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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 are sometimes one-time tasks which can be done easily using AWB. Requesting modifications to URLs, such as marking dead or changing to a new domain, use WP:URLREQ. See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia.

Fix "Census" over-capitalization

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)

Can you provide a diff with an example edit fixing this error? VanIsaac, GHTV ^contr_about 08:16, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

Here's one. And here's a diff showing 2 fixes, one piped and one not. Dicklyon (talk) 17:16, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

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)

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)

That'd be great! Dawnseeker2000 20:22, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

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. VanIsaac, GHTV ^contr_about 00:30, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

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)

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. VanIsaac, GHTV ^contr_about 02:37, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

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)

Here's another easy batch worth fixing. Dicklyon (talk) 22:34, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

Here's a good search that finds about 7600 to fix. Just replace the search regex therein with $1 $2 census{{subst:lc:$3}}. 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)

And here's a search finding nearly 1000 different ones, to be replaced with $1 $2 census|$3census]]. 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)

Done most (I believe my regex missed some) US censuses from 1790 to 1900 (included). Milo8505 _(talk) 19:07, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Tag Wikipedia:Donated artwork and subpages as historical

Hi, and hope you're doing well. Is it possible to tag all pages under Special:PrefixIndex/Wikipedia:Donated artwork/ and Wikipedia:Donated artwork itself with {{Historical}}? I don't see any major updates to Wikipedia:Donated artwork since its inception in 2015; Wikipedia talk:Donated artwork last had a discussion in 2021. Please ping if you have questions. Thank you. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 16:21, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

Given the prefix index only shows 7 (8 including the parent page) pages, I’ll do this by hand, unless there are more pages that I’m not seeing.  Working  Done Geardona (talk to me?) 12:00, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

Lowercase "at-large"

We have a bunch of capitalized "At-large" and even "At-Large" to fix. I tried to address one specific context via a template edit request (Template talk:Infobox officeholder#Edit request 2 December 2024), but the suggestion there was to fix it by AWB instead since there are only about 455 articles like that. Here's a diff that fixed one of those. And here's the more complete diff on that article. Anyone want to help? Dicklyon (talk) 17:32, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

 Doing... ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 11:53, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

@Dicklyon  Done This shows ~338 edits done, rest were skipped by AWB as no changes were made (false positives?). Please have a look and let me know. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 14:36, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! Here's a better search, which finds about 40 more that look like they could use the same fix. Dicklyon (talk) 16:14, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

Also, in ones like this you could fix the piped link at the same time. Dicklyon (talk) 17:01, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

@Dicklyon Will do the 40 more in a couple of hours. I didn't get what fix the piped link means. Could you explain? ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 03:31, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

In [[New Hampshire's At-large congressional district|At-large]], the link to New Hampshire's At-large congressional district is piped to "At-large". The first part should avoid the miscapitalized redirect and link directly to New Hampshire's at-large congressional district instead, and be "piped" to the second part, which should be "at-large". Ends up like this with both case fixes: [[New Hampshire's at-large congressional district|at-large]]. Dicklyon (talk) 03:51, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Till now I used a regex which checked after a pipe between [[ and ]]. I thought changing the page name might break some links. Should I lowercase all occurrences of at-large, even in page names? ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 04:05, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

@Dicklyon if the above proposal is not a problem, I can do it now ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 06:36, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Yes, go ahead, since there was a multi-RM discussion that moved all those "At-large" districts to "at-large". If there are any remaining articles with capitalized "At-large" in their titles, you should be able to find them (and maybe fix them) with this search. I don't see much to worry about, other than At-large itself. Dicklyon (talk) 06:38, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Noting that the replacements I am doing are only inside templates, so as to avoid starting of sentences, At-large and other possible errors. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 06:40, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

@Dicklyon  Done, 39 more edits ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 08:13, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! If you'd like to do more, with "At-large" in other contexts, take a look at this search, which is mostly in the title bar of infoboxes. Or these in links from templates such as Main and Further. Or these in a common text phrase. Dicklyon (talk) 16:42, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

33 edits for the first search done. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:37, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

The second one is also done. For the third, should Large be caps or small, as you have included both in the search? ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:44, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

@Bunnypranav: Thanks, those look good. Either At-Large or At-large will match, and should be replaced by lowercase at-large. Dicklyon (talk) 16:08, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

@Dicklyon should at-Large be replaced with at-large? ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 08:10, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

Yes, make it all lowercase. By the way, I use the "subscribe" mechanism to keep track of conversations, so you don't need to ping me. Dicklyon (talk) 15:57, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

I am done with all three above. The last one below is empty (probably done already). I am not doing the below one due to possible errors. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:23, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

Also these, but be careful as a few are in reference titles and such that should be left in title case. Dicklyon (talk) 16:44, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

And these, too. Dicklyon (talk) 17:00, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

I know that this splits the discussion, but if possible could you post this on my talk page. I can't do this for a day or two, but will definitely try my best. Thanks! ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 17:32, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Done. No rush. Dicklyon (talk) 19:44, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

@Dicklyon 38 edits done, waiting for your confirmation on this and this. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 09:22, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

@Bunnypranav: Thanks for doing those. Note that I've linked about 3 more searches above with similar over-capitalizations. I hope you'll do more. Dicklyon (talk) 16:07, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

@Dicklyon Sorry for the delay, unfortunately I do not have access to a computer for the next couple of days. I will hopefully do them by the end of this weekend. If anyone else is able to do this, then go ahead. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 10:01, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

Have a good break then! Thanks. Dicklyon (talk) 17:16, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

@Bunnypranav: Here is another batch that should be fixed to "from the at-large district" (about 45 of them). Dicklyon (talk) 23:31, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

 Done 43 edits ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 10:04, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

50K articles with over-capitalized "Province"

This search shows over 50,000 articles with visible links to XXX Province of Iran, which should be XXX province. Anyone want to work on fixing? Dicklyon (talk) 06:13, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

That’s quite a few articles, and might be more suited to WP:BOTREQ, if they tell you to go back here or that a bot is not an option, ping me and I’ll take another look. Geardona (talk to me?) 12:22, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

Are you volunteering to run AWB as bot, or should I be recruiting another bot operator for this? Some semi-automated work on this to develop a good set of patterns would go a long way toward getting bot approval, I think. Dicklyon (talk) 16:18, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

Go to BOTREQ. Primefac (talk) 18:28, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

I know from before that they'll want to see more discussion before considering bot approval, so I started a thread at WT:WikiProject Iran#Fixing widespread over-capitalization of "Province" to make sure there's no project objection. Dicklyon (talk) 18:42, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

Opened request at Wikipedia:Bot requests#Province over-capitalization. Dicklyon (talk) 21:19, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

@Dicklyon, I would be happy to help with this task. If you don't find any other bot, please ping me on BOTREQ once the WikiProject discussion closes. – DreamRimmer (talk) 15:46, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

What if it gets no replies? When can we call it closed? Dicklyon (talk) 02:57, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

Category:Chungha songs

Would it be possible for someone to edit the prose of the articles in Category:Chungha songs to use "Chung Ha" instead of "Chungha"? The parent article was moved after it was established that the artist's name is "Chung Ha" (with the space), not "Chungha".

Right now I'm focusing on the articles directly related to the subject, but there probably a bunch of other locations that refer to her as "Chungha" instead of "Chung Ha" as well.

Thank you! RachelTensions (talk) 17:13, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

 Done Edits – DreamRimmer (talk) 05:34, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! RachelTensions (talk) 05:38, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Pages using Template:WikiProject Cricket

• Pages using |Women's cricket=yes should be changed to |Women's=yes as the former is to be deprecated. (Pages are found in Category:Women's cricket task force articles)
• Pages using |Bangladesh cricket=yes should be changed to |Asia=yes as the former task force has been merged into the latter one. (Pages are found in Category:Asia cricket task force articles)
• Pages using |needs-photo=yes, |needs-image=yes, |photo-needed=yes and |image-requested=yes should be changed to |image-needed=yes as the former parameters are to be deprecated.
• All the pages, templates, categories etc. under Category:International Cricket Council should be added to |ICC=yes.

Thanks in advance! Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 05:36, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

Searches [1] [2] [3], about 1500 pages including duplicates (plus 2200 pages in the category, but I have no idea how many of those actually need editing). Qwerfjkltalk 09:52, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

The one's in the category could be done, others I think should be done after a formal discussion. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 10:02, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

There are more results with the value true. [4] [5] – DreamRimmer (talk) 10:25, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

More "NFL Draft" over-capitalization fixes needed

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)

 Working ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:04, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

@Dicklyon  Done 157 edits ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:39, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

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)

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)

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)

@Dicklyon Discord? ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:03, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

Negative good buddy. Dicklyon (talk) 07:21, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

Ok then, I'll replace players in the NFL draft with players in the NFL draft Sounds good?~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:37, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

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)

@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)

You can convert these strings to regular expressions, and downcase Draft in all

1. (NFL) [[National Football League Draft|Draft]]
2. The [[NFL Draft#Procedure and rules|draft rules]]
3. separate [[American Football League Draft|Draft]]
4. American Football League Draft|

Dicklyon (talk) 04:22, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

@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)

I can't do it for a while (IRL works), sorry! May tackle it afterwards. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 11:17, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

No problem. Take it easy, prioritizing real life. Dicklyon (talk) 11:21, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Linking Uprise RI

Hi, would it be possible to link instances of "Uprise RI", "UpriseRI", and "upriseri.com" (or "upriseri.com/") within article text and references (website, work, newspaper parameters). At least these searches: [6][7][8]. Thank you! Best, Bridget (talk) 01:16, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

 Doing... JJP_Master (she/they) 01:31, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

 Done 43 edits. JJP_Master (she/they) 01:50, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

Perfect, thank you JJPMaster! Best, Bridget (talk) 03:08, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

Long list of page moves regarding Timor-Leste

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 (dc̄) 03:07, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

I also opened Talk:1999_East_Timorese_crisis#Requested_move_24_December_2024 to discuss the demonym "East Timorese". –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 03:16, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

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)

I am moving these 77 pages. – DreamRimmer (talk) 18:35, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

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)

– DreamRimmer (talk) 08:09, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

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)

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)

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)

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 (dc̄) 22:17, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

Here's the short list. For the rest of the uncrossed entries, I opened an RM or, in two cases, nominated for deletion. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 23:00, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

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)

Urgent: Mass CfDS tagging

I accidentally interrupted the tagging process while using Qwerfjkl's MassCfD tool and need help tagging all the pages I listed at WP:CFDS. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:11, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Doing – DreamRimmer (talk) 04:22, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

@LaundryPizza03, Now that I am on PC, could you please share list of categories that still need tagging? It looks like most of the ones I clicked on were already tagged. – DreamRimmer (talk) 05:36, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

@DreamRimmer: I don't have the time to check them all — there are over 700 in the affected nomination. It will include every item on the list that doesn't already have a CFDS tag. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 06:40, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

No problem, I will handle it for you. – DreamRimmer (talk) 06:43, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

 Done 341 pages. – DreamRimmer (talk) 07:55, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

FWIW, you could probably just undo the edits (e.g. using WP:Kill-It-With-Fire) and then redo. Or you could just paste in the remaining categories and repeat the process, and remove the duplicate nomination. User:Anomie/linkclassifier will probably highlight categories that are already tagged. — Qwerfjkltalk 10:27, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Category:Pages using WikiProject banner shell with invalid parameters

Certain text, most notably "|collapsed=no", is considered redundant in the WikiProject Banner Shell. Can someone please remove this text from the articles in that category? Thanks! - OpalYosutebito (talk) 05:31, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Cewbot will handle this. See User:Cewbot/log/20200122/configuration. – DreamRimmer (talk) 14:31, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Got it, good to know. By the way, I plan on re-requesting AutoWikiBrowser privileges the day before my 21st birthday - OpalYosutebito (talk) 15:15, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Good luck! – DreamRimmer (talk) 15:23, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Template:SZA songs

Recently, I split the {{SZA}} navbox by moving all of its song articles to {{SZA songs}}. Now, all of those articles need to have {{SZA}} template replaced with the latter template. Elias 🦗🐜 ^{[Chat, they chattin', they chat]} 06:33, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

@PSA

Is the list or articles needing changes the ones linked in {{SZA songs}}? ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 06:35, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

@Bunnypranav, yep, although the discography list already has been changed. Elias 🦗🐜 ^{[Chat, they chattin', they chat]} 06:43, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

 Doing... ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 06:45, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

@PSA  Done: 45 edits Please check if I missed something. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:02, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

@Bunnypranav thanks. Missed a couple but that was because of the redirect links, plus the album articles were not supposed to have the replacements. Other than that, I have checked everything and they're all good. Elias 🦗🐜 ^{[Chat, they chattin', they chat]} 07:22, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

@PSA Should I change the ones missed, or have you done it already. Thanks for fixing the errors! ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:30, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

I already fixed them. Elias 🦗🐜 ^{[Chat, they chattin', they chat]} 07:54, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Funny hyphenations need fixing

This search shows a cluster of about 60 articles with a word-splitting hyphen after a line break, when conventionally the hyphen should be before the line break. Can someone fix? Dicklyon (talk) 23:04, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Remind me if I am missing something, why is the br and hyphen is needed? ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 05:14, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

Agreed; these should probably be removed; I see little reason to make a table "skinny" by adding in awkward line breaks. Primefac (talk) 09:57, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

Some editor thought it would be good to make the columns less wide, and I wasn't going to argue about that, but it's fine by me if someone wants to fix it by just not doing the break at all. Dicklyon (talk) 09:08, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

Many of those same articles also have over-capitalized table headings and such, like I fixed in this one. I'm not sure how consistent the pattern is, but I've seen quite a few like that. Could someone do the case fixing along with the line-break fixing please? Dicklyon (talk) 09:14, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

@Dicklyon  Done 60 edits. Fixed the case errors in the totals section of the tables based on some sampling of what parameters exist. Random checking afterwards seems to show most of the case fixing is done. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 14:02, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! Dicklyon (talk) 20:52, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

@Bunnypranav: If you're up for more "Votes" case fixing, look at this search and this one with lots of overcapped headings (example fixes here and here); note lowercase "other" after dash. Dicklyon (talk) 05:00, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

96 edits first one done. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:29, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

adjoing

Should instances of "adjoing" be "adjoining"? Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 22:16, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

With many typos, you need to look at them one by one to see if some other word was meant or would be a better choice. Since there are only eight instances of "adjoing", I don't think AWB is needed. – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:19, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

Spam a template to 300 talk pages

I'd like {{DSM copyright}} to be posted on about 200–300 talk pages. The articles in question are at List of mental disorders.

Would someone like to do this? And what's the most useful way for me to give you the list of target articles?

WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:42, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

@WhatamIdoing: I am happy to help with this. Please share the list of target articles using https://ctxt.io/ and send me the link once it is published. – DreamRimmer (talk) 10:35, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

What do you want on that page? (For example, full URLs, or [[Links]], or ???) WhatamIdoing (talk) 02:36, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Latter. – DreamRimmer (talk) 02:43, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Hey DreamRimmer, I saw this so I made the list for you (https://ctxt.io/2/AAB4sW0WEA, it contains the format you wanted, no pipes, without Talk: prefix and only the links to mental disorders on the page) on behalf of WhatamIdoing. Also, I don't believe this a task that necessitates AWB (there shouldn't be a need for a human to review), so I've coded a regular old bot script to do this based on the list (User:MolecularBot One-off Task #3) and will file a BRFA. MolecularPilot ^{🧪️✈️} 05:32, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

I usually file BRFAs for tasks that involve editing at least 700-800 pages. For this task, I did not see a need for a BRFA, so I planned to use AWB or PAWS. Thank you for providing the list. I could have created it myself, but I was not sure if any pages needed to be excluded. I am perfectly fine with you doing this using your bot. – DreamRimmer (talk) 10:44, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Please feel free to run this with AWB as there are only ~300 pages and we tend to not set up bot runs for less than 500. Primefac (talk) 13:22, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Just in case you decide to go the BRFA route, or if someone complains at you, please note that I've pre-acquired evidence of consensus for these edits at WT:MED. (If they complain at you that the DSM's content should be "fair use", send them to me.) WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:43, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, WhatamIdoing and thanks to DreamRimmer for handling this! It's really great to see another editor interested in psychology (it's my favorite class at school, and that's why I made the list for DR, because I know about the DSM). :) MolecularPilot ^{🧪️✈️} 02:36, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

@MolecularPilot, thank you. Also, please put WP:MED and WP:PSYCH on your watchlist, and join any discussions that interest you there. WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:56, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

@WhatamIdoing : I'm happy to do this if DreamRimmer doesn't pick up. In either case, would you like to have this prepended before template:Reliable sources for medical articles or somewhere else? NotAGenious (talk) 16:44, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

@DreamRimmer Your edits contravene WP:TALKLEAD. NotAGenious (talk) 17:13, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

I am aware of TALKLEAD and have just made two edits. I don't see any issue with placing it at the top, but if putting it in the middle of other templates is a better approach, I am happy to do that. – DreamRimmer (talk) 17:26, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Do you think this qualifies as #5 High-importance attention template, or as an addendum to #14 reliable source for medical articles? VanIsaac, GHTV ^contr_about 18:53, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

I'd guess that it fits in with #5 ("Notice") or #6 ("Warning"), but I will be satisfied with any location that seems plausible. WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:48, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Already done. – DreamRimmer (talk) 01:46, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

"Was" in TV articles

The following discussion has been moved here from WP:BOTREQ as such a task would require human confirmation and is not appropriate for a bot to do (but is the perfect use case for AWB). Thank you to everyone for your time! :) MolecularPilot ^{🧪️✈️} 05:18, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

I'm still finding a lot of TV show articles following the format "Name of show was" even though MOS:TV has dictated "Name of show is" for ages. Could a bot be made that can find cases where "was" is still being used? Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 19:13, 28 September 2024 (UTC)

@TenPoundHammer: in theory, yes. A lot of variations of the sentence would have to be considered, but it is possible. A few rare false positives may occur if the show's name was changed. This would make it borderline WP:CONTEXTBOT though. But if we make the bot good enough, then we may be able to run it. —usernamekiran (talk) 21:07, 28 September 2024 (UTC)

I have context concerns as well. This might be better for a database report, if only to see the scale/scope of the issue. Primefac (talk) 13:40, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

@Primefac: can we do that then? Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 18:02, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

I mean, I am not personally going to do it, but "we" as a whole/community can certainly do that. Primefac (talk) 19:34, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

@TenPoundHammer try at WP:SQLREQ if you want some SQL code for the DB report. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:08, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

Sounds like a job for WP:AWB, where each change can be verified by a human before it is made. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:30, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

MolecularPilot ^{🧪️✈️} 05:18, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

I wonder, though: If there are really a lot of these, then that's evidence that the community's practice is different from the guideline – and generally, in such cases, it's the guideline that needs updating. If we had an RFC saying something like "Should television shows that have long since ended be described in the present tense? For example, Captain Kangaroo was broadcast from 1955 to 1992. Should the first sentence say that it 'was' a television show, or that it still 'is' a television show?", I'm not certain that people would say that something that stopped being produced and aired 32 years ago is something that we should still describe in the present tense. WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:00, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

From what I gather from past discussions, as well as my own interpretation of MOS:PRESENT, is that if a show still exists then it "is" a program. I think it's worth checking to see how many of these exist before we start worrying about whether practice has drifted from procedure. Primefac (talk) 09:45, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

@MolecularPilot: Could you provide a list of pages where you would like this to be changed? Consider this a QPQ for the AfC bot request you handled yesterday. JJP_Master (she/they) 23:46, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Hi! Omg thank you, you are soooo nice! :) I'm not entirely sure, I was just clerking WP:BOTREQ yesterday and this one seemed better suited to here, you'll have to ask TenPoundHammer. Thanks again! :) MolecularPilot ^{🧪️✈️} 02:34, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

I disagree with the premise that this needs Human verification on a number of levels. At the most basic level, if we currently have pages that are in error (and we do, as I see these being manually changed and fixed quite often), and even if the bot changes all instances to "is" instead of "was", then that is still more correct than having "was". But we don't need to go that far, if a show is lost, it should be under Category:Lost television shows, so the bot can ignore those pages. If the page isn't there, then we have bigger issues than "is". Since this should not be a one-time run, but at max a weekly run, needing a Human instead of a bot to run this seems counter-productive (and most likely not going to happen). Gonnym (talk) 13:19, 2 January 2025 (UTC)