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BracketBot – Sardanaphalus
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Comment/question: Could BracketBot insert an extra newline before the heading of the message it adds to a user's talkpage, please?
Thank you for a useful aid.
Sardanaphalus (talk) 10:08, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
ReferenceBot – SusunW
Page: American Indian boarding schools Diff: The ISBN I used from the book was 978-0-8061-1458-4 https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=HiP-sWiqYL4C&lpg=PP1&pg=PR4#v=onepage&q&f=false which matches what is printed. I checked in ISBN search and it comes up negative, so I searched Amazon and found a different ISBN http://www.amazon.com/Oklahoma-History-Centuries-Arrell-Gibson/dp/0806117583 which cleared the page error Comment/question: Don't know if reference will be used again, but the printed reference in the book is what I originally input. Is there a way to program Wikipedia to point the 978-0-8061-1458-4 to the correct number 978-0806117584 if someone inputs it, like I did, from the Google site? SusunW (talk) 01:04, 31 January 2015 (UTC) SusunW (talk) 01:04, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
- @SusunW: So the book misprinted its own ISBN? While technically it might be possible to add a list of ISBN "redirects", I rather doubt it's common enough an occurrence to justify the huge effort, which would probably include significant changes to the Mediawiki software, not just to templates or other user-designed content. (Out of curiosity, did you check a physical copy of the book, or did you rely on Google Books' digitalization? My trust in the accuracy of scanning was recently shaken, and I'm not sure I'd consider a pattern matching error during digitalization less likely than a misprint in the physical book.) Anyway, I'll leave a note at Wikipedia talk:ISBN, but I don't really expect any positive results.
- A930913, what I'm much more concerned about is that apparently the edit that caused the ISBN error was [1] while SusunW was notified about the earlier diff [2]. Huon (talk) 13:42, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
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- Thanks anyway. At least we got the right one on the file. I would never have known it was printed wrong in the book. And no, I have no access actual to English language books here in Mexico, only web versions. SusunW (talk) 15:46, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
- I think we've come across about 3 or 4 books with a misprint in their own ISBN. It may be worth inserting an HTML comment to stop people "fixing" these, and I suppose we could also add it to AWB's list of typos -but people over there were getting a bit squiffy over the size of some of the replacement tables (for no good reason that I could see). All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:28, 3 April 2015 (UTC).
- I think we've come across about 3 or 4 books with a misprint in their own ISBN. It may be worth inserting an HTML comment to stop people "fixing" these, and I suppose we could also add it to AWB's list of typos -but people over there were getting a bit squiffy over the size of some of the replacement tables (for no good reason that I could see). All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:28, 3 April 2015 (UTC).
- Thanks anyway. At least we got the right one on the file. I would never have known it was printed wrong in the book. And no, I have no access actual to English language books here in Mexico, only web versions. SusunW (talk) 15:46, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
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- I fixed about five thousand ISBN errors in the past year or so, and I found ten or twenty instances of invalid ISBNs printed in sources. In some cases, where the invalid ISBN actually worked as a link to worldcat.org, I inserted an HTML comment in the citation and used a parameter to suppress the error message (since the point of the linked ISBN is the help the reader locate the source, and that function was actually working). In other cases, I replaced the ISBN with an OCLC or other identifier that leads to the book. – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:11, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
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ReferenceBot – Cordless Larry
Page: Classification of ethnicity in the United Kingdom
Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=650658688
Comment/question: I can't see a URL error in that reference - there's not a URL field used as it's a book. There was a URL error in this edit though, so perhaps you meant that one?
Cordless Larry (talk) 08:39, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
- Cordless Larry: ReferenceBot should have told you that you introduced an "unsupported parameter" error by adding the parameter
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. It looks like ReferenceBot made a slight mistake. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:26, 10 March 2015 (UTC)- Ah, thanks Jonesey95. My bad. Cordless Larry (talk) 14:34, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
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Apology
Sorry for my 2nd time syntax breaking Dongar Kathorekar (talk) 12:57, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
Sorry about that syntax error. I was editing the references in my sandbox (because I wrote that section) and I probably accidentally deleted it. Dunkleosteus77 (talk) 19:32, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
BracketBot – Slyten674
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Slyten674 (talk) 08:26, 27 May 2015 (UTC) Slyten674 Thanks for checking my mistake
BracketBot – Collier09
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Collier09 (talk) 18:25, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up, appreciated. Fixed it.