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Fix "Census" over-capitalization
[edit ]We have about 5000 articles with non-piped (visible) links to over-capitalized census redirects such as 2020 United States Census, and lots more with piped links, accounting for the great majority of links listed in the report Wikipedia:Database reports/Linked miscapitalizations. I expect that at least these will be easy to tackle with AWB. Dicklyon (talk) 02:50, 4 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- Can you provide a diff with an example edit fixing this error? Van Isaac, GHTV contr about 08:16, 4 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- Here's one. And here's a diff showing 2 fixes, one piped and one not. Dicklyon (talk) 17:16, 5 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- I've been working on these issues for some time. I have settings files in AWB that target the capitalized versions of our articles for different countries, and there are a lot of them. Dawnseeker2000 17:25, 5 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- Indeed, I see over 22,000 candidates here, and there are lots more. Perhaps best to divide and conquer, as you look pretty fully occupied? And yes I'd be happy to call and chat. Dicklyon (talk) 17:45, 5 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- That'd be great! Dawnseeker2000 20:22, 5 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- I don't think that is a good search parameter for candidates. If I understand the report correctly, it comes from the link part being incorrectly capitalized, not the text. Van Isaac, GHTV contr about 00:30, 7 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- I'm sure better searches are possible, but that simple one does find text, not piped links (which would also be worth finding and fixing). Dicklyon (talk) 00:55, 7 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- My initial concern with overfitting the criterion is identifying a link to "Census", which can occur as the initial word of a sentence. Initiating a correction in that instance would be problematic, and I don't know if there are others as well. Van Isaac, GHTV contr about 02:37, 7 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- Well, yes, that's why we review edits in AWB, isn't it? To catch false positives and write better patterns to avoid them recurring, no? On that particular one, I see a few sentences like "Census day was ...", which seems like a peculiar place to link it, so I'd unlink that and link census somewhere else. Dicklyon (talk) 03:10, 7 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- My initial concern with overfitting the criterion is identifying a link to "Census", which can occur as the initial word of a sentence. Initiating a correction in that instance would be problematic, and I don't know if there are others as well. Van Isaac, GHTV contr about 02:37, 7 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- I'm sure better searches are possible, but that simple one does find text, not piped links (which would also be worth finding and fixing). Dicklyon (talk) 00:55, 7 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- Indeed, I see over 22,000 candidates here, and there are lots more. Perhaps best to divide and conquer, as you look pretty fully occupied? And yes I'd be happy to call and chat. Dicklyon (talk) 17:45, 5 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- I've been working on these issues for some time. I have settings files in AWB that target the capitalized versions of our articles for different countries, and there are a lot of them. Dawnseeker2000 17:25, 5 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- Here's one. And here's a diff showing 2 fixes, one piped and one not. Dicklyon (talk) 17:16, 5 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- Here's another easy batch worth fixing. Dicklyon (talk) 22:34, 8 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- Here's a good search that finds about 7600 to fix. Just replace the search regex therein with 1ドル 2ドル census{{subst:lc:3ドル}}. It's US only, but could easily be modified for other country censuses. And if you're good with regexes you'll probably see ways to improve it. Dicklyon (talk) 23:14, 8 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- And here's a search finding nearly 1000 different ones, to be replaced with 1ドル 2ドル census|3ドルcensus]]. Is there a better way to share patterns that doesn't rely on being able to run AWB or JWB? Dicklyon (talk) 23:31, 8 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- Done most (I believe my regex missed some) US censuses from 1790 to 1900 (included). Milo8505 (talk) 19:07, 5 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- @Milo8505: Thanks for that! Will your process scale to the much larger numbers for more recent censuses? Do you plan to keep at it? Dicklyon (talk) 11:04, 15 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- @[[User:Dicklyon|Dicklyon] No, the process is very much manual and requires attention while using AWB. I will keep at it when I have the time (i.e. not now, due to WP:BUSY). Milo8505 (talk) 08:14, 16 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- @Milo8505: Thanks for that! Will your process scale to the much larger numbers for more recent censuses? Do you plan to keep at it? Dicklyon (talk) 11:04, 15 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
More "NFL Draft" over-capitalization fixes needed
[edit ]This search shows about 157 articles needing more post-move cleanup, particularly needing Draft changed to lowercase draft in the lead sentence, all alike except for punctuation order. Other fixes are likely needed in the same articles, like I did here (or variations thereon). I'm happy to help develop or review regex patterns, though I'm still a relative amateur at such things. Dicklyon (talk) 21:38, 11 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- Working ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:04, 12 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- @Dicklyon Done ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:39, 12 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- Many of those have no link to NFL draft. You can link it where you case-corrected it, like I did in the more complete example. Dicklyon (talk) 16:05, 12 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- I didn't know that linking it was also requested, as it was not mentioned that clearly in the first post. Will probably do another run soon ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 10:03, 13 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- I was pretty ambiguous. Happy with whatever you want to do on this. We can discuss offline, or at your talk page, or whatever, if you want to volunteer to do more. Dicklyon (talk) 06:39, 14 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- @Dicklyon Discord? ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:03, 14 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- Negative good buddy. Dicklyon (talk) 07:21, 14 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- @Dicklyon Discord? ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:03, 14 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- Ok then, I'll replace
players in the NFL draft
withplayers in the NFL draft
Sounds good?~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:37, 14 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]- Yes, thanks. But while you're at it, you might see if there are more related fixes to piped links to do, like I did here. Or whatever else you see, if you have time to spend looking for more things to fix. If not, no worries. Dicklyon (talk) 22:40, 14 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- @Dicklyon as I am do not have much knowledge in this subject, if you could provide me with searches, I am ready to do the changes. I hope that is not a problem. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 03:34, 15 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- You can convert these strings to regular expressions, and downcase Draft in all
- (NFL) [[National Football League Draft|Draft]]
- The [[NFL Draft#Procedure and rules|draft rules]]
- separate [[American Football League Draft|Draft]]
- American Football League Draft|
- Dicklyon (talk) 04:22, 15 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- You can convert these strings to regular expressions, and downcase Draft in all
- @Dicklyon as I am do not have much knowledge in this subject, if you could provide me with searches, I am ready to do the changes. I hope that is not a problem. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 03:34, 15 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- Yes, thanks. But while you're at it, you might see if there are more related fixes to piped links to do, like I did here. Or whatever else you see, if you have time to spend looking for more things to fix. If not, no worries. Dicklyon (talk) 22:40, 14 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- I was pretty ambiguous. Happy with whatever you want to do on this. We can discuss offline, or at your talk page, or whatever, if you want to volunteer to do more. Dicklyon (talk) 06:39, 14 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- I didn't know that linking it was also requested, as it was not mentioned that clearly in the first post. Will probably do another run soon ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 10:03, 13 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- Many of those have no link to NFL draft. You can link it where you case-corrected it, like I did in the more complete example. Dicklyon (talk) 16:05, 12 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- @Dicklyon Done ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:39, 12 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
@Bunnypranav: If you're still looking to contribute on this one, the four numbered literal strings above just need to have all occurrences of "Draft" replaced by "draft" (do 3 before 4). Dicklyon (talk) 11:16, 5 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- I can't do it for a while (IRL works), sorry! May tackle it afterwards. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 11:17, 5 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- No problem. Take it easy, prioritizing real life. Dicklyon (talk) 11:21, 5 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Long list of page moves regarding Timor-Leste
[edit ]With the recent rename of the article from East Timor at Talk:Timor-Leste#Requested_move_16_December_2024, a very large number of pages need to be moved, sometimes over redirects. For more, please see Special:Search/intitle:"East Timor"
–LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 03:07, 24 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- I also opened Talk:1999_East_Timorese_crisis#Requested_move_24_December_2024 to discuss the demonym "East Timorese". –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 03:16, 24 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- There are a lot more pages than just these; I've been waiting to move the Olympics-related articles for about six years now (and I will be doing them shortly). Primefac (talk) 17:46, 24 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- I am moving these 77 pages. – DreamRimmer (talk) 18:35, 24 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- Moved 76. East Timor–Russia relations needs to be moved by an admin. It's bedtime; I will do the post-move cleanup tomorrow. – DreamRimmer (talk) 19:04, 24 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
– DreamRimmer (talk) 08:09, 25 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- Some of these should probably stay at East Timor, as they relate to things from prior to independence or soon after when East Timor was still used. Some also use the demonym, which for the time being seems to be staying at East Timorese (or just Timorese) rather than Timor Lestese or some other form. Things related to the Indonesian invasion and occupation (including the genocide), the UN mission, and International Force should probably stay, as should anything using the adjective. Turnagra (talk) 08:40, 25 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- LaundryPizza03 mentioned Special:Search/intitle:"East Timor", so I listed all the remaining pages for easier tracking. Please feel free to remove any that shouldn't be moved. – DreamRimmer (talk) 08:50, 25 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- Thanks - I've gone through the above list and struck out the ones I think probably shouldn't be moved from a cursory look. Turnagra (talk) 09:27, 25 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- We should definitely do the post-2002 years. I opened an RM for 2002 in East Timor, the year the country gained independence. Most of the remaining articles are uncontroversial, with the exception of East Timor independence and some proper names mentioning the country. Still processing the list for uncontroversial ones... –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 22:17, 25 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- Here's the short list. For the rest of the uncrossed entries, I opened an RM or, in two cases, nominated for deletion. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 23:00, 25 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
- LaundryPizza03 mentioned Special:Search/intitle:"East Timor", so I listed all the remaining pages for easier tracking. Please feel free to remove any that shouldn't be moved. – DreamRimmer (talk) 08:50, 25 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]
I have moved and updated a lot of these, but am putting this on hold pending wikipedia:Move_review#Timor-Leste. – Fayenatic London 17:08, 2 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Still on hold pending relisted Talk:East_Timor#Requested_move_16_December_2024. – Fayenatic London 22:11, 6 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- The reopened move request has been closed again as a move, so this can get back underway. Turnagra (talk) 23:04, 24 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- I don't know why people keep changing {{Iso2country/data }} before the above lists are complete. Please wait until they are done. See this discussion for details. – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:47, 3 February 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- The reopened move request has been closed again as a move, so this can get back underway. Turnagra (talk) 23:04, 24 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Add navbox template to articles
[edit ]Would anyone be able to help add Template:Indigenous peoples in Washington to its respective articles? A few already have it, but most (I think ~70) don't. Thanks! PersusjCP (talk) 20:43, 7 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- To save a click, here is the transclusion check. Primefac (talk) 11:16, 8 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Doing – DreamRimmer (talk) 12:12, 8 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Done DreamRimmer (talk) 12:32, 8 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Appreciate it PersusjCP (talk) 18:10, 8 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Update CfD tags
[edit ]I erevised the nomination for Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2025_January_1#Establishments_in_Iran,_pre-1935, and the category tags need to be updated accordingly. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 20:08, 8 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- LaundryPizza03, you also seem to have missed tagging quite a few of the categories. The easiest thing to do would probably be to revert the edits and retag. — Qwerfjkl talk 21:29, 8 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Fix transclusions of Template:AFC redirect archive
[edit ]I have retargeted the redirect Template:AFC redirect archive (previously redirecting to Template:AfC redirect and category archive) to point to Template:AfC redirect archive instead. Each of the 198 transclusions at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:AFC_redirect_archive&limit=500 should be updated to transclude {{AfC redirect and category archive }} instead of {{AFC redirect archive }}. GTrang (talk) 01:18, 11 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Doing – DreamRimmer (talk) 08:55, 11 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Done DreamRimmer (talk) 09:48, 11 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Thank you! I was legitimately just thinking about doing that when creating the 2025 category archive, checked the history and didn't realize that got fixed today. Appreciate the effort you two! Utopes (talk / cont ) 18:12, 11 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
A simple case fix in 800 articles
[edit ]Would someone please do a quick replace run to downcase "Crash" in links found by insource:/\[\[Wall Street Crash of 1929/ (that is, piped or not)? Dicklyon (talk) 09:49, 14 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Disagree with replacing the piped links as the "offending" text is hidden already. Primefac (talk) 12:42, 14 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- The offense is that it shows up in the maintenance report Wikipedia:Database reports/Linked miscapitalizations. If we don't work on reducing these, the report becomes less useful. But most are not piped; I can work on piped ones by hand if someone doesn't want to do them by AWB. Dicklyon (talk) 22:43, 14 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Another simple case fix in 90+ articles
[edit ]Quite a few articles have a two-line table heading where the second line is "Votes" and should be "votes" (e.g. for Total votes, Electoral votes, etc.). The pattern insource:/\<br\>Votes/ finds 97 of these. Some may have other related over-capping, but for many, or most, it's just this one error. Oh, and the br tag should have slash in it. Can someone take on replacing these? Dicklyon (talk) 10:20, 14 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- @Dicklyon: Sure! What do you mean by "related over-capping"? Rusty 🐈 14:44, 14 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Done, I just fixed the stuff with the "votes" text. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rusty Cat (talk • contribs) 15:05, 14 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Thanks! Dicklyon (talk) 22:43, 14 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Large CfD nomination
[edit ]I opened Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2025_January_15#Category:Attacks using the Mass CfD tool, but my browser crashed during the tagging process. Please tag all categories that don't have the tag, and notify all users who created a nominated category. There are 1956 categories in total. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 05:28, 15 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Done – DreamRimmer (talk) 13:29, 15 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Over-capped newspaper titles in refs generated by Trove
[edit ]We get a lot of auto-generated refs from the Trove newspaper archive, but it capitalizes every word in the newspaper names, including "And". I've fixed at least a hundred of these. Fixing just these two will take several hundred edits:
- Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay And Burnett Advertiser to Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser
- Queensland Times, Ipswich Herald And General Advertiser to Queensland Times, Ipswich Herald and General Advertiser
So that's a quick task for AWB. Going forward, it would be useful if someone would do a run now and then to fix those and all these others (and whichever other ones we might add to the list on discovering them:
- Australian Town And Country Journal to Australian Town and Country Journal
- Clarence And Richmond Examiner And New England Advertiser to Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser
- Hobart Town Gazette And Van Diemen's Land Advertiser to Hobart Town Gazette and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser
- Illustrated Sydney News And New South Wales Agriculturalist And Grazier to Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier
- Northern Territory Times And Gazette to Northern Territory Times and Gazette
- Port Phillip Patriot And Melbourne Advertiser to Port Phillip Patriot and Melbourne Advertiser
- South Bourke And Mornington Journal to South Bourke and Mornington Journal
- South Coast Times And Wollongong Argus to South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus
- The Armidale Express And New England General Advertiser to The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser
- The Inquirer And Commercial News to The Inquirer and Commercial News
- The Scrutineer And Berrima District Press to The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press
- The Sydney Gazette And New South Wales Advertiser to The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser
- The Sydney Mail And New South Wales Advertiser to The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser
In all these the "And" (or two "And"s in couple of them) should be replaced by "and", whether the text is in a link or not. I've linked them here to demonstrate that links won't go red with these changes. Dicklyon (talk) 10:59, 15 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Let me take a look at this... Working on the first two papers. Geardona (talk to me?) 14:25, 15 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Should be Done, let me know if anything else crops up Geardona (talk to me?) 15:14, 15 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- @Geardona: Thanks! That's got most of them. Searching Wikipedia:Database reports/Linked miscapitalizations for " And", I see 4 that still have incoming links. Looks like between us we missed a couple:
- Queensland Times, Ipswich Herald And General Advertiser still has 1 incoming link (or more probably, you fixed them all and one new one got added)
- The Sydney Gazette And New South Wales Advertiser still has 2; looks like you just missed it (I don't see it at your settings)
- And it seems I failed to list these 2 with one incoming link each:
- I can fix those by hand, but if you're developing AWB settings that should be able to find and fix these somewhat automatically, you might want to look at these before I make them disappear. Probably there are also more that I don't see right now, as I'm just looking at ones that currently have incoming links. Dicklyon (talk) 12:27, 16 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Fixing now! and yes, I am making a template for this project. Geardona (talk to me?) 15:51, 16 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- @Geardona: Thanks! That's got most of them. Searching Wikipedia:Database reports/Linked miscapitalizations for " And", I see 4 that still have incoming links. Looks like between us we missed a couple:
@Certes and Geardona: I see that Certes has a list with a ton more of these Trove newspapers, at User:Certes/Trove/full. Maybe that can be mined to generalize Geardona's fixer settings. Dicklyon (talk) 11:01, 17 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
There's also a much bigger generalization of this to redirects with " And " in them. My Quarry query has found over 5000 of them, listed at User:Dicklyon/And. Some of these also have others words over-capitalized (typically "Of", "The", and such). From a quick sample, I'd say most do not have any incoming links, which is good. To find ones that do, it would be useful if each was tagged as "R from miscapitalization". Dicklyon (talk) 10:51, 17 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- If an AWB run or genfix is happening, it could also usefully fix certain wikilinks. Trove offers a canned citation template, but it often links to a different newspaper, to an unrelated topic or to a disambiguation page. For example, the wikitext Trove offers for citing id 505 links to Sunday Times (a UK newspaper) rather than The Sunday Times (Sydney). Id 499 links to Referee, enlightening the reader about sporting umpires, rather than The Referee (newspaper). Id 248 links to dab Record rather than The Record (Melbourne). A list of the more common errors is in User:Certes/Trove. Such links added to Wikipedia before June 2024 have almost all been fixed, but new ones will be appearing and I am not aware of any methodical process to catch them. Certes (talk) 17:32, 17 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- @Dicklyon, my current method for generating the list of fixes is very hard to scale to multiple pages. Could I get a version of https://quarry.wmcloud.org/query/89960 with all of the instances of the problem redirects occurring in plaintext and links? (for example, instead of showing Ashmore And Cartier Islands (the page), it would give me a list of pages that have Ashmore And Cartier Islands (the phrase) on them, etc for all 5057 pages). As for @Certes, my concern with running any kind of automated or semi-automated editor on that dataset is the same ambiguity that is the problem in the first place, if there is any way to find only the problematic citations, that would work fine. (I hope this isn't misunderstanding the request)Let me know if none of this makes sense Geardona (talk to me?) 17:53, 17 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- I wonder if we could convince the good people at Trove to provide actual good wikilinks, using Certes's table.
- I don't know a way to collect all the pages that contain all these strings, other than generating one at a time in JWB. But someone who is good with scripting might be able to augment JWB or AWB to take a list of searches to generate from. Dicklyon (talk) 22:33, 17 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- I’ve got an idea to remedy this, however it might not work. (I’m going to try to use this page to skip the UI getting in the way) Geardona (talk to me?) 23:24, 17 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- I've tried asking Trove, who politely acknowledged my request but hadn't changed anything last time I looked. The erroneous links are in very specific strings. A typical example newspaper article is here. Click the bookmark icon with hover text "Cite" in the left column, then scroll down to "Wikipedia citation" to see
{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article149498474 |title=SHIPPING. |newspaper=[[Daily Telegraph]] |volume=III, |issue=71 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=18 June 1883 |accessdate=18 January 2025 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}
, which our editors copy verbatim. Sadly, this doesn't contain the Trove ID which would distinguish it from other historic Australian papers called Daily Telegraph but the location usually provides a distinctive enough pattern, e.g.\{\{cite news \|url=http://nla\.gov\.au/nla\.news-article[^}]*\|newspaper=\[\[Daily Telegraph\]\][^}]* \|location=Tasmania, Australia[^}]* \|via=National Library of Australia\}\}
. In a few awkward cases, the same vague location was used for two distinct papers with different articles. Those require checking the date but are edge cases. It's basically what I used to do manually each day as and when the errors appeared. Certes (talk) 23:33, 17 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
@Geardona: There are a few more to do now, esp. a handful of links to Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay And Burnett Advertiser, and few others listed at Wikipedia:Database reports/Linked miscapitalizations. Dicklyon (talk) 05:51, 1 February 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Lots of easy post-move case fixes
[edit ]At Talk:Aizkraukle district#Requested move 23 December 2024 and Talk:Minsk district#Requested move 25 December 2024 we have a list of titles where "District" was moved to lowercase "district". And at Talk:Abancay province#Requested move 16 December 2024 where "Province" was moved to lowercase "province". And at Talk:Hunter fracture zone#Requested move 9 December 2024 where "Fracture Zone" was moved to "fracture zone". And at Talk:Buffalo Head terrane#Requested move 14 December 2024 where "Terrane" was moved to "terrane". And at Talk:Dakar region#Requested move 11 December 2024 and Talk:Adrar region#Requested move 11 December 2024 and Talk:Bafatá region#Requested move 11 December 2024 and Talk:Brest region#Requested move 11 December 2024 where "Region" was moved to "region". And Talk:Eurasian plate#Requested move 6 October 2024 where "Plate" was moved to "plate". And more. In all of these types of moves, the title starts with a capitalized proper name, so it will be capitalized in any context, whether sentence initial, heading, mid-sentence, or otherwise. So automating the case-fixing cleanup should be pretty easy; just need to be careful not to apply changes inside file names or ref titles. There are hundreds of article titles, with typically dozens of links to each, and probably lots more in sentences, not linked, so probably a thousand or more edits needed to finish the move cleanups of these. Anyone want to do some? Dicklyon (talk) 11:30, 21 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
If someone wants to start on this, maybe try the first one, search for Latvia and search and replace this regex:
(Aizkraukle|Alūksne|Balvi|Bauska|Cēsis|Daugavpils|Dobele|Gulbene|Jēkabpils|Jelgava|Krāslava|Kuldīga|Liepāja|Limbaži|Ludza|Madona|Ogre|Preiļi|Rēzekne|Riga|Saldus|Talsi|Tukums|Valka|Valmiera|Ventspils) District
with
1ドル district
Easy? Dicklyon (talk) 07:55, 25 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Mass message fix
[edit ]Help! I sent a mass message yesterday to Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/Invites with an incorrect date in the header. I wrote "LA Wildfire edit-a-thons January 26 and February 3" - it should be "LA Wildfire edit-a-thons January 26 and February 2." Can someone correct it? Thank you! JSFarman (talk) 01:27, 22 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Doing – DreamRimmer (talk) 01:47, 22 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Thank you! JSFarman (talk) 01:53, 22 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Done Edits – DreamRimmer (talk) 02:44, 22 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Thank you! JSFarman (talk) 01:53, 22 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Change ambiguous links
[edit ]Hi. I just performed two moves from ambiguous titles to unambiguous titles, but I need help with all the links pointing to the ambiguous titles. All the links to Joan, Duchess of Brittany should go to Joan of Penthièvre instead (in many cases it is only a matter of removing the silly pipe because she is normally called Joan of Penthièvre anyway); and the links to Joanna of Flanders should go to Joan of Flanders, Countess of Montfort. After that I can turn the two pages into disambiguation pages. I will be very grateful for your help. Surtsicna (talk) 10:55, 25 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Doing... ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 10:58, 25 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- @Surtsicna Done. and each shows only one links, in a hatnote, I hope you can fix that as needed. Small note, I used User:BilledMammal/Move+ retarget links, which was much easier than setting up AWB. It is also easier to use, so you can try it out yourself the next time you may need this. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 11:14, 25 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- This was incredibly fast! Thank you! I have been editing Wikipedia for 16 years and have never used such tools. It may be time that I learn :) Surtsicna (talk) 11:19, 25 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Charlie Monk
[edit ][[Charlie Monk]] -> [[Charlie Monk (racer)|Charlie Monk]] Dab cleanup following creation of Charlie Monk (broadcaster). Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 18:57, 27 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Aircraft first flown in year category header
[edit ]Please add {{Aircraft first flown in year category header}}
to all subcats of Category:Aircraft by year of first flight, replacing current content. Thanks. Jeeputer Talk 19:10, 29 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- This is tested on Category:Aircraft first flown in 1891. Jeeputer Talk 19:23, 29 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- @Jeeputer: Done! GoingBatty (talk) 07:08, 30 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]