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
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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. Skip if no auto tag changes or contains "orphan" after changes. |
October 2024 |
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. | November 2024 |
4 | Change {{Unreferenced}} to {{More citations needed}} from articles with at least one reference | Approved | Search for |
December 2024 |
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) | October 2024 |
8 | Change {{Unreferenced}} to {{BLP unsourced}} for articles in Category:Living people | Approved | Search for |
December 2024 |
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. | October 2024 |
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. | December 2023 |
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") | December 2024 |
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 2024 |
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 the spam black list log to see if any more domains should be added to the bot's skip list. |
December 2024 |
24 | Remove invalid |author= parameters from citation templates
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Approved | When reference creation tools suggest citation templates to be added to articles, users sometimes save the suggestions without first removing/fixing incorrect |author= parameters. This bot removes/fixes those incorrect values (e.g. this edit)
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November 2024 |
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. Run in pre-parse mode with Auto Tag and General Fixes off, and then run for real with those on. |
March 2024 |
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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December 2024 |
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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November 2024 |
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 2024 |
32 | Fix Category:Pages which use a template in place of a magic word | Approved | Uses WP:AWB/GF and find/replace rules | December 2024 |
33 | Remove article categories from pages in the Draft namespace | Approved | Expanded task 9 to pages in the Draft namespace per WP:DRAFTNOCAT | October 2024 |
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.
Use this query - thanks EpicPupper! |
February 2024 |
38 | Fix wikilinks in {{Album ratings}} | Approved | Expands BattyBot 28 to also fix wikilinks in {{Album ratings}}, such as this edit. | October 2024 |
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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February 2024 |
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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January 2024 |
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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January 2024 |
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) | December 2024 |
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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January 2024 |
50 | Combine {{portal}} templates | Approved | Combine multiple {{portal}} templates in articlespace and on category pages. | January 2024 |
53 | Remove Year/Date of birth missing categories | Approved |
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October 2024 |
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}} | October 2024 |
56 | Fix layout per WP:LAYOUT | Approved | Use AWB general fixes to properly order "See also", "References", and "External links" sections
Search database dump with Limit results to: 50000 |
January 2024 |
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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February 2024 |
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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January 2024 |
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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August 2023 |
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}}.
Also remove empty Trivia sections per WP:TRIVIA |
December 2024 |
63 | Fix drafts in maintenance categories | Approved | Expand tasks 32 and 46 to the Draft namespace | January 2024 |
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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December 2024 |
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. | December 2024 |
67 | Fix citations with unrecognized language | Approved | To remove articles and drafts from Category:CS1 maint: unrecognized language, this bot task will fix citations that contain an invalid value in the |language= parameter.
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December 2024 |
68 | Add WikiProject templates | Approved | Add WikiProject templates to a list of appropriate talk pages. | November 2023 |
69 | Fix |doi= parameters
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Approved | Fix articles and drafts in Category:CS1 errors: DOI by removing https://doi.org/ or other domain name from the |doi= parameter of a citation template (e.g. this edit).
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November 2024 |
70 | Remove WikiProject |needs-infobox= parameters from talk pages where the article has an infobox
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Approved |
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March 2024 |
72 | Change {{Empty section}} to {{No plot}} | Approved | In empty "Plot" sections, change {{Empty section}} to the more specific {{No plot}} | December 2024 |
74 | Convert maintenance templates to their BLP variants | Approved | Use PetScan to search for intersection of "Category:All articles needing additional references" and "Category:Living people". Then convert the following templates as follows:
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February 2024 |
75 | Convert maintenance templates from their BLP variants | Approved | Perform the opposite of BattyBot 74: For articles in Category:#### deaths (but not in the last 3 years), convert BLP maintenance templates to their generic counterparts, such as:
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March 2024 |
76 | Remove duplicate WikiProject banners | Approved | For pages in Category:Pages using WikiProject banner shell with duplicate banner templates, remove duplicate WikiProject templates (e.g. this edit). This bot's definition of "duplicate" is that the WikiProject template and every parameter is included the same WikiProject template on the same page. | April 2024 |
77 | Change {{Expand section}} to {{More plot}} | Approved | Similar to task 72, change {{Expand section}} to the more specific {{More plot}} | February 2024 |
79 | Fix/remove unknown WikiProject parameters | Approved | Fix WikiProject template parameters (e.g. impotance → importance , importancelow → importance=low ) and remove unsupported WikiProject template parameters to remove pages from subcategories of Category:WikiProject templates with unknown parameters.
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April 2024 |
82 | Fix citations to remove superfluous text from |issue= parameter
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Approved | To remove articles from Category:CS1 errors: extra text: issue, this bot task will fix citations that contain variations of the word "Volume" in the |issue= parameter (e.g. this edit).
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April 2024 |
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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.