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Bot request

Hi, I was wondering, can you please run your RjwilmsiBot over the 2012–13 Arsenal F.C. season page as it has a number of refs that are missing retrieval dates and publisher information? Thanks. The C of E. God Save The Queen! (talk) 17:41, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

CNN - work or publisher?

Hi Rjwilmsi! In this edit, your bot added |work=CNN. Wouldn't |publisher=CNN be more appropriate? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 03:24, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

The use of |work= comes from my settings file, it may or may not be right for CNN. As there's continued interest in the right use of these parameters, we'd get much more value establishing a wiki page with bot-readable human-written settings to define for each common work/publisher/agency/newspaper/magazine what parameter(s) to use and standard spelling, and a bot task (I could run) to clean up/improve consistency of articles run off the rules. We discussed this before but it didn't go anywhere. Rjwilmsi 12:41, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
Sounds like a good idea. How about functionality similar to WP:AWB/RTP or WP:AWB/TR, so that others could make corrections too? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 22:43, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
That sounds like a great idea to me too. Kumioko (talk) 00:35, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Cite web versus cite journal

Also, at Mari Gorman and probably other articles, the bot italicizes the titles of magazine / newspaper articles. Article titles are not italicized — the name of the magazine or newspaper is. This happened when the bot changed "cite web" to "cite journal" regarding articles in The Village Voice. Perhaps the "cite journal" template is flawed, since articles in scientific journals and the like are also not supposed to be italicized. --Tenebrae (talk) 15:58, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Not to mention the fact that The Village Voice is not a journal at all but a weekly newspaper. --Tenebrae (talk) 15:58, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
The reason those cites were changed is that they use |volume= and |issue=, which are not valid for {{cite web}}. However, without a |journal= the title is italicised, so that's not quite right either. You've got The Village Voice within the |publisher= parameter, how about making it {{cite news}} and specifying |newspaper=The Village Voice, which will automatically be italicised. Something like:
"Al Pacino, Sam Shepard, Roy Scheider, Estelle Parsons -- It's Obies 1968!". Village Voice. Vol. 13, no. 33. Reprint of "23 Win '68 'Obies'". May 30, 1968. Archived from the original on April 21, 2012. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
Thanks Rjwilmsi 16:11, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
Only loosely related to this topic. Given my druthers, I'd like to see the bot change |work= or other alias to match the cite xxx new bot-changed identifier.
—Trappist the monk (talk) 12:37, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

Improper edit

In the article Triumph of the Will was this citation family template:
{{cite web <!-- yeah, cite web give correct format result. if you know how to make cite book work please make it so -->
|title=War Propaganda
|last=Hitler
|first=Adolph
|work=Primary Sources 2: Interwar and World War II
|year=2000
|editor1-last=Marwick
|editor1-first=A
|editor2-last=Simpson
|editor2-first=W
|publisher=Milton Keynes, The Open University
|location=
|pages=79–82
|isbn=0-7492-8559-1
}}

The template, though not properly formatted itself, produces a correctly formatted citation that looks like this:

Hitler, Adolph (2000). Marwick, A; Simpson, W (eds.). "War Propaganda". Primary Sources 2: Interwar and World War II. Milton Keynes, The Open University. pp. 79–82. ISBN 0-7492-8559-1. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)

Enter RjwilmsiBot which changes the cite web line to cite book which gives this improperly formatted result:

Hitler, Adolph (2000). Marwick, A; Simpson, W (eds.). War Propaganda. Milton Keynes, The Open University. pp. 79–82. ISBN 0-7492-8559-1. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

I was the editor that created the original cite web (with the plea that someone who knew better should fix the citation so that cite book gave the proper results). Since that edit, I have learned how to make the cite book template produce the correctly formatted citation. The article has been fixed.

A bot cannot think, nor can it read. A bot should not modify the Cite xxx line of a citation family template if it does not fully recognize all of the text between the opening {{ and the first pipe character. A bot should never delete text enclosed within html comment markup.

--Trappist the monk (talk) 16:27, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for reporting this to me. I'll change the logic to not convert cite web to cite book when cite web has an ISBN, though as you've worked out, cite book is needed to get book cites right. Thanks Rjwilmsi 16:40, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
Somehow that doesn't seem to me to be the correct solution to this rather unique, and I suspect, somewhat rare issue. In this unique case, the text between the opening {{ and the first pipe character is not a Cite xxx template identifier. Part of it is, but there is extra stuff there that your bot won't recognize. The bot can't know what that text means to human editors so when these kinds of cases are encountered, it is best that the bot do nothing except to perhaps flag the template as peculiar or malformed so that a human editor can know that there is a possible issue and deal with that issue.
—Trappist the monk (talk) 12:28, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

Erroneous bot edit

In this edit, your bot added a title of "Search" for two links. I'm not sure where the bot even got that, but at any rate it seems titles like "Search", "Search results", and other generic titles should be blacklisted in some manner. Anomie⚔ 02:15, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, problem now fixed. Rjwilmsi 07:06, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Another erroneous bot edit

In this edit, the author's name got messed up. Seems to be Simon King, not A. Week. --Sarabseth (talk) 12:47, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

...and it doesn't populate the |newspaper= parameter either. GoingBatty (talk) 13:53, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
Both are now fixed. Thanks Rjwilmsi 17:02, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

CiteCompletion request

Hi Rjwilmsi! Could you please run CiteCompletion against Rumors, Hit-Girl, Batman & Robin (film), Bane (comics), and Orange (telecommunications)? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 19:25, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Wikify and AWB

I'm fairly disappointed in the difficulty at getting Wikify feature requests through with AWB. One request that hasn't been looked at since it was made in August 2011 is Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature requests#Request to change rules to add/remove Wikify tag. In this specific instance, I am referring to point number 2. "Per Template talk:Wikify#Parameter addition, once the parameter is added to the template, do not remove the wikify template if the parameter is populated". In fact, it would be preferable if AWB didn't remove the Wikify tag at all since {{Wikify}} is about much more than wikilinks and AWB is not intelligent enough to recognize other issues. The reason I am making this statement is that I was using AWB and recently came upon an unconstructive Wikify tag removal. I didn't make the edit, but did upload it to File:Wikify tag removal by Auto Wiki Browser.png. I understand that AWB is only semi-automated, but the potential for mistakes, especially related to something like {{Wikify}}, which most editors don't understand in its entirety, is high. It would be great if that modification could be changed, and even better if you or some other AWB dev's could work with some editors at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Wikify to figure some things out. If you are unable to make this change, could you point me to some other AWB developers I can contact? Ryan Vesey Review me! 01:34, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

Since I was able to duplicate the issue, I created a bug report. (Note that I made the feature request before the |reason= parameter was implemented.) Hope this helps! GoingBatty (talk) 02:23, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
Ryan I share your frustration in these matters. Reedy the lead AWB developer is now a WMF employee so kindly maintains the login/API/security side of AWB, but doesn't have time for genfix changes. Some other developers retired. Other contributors/supporters of AWB such as Magioladitis, GoingBatty and others are very helpful in AWB in supporting user queries, reporting bugs and updating documentation, but aren't really coders. So these things largely fall to me, and I've a full time real life job and my own objectives for wiki editing and bot tasks as well as AWB coding. Now, I'll sort out this specific bug, but I'm very short of time for working on additional AWB features. Rjwilmsi 08:56, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rjwilmsi! All the work you do on AWB is greatly appreciated! However, I'm concerned that having only one coder is not a sustainable solution, especially while the community keeps changing how the templates should be used (e.g. {{wikify}}, {{dead end}}, the upcoming replacement to {{multiple issues}}). If you're interested in doing a little teaching, I'd be interested in getting more involved to help with fixing the smaller issues, which could leave you more time for tackling bigger issues.
Do you have any suggestions on how to get more coders involved? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 23:42, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
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