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

@Huiva: You added a space in the URL http://www.e-unwto.org/doi/pdf/10.18111/9789284416899, thereby breaking it. That caused the bot's message. You can also see a red error message when you check the references section in the diff provided by the bot. Fixed now. Huon (talk) 00:27, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

Ahh... Haven't seen that... Thanks! Huiva (talk) 17:56, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Parzivalamfortas

Christian Jacq

Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christian_Jacq&curid=416709&diff=682822056&oldid=682821955

I tidied it as best I can but not sure if it is perfect. If you can fix it better, much appreciated.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Parzivalamfortas (talk • contribs) 08:27, September 26, 2015‎ (UTC)

This has fixed the issue the bot pointed out; you removed the surplus closing square bracket. Thanks! Huon (talk) 18:35, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – 130.88.123.107

Page: Weibull distribution

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Comment/question: The edit in question introduced an interval with half-closed-half-open notation, namely $[0,+\infty )$ , which looks unbalanced. These will probably mostly pop up in math tags, where it should be easy enough to ignore them, right? Though you might find some in regular text.

By the way, perhaps you could link to the diff in the comment that the bot leaves.

130.88.123.107 (talk) 15:02, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

The "your edit" link in the bot's message is a link to the diff. Math tags are a known issue, but unfortunately A930913 is on an extended break, so we'll likely have to wait for a fix. Huon (talk) 21:07, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Lily Prigioniero

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

Page:Pietro Annigoni

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08:21, 4 December 2015 (UTC) Comment/question:I've made the correct edit and it keeps showing up on my talk page as an errorLily Prigioniero (talk)

Lily Prigioniero (talk) 08:21, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

@Lily Prigioniero: Bot messages are not removed automatically from your user talk page. You are welcome to remove or archive it yourself. Huon (talk) 21:45, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Tostie14

Page: Monopoly (game)

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Comment/question: The edit I made that Bracketbot notified me about was correct, as I was completing a parens in the text that was unclosed. The bot was thrown off by the fact that there were parentheses inside the link. However, it did lead me to notice that there was an extra close parens in the link.

Tostie14 (talk) 16:22, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

If there are two bracket errors that "cancel out", and you fix one of them, the bot will think you caused the remaining mismatch and notify you about it. While that's technically a false positive since it's not your error, I still think it's useful. Thank you for fixing the mismatch you were notified about. Huon (talk) 21:45, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Delabrede

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

Page: Lena Gurr

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Comment/question: I uploaded the file by mistake. File:Lena Gurr, New York Gothic.jpeg should be deleted. Delabrede (talk) 00:37, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Delabrede (talk) 00:37, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

@Delabrede: Done. You could have added the code {{db-author}} to nominate a page you wrote (and that no one else contributed to) for speedy deletion. Huon (talk) 21:45, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Nabla

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

Page: Stanford prison experiment

Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=694964661

Comment/question: There was an error but not the reported error. I have left behind a <references/> test tag while editing a section. The report said it "caused a broken reference name". If you can perfect that, great; if not, it is still useful; and if I got it wrong, forgive me. One further note: please, please, please, do no write bot messages as if they are people. That is instead of "Hello, I'm ReferenceBot. I have automatically detected [...] you can report it to my operator". I would much rather read a true message, instead of a fake-friendly one, e.g "Hello. ReferenceBot automatically detected [...] you can report it to the bot author". Some day robots may be a self, but not now, this is just a relatively simple script. Anyway, thanks, it helped.

Nabla (talk) 14:13, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

@Nabla: While the bot's description of the problem may not be the most helpful, it's correct; if you check the reference list at the bottom of the article you will see the "broken reference name" errors. Since those error messages are what prompt the bot to act, deviating from them would be very difficult. Huon (talk) 21:17, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

@Huon:. I see. Interesting, that a reference tag at mid page brakes the named references in a later tag. I have never noticed that. As I said, the bot's message was useful anyway, it was simply a remark to a possible improvement. It is fine as is. On a side note, allow me to ask: are you the bot's author? The bot page says it is A930913 and I did get redirected here when reporting, but instead of a reply by A930913 I get one by you. I can't find any reference to "Huon" on their pages, nor to them in yours... Which is mildly confusing. So, did this report got to the bot author? - Nabla (talk) 21:31, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

@Nabla: A930913 is the bot's author, I'm just a talk page stalker. Unfortunately A930913 is on an extended wikibreak, so I try to resolve those issues I can. Huon (talk) 21:36, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

@Huon:. OK. Thanks - Nabla (talk) 21:55, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Accas1

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

Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland_Route_41

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Comment/question: Un-referenced link to 1966 Map was removed earlier this week. Thank you.

Accas1 (talk) 16:08, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

OK, thank you for fixing the issue. Huon (talk) 00:01, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Nathanaelsadgrove

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Page: Jack Ü

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Comment/question: Nathanaelsadgrove (talk) 10:15, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

@Nathanaelsadgrove: The problem is that you provided reference names, but no actual references for two of the certifications. I have removed those entries. Huon (talk) 00:01, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – 111.68.97.118

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111.68.97.118 (talk) 10:16, 21 December 2015 (UTC) hello.. who the hell r u ???????????

BracketBot is an automated program that notifies users of bracket mismatches. Huon (talk) 00:01, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – 111.68.97.118

111.68.97.118 (talk) 10:16, 21 December 2015 (UTC) {{User:A930913/BBresolved|yes}}

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111.68.97.118 (talk) 10:16, 21 December 2015 (UTC) hello.. who the 8o8778or u ???????????

See above. Huon (talk) 00:01, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – 69.200.228.170

Mangonel

N/A

Since I haven't been to this page recently, nor modified it, since my disgust at modifications a few months ago being discarded...I suspect this may be a sort of, I don't know, back-door invitation/challenge by another editor to take my own crack at cleaning up a difficult, if obscure, page. I will make my attempt, in hopes of making peace, or at least truce, with another editor. The page is obscure enough not to worry overly. It's a difficult page to clean up, considering the word appears to have had multiple meanings, possibly changing over centuries. But if I interpret this situation correctly, I believe you need concern yourself no further at this time.

69.200.228.170 (talk) 12:49, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot only cares about mismatched brackets. You should discuss other issues with other people at other venues, such as the article's talk page. Huon (talk) 00:01, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Sathyasharma

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

Vindhyan Ecology and Natural History Foundation

Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=695054140

THe reference number 6 is showing some error.

Sathyasharma (talk) 02:02, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

For some strange reason I don't quite understand the character "त्‍ " produces an error message. I'll ask for help at WT:WikiProject India; people over there likely are more familiar with the peculiarities of Indic scripts. Huon (talk) 03:55, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – 72.174.9.147

Page: Genocide Denial, specifically the Notable genocide denials by individuals and non government organisations section

Diff: His 1991 column Uygur, Cenk (1991-11-20). "Historical Fact or Falsehood?"http://www.webcitation.org/68YqvmgSY. The Daily Pennsylvanian. Archived from the original on 2012-06-20. Retrieved 2012-06-20.

His 1999 letter to the editor in Salon. Uygur, Cenk (1999-6-9). "Letters to the Editor". Salon. http://www.salon.com/1999/06/16/punk_2/

Please feel free to improve those citations.

Comment/question: I made a judgement given that Cenk Uygur runs a prominent internet news and commentary show, The Young Turks, and a PAC, Wolf PAC, that he is notable. He has made publicly denied the Armenian Genocide in 1991 and 1999. Therefore I believe it is a notable genocide denial by a notable person. I could not find any evidence that he has disavowed these statements since then. I want everyone to feel free to improve the quality of my post. 72.174.9.147 (talk) 05:49, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia would require a secondary source, not your personal opinion, for an assessment of whether that's a significant statement by Uygur. Huon (talk) 03:55, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Mabelina

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

Page:List of Lord Mayors of London

Diff:'''''NO''''' because I don't know what it is whoever this is pretends to be talking about

Comment/question: When I am providing ''''excellent advice''''' for Wiki why should this process be disrupted?

Mabelina (talk) 06:53, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

PS. somebody else can do it better?

PPS. why was there no swift reply to my post above re: Lord Mayors of London?

PPPS. it is quicker to complain than it is to seek a resolution....

If possible, could I harness BracketBox's skills to the greater good of Wiki?

See above. Huon (talk) 03:55, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot - 71.105.70.152

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71.105.70.152 (talk) 05:18, 27 December 2015 (UTC)Hi... I did not perform any edits on the page BracketBot said I did... Is someone using my address? Thank you!

That message was from October 2013; at that time the IP address likely was assigned to someone else. Huon (talk) 15:07, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – 193.88.196.54

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have i done it wrong im sorry

193.88.196.54 (talk) 23:33, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

Fixed, thanks for bringing it up. See WP:REFB on how to easily create nicely-formatted footnotes for your references. Huon (talk) 01:41, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – 50.100.172.233

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

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50.100.172.233 (talk) 00:36, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

I have reverted the edit since WikiLeaks generally is not a reliable source. Huon (talk) 02:14, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – 2.35.7.167

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

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Comment/question: false positive, references are in order.

2.35.7.167 (talk) 00:59, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

Now they are. When you check the revision the bot linked to, you will find that the reference section contains one entry with multiple error messages because you used Italian instead of English parameter names. Huon (talk) 02:14, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Turningwoodintomarble

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

Page:The "Ellis" drainhole

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Comment/question:I have corrected the error; the reference is now working. ... Off the topic: With thumbnails I can choose the page of the image file I want to display. I would like to do the same for each image in the "multiple image" environment, but it doesn't seem possible. Whom can I contact to get this capability added to multiple image?

Turningwoodintomarble (talk) 21:24, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

@Turningwoodintomarble: Thank you for fixing that. By "page of the image file" you mean a specific page of a PDF? I'm not aware of such a functionality of thumbnails; do you know of an example, or of documentation you could provide a link to? Otherwise the {{Multiple image}} template's parameters seem to cover all options available for "regular" images, including setting specific link targets (or none) if the images are clicked. Huon (talk) 22:31, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

BracketBot – Microsoftguru1

Page:Economy of Bangladesh

Diff:http://bdnews24.com/economy/2015/12/29/year-in-review-bangladesh-economy-in-2015

Comment/question: You are amending my note without reading the reference I posted. Please read it first. I find the correct number from this above url. If you don't want me to contribute in wiki. please delete my account. I do something productive in my leisure. Microsoftguru1 (talk) 03:31, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

@Microsoftguru1: BracketBot is not concerned with the quality of references, and since it's an automated program it neither reads nor understands them. It only notifies users about mismatched brackets such as the one you added to the Economy of Bangladesh article where the link to the Electricity sector in Bangladesh you added to the "external links" section was missing one of the closing square brackets and thus didn't work. That was fixed by now. Huon (talk) 16:53, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – Melsewell

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Melsewell (talk) 15:16, 2 January 2016 (UTC) I have read the relevant Wikipedia page four times now and cant find where my edit is. Can you please correct it for me?

The bot gave a diff for your edit, namely this one where you added mismatched brackets when providing a reference. You may want to take a look at WP:Referencing for beginners; that page explains how to easily create nicely-formatted footnotes for references. The content has since been removed; there's a discussion about it on the article's talk page. Huon (talk) 16:53, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – Jwicklatz

Page: List of Canadian musicians

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Comment/question:

I can't find the syntax error (unmatched parenthesis). Is it possible that I already fixed it?

I also checked the edit history and did not find the error.

Can you tell me which entry in the list contained the error?

Jwicklatz (talk) 21:38, 2 January 2016 (UTC) Jwicklatz (talk) 21:38, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

@Jwicklatz: The "your edit" link in the bot message will bring up the diff of the specific edit the bot's message is about. You indeed fixed the issue with this subsequent edit. Huon (talk) 02:34, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

Secret Award For Invisible Contribution

File:Top secret.jpg	Rubber Stamp Award
	Thank you for contributing. Nobody has to know about this unless you want them to. Congratulations.

ReferenceBot – Lineagegeek

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

Page:409th Air Expeditionary Group Page:89th Airlift Squadron

Diff:https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=697657075 Diff:https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=698333269

Comment/question:References including links to Air Force Historical Research Agency studies appear to be reporting URL errors. The links in the Cite book template work just fine, so I can't see any reason to report an error. --Lineagegeek (talk) 12:02, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

Lineagegeek (talk) 12:02, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

@Lineagegeek: Rather surprisingly the link seems to work in my browser, but I don't think the period after ".mil" is valid. The link works without it, too, and the error is no longer shown. Huon (talk) 02:01, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Well, so it does. I visited the URL directly and the period is there. Since it works without the period and eliminating it also eliminates the warning message, I'll use it that way. Thanks. --Lineagegeek (talk) 16:08, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – 107.185.145.26

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

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Arizona (song)

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Comment/question:

The claim: "On the Arizona (song) page, your edit caused a URL error (help)". The first time that the automated system informed me of this URL error, I fixed my previous edit. Now that I don't see any remaining error, I don't understand why I would be notified a second time, with the same complaint, with the same date. If an error still exists, please be specific about what that error is. Sorry, but I am unable to guess anything about anything.107.185.145.26 (talk) 03:08, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

107.185.145.26 (talk) 03:08, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

The bot notified you only once. The date should be a hint: That's the date when the notification was added. You fixed the issue, but the bot does not automatically remove its notifications. Huon (talk) 18:21, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – Ranger14400

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During his years studying theater, Hanks met Vincent Dowling, head of the Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland, Ohio.[9

Great Lakes moved from its original home in Lakewood, Ohio to Playhouse Square in 1982 to become the first resident company in Playhouse Square.

Notable alumni include Tom Hanks (1977-79 as an intern and core company member, and later winner of the Cleveland Critics' circle for best actor in Festival's production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona), Donald Moffat, Larry Linville, Cloris Leachman, Piper Laurie, Obie Cytron, Jean Stapleton, Hal Holbrook and Olympia Dukakis.

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The dates on Hanks' wiki do not coincide with those of the wiki Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival which moved from Lakewood to its current downtown Cleveland location. Hanks performed at the GLSF from 1977-79 when the Festival was located in Lakewood. I saw him perform in Lakewood. Lakewood is a Cleveland suburb. Indicating he performed in "Cleveland" is a generic reference, much like residents of Hollywood often refer to themselves as living in L.A. f Comment/question:

Ranger14400 (talk) 03:53, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

@Ranger14400: The bot notified you because in your edit you removed some square brackets, breaking the link to the Ohio article. Someone else fixed that and reverted your edit because they had an issue with the change in content, too. You'll want to discuss that at the article's talk page. Huon (talk) 18:21, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – Mabelina

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Comment/question:Hi BracketBox - please see attempted badmouthing of me by Miesianiacal & how to put a stop to it? Thanks. Best M Mabelina (talk) 06:12, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

PS. what I thoroughly dislike is being hurried into saving things which aren't ready because of hassle (& I don't know how) by contras. It is much better to get the facts straight rather than pursue an agenda against others.

Mabelina (talk) 06:12, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

You realise this is the talk page of an automated bot, right? Yes, it will be monitored by the person who devised/runs the bot to pick up queries about its functioning, but it's hardly the place to ask for substantive advice on completely unrelated matters. N-HH talk/edits 12:00, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

@N-HH: I have no idea why you have popped up here - but since you have deigned to ask - yes, I do realise & my point was directed to User:A930913 who may or may not choose to answer in due course. Since YOU are here, when are you going to answer MY question? M Mabelina (talk) 13:23, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

Because I saw you had posted here, using a template for reporting bot problems, about an issue you have with another user and thought it might help if it was pointed out that this user's account seems to mainly used for dealing with bots they run. And that they have only made one edit themselves in the past 12 months. As you say, maybe you will get a reply, but it seems an odd way of going about getting help. I'll stop pinging this talk page now. N-HH talk/edits 14:35, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

Good but you were the one who decided to enter into this territory - my point was something else here. M Mabelina (talk) 15:01, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

@Mabelina: Unfortunately A930913 is extremely unlikely to respond to queries such as yours, nor am I aware of A930913 having been active in dispute resolution even when they were much more active on Wikipedia than they are nowadays. You were already pointed towards WP:Dispute resolution; that's a much better venue for this issue than an almost-inactive individual editor's talk page. Personally I don't think Miesianiacal's conduct towards you is sanctionable, and I'd advise you to focus on content, not on editor behaviour. Huon (talk) 20:32, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – Wikiguy2015

South Korean Won

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=South_Korean_won&type=revision&diff=699737487&oldid=699710990

It should be fixed, please check the page now. My edit was to citation #20. My apologies for the syntax error.

Wikiguy2015 (talk) 04:39, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

I removed another relic. Thanks for improving the link! Huon (talk) 20:16, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – EkAsian

Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharaja_Sayajirao_University_of_Baroda Diff: need ref 5 fixed or there is an error in ref , kindly fix...

Comment/question: Thanx for the support EkAsian (talk) 09:31, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

The issue has been fixed already; one of the references you removed was re-used in another place, and that re-use was broken when you removed it. It has been re-added in the appropriate place. Huon (talk) 01:26, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – TiMike

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

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

Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=700836138

Comment/question: there wa a pipe title in the title causing the error. please update ReferenceBot (if possible) to catch that.

TiMike (talk) 00:50, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

TiMike, to me it seems ReferenceBot already did catch that; after all, it notified you. The bot merely reproduces the warning already given on the page; to have it identify the issue more precisely than the template itself would be exceedingly difficult. Huon (talk) 11:19, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – Alan W

Page: William Hazlitt

Diff: [5]

Comment/question: It's actually an apology. My comment alleges that you (the bot) "broke" the page. But now I see that you did nothing but notify me about errors of my own, which I have now fixed. So I thank you. And I hope that advances in AI have made it possible for you to understand what I am writing here. :-^)

Alan W (talk) 00:29, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

No apology necessary, thank you for fixing both mismatched brackets. Huon (talk) 11:19, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – 71.41.210.146

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

Page: Longitude

Diff: your edit

Comment/question: Why is it using the arbitrary-URL syntax //en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=701495981 in the notice when the double-bracket Special:Diff/701495981 is shorter and doesn't make me stop to check if it's a safe link?

71.41.210.146 (talk) 01:28, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Ultimately, user preference. Huon (talk) 11:19, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Inkan1969

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

Page: Upstate South Carolina

Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=701216586

Comment/question: I don't know what the ReferenceBot is specifically referring to. I carried out a merge with this page and Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC Combined Statistical Area. So I did a lot of editing. The ReferenceBot says "URL error", but it did not specify the error. I don't know what to do.

Inkan1969 (talk) 16:46, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

When you check the references section in the diff the bot gave you, you will find a red URL error message in the fifth reference. I've tried to fix the link. Huon (talk) 11:19, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – 222.127.108.7

Page:

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222.127.108.7 (talk) 22:46, 26 January 2016 (UTC) sorry this is actually my fist using this site. all I did was it said the person name had an alias, all I did was try to see what her alias were, but I didn't change anything. I just read the names and that was it. sorry about that. I promise ill be more careful from now on. thamk u for letting me know.

This seems to be a shared IP address. The bot notified it about some bracket issues back in 2014; that likely was meant for someone else who used the IP address at that time. Huon (talk) 11:19, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – SzMithrandir

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

Page: renminbi

Diff: 702044121

Comment/question: this edit was about cleaning up the false usage of "#124;" --- I was quite surprised to see such an ancient remain.

SzMith randir ❈ Ered Luin ❈ 10:30, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

@SzMithrandir: And while doing that cleanup you added a {{reflist}} to the section you were improving. I do so myself to preview a section's references, but sometimes one forgets to remove this temporary aid. Now fixed. Thank you for cleaning up the references. Huon (talk) 11:51, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Huon Oh ... gees Christ no wonder why the bot picked this up ... thank you so much! It's my fault failing to discern such a mistake. -- SzMith randir ❈ Ered Luin ❈ 07:39, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Jgrantduff

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

Page:Royal Horse Guards

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Comment/question:There is no inconsistency: the Bot said there were not enough references; the references have since been added. Case closed.

Justin Grant-Duff 18:12, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

@Jgrantduff: What the bot said was that there was a missing reference list. You used the {{efn}} template for one note; footnotes created by that template are not displayed by the standard {{reflist}} template but require a separate list, say {{notelist}}. Another editor fixed that. Huon (talk) 11:51, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Ermo casella

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

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Vogliate cortesemente visitare la mia pagina "Biografia Italo Salizzato"... a mio parere ci sono alcuni errori positivi! Pertanto Vi chiedo, se è possibile, la Vostra preziosa collaborazione per superare il problema! Grazie e tanti auguri di cose belle. Ciao! --Ermo casella (talk) 07:24, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

@Ermo casella: You copy-pasted the content of the Italian article on Italo Salizzato into the English article on the same subject. That is not helpful since the readers of the English Wikipedia generally cannot read Italian. Those who can read Italian can find the same content on the Italian Wikipedia and also are not helped by finding it at the English Wikipedia. Here articles (and comments on talk pages such as this one) should be written in English. For these reasons I have reverted those additions. If you can translate the Italian text to create an English biography of Italo Salizzato, you are welcome to do so. Huon (talk) 11:51, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – Brucewh

Page: Absurdist fiction

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Comment/question: The text in question looks fine, but the HTML in the BracketBot message is clearly wrong. How do I edit the HTML directly so that I can fix it myself?

/Bruce/ [aka Slasher] 04:02, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

@Brucewh: The code seems correct to me as well, excepting the missing bracket you added yourself here. If you want to edit the source code for some reason, there's an "edit source" tab at the top of the page. Huon (talk) 08:58, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – NFLW

Gary Anderson

Page:

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Personal Life category is missing

Comment/question: Add Personal Life Category and details Married Pittsburgher Carol Eckert in 1986 at St Stephen's Episcopal Church in Sewickley PA Wedding attendees included: Art Rooney Sr. Mr & Mrs Dan Rooney, Coach Chuck and Marianne Noll Carol was a member of the 1980 Shaler High School Pennsylvania AAA State Championship Girls Basketball Team, 3rd Runner -up in the Miss America Crawford County Beauty Pageant ( the same pageant that Actress Sharon Stone had won years previous) Gary and Catol were very involved in local Pittsburgh charity work and Carol was honored in 1989 by being named the NFLPA Humanitarian Woman of the Year. Cheryl Ladd announced the winner at an award ceremony in Hollywood California and presented the heavy bronze award (by the Heisman Trophy designer) to Carol on stage when she was 8 months pregnant with their first son Austin. Gary and Carol are the proud parents of Austin and Douglas Anderson both born in Pittsburgh, PA. They all were hands-on and helped along with the community to raise funds and build a playground in Marshall Township PA. Carol is Graduated from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, she is a runner and was seeded in the City of Pittsburgh Great Race, an avid tennis player and golfer. Carol had a hole in one when she was 7 months pregnant with Austin, and Austin had his first hole in one while playing with his Mother and brother Douglas at the Ibis Golf and Country Club in Florida. Gary and Carol Divorced in 2001 Gary married Kay Dalheimer in 2004

NFLW (talk) 19:57, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

That doesn't seem to be the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia, and it doesn't cite any reliable sources. Huon (talk) 17:10, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – Proust1129

Page: Harold Varmus Diff:

Comment/question:

Proust1129 (talk) 22:59, 8 February 2016 (UTC) Hi I have problems of citing in infobox scientist section. I was confused on the help page.

Thank you

@Proust1129: It seems you removed the content of the footnote from the article, but still tried to cite it by name. Another bot rescued the content. All should be fixed now. Huon (talk) 17:10, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – Rodw

M4 motorway

Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=704921485

On my talk page Bracket Bot left me a message about:

List of unpaired brackets remaining on the page:

2010|url=http://www.assembly.wales/Laid%20Documents/SUB-LD8271%20-%20The%20M4%20Motorway%20(Junction%2041,%20Westbound%20Exit%20Slip%20Road,%20Sunnycroft%20Roundabout,%20Baglan,%20Neath%
{| style="margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em; color:black; font-size:90%;" class="wikitable"

The first appears to be part of a valid reference URL link. I can't identify the second which seems to be about wilkitable formatting - but works fine in the article.— Rod ^talk 13:35, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

This indeed looks like a false positive. The bot can't tell that the URL was meant to have mismatched brackets. The other is the "Junctions" table which starts with "{|" but ends not with "|}" but with a dedicated template; again something very difficult to recognize for the bot. Huon (talk) 20:58, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – 68.2.29.181

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68.2.29.181 (talk) 01:00, 18 February 2016 (UTC) That was an complete mistake. Bracketbot, I do not think you understand it. I was copying Quetzalcoatl, just edit page and you will see for yourself.

The bot only notified you about mismatched brackets which you have since fixed. The bot was right. It did not offer an opinion on what the serpent's Hopi name is, and there you are right. Thank you for fixing that. Huon (talk) 20:58, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – Bcataquet

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Bcataquet (talk) 20:39, 18 February 2016 (UTC) Hi i AM a leading authority on trading cards for 30 years. I would like to add this important info regarding vintage cards. The proof is on this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrhsmiDqS7Y [\byoutube\.com])) can you place it in for me since i dont understand how to do it- My name is Bcataquet (talk) 20:39, 18 February 2016 (UTC)brian cataquet thanks

@Bcataquet: I'm sorry, but your YouTube video will not be considered a reliable source by Wikipedia. If the same information has been published in a magazine article, subject to editorial oversight, we could instead cite that magazine article. See WP:Referencing for beginners on how to easily cite such sources. Huon (talk) 20:58, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – GoingBatty

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

Page: Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 68

Diff: [6]

Comment/question: This thread included a discussion about a reference error. You might want to exclude Wikipedia archives from your bot's reports. Thanks!

GoingBatty (talk) 01:38, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

I rather doubt archives of discussions of reference errors are so common an issue that they justify a separate exception in the bot's code. Huon (talk) 02:42, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Geo Swan

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

Page: Hello, I'm ReferenceBot. I have automatically detected that an edit performed by you may have introduced errors in referencing.

Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=706524152 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=706524152

Comment/question: False positive

Geo Swan (talk) 03:01, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

@Geo Swan: Not a false positive; for one of the references you forgot the archive date that's required when you add an archive URL, causing the error the bot notified you about. Besides, the archive URL for that reference wasn't the correct one anyway. Fixed. Huon (talk) 20:27, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

The "fix it" link your bot left failed to find anything to fix. Geo Swan (talk) 23:56, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

That link opens the entire page for editing with a canned edit summary. It still requires the human to figure out what exactly needs fixing, and to do the work. If ReferenceBot could figure out the specific changes necessary to fix the problem, it would likely be approved to simply repair the error instead of notifying you about it. Huon (talk) 01:57, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – 86.143.211.105

Page: Chris Tarrant

Diff:

Comment/question: There was a question about the way I modified something... I did modify but I did not initially set up external links correctly. I have now corrected these links so they fit convention by sitting in the Reference area. I hope this has addressed the action required. If not I don't quite understand the question I am afraid. Richard

86.143.211.105 (talk) 09:33, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

@Richard at Trooper Potts Trust: In this edit you removed a square bracket from one of the external links, breaking the link syntax. That's what the bot notified you about. I have fixed the issue. Huon (talk) 01:17, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – Koala Tea Of Mercy

Page: n/a - ALL PAGES EDITED BY BRACKETBOT

Diff: EXAMPLE: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AAniseseed&type=revision&diff=707502947&oldid=707462366

Comment/question:

@A930913: BracketBot is not including a New Section header so its Notices are inappropriately being put "in stream" into the last discussion on the page. I manually fixed the problem for the above diff (see the next edit in the history) by using the bot's Edit Summary text for the ==Section Title== but I think you should fix this in the bot right away.

Koala Tea Of Mercy (KTOM's Articulations & Invigilations) 14:38, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

That's deliberate. The bot adds its comments to the "Month Year" section if available or creates a new one if necessary. It's possible for editors to tell the bot to create daily section headings on their talk pages instead of using monthly ones. Huon (talk) 02:11, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

@A930913: I see that now. The problem apparently was caused because user JJMC89 used the same section "Month Year" naming convention to post a warning template that resulted in a subsequent active discussion. JJMC89 probably should have used the involved article name for the section name instead. When your bot added its message without any kind of separator it became lost in the stream of talk text.

I know you can't help what other users do but I wonder if it wouldn't be a good idea for your bot (and probably any other bots that use the same approach) to precede their post with a simple horizontal bar (----) if they are not creating the "Month Year" section? Four characters seems a small price to improve readability. Koala Tea Of Mercy (KTOM's Articulations & Invigilations) 07:03, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

The warning was posted with WP:Twinkle, which doesn't allow for choosing a section name; it uses month year for the name. — JJMC89 (T·C) 07:17, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – Peter Mercator

Page: Gerardus Mercator

Diff: N/A The bot didn't make changes

Comment/question: The bot seems to have flagged three non-existent problems. Puzzled.

Peter Mercator (talk) 13:26, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

In the diff the bot notified you about, the closing bracket at the end of the English translation of the title of Mercator's work is missing. You fixed those brackets with a subsequent edit. Huon (talk) 02:11, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Kkimbero

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

Page:

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Comment/question: I did not make or attempt to make any edits or revisions to the page referenced.

Kkimbero (talk) 03:17, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

@Kkimbero: You did not provide enough context for others to tell what happened. You were not notified by the bot on your account's talk page. If you saw a notification somewhere else, I'd need a link or the title of the page to take a look. If it was at some IP talk page, then possibly it was a shared IP and someone else edited from that IP to make the changes mentioned in the bot's notification. Huon (talk) 04:27, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – VirtuOZ

Skype: – Difference

(Semi-) False positive:

I did not forget a (round) parenthesis. You can see that my edit wasn't event close to that part of the article. That was an older edit, done by someone else. So it is a CORRECT identification, but FALSE positive that it is MY edit's fault.
My edit used angle brackets, but in the role of arrows, so I understand your algorithm, but this time it is not the case of brackets (I don't think changes are needed here).

VirtuOZ (talk) 18:54, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

The bot notified you because of the mismatched angled brackets, but it lists all unpaired brackets. Firstly it's sometimes difficult for the bot to determine which mismatch exactly an edit caused, and secondly, editors may want to improve the article beyond just fixing their own mistakes.
You're right, the angled brackets are indeed a false positive. The bot keeps an eye on them because of their use in HTML tags or <ref> tags, where a mismatch can have severe consequences. Huon (talk) 19:30, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – 83d40m

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83d40m (talk) 04:25, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your alert about the stray parens you discovered in my edit -- nice tool -- fixed it. _ _ _ _ 83d40m (talk) 04:25, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

You're welcome, thank you for fixing it. Huon (talk) 19:30, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Hugojkd

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

Lethwei:

*On the Lethwei page, your edit caused a broken reference name (help). (Fix | Ask for help)

Comment/question:

Hhnrtjkd 03:17, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

Fixed. Huon (talk) 22:57, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Erlendson

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

Page: Lois Simpson (cellist) page

Diff: The ReferenceBot reported a URL error

Comment/question: The ReferenceBot reported a URL error but I cannot find any errors - all of the URLs appear to work correctly. Please let me know if there is more to do on this!

Erlendson (talk) 01:42, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

@Erlendson: While rather surprisingly it still worked, you added some stuff beyond the mere URL to the "url=" parameter in the citation template. Fixed. Huon (talk) 22:57, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks! Erlendson. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Erlendson (talk • contribs) 03:02, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

Bracksou

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Ĉ Comment/question:

197.79.11.70 (talk) 15:30, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but I cannot tell what issue you are writing about. If this is about some BracketBot notification, please provide a link to the page where you were notified. Huon (talk) 22:57, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Jackiespeel

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

Page: Lupicia

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Comment/question: The existing link led to a 'page not found' so copy and pasted a seemingly more correct one (which annoyed the bot).

Jackiespeel (talk) 10:18, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

You removed the "url=" part that tells the template that the parameter is the URL. Fixed. Huon (talk) 22:57, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

'Usual minor glitch' then

Computers give up too easily (whereas humans know that eg 'favour' and 'favor' are the same thing, but Stone of Scone and 'Scone - a stone more like' are different). Jackiespeel (talk) 16:08, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – TheMightyMan

Page: Hello, I'm BracketBot. I have automatically detected that your edit to Manly, Iowa 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: Springs building. Until 8th grade then they go to Manly where the High School is located. <ref>[http://globegazette.com/news/local/central-springs-considers-building-changes/article_4a53501c-8e9a- It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, BracketBot (talk) 17:13, 10 March 2016 (UTC) Diff:

Comment/question: What do you mean? I am confused. TheMightyManSorry, signature was borked due to copy-pasting the BracketBot message.

When you added those references, you added an opening square bracket to the URLs but no closing square bracket. I think the code you were looking for is this: [http://www.example.com/ Example link] which will be displayed as Example link. You may also want to check out WP:Referencing for beginners on how to easily create nicely-formatted footnotes without bothering with the code. Huon (talk) 22:57, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – 96.56.155.190

Page:

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Comment/question:

96.56.155.190 (talk) 02:34, 11 March 2016 (UTC)I must have erred in the way I entered my info for the Dion listing. I'm not sure how to fix it.

Fixed. Huon (talk) 02:08, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Ricklarsen lux

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

Page: Forcade

Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=709422790

Comment/question: The error reported does not exist, this time.

Rick Larsen (talk) 05:46, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

Because another bot fixed it. Huon (talk) 02:08, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Rogcoll007

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

Page:

Diff: http://twsg.co.uk

Comment/question:

Rogcoll007 (talk) 09:02, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

The reference issue has been fixed. I have blocked your account because your only purpose on Wikipedia was to promote your own company. Huon (talk) 02:08, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – Max Mar

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

Diff:

Hi, I have published a complete manual about perspective included that curvilinear. In this manual You can find perspective with 4, 5, and 6 vanishing points.

Please have a look at this http://massimo-marrazzo.deviantart.com/

There is also a free pdf tutorial: "How to draw and examples".

I wonder if is possible include in the Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curvilinear_perspective) some images taken from my book, insert a ISBN code for my book and a link to the tutorial.

If possible I'd like insert some examples and a chart with different types of curvilinear perspective.

This is not a commercial link because is normal to include a isbn to a book to learn more about a specific argument, Even in this page, about curvilinear perspective, there is a isbn to the book of Albert Flocon and André Barre.

I'm new on Wikipedia and I don't want break any rules, so I hope if you can tell me some advice

Massimo

Thanks :-)

Max Mar (talk) 10:51, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

@Max Mar: Including images from your book would likely see some copyright issues. Unless the book is self-published, your publisher's license may preclude re-use of those images on Wikipedia. Otherwise I'd advise you to propose those changes at the article's talk page. Be as specific as possible in your proposal: "Change X to Y, add Z between P and Q, remove W." Huon (talk) 02:08, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – Pk800

Tommy Hilfiger

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Comment/question: Thank you for your attention. How is the reference below to be corrected? .^[2] Pk800 (talk) 21:06, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

You may want to take a look at WP:Referencing for beginners. The video at that page explains how to easily create nicely-formatted footnotes. Huon (talk) 02:08, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

References

^ [http://www.tbs.co.jp/LADY_cps/ "�$B6bMK%I%i%^!V�(BLADY�$B!A:G8e$NHH:a%W%m%U%!%$%k!A!W!C�(BTBS�$B%F%l%S�(B"]. www.tbs.co.jp. Retrieved 2015-11-19. {{cite web}}: replacement character in |title= at position 1 (help)
^ http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/252786/american-dreamer-by-tommy-hilfiger-with-peter-knobler/9781101886212/ American Dreamer by Tommy Hilfiger with Peter Knobler to be published by Ballantine Books, November 2016

BracketBot – Praveen chander

Madame Tussauds

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Madame_Tussauds&action=edit&minor=minor&summary=Fixing+typo+raised+by+%5B%5BUser%3ABracketBot%7CBracketBot%5D%5D:

I am so sorry, how I can do it, don't know ?

Praveen chander (talk) 12:47, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

Adding the Modi figure to the list seems sufficient; I have removed the prose. That said, WP:Referencing for beginners explains how to easily create nicely-formatted footnotes. Huon (talk) 23:07, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Skyllfully

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

Page: Stack Exchange

Diff: Diff/711324178

Comment/question: The bot claimed that my edit caused a cite error but it didn't.

—Skyllfully ^(talk | _contribs) 02:14, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

@Skyllfully: It did. If you scroll down to the references section in the diff the bot gave you, you'll see a big red error message that says, "Cite error: A list-defined reference named "alexa" is not used in the content (see the help page)." That's because you removed the one place that list-defined reference was used. Fixed. Huon (talk) 03:09, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – 50.246.231.169

Page: miwok Diff:

Comment/question: keeps adding second space in middle of sentence that makes it go into a box 50.246.231.169 (talk) 18:23, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

I have removed the line break. Huon (talk) 01:36, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Bryan gale

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

Page:

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Comment/question:

Bryan gale (talk) 06:31, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for notifying us. The test edit has been reverted. Huon (talk) 01:36, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – Carptrash

National Statuary Hall

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I don't understand what I need to do.  It looks okay to me

Comment/question:

Carptrash (talk) 19:40, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

@Carptrash: The closing bracket for the statue "removed in favor of Ronald Reagan in 2009" was missing. Fixed. Huon (talk) 01:36, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

Sorry that I missed it. Thanks for fixing it, Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 04:58, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – Barthomew

correct my errors.

Page: Jay Berwanger

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Comment/question:

You are correct that I erred.

I inserted something twice.

And I also left out a parenthesis and an O instead.

It should read:

US Rugby Hall of Fame (2016)

My source is US Rugby Foundation.

Thanks.

Barthomew User:Barthomew (talk) 17:09, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

I have removed the redundant entries in the infobox. Huon (talk) 22:42, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – Anikwue

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Anikwue (talk) 18:00, 2 April 2016 (UTC) Thanks, I'll fix it.

You're welcome, though there seem to be some more general issues about those additions. You may want to discuss them on the article's talk page. Huon (talk) 13:17, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

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Drjpmenon (talk) 03:32, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

The caption of the image file I uploaded was not showing in full. So I deleted the image. If I have mutilated the page, it was unintentional. Also I would like proper simple guidelines on the placement of multimedia objects in a page.

@Drjpmenon: Some brackets were left from your edits; I removed those. You may want to take a look at the picture tutorial, particularly the section on galleries. Huon (talk) 13:17, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

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Ageaxe (talk) 13:29, 4 April 2016 (UTC)Thanks. I appreciate any help at all, being still a novice at this game!

@Ageaxe: I have added the missing brackets. Huon (talk) 22:54, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

BracketBot – Bonq~enwiki

Page: Mount Meru distance in kilometers and miles with two improper parentheses/brackets foundeth by mine eyes.

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Comment/question: I tooketh out two incorrectly used brackets aka parentheses, which denotedeth a change from kilometers to miles. However, I did asketh of myself if the miles mentioned wereth US miles or the miles often used in other countries, which tend to be longer in distance. Thanketh You!

Bonq~enwiki (talk) 08:20, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

Since the difference between the Imperial mile and the US Survey mile, the only miles still in common use which might be abbreviated "mi", is miniscule, I don't think it matters all that much what {{convert}} does. The template uses 1 mi = 1609.344 m, which is the more commonly used international mile. Huon (talk) 22:54, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

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Bonq~enwiki (talk) 20:10, 5 April 2016 (UTC)I re-thoughteth the edit and did changeth the format to refineth thy original text. Thy original text contained one lost and bereft bracket between km and the useth of miles. Feeling its grief, I senteth the lone bracket/parentheses to Heaven. I hopeth thou approveth of my action. Amen.

I rather don't think that's an improvement; it seemed built only to avoid the double brackets created by use of {{convert}}. I have reinstated that template and put the measurement in earth's diameters back within the parentheses. Huon (talk) 22:54, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

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OK, thanks! Huon (talk) 22:54, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

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184.17.155.206 (talk) 19:42, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for letting us know. The issue was fixed by another editor already. Huon (talk) 22:41, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

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New Beckenham railway station

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The New Beckenham references have been removed because I have supplied more accurate references covering the same subject and substantially added to the history.--Davidvaughanwells (talk) 12:20, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

Davidvaughanwells (talk) 12:20, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

@Davidvaughanwells: You added a reference in a new group ("Note"), but not the required reference list for that group.

Fixed. Huon (talk) 22:04, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing that.--Davidvaughanwells (talk) 20:07, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

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Comment/question: I simply corrected an error in Hardy's quote by replacing "due to" with "because of" — that's all. I have no idea how that change could have broken anything. I don't believe it did. Bammie73 (talk) 01:42, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

@Bammie73: If you check the diff the bot gave on your talk page, you'll find you did more than just replace "due to" with "because of" - you also removed a ">" from the end of a reference tag. That broke the reference tag and led to the notification by the bot. Your edit has since been reverted, fixing the reference issue. Huon (talk) 20:15, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

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corrections to the Keith Emerson Page I made as the syntax was wrong. Sorry There's alot to learn here and I'm a newbie! The page was Keith Emerson. Page:

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How do I fix this edit? by adding {} and <> where you suggested so the edit is corrected and it will be published and posted? Comment/question:

Here is what needs to be corrected:

<ref>|url=http://www.keithemerson.com/ former ELP bandmates, [[Carl Palmer]] and [[Greg Lake]], both issued statements on his death. [Lengthy quote removed - Huon]</ref>

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Mattmin (talk) 06:03, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Another editor has since reverted that edit because such a long quote raises issues of copyright and because there's no reason to include it in the footnote - readers who want the full quote can follow the link and read it on the original page. Huon (talk) 20:15, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

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Francois Kneider 08:10, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia content must be based on reliable third-party sources. A photo hosted by a blog is not such a reliable source. Huon (talk) 20:15, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

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SOMASHEKAR22 (talk) 01:03, 21 April 2016 (UTC) Dear sir this is primarily Rama set and then it is Adam's bridge

Wikipedia uses the name most commonly used in English-language sources, and the most appropriate name for that article is under discussion on the talk page. Huon (talk) 20:15, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

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Laurenrobertson1 (talk) 04:01, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

The unknown parameter error was fixed by Nihiltres. Huon (talk) 20:15, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

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Mattmin (talk) 05:42, 21 April 2016 (UTC) Wikipedia Keith Emerson Edit

[Duplicate removed - Huon]

See above. Huon (talk) 20:15, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

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