User:BattyBot
This user account is a bot that uses AutoWikiBrowser, operated by GoingBatty (talk). It is used to make repetitive automated or semi-automated edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually, in accordance with the bot policy. The bot is approved and currently active – the relevant request for approval can be seen here. To stop this bot until restarted by the bot's owner, edit its talk page. If that page is a redirect, edit that original redirecting page, not the target of the redirect. Administrators: if this bot continues causing harm after receiving a message, please block it or remove from the approved accounts. |
My owner's username GoingBatty was inspired by a frequently used Batman pun - see this book as an example. The bot was named to take advantage of the alliteration. |
You can stop BattyBot by adding a message to its talk page. All other comments are welcome at User talk:GoingBatty. |
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Tasks[edit]
Active (some more than others)[edit]
- Yellow = Uses database dump
- Red = Talk page fixes
Task # | Task | Status | Brief Description | Last Run |
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2 | Remove {{Orphan}} from articles with more than two incoming links | Approved | Run this query to find articles with more than two incoming links. |
April 2022 |
3 | Remove {{Dead end}} from articles with at least one wikilink | Approved | Dead-end pages are defined as those that have "no internal links to other Wikipedia articles." Run against articles in Category:All dead-end pages. Skip if no auto tag changes or contains "dead end" after changes. | April 2022 |
4 | Change {{Unreferenced}} to {{More citations needed}} from articles with at least one reference | Approved | Search for |
March 2022 |
7 | Remove {{Multiple issues}} | Approved | Remove Multiple issues template if has no parameters, convert it to the original template if it has only one parameter (e.g. this edit) | March 2022 |
8 | Change {{Unreferenced}} to {{BLP unsourced}} for articles in Category:Living people | Approved | Search for |
March 2022 |
9 | Remove article categories from user pages per WP:USERNOCAT | Approved | On user pages, change any article categories from [[Category:Foo]] to [[:Category:Foo]] (e.g. this edit) Does not change any categories beginning with "Wikipedia" or "WikiProject". See Wikipedia:Database reports/Polluted categories. | April 2022 |
13 | Add parameter to {{Notability}} templates | Approved | For all articles with an infobox, add the appropriate parameter to {{Notability}}. For example, for articles with {{Infobox film}}, change {{Notability|date=October 2012}} to {{Notability|Films|date=October 2012}}. See more examples at User:BattyBot/Notability. | January 2022 |
17 | Fix {{Infobox company}} |num_employees= number format
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Approved | Per WP:MOSNUM, replace full stop with comma (e.g. "7.000" → "7,000") | October 2021 |
21 | Update talk pages per Wikipedia:Talk page layout | Approved | If there are three or more WikiProject templates, add {{WikiProject banner shell}}. Perform any other talk page general fixes at the same time. See this edit for an example. See User:Magioladitis/WikiProjects for a list of rules and User:BattyBot/WikiProject groups for a list of groups to use. | April 2022 |
23 | Fix citation templates to add http:// to start of www URL when missing | Approved | Go through Category:CS1 errors: URL and use AWB's general fixes to add http:// to the start of the URL when missing.Note: After running, check Special:Log/spamblacklist to see if any more domains should be added to the bot's skip list. |
March 2022 |
24 | Remove invalid |author= parameters from citation templates
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Approved | When Reflinks suggests citation templates to be added to articles, users sometimes save the suggestions without first removing/fixing incorrect |author= parameters, such as "Log in om een reactie te plaatsen." for YouTube. This bot removes/fixes those incorrect values (e.g. this edit)
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April 2022 |
25 | Fix articles in Category:CS1 errors: dates | Approved | Find and replace incorrect date formats in citation templates (per MOS:DATEFORMAT) to remove Check date values in: |date messages displayed to readers and/or remove articles from Category:CS1 errors: dates. User:BattyBot/CS1 errors-dates contains the AWB module used for this task. See Help:Citation Style 1 for more information, and Help talk:Citation Style 1 for discussion.
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March 2022 |
28 | Fix incorrect wikilinks in citation templates | Approved | Fix incorrect wikilinks in the work/journal/magazine/newspaper/publisher parameters of citation templates. For example: [[Billboard]] → [[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] (e.g. this diff)
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April 2022 |
29 | Fix incorrect wikilinks in the |genre= parameter of music-related infoboxes
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Approved | In the |genre= parameter of music-related infoboxes, fix incorrect wikilinks such as [[country]] to [[country music|country]] or [[metal]] to [[heavy metal music|metal]] (e.g. this edit). See User:BattyBot/Music genres for details.
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April 2022 |
30 | Add |living=yes or |living=no to {{WikiProject Biography}}
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Approved | For article talk pages in Category:Biography articles without living parameter, update {{WikiProject Biography}} for living people with |living=yes and dead people with |living=no . This would be determined as follows:
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April 2022 |
32 | Fix Category:Pages which use a template in place of a magic word | Approved | Uses WP:AWB/GF and find/replace rules | April 2022 |
33 | Remove article categories from pages in the Draft namespace | Approved | Expanded task 9 to pages in the Draft namespace | April 2022 |
34 | Add {{WikiProject Disambiguation}} to existing talk pages for all disambiguation pages | Approved | Per Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation#Templates, this bot will NOT create talk pages that have no discussion. | March 2022 |
38 | Fix wikilinks in {{Album ratings}} | Approved | Expands BattyBot 28 to also fix wikilinks in {{Album ratings}}, such as this edit. | April 2022 |
39 | Fix incorrect piped wikilinks | Approved | The pipe trick does not work in some places (such as within <ref> and <gallery> tags), which leaves code such as [[Subject (disambiguator)|]] visible to the readers. This bot would change these to [[Subject (disambiguator)|Subject]] so the intended wikilinks will be displayed properly. (e.g. this edit)
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March 2022 |
40 | When adding {{WikiProject Disambiguation}} (task 34), also update |class= , |importance= and |auto= in other WikiProject templates
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Approved |
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March 2022 |
43 | Remove maintenance templates from redirect pages | Approved | Remove stub templates and other maintenance templates (e.g. {{notability}}, {{unreferenced}}, {{refimprove}} from redirect pages. Search database dump with Singleline checked, Ignore comments checked and Ignore redirects unchecked for:
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March 2022 |
46 | Fix citations to remove articles from extra text maintenance categories | Approved | To remove articles from Category:CS1 errors: extra text: edition and Category:CS1 errors: extra text: pages, this bot task will fix citations that have parameters that contain text that duplicates static text provided by the template. (e.g. this edit) | April 2022 |
49 | Fix dates in template date parameters | Approved | Fix date misspellings in date parameters in other templates using the code at User:BattyBot/Date fixes. For example:
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March 2022 |
50 | Combine {{portal}} templates | Approved | Combine multiple {{portal}} templates in articlespace and on category pages. | March 2022 |
53 | Remove Year/Date of birth missing categories | Approved |
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March 2022 |
55 | Add {{uncategorized}} or {{uncategorized stub}} | Approved | Add {{uncategorized}} or {{uncategorized stub}} to articles listed in the toolsever app that are not categorized and not yet tagged with {{uncategorized}} or {{uncategorized stub}} | March 2022 |
56 | Fix layout per WP:LAYOUT | Approved | Use AWB general fixes to properly order "See also", "References", and "External links" sections | March 2022 |
57 | Remove stub categories from articles that are not stubs | Approved | Perform a database search for \[\[Category\:([^]]+) stubs\]\] and change it to {{$1-stub}} . If AWB's general fixes then removes the stub template(s) due to the length of the article, the bot will save the edit (e.g. this edit).
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March 2022 |
59 | Remove line breaks in citation templates that cause templates to not display properly | Approved | Search the database dump for citation templates such as (\{\{\s*[Cc]ite)\s*\n\s*(book|journal|news|web|GovTrack) and remove the line break by replacing them with $1 $2 like this.
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March 2022 |
61 | Fix |nationality= field in various person infoboxes
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Approved | Change values in the |nationality= field from country names to nationalities (e.g. United Kingdom or [[United Kingdom]] → British, United States or [[United States]] → American). See the list of infoboxes and countries/nationalities at User:BattyBot/Nationality.
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November 2021 |
62 | Remove some empty sections | Approved | Remove empty Bibliography, Further reading, Gallery, Notes, See also, and External links sections, which may be tagged with {{empty section}} | March 2022 |
63 | Fix drafts in maintenance categories | Approved | Expand tasks 32 and 46 to the Draft namespace | April 2022 |
64 | Fix citations to remove superfluous text from |volume= parameter
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Approved | To remove articles from Category:CS1 errors: extra text: volume, this bot task will fix citations that contain variations of the word "Volume" in the |volume= parameter
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April 2022 |
65 | Fix citations to remove extra punctuation | Approved | To remove articles and drafts from Category:CS1 maint: extra punctuation, this bot task will remove extraneous trailing punctuation or a leading equals sign from a parameter. | April 2022 |
Future ideas[edit]
Task # | Task | Status | Brief Description |
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?? | Change {{unreferenced}} to {{unreferenced section}} if under section header | Concept stage | Avoid edits like this |
?? | Change {{refimprove}} to {{BLP sources}} | Concept stage | Run against articles in {{refimprove}} and Category:Living people |
?? | Change {{primary sources}} to {{BLP primary sources}} | Concept stage | Run against articles in {{primary sources}} and Category:Living people |
?? | Change {{cleanup}} to {{cleanup film}} | Concept stage | Run against articles in {{cleanup}} and {{Infobox film}} and varieties |
?? | Remove |date=1970-01-01 from {{cite web}}
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Concept stage | Added incorrectly from tools such as WP:REFLINKS |
?? | Fix capitalization in section headers | Concept stage | e.g. "External Links" or "see also" |
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General fixes[edit]
When BattyBot is running one of the tasks above, you may notice it makes additional changes. These changes are part of AutoWikiBrowser's general fixes. Clicking on the "general fixes" link in the edit summary will take you to the list of these fixes. To discuss the general fixes with the AWB developers, you can start a discussion at Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser. If you're concerned about edits made to a particular article, please let me know and I'll be happy to work with you to improve the article.