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Bulk U1 delete

I created User:Nyttend/ZIP for a project that's now complete. It has fifty-one subpages, and I'd like to get all fifty-two deleted. Could you help?

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Top level • AL • AK • AZ • AR • CA • CO • CT • DE • FL • GA • HI • ID • IL • IN • IA • KS • KY • LA • ME • MD • MA • MI • MN • MS • MO • MT • NE • NV • NH • NJ • NM • NY • NC • ND • OH • OK • OR • PA • RI • SC • SD • TN • TX • UT • VT • VA • WA • WV • WI • WY • archive box

Thanks! Nyttend (talk) 21:51, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Sadly AWB even for admins does not have the delete ability, can you use Special:Nuke or do you want us to just place the U1 tag? Geardona (talk to me?) 21:58, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, I thought AWB deletion was an option. Don't worry about it. Nyttend (talk) 22:07, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

This is probably moot now, but the 'delete' button mentioned under WP:AWB/UM#View & in WP:JWB#Deleting made me think that deleting pages in AWB/JWB was possible for admins. All the best, ‍—‍a smart kitten_[meow] 07:03, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Yes, it is possible. – DreamRimmer (talk) 07:14, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Really? Huh I never saw that part. Thanks and sorry! Geardona (talk to me?) 10:25, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

No problem, let me know if you need anything else! Sorry I couldn't help! Geardona (talk to me?) 22:10, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Twinkle has a d-batch option; I'll take care of it in a mo'. Primefac (talk) 11:30, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

Bulk link change

Can all links to The Boy Is Mine (song) (which is a redirect due to a RM I closed) be changed to The Boy Is Mine (Brandy and Monica song), so that the original can be redirected to the DAB page The Boy Is Mine? Thanks Anguswiki (talk) 19:46, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

Working: building regex now, expect completion of the task in about an hour. Geardona (talk to me?) 23:21, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

Done with content namespaces, I left the talk pages be. Geardona (talk to me?) 00:28, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

@Geardona Can you lend me the regex that you used for this task? Maybe place it on your user subpage, I've been a bit lazy lately, lol. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 08:10, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Done on my new little AWB log User:Geardona/AWB log Geardona (talk to me?) 10:47, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Oh, thank you so much! Vanderwaalforces (talk) 10:22, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

Tag templates for TfD

Please could someone tag the templates listed at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2024 April 29#WIR wrapper templates with {{subst:tfd|heading=WIR wrapper templates}}? Thanks — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:44, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

@MSGJ, Doing. – DreamRimmer (talk) 11:46, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

@MSGJ, done – DreamRimmer (talk) 12:47, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:39, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Null edit everything in Category:Templates using CatAutoTOC

Would someone with TPE/the mop be able to null edit (i.e. save without making any changes whatsoever) the 43 templates in Category:Templates using CatAutoTOC? It has been sitting in Category:Wikipedia non-empty soft redirected categories for ~24 hours without decreasing at all. The job queue should be naturally emptying the category, but given it has not decreased at all I suspect something might be have gone wrong. A null edit will automatically force the page to recache itself, and move it from Category:Templates using CatAutoTOC to Category:Templates using Automatic category TOC. House Blaster (talk · he/him) 03:24, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Done. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:54, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Google garbage added to URLs

Weird URLs. Garbage characters need to be removed from URLs. They are in 348 pages. I think this could be a regex search-replace. -- GreenC 02:52, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

I'll see if I can write something to get this done when I get home. Rusty4321 ^{talk contribs} 18:04, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Writing regexes now. Rusty4321 ^{talk contribs} 00:05, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Doing... - fixing cdn.ampproject.org URLs... Still working on the regexes. They could use some more work. Rusty4321 ^{talk contribs} 00:18, 17 May 2024 (UTC) (Edited Rusty4321 ^{talk contribs} 00:25, 17 May 2024 (UTC))

Wikilink all instances of both Champion Data and AFL Tables

I have recently created stub articles for both Champion Data and AFL Tables, which are major statistical players in the Australian Football League and have been referenced consistently across Wikipedia.

I am now please seeking an automation to add wikilinks to all instances of each phrase on Wikipedia.

There are 58 instances of Champion Data that require wikilinking
There 13,839 instances of AFL Tables that require wikilinking

I understand the second request is quite arduous! I hope there is not much human intervention required here; it shouldn't be the case as they are mostly part of citations / references. Please let me know if there is anything else required on my end. Thank you! Gibbsy^spin 13:37, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

I think that, to avoid CONTEXTBOT issues, the approach here is to only touch instances in citations, where afltables.com is present elsewhere within the ref tags. Probably could be done with an AWB bot. Would need a BRfA. Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 15:04, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

The AFL Tables article is two days old and already has a WP:GNG tag. Linking it 13,000 times should probably wait until it's avoided deletion for a couple of months. Aspirex (talk) 13:17, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

The AFL Tables article has now been userfied with a view to merging into an as yet unwritten article about AFL analytics. The current request related to AFL Tables should go on hold. We will revisit in the future with a request to wikilink all instances of AFL Tables to a section or anchor within that future article. Aspirex (talk) 11:59, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Error in Women in Red newsletter

Hello friends, as per this kind message from @Jonesey95, an error crept in the most recent Women in Red newsletter, see this diff. Would someone be able to fix it. I'm aware there have been a couple more of these syntax errors over the past year or so. I'm going install the Syntax highlighter myself, and encourage other team members who write the invitations to do so too. Many thanks to the AWB cm=ommunity for your help! Lajmmoore (talk) 07:18, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

I could fix this super easily, although it really shouldn’t be done by anyone without a bot flag. (It would trigger notifications) (just use this no regex needed '''''[[Find a Grave]]'''-> '''[[Find a Grave]]''' ) Geardona (talk to me?) 11:06, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Looks like around 1400 pages affected in user talk space. Lajmmoore, if you know of other specific Signpost issues list them here and I'll see about getting a BRFA filed. Primefac (talk) 11:54, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

There is this one also, from November 2023. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:17, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

BRFA running. Might miss a few pages but the bulk should get sorted. Primefac (talk) 13:39, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Add references to a list-defined references section

In the articles List of nearest giant stars and list of nearest supergiants, i suggest moving all references to a list-defined references section, in order to avoid cluttering the text and make the article better to edit with source editor. InTheAstronomy32 (talk) 19:12, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

@InTheAstronomy32: Have you gained consensus for it on the talk pages yet? Rusty4321 ^{talk contribs} 22:12, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

No, but i am the page creator and this change will have no difference for readers. InTheAstronomy32 (talk) 22:16, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

This sounds more like a task to be done by hand, only two articles need editing if I understand?@InTheAstronomy32 Geardona (talk to me?) 00:48, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

@Geardona: Over 75 references in each article. Doesn't necessarily need AWB though.

For anyone interested, here's a general idea of I think how this would go:

Match a named reference. (process it so that you get two variables, the reference name and the ref body.)
Replace the match with a named reference invocation. (is that what it is called?)
Append the reference to the reflist.

Rusty4321 ^{talk contribs} 01:33, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Having done this on a similar article and a half-dozen others, I can say that the easiest way to do it is just cut/paste the references into a text document (leaving behind the named ref tag itself) and then copy/paste the final list back into the article. I don't think AWB will make it any easier, and you'll spend more time coding it than just doing it by hand. Primefac (talk) 11:41, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Requesting Tag for other categories

I've tagged a category for deletion at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2024_June_4#Category:Crime_action_films. I would like all of its sub-categories also nominated for the same reason (I've listed them at the discussion request). I was suggested to come here to get that done and so they point to the above discussion so we don't have dozens of scattered requests. Is that possible? Andrzejbanas (talk) 12:10, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Doing – DreamRimmer (talk) 12:16, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

DreamRimmer, apologies for treading on your toes, but would you mind if I could test my script for this (User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/massXFD.js)? — Qwerfjkl talk 12:38, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Sure, no problem. I only did two; you can do the rest. – DreamRimmer (talk) 12:40, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

DreamRimmer, thanks. Luckily no bugs.

Done, tagged 38 (remaining) categories and notified 7 users. — Qwerfjkl talk 12:46, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, I checked the edits. Looks great! Thanks for this script. – DreamRimmer (talk) 12:49, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Request for syntax error fix on recent WP:GOCE mass message

This is a request to apply this syntax error fix to the User Talk pages listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Mailing List. We at the Guild of Copy Editors mistakenly sent out a mass message with four unbalanced bold tags to 760 pages. Thanks to anyone who can take it on. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:23, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

I can take a look at this when I get home from school. Rusty4321 ^{talk contribs} 19:49, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. This might also be a good task for a bot. Maybe Primefac if they have time. There are more mass messages out there like this. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:20, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, I filed a BRFA a few hours ago, but it hasn't received a response yet. I have pywikibot basically ready to go. Rusty4321 ^{talk contribs} 01:26, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

BRFA is not a fast process. Primefac (talk) 10:46, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

@Primefac: Sorry for the misunderstanding; I didn't mean to say it was a fast process, but just wanted to say that I hadn't received a BAG response on my BRFA. Rusty4321 ^{talk contribs} 16:43, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Tagging of many quality and importance categories that are improperly categorized

Please add the correct header to all pages in Category:WikiProject assessment categories needing attention that have properly formed names and whose only content is a manual inclusion to that category. Compare Category:FA-Class Andhra Pradesh articles, Category:Mid-importance Andhra Pradesh articles, and Category:FA-Class Andhra Pradesh articles of Mid-importance. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 23:39, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

Mass CfD/S listing

Please tag the following 44 pages I've mass-listed at WP:CFDS:

–LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 23:51, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

What is it you want them tagged with? There appear to be multiple criteria for requesting a rename, and you haven't specified one. Van Isaac, GHTV^cont_WpWS 01:10, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

They all use the same {{subst:cfds}} tag. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 20:03, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

The rename rationale is already on CFDS per C2C. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 20:07, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

LaundryPizza03, you could use User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/massCFDS. — Qwerfjkl talk 12:21, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

That would be a useful script, but I can't do that here because I needed to specify "NOBOTS". Implementation requires the closer to edit a template. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 20:06, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

LaundryPizza03, well, you could always just edit it afterwards. — Qwerfjkl talk 20:29, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

use of "a oceanic" in some climate sections of articles

Recently I have noticed that many articles about places mistakenly use "a oceanic climate" instead of "an oceanic climate" when referring to an areas Köppen climate classification within their climate sections. I think this happens most frequently with french places, but that could just be since they are more like to have an oceanic climate. some examples of pages with this issue include Colombes, Saint-Maurice-aux-Forges, and Palaminy. When searching for the phrase "a oceanic" I get 240 or so results (however some of those might not be from the same issue). Gaismagorm (talk) 16:37, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

actually, withdrawn, I got this Gaismagorm (talk) 16:46, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

WikiProject Weather

I'm requesting someone with AWB experience to run the editor on the entirety of Category:WikiProject Weather articles. There are countless (thousands?) of references that use {{cite report}} with the |agency= parameter, which breaks the citation. |agency= needs to changed to |author=. wxtrackercody (talk · contributions) 03:20, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

It looks like many of these "agency" parameters are used with "cite report" template calls, and that "publisher" may be a better alternative parameter name than "author" in such cases, unless already used. The "agency" parameter is valid with other templates such as "cite news". —ADavidB 04:59, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, and in our circumstance, publisher is already used. Here is an example of the types of citations that are causing this issue. This is a report on an individual tornado. The data is collected by the local National Weather Service office (which we have historically/erroneously listed as the agency=). It is published, however, on the National Centers for Environmental Information website (which we have historically listed as the publisher=). We have struggled with the proper way to format these references. It would probably be simplest to just exchange agency= for author=. wxtrackercody (talk · contributions) 05:48, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

Agreed, on further examination. My AWB usage remains somewhat basic and I encourage others to take on this task. —ADavidB 05:56, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

I don't think awb request or a sledge hammerapproach is appropriate here at this time. Imstead i think it would be more appropiate to look at theae references properly, have a project discussion on how to cite them better or get the agency parameter added to cite report.06:30, 21 April 2024 (UTC) Jason Rees (talk) 06:30, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

I disagree with Jason Rees (talk · contribs). I think this is a great usage of AWB, as it will correct the thousands of references in one quick action. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 21:19, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

I endorse the request here, though I would clarify the scope of what's requested. Specifically, there is widespread use of {{cite report}} misusing the |agency= parameter specifically for references linking to the Storm Events Database hosted by the National Centers for Environmental Information. In some cases, NCEI is erroneously listed as the agency. In other cases, a weather forecast office of the National Weather Service is erroneously listed as the agency. In either case, the agency parameter should be removed for all {{cite report}} in the aforementioned project category that point to https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/stormevents/ and its subpages (as linked previously). If the |agency= was listed as a forecast office (something of the form National Weather Service Office in Memphis, Tennessee, though National Weather Service* may be a reasonable catch-all), then it should be listed as the |author=. If necessary, |publisher=National Centers for Environmental Information should be amended/appended to the citation template. TheAustinMan^{(Talk ⬩ Edits)} 15:04, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Bumping this discussion since we are still looking for someone to fulfill this request. There are thousands of broken references currently scattered across the WikiProject, so we would greatly appreciate swift assistance if anyone is available. wxtrackercody (talk · contributions) 06:18, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

I was hesitant to take on another reference task, if you are still looking for someone in a day or two I can get to it. Geardona (talk to me?) 11:10, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Seeing as no-one else has taken this on, consider me

Working. Geardona (talk to me?) 01:50, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, I am struggling to fully understand the request, I have looked through the category randomly, and haven't found anything really sounding like what you are describing. Is it possible for one of you to manually make an example edit? Geardona (talk to me?) 00:43, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

@Geardona: The vast majority of broken references will be on tornado list pages, but they're scattered all throughout the category. The May 2019 list (and all list pages like that) are a great example of the issue we're facing. In all of these references, the local NWS office is listed as the agency. Since that is the wrong parameter to be using/because agency= is deprecated in the cite report template, agency= needs to be changed to author= in all cases where a local NWS office is listed. Please refer to TheAustinMan's comment for how this applies more broadly. wxtrackercody (talk · contributions) 01:43, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

There are 325 pages using the {{cite report}} template with agency parameter that need fixing. I can do it, but since Geardona is up for the task, I'm leaving it to them. Geardona, could you please find instances of {{cite report|agency= in these pages and replace them with {{cite report|author=. There may be more pages that use the cite report template with agency parameter. We can find and fix them once these 325 pages are fixed.Thank you. – DreamRimmer (talk) 13:06, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

@Wxtrackercody, I made an example edit here. Could you please check it? – DreamRimmer (talk) 13:15, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

@DreamRimmer: This is exactly what we are looking for. :) wxtrackercody (talk · contributions) 19:56, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

I read the documentation for the Storm Data website, which is published by NOAA. The documentation is here. Storm Data aggregate information from many sources, including first person, media, WFOs etc.. they then re-publish the aggregate results in Storm Data. As such, the author is technically Storm Data, but this is also the |work=, so there would be no author listed. Normally on Wikipedia we only list the author to help readers find and verify a citation. Since the citation is to Storm Data, that is all that is needed ie. |work=Storm Data. Everything else is extraneous and not what the citation system was mean to do. It looks like trying to re-create sub-elements of the Storm Data database within the CS1|2 system. Another way to say this, it is citing two sources in a single citation: the Storm Data citation, and also citing the WFO and/or whatever other sources used by Storm Data. It's a sign of a problem. -- GreenC 20:33, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

I'm not an expert in referencing. I would just point out that the local NWS offices are responsible for submitting the NCEI entries. Whether the tornado was reported by someone out and about, evident on radar, or found in a damage survey after the fact, the local offices are singularly responsible for confirming the tornadoes and then finalizing them to send over to NCEI for Storm Data. I'm not sure if that changes your point here. wxtrackercody (talk · contributions) 21:42, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

I'm having a hard time understanding the Storm Data report page because there is no apparent unique identifier (for the report). There is a code in the URL id=814712but that could be a website software code that could change. In these cases the URL itself is the key. But that is fragile, because they will in the future abandon this system and make a new one that may not have a 1:1 conversion eg. no redirects. So assuming the current Storm Data site is defunded or changed, they make a new system without redirects - a common scenario for government sites. How would you track down the report at the new site. Going by title only "Kentucky Even Report: EF1 Tornado" is not enough. The citation would probably need to contain the event date at least, to remain verifiable for the long term.

It could look like this:

Event Report: Kentucky: EF1 Tornado: 2019-05-01 05:08 CST-6. Storm Data (Report). Retrieved 2024-06-01.

Depending how many Storm Data links there are it might benefit from a custom template.-- GreenC 01:16, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the response. For now, I'd like the agency= to author= request to be processed simply so we can remedy the thousands of broken references. After that, I will refer the project back to what you said so we can figure out a more suitable way to cite them moving forward. wxtrackercody (talk · contributions) 18:22, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Seeing no objection to this much more limited scope, I will work on this tomorrow. Geardona (talk to me?) 03:16, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

I see that Geardona has not edited for past two weeks, so I am doing it. – DreamRimmer (talk) 13:08, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

Crap, sorry, I forgot about this. Really sorry y’all. Geardona (talk to me?) 21:29, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

Is this not a case where it's easier to change the template to support the parameter, rather than remove it completely? Mdann52 (talk) 17:16, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

About 4,200 pages with WP:CIRCULAR issues

Hi, for those who may be interested, I've posted the list of pages at User:Dawnseeker2000/Sandbox 3. I've been using some borrowed scripts to help keep the list from growing too much, but it's been at the 4,200 level for the last couple of years. This is about articles that have references that refer to Wikipedia articles, and the first four here will remove those references and the fifth one removes the {{Circular reference|date=July 2024}} template, if present.

<ref[^<>]*>[^<>]*\|[ ]*url ?=https?:\/\/\w{2}\.wikipedia\.org\/w[^<>]*<\/ref>
<ref>\s*https?:\/\/\w{2}\.wikipedia\.org\/wiki\/[^\s\]<]*<\/ref>
<ref>\s*\[https?:\/\/\w{2}\.wikipedia\.org\/w[^\s\]]*[ ]+[\w\d][^\]]*\]<\/ref>
<ref(?: name=[^<>]|)>[^<>]*\|\s*url[ ]*=[ ]*https?:\/\/\w{2}\.wikipedia\.org\/w[^\s\|\{\}<]*[^<>]*<\/ref>
\{\{circular ?reference\s*\|date\s*=\s*\w{3,9}\s*\d{4}\}\}

Dawnseeker2000 05:46, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

@Dawnseeker2000 and Neils51: I don't think this is a good place to post a task like this, since it's not exactly suited for "easy" removal, and some may treat it like it is just that simple. Ideally, the circular link is followed, and replaced with an actual ref after doing a bit of reading & confirming. Failing that, the circular refs should be replaced with {{citation needed}} instead, and not just removed (unless there are additional supporting refs). ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 12:16, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks @Tom.Reding:, I thought I would "test the waters" and see what transpired. I don't mind working through these occasionally (probably manually) and placing the {{citation needed}} template. Thanks Dawnseeker, for the list. Neils51 (talk) 12:44, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Might just be me, but a lot of times I see a "reference" which should have been a wikilink instead (e.g. such and such went to Example State University<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example_State_University</ref>) and might actually have a reference further down the way. Primefac (talk) 19:54, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Mass null edits in a maintenance category

All of the member categories Category:Wikipedia non-empty soft redirected categories need to be purged or null-edited to update, as all but one are empty. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 00:54, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

@LaundryPizza03: I ran a null edit script over the lot of them, should all be updated. Mdann52 (talk) 04:58, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

What script, if it was different from AWB/JWB? –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 05:39, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Just a quick PWB script I used. AWB won't neatly do null edits in bot mode so needs spamming the save button in my experience, PWB makes null editing simple. Mdann52 (talk) 19:37, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Eh, if I need a bunch of null edits, I'll go manual on my own AWB account; no point in accidentally having a bot edit if for some reason it decides to actually save a change. Primefac (talk) 20:09, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

For null editing a category, I find User:Ahecht/Scripts/refresh usually does the trick. — Qwerfjkl talk 21:09, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Around 230 misattributed author name parameters to remove

Hi! Can someone with AWB permissions have a quick go through the articles returned by a search for insource:"last Company first Rand McNally"?

These citations appear mostly to support claims of 1925 populations in United States populated places, from Rand McNally's 1925 Premier Atlas of the World etc. The citations do already correctly contain |publisher=Rand McNally & Company, and the source provides no other attribution, so the bogus |last=Company and |first=Rand McNally and parameters can simply be removed.

Thanks in advance, Folly Mox (talk) 13:29, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

@Folly Mox, seems reasonable. I'm

Doing... it. – DreamRimmer (talk) 14:16, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

@Folly Mox, I can see the author parameter when I export this citation, and it also lists Rand McNally and Company as a contributor, so should this really be removed? – DreamRimmer (talk) 14:42, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Attributing authorship to the entire company isn't an unreasonable proposition, although it does feel duplicative to the |publisher= field. If we wanted to retain corporate authorship attribution, then the substitution would be ~~last= Company | first=Rand McNally and~~ author=Rand McNally and Company.

This is something of an editorial choice: I do see people citing sources where the publisher and corporate author are identical. As mentioned, it feels duplicative to me, but it's not an invalid approach. Having said that, google books is not a particularly accurate arbiter of what kind of attribution is necessary for Wikipedia (for example, their edited volumes never attribute chapter authorship in metadata, their periodicals don't have volume and issue information in metadata, etc).

In any regard, thanks for any fix you do perform. This is a lot of articles to go through by hand. Folly Mox (talk) 14:53, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

@Folly Mox

Done – DreamRimmer (talk) 09:23, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! 🙏🏽 Folly Mox (talk) 00:00, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

In the event that this sort of request turns up again, H:CS1 says at Help:Citation Style 1 § Authors:

When using |author= avoid citations like {{cite news |work=Weekday Times |author=''Weekday Times'' editors |title=...}}, unless the article is on a field in which the majority of professional journals covering that field use such a citation style.

I think that H:CS1 can be interpreted to cover cases where |lastn=Company |firstn=Rand McNally or |authorn=Rand McNally & Company unnecessarily duplicate |publisher=Rand McNally & Company.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 13:57, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

Removing Template:midsize from infobox parameters (violation of MOS:SMALLFONT)

When {{small}}, {{midsize}}, and other size-reducing templates are used inside infobox parameter values, it is almost always a violation of MOS:SMALLFONT, an accessibility guideline (exceptions are in enlarged parameters like |title=). I have found that an editor added {{midsize}} to {{Infobox judge}} parameter values in about 350 articles, and to {{infobox officeholder}} parameter values in as many as 960 articles. Is anyone available to tidy these up, like this? The fixes should be limited to infobox parameter values; uses in the body of the article are often acceptable. I expect that there will be another, similar request once those are cleared up and I can see where else {{midsize}} is being used. Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:30, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

No takers? Moving to WP:Bot requests. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:01, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

@Jonesey95 hey I’ll take a look at this in a couple hours. Dr vulpes (Talk) 20:08, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

Consensus: Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo

I kindly ask, in accordance with the consensus recently reached for "e" (here), since there are almost 1,000 results for this group (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?fulltext=1&ns0=1&ns10=1&ns118=1&ns14=1&profile=advanced&search=Aldo%2C+Giovanni+%26+Giacomo&title=Special%3ASearch), to activate a bot for all these results. Thanks in advance. JacktheBrown (talk) 17:31, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

Remove categories from 86 redirects

I seek to depopulate several categories with similar contents, which are almost all redirects with a common format and which sometimes point to synonyms (e.g. Order-3-4 square honeycomb is another name for the cubic honeycomb).

–LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 23:31, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

Done Van Isaac, GHTV^cont_WpWS 07:46, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

Links to Assiniboia (electoral district)

Would someone please be able to retarget all of the existing links to Assiniboia (electoral district) to the article's current title, Assiniboia (federal electoral district)? The title Assiniboia (electoral district) is ambiguous with Assiniboia (provincial electoral district) and there is no primary topic for the former title. Thanks, Graham (talk) 03:43, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

Graham11,

Done. — Qwerfjkl talk 07:35, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

@Qwerfjkl: Thank you for your help! Graham (talk) 17:36, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

Links to Mark Kelly (general)

Would someone please be able to retarget all of the existing links to Mark Kelly (general) to the article's current title, Mark Kelly (Australian general)? The article's former title was ambiguous with Mark D. Kelly. Thanks, Graham (talk) 17:54, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

Doing... Rusty 🐈 14:19, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

@Graham11:

Done. Rusty 🐈 14:21, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

Cleaned up the spare, feel free to check my dab updates. Primefac (talk) 13:21, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

MP start dates

Please change 200+ MP start dates from "5 July 2024" back to "4 July 2024". This has been discussed at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:CarterPD editing against consensus and ignoring talk page messages and User talk:CarterPD.--Laun chba ller 08:00, 12 August 2024 (UTC)

Done before i saw this request. Happy days, ~ Lindsay^Hello 09:09, 12 August 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Birthday Committee/Calendar

Can someone go through all the days and change [[Category:Wikipedia Birthday Committee]] to

{{user other||
[[Category:Wikipedia Birthday Committee]]
}}

Thanks Nobody (talk) 13:00, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

Done. Rusty 🐈 14:34, 13 August 2024 (UTC)