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This page is for tasks that involve changing the same code in multiple articles. This is a great fit for editors with AutoWikiBrowser permissions.
Please note that Wikipedia:Bot requests sometimes has one-time tasks which can be done easily using AWB.
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Good Time
[[Good Time (album)|Good Time]] -> [[Good Time (Alan Jackson album)|Good Time (Alan Jackson album)]]. Cleanup after page move. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 22:47, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
- Mostly Done. ― Qwerfjkltalk 19:17, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
- @TenPoundHammer, @Qwerfjkl: I fixed the link on File:GoodTimeJackson.jpg. GoingBatty (talk) 02:17, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
Counterterrorism categories
Please could someone tag these categories for speedy renaming? (not including Category:Counter-terrorism policy of the United States which is a redirect)
The renaming is to remove hyphens from these category titles (to match the main article Counterterrorism). 1857a (talk) 00:34, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
- Doing... 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him | talk) 03:29, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
- Done, some have duplicat tags but that’ll be fixed by the bot (I hope…) 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him | talk) 04:36, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
John Berry
[[John Berry (singer)|John Berry]] -> [[John Berry (country singer)|John Berry]] Seems piped links were not cleaned up when the page was moved. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 03:52, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
- @TenPoundHammer, Done ― Qwerfjkltalk 16:03, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
Find & replace: HarperColins Publisher –≥ HarperCollins Publishers. Link to 851 articles with this error. It comes up so often because this source is often copy and pasted through articles. Searching by Category:Mexican male professional wrestlers, Category:Mexican female professional wrestlers and Category:Masked wrestlers will probably isolate most of them. EstrellaSuecia (talk) 13:42, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
- That could also make a good addition to /Typos. Certes (talk) 13:48, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Certes Added "HarperCollins" and "HarperCollins Publishers" to WP:AWB/Typos. GoingBatty (talk) 13:57, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Certes Fixed all the typos that AWB would fix. GoingBatty (talk) 23:52, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Certes Added "HarperCollins" and "HarperCollins Publishers" to WP:AWB/Typos. GoingBatty (talk) 13:57, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
- Doing... Hey man im josh (talk) 13:56, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
- Done for the categories mentioned, that lead to 541 total edits. I'm now working on other wrestling categories which I'm finding from the pages that still remain in your search link. Hey man im josh (talk) 15:05, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
- Done 197 more with AWB (finished) Qwerfjkltalk 15:51, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
Po' Folks
[[Po' Folks]] -> [[Po' Folks (Nappy Roots song)|Po' Folks]] Cleanup links to dab page Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 20:39, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
- @TenPoundHammer, Done ― Qwerfjkltalk 21:01, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
Infobox music genre colors
The bgcolor
parameter of {{Infobox music genre}} has been deprecated per consensus at WP Music, and can be automatically removed from all instances of this template. There are about 900 transclusions that still have the bgcolor
parameter. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 23:21, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Xaosflux: I believe you operate a bot for this? ― Qwerfjkltalk 11:23, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Qwerfjkl that's not something I would normally do with User:Fluxbot. — xaosflux Talk 11:47, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
- Doing... Hey man im josh (talk) 17:38, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- Done. I created a list from pages which linked to the template and then removed it. I did a second pass through of the list just in case, which was a good idea, because I found several instances where the template was used more than once on a page. Hopefully someone can update this link soon just so that I can be sure I caught it all. Hey man im josh (talk) 19:15, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Hey man im josh, The parameter has been removed from the list of known parameters and all remaining uses are listed here now: Category:Pages using infobox music genre with unknown parameters Solidest (talk) 12:57, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
- Oh that's fantastic. I'll start chipping away at that shortly. Hey man im josh (talk) 13:03, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Hey man im josh, Could you also please write regex to remove empty parameters as well while you're removing bgcolor? :) As I've asked to enable empty invalid parameters tracking as well so that would helpful. Solidest (talk) 13:15, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
- To be quite honest, I'm not far enough in with AWB to know how to properly do that. I would also argue against removing empty parameters so as to encourage others to fill them in. Many editors aren't aware of all the parameters that each infobox may have. Hey man im josh (talk) 13:17, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
- Well, as for the benefits – that's debatable. They are not forbidden, but in general their usefulness is questionable. We even have tracking categories for blank parameters: Category:Pages using infobox event with blank parameters. And many of these parameters will never be filled anyway for 98% of infoboxes (current year portal / subgenreslist / footnotes), so I usually delete them when I edit infoboxes. (And those who don't know about all the parameters would rather use the visual editor, which shows all the existing ones and corrects formatting errors. And those who edit code are more likely to find a complete list of them) Anyway, I ran AWB from A to C myself with removing them, but you took the initiative further, so it's too late to argue anyway :) Solidest (talk) 13:33, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
- Definitely debatable, as you said. I can see where you're coming from in your stance, and both sides of it, except for 1 point you mentioned regarding the visual editor. I do not use the visual editor and I'd say at least two thirds of my edits are related to the NFL, and at least half may be related to updating the NFL infobox parameters on articles. I still don't know every parameter but I do make the effort to fill blank ones in that I find when I do see them while editing.
- As you mentioned there's a maintenance category for the empty parameters, so you can still remove them if you'd like to. It's just not something I'd prefer to do for the reasons I mentioned. Hey man im josh (talk) 13:53, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
- Done, the whole category is cleared out now. Hey man im josh (talk) 14:46, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
- Well, as for the benefits – that's debatable. They are not forbidden, but in general their usefulness is questionable. We even have tracking categories for blank parameters: Category:Pages using infobox event with blank parameters. And many of these parameters will never be filled anyway for 98% of infoboxes (current year portal / subgenreslist / footnotes), so I usually delete them when I edit infoboxes. (And those who don't know about all the parameters would rather use the visual editor, which shows all the existing ones and corrects formatting errors. And those who edit code are more likely to find a complete list of them) Anyway, I ran AWB from A to C myself with removing them, but you took the initiative further, so it's too late to argue anyway :) Solidest (talk) 13:33, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
- To be quite honest, I'm not far enough in with AWB to know how to properly do that. I would also argue against removing empty parameters so as to encourage others to fill them in. Many editors aren't aware of all the parameters that each infobox may have. Hey man im josh (talk) 13:17, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Hey man im josh, Could you also please write regex to remove empty parameters as well while you're removing bgcolor? :) As I've asked to enable empty invalid parameters tracking as well so that would helpful. Solidest (talk) 13:15, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
- Oh that's fantastic. I'll start chipping away at that shortly. Hey man im josh (talk) 13:03, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Hey man im josh, The parameter has been removed from the list of known parameters and all remaining uses are listed here now: Category:Pages using infobox music genre with unknown parameters Solidest (talk) 12:57, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
- Done. I created a list from pages which linked to the template and then removed it. I did a second pass through of the list just in case, which was a good idea, because I found several instances where the template was used more than once on a page. Hopefully someone can update this link soon just so that I can be sure I caught it all. Hey man im josh (talk) 19:15, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
CARNet -> CARNET
CARNet -> CARNET. Cleanup after page move, please and thank you. Somers-all-the-time (talk) 22:21, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Somers-all-the-time - I think the first step would be to edit the CARNET article to change each instance of "CARNet" to "CARNET". I just tried doing that and encountered an edit conflict. GoingBatty (talk) 22:27, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- Hi, I think I got all of relevant ones with this edit. Granted, if you search for CARNet in the article, there are a few left in filenames of images. Somers-all-the-time (talk) 23:17, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Somers-all-the-time - Done! GoingBatty (talk) 00:12, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
2016 Australian census
- [[Census in Australia#2016|2016 census]] -> [[2016 Australian census|2016 census]]
- [[Census in Australia#2016|2016 Census]] -> [[2016 Australian census|2016 census]]
- [[Census in Australia#2016|2016]] -> [[2016 Australian census|2016]]
- [[census in Australia#2016|2016 census]] -> [[2016 Australian census|2016 census]]
Link to the more specific article instead of a section of the general article. I started fixing these by hand but there are too many of them. —Mx. Granger (talk · contribs) 07:07, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
- 1540. Happy to chip away. Neils51 (talk) 21:24, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
- I will get to work on that as well, not sure whether I will finish it all, but I will try. | Zippybonzo | Talk | 12:18, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
- Although I think that most of it has been done or I am just really incompetent when it comes to using AWB. | Zippybonzo | Talk | 12:22, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
- Still ~1k left. 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him | talk) 00:13, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
- Although I think that most of it has been done or I am just really incompetent when it comes to using AWB. | Zippybonzo | Talk | 12:22, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
- I will get to work on that as well, not sure whether I will finish it all, but I will try. | Zippybonzo | Talk | 12:18, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
Tribute to Tradition
Tribute to Tradition and A Tribute to Tradition -> [[A Tribute to Tradition]] Introduce wikilinks now that the album has an article. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 23:47, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
- Doing... 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him | talk) 00:12, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
- Done. Sorry EpicPupper, I started this one and forgot to use the Doing... tag. I avoided wikilinking these when they showed up in a cite template. Ended up wikilinking about 20. TenPoundHammer, you may want to spot check and see if we missed any edge cases. For example, if it had weird capitalization. –Novem Linguae (talk) 00:17, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
- Done on my end too :) Managed to make 1 edit. Cheers! 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him | talk) 00:18, 6 June 2022 (UTC)