User:TheJJJunk/Automatic Referencing Assistant
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A Remote implementation of ARA is currently being developed and initially tested.
Overview
[edit ]The Automatic Referencing Assistant (ARA) is a script which aids users in correcting referencing errors. It notifies the user when the article being edited is missing the {{Reflist}} template, has invalid or broken <ref></ref> tags, or is missing the "Name" parameter in the Persondata template. Clicking a fix link will automatically add the necessary template or information to the correct location in the article.
For a written history of the script, see here.
Usage
[edit ]To use this script:
- Place in your common.js. If the script doesn't work immediately, Bypass your cache.
importScript('User:TheJJJunk/ARA.js');// [[User:TheJJJunk/Automatic Referencing Assistant]]
- Add your name to the list of users.
List of functions
[edit ]| Function | Status | Description | Activity |
|---|---|---|---|
| missing {{Reflist}} | Approved | Adds the {{Reflist}} template to the article if citations are present.
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-Active |
| Missing {{Notelist}} | Approved | Adds the {{Notelist}} template to the article if notes ({{efn}}) are present.
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-Active |
| inapplicable tag | Approved | Removes {{unreferenced}} and {{no footnotes}} tags if <ref> tags present.[a]
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-Active |
| missing reference groups | Approved | Adds the {{Reflist|group}} template to the article if citations using the |group= parameter are present.
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-Active |
| unnecessary reference groups | Approved | Removes the |group= parameter from citations that have an improper group listed.
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-Active |
| extra whitespace in citation | Approved | Removes extra whitespace from citations. | -Active |
| URL containing space(s) | Approved | Replaces spaces in the URL parameter with %20 (the URL-encoded representation of a space).
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-Active |
| URL ending with a period | Approved | Removes trailing periods in the URL parameter. | -Active |
| invalid ref position | Approved | Fixes spacing before <ref> tags and periods (.) after </ref> tags.
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-Active |
| Invalid <ref></ref> tags | Approved | If citations using <ref></ref> tags are listed below the {{Reflist}} template, removes the <ref></ref> tags.
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-Active |
| broken <ref></ref> tags | Approved | Fixes malformed <ref></ref> tags (./ref>, ,/ref>, or </ref).
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-Active |
| broken {{Reflist}} | Approved | Fixes a malformed {{Reflist}} template. Examples: {{reflist)), {{relist}}, {{Reflist|2}.
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-Active |
references on Portal: Pages
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Approved | Per Wikipedia Talk:Portal guidelines#References in portals, Portal pages should not include references. | -Active |
{{Reflist}} on Portal: Pages
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Approved | Per Wikipedia Talk:Portal guidelines#References in portals, Portal pages should not include {{Reflist }} templates. | -Active |
| URL scheme error | Approved | Adds http:// onto invalid URLs in citations.
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-Active |
| URL scheme error (Capital) | Approved | Adds http:// onto invalid URLs in citations that begin with a capital letter (These are most likely not actually URLs).
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-Active |
| empty citations | Approved | Removes empty citations ("<ref></ref>") from the article.
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-Active |
| empty Persondata template | Approved | Adds the parameters to {{Persondata}} templates located on the page.
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-Active |
| missing Name in Persondata | Approved | Adds the |NAME= parameter to the article's PERSONDATA.
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-Active |
| accessdate without URL | Withdrawn by operator | Removes the |accessdate= paramater from citations lacking the url= parameter.
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-Inactive |
| citation type | Withdrawn by operator | Replaces {{cite web}} with {{citation}} if the citation lacks the title= parameter.
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-Inactive |
| coauthors without author | Withdrawn by operator | Replaces the |coauthor= paramater with |author= if the citation lacks the last= and author= parameters.
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-Inactive |
| heading style | Withdrawn by operator | Removes spaces in headings (== Heading == → ==Heading==).
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-Inactive |
Report errors, comments, and suggestions
[edit ]To report an error with this script, to comment on it, or to suggest new functions, leave a message on my talk page or the script talk page.
Notes
[edit ]- ^ Only textual notes could be present using the <ref> tags, meaning that the article could still be unreferenced.