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Below are tasks for which a page-autoloader with various capabilities would be especially useful. That is, the people posting these tasks need the help of AWB'ers! If you have AWB, please lend a hand.

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The user NSSIAS recently made a bunch of (apparently manual) highly repetitive edits to a fairly large number of pages.

These all seem to take the form of something like below:

In Europe, Faxonius virilis is included since 2016 in the list of Invasive Alien Species of Union concern (the Union list).^[1] This implies that this species cannot be imported, bred, transported, commercialized, or intentionnaly released into the environment in the whole of the European Union.^[2]

Could someone with AWB permissions go through their edit history and patch up these edits with a REGEX or something?

I suggest the following changes:

• "Intentionnaly" —> "Intentionally".

• Disambiguate the wording for "list of Invasive Alien Species of Union concern (the Union list)"— That's all one title. The source is formatted a bit weirdly. "List" and "concern" aren't capitalized in it, and every reference after the first one just calls it "the Union list".

• Maybe capitalize "list" and "concern", or italicize the title, or put it in quotes— IDK which
  WP:MOS
  rule applies to scientific and regulatory works like this.

• Remove "(the Union list)"? That seems like a less official abbreviation that was introduced in the source only for the purpose of referring to it later in the source (which these articles don't currently do).

• Maybe "is included since 2016 in" —> "has been included since 2016 in" or "was added in 2016 to"?

• Maybe change "implies"? I'm not sure what the best verbiage for a legal stipulation would be. "Implies" feels soft/synth-y to me, but "stipulates" too formal/specific and "means" too casual.

• Maybe better align the assertions to the source?

• The first source merely says "restrictions on", rather than "cannot".

• The second source says "shall not", but it specifies restrictions that aren't entirely the same as the current article texts.

• The source says "kept", which the article doesn't mention.

• The source says "permitted to reproduce", while the article says "bred", which to me as a layman seems to imply more intentionality.

• The source says "intentionally" in a way that applies to all of the restrictions, whereas the current article text says "intentionnaly" in a way that only applies to "released into the environment".

• "Commercialized" may be broader than "placed on the market" but narrower than "used or exchanged".

• "In Europe" as a separate clause before a comma feels clunky to me. Maybe it could say "[...] on the the European Union's List of Invasive species [...]" or something instead?

• If you're going to look over all the edits anyway, maybe check if they fit in the right sections? IDK how the automated tools work.

Overall, maybe:

Faxonius virilis has been included since 2016 on the European Union's List of Invasive Species of Union Concern. This prohibits the species from being intentionally imported, transported, kept, bred, commercialized, or released.

Anyway, the point is that here's a large number of edits that IMO introduced potentially valuable content, but which could benefit from an easily automated mass rewrite.

Intralexical (talk) 16:20, 7 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I can try to take on fixing the typos. Later on I might try to take on something more advanced relating to the other stuff, but the other tasks might need to be manually done.

talk, FAQ, contribs) 05:24, 8 August 2021 (UTC)[reply

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EpicPupper

: Here's a tentative REGEX to extract the species names and years out of the existing text, and an example of how to use that to rewrite the passage en masse:

Search string:

In Europe, (.*) is included since ([0-9]{4}) in the list of Invasive Alien Species of Union concern \(the Union list\)\.(.*) This implies that.*Union\.

Replacement string:

\1 has been included since \2 on the European Union's List of Invasive Species of Union Concern.\3 This prohibits the species from being intentionally imported, transported, kept, bred, commercialized, or released.

I haven't tested this exhaustively, but it seems to work with both the visual text and the WikiText. I don't have AWB and IDK how its REGEX stuff is handled, so you may have to change some things… Valid backreferences might be "$1", "$2", "$3", instead of "\1", "\2", "\3", at least.

"\1" is the species name, "\2" is the year of listing, and "\3" is the first reference. The second reference doesn't get picked up by the search string, so it gets left alone at the end of the replacement string. You should be able to rewrite the replacement string however you see fit using those backreferences, as long as the search string works.

Intralexical (talk) 16:37, 8 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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talk, FAQ, contribs) 01:59, 10 August 2021 (UTC)[reply

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Please add this (with the correct year) for every of the relevant categories. If you can also add all of them to Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2021_August_8#Category:Athletes_(track_and_field)_at_the_(Year)_Summer_Olympics... Thanks, RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 03:35, 8 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

talk, FAQ, contribs) 04:13, 8 August 2021 (UTC)[reply

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talk, FAQ, contribs) 04:39, 8 August 2021 (UTC)[reply

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Oop, seems like I forgot to add them actually to the CfD list, as you requested. I'll try to do that tomorrow, as it's getting late for me.

talk, FAQ, contribs) 04:41, 8 August 2021 (UTC)[reply

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@Mjquinn id: Note that Template:Portal#Location states: "If there is no See also section, you may put it in the External links section instead; there is no need to create a new section just to house this template. If there is no External links section either, just put it below the article text in the place that seems most appropriate." It seems that an AWB user could go to the More... tab, Append {{Portal|Idaho}}, and check the box to "Sort meta data after" (as I did on Area codes 208 and 986). They would need to determine the best way to skip articles that already contact a link. GoingBatty (talk) 18:58, 9 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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general fixes and combine the portals into one template. GoingBatty (talk) 19:14, 9 August 2021 (UTC)[reply

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1. I've been wasting away some time of my past few evenings cleaning out Wikipedia:Requested articles/music/Performers, bands and songwriters. Now one thing I've been doing manually and that doesn't require much judgement, and thus could be automated, would be the simple removal of dubious sources, such as social media pages and the like. If anybody can set-up AWB to do a run through there and remove any link that is from an unreliable source (such as those appearing on XLinkBot's revert list, or listed as unreliable on RSP). If that's too much, a limited run removing any obvious social media/streaming websites (instagram, facebook, youtube, bandcamp, spotify, itunes, imdb, ...) as well as obvious blogs (wordpress/blogspot) would also be of great help. (example of this kind of stuff)
2. A separate task would be the conversion of url links to Wikipedia pages (in English or other languages) to regular wiki-syntax. example of what this looks like

• If this can be simplified in any way by running a script on AWB (which could also be applied to all other WP:Requested articles subpages), this would be wonderful. Cheers, RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 02:02, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@RandomCanadian: Is there a consensus posted somewhere that encourages editors to remove dubious sources from the requests? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 03:21, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@GoingBatty: There's already a statement that entries without reliable sources ought to be removed. Removing unreliable/dubious sources seems in line with that statement. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 03:30, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I've added an example for task no. 2. Cheers, RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 12:49, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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H:FOREIGNLINK. GoingBatty (talk) 13:27, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[reply

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Thanks, that was just a momentary slip-up, I usually get those right... RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 13:35, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Folks, if we set up a bot/awb to remove entire citations by domain, that is pretty serious. Requires broader consensus, BRFA at min. Checking

@GreenC: This isn't to remove them from articles. It's to remove from the requested articles pages; where such links are far too frequently self-referential spam (often in entries without any additional independent source). RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 14:51, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ahh sorry I didn't click through to that page which is spam flypaper. -- GreenC 14:59, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, seems like it is a permanent magnet for that kind of stuff. At least PC is keeping it from further ballooning out of control. I've decided to take an axe to the rest; though. It's already down by a significant margin. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 15:06, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

87 articles will need to be tagged at the new Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/France at major beauty pageants. We also request that all unique creators of these articles be notified using the {{Afd notice}} listing their respective creations on the list. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 06:05, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This looks to be  Done. Primefac (talk) 16:00, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hey all, hoping an AWB master could be deployed to help in the project space. Many, many WikiProject pages have code at the bottom that begins with:

[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/transcluded_changes.py/ . . .

and of course that link is now bad (gives 404 error on toolserver); but since the pages use tools:, this is not really a URL change request. An example use is at WP:WikiProject Geelong#External watchlist.

All instances in the Wikipedia namespace that begin with the above string can be deleted, together with all other characters up until the closing ]]; there is no retcon that will fix it. There are 499 instances. Thanks in advance, UnitedStatesian (talk) 00:44, 24 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

•  Doing... ~TNT (she/they • talk) 12:28, 1 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]