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329:. ReferenceBot notifies editors when they make a change to an article that adds that article to a reference error category. In general, this means that the editor introduced a reference syntax error to the article. Here's the summary of the original request: "Daily, check the categories, Pages with broken reference names, Pages with incorrect ref formatting and Pages with missing references list, for new pages, and messages the user that placed it there, asking them to fix it." This BRfA expands the number of categories in which this bot operates. To be specific, these categories will be added: 381:. The reason that the above categories have been chosen is that all of the article errors in those categories have been fixed (Pages with citations using unnamed parameters gets about 10-15 new articles a day and hasn't been cleaned out in about a month, in anticipation of this bot becoming active). Because the categories have been cleaned out for a while, we know that reversions of recent edits will not cause an article to be added to one of those categories. This will reduce the likelihood that a reverting editor will be blamed for adding erroneous citation syntax to an article. 425: 48: 386:
New articles are added to the above categories at a rate of about 20-30 a day; the purpose of this bot would be to reduce that rate by notifying editors within a day of the edit that causes a page to be put in the category. Sorry if this explanation was too long. I tried to explain thoroughly, and in
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I re-iterate the desirability of publishing your sources, in whatever state they are in. I see the task as incremental increase in scope of an already approved task, one that does not appear to have generated any angst in the community.
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This BRfA is asking for permission to add more reference error categories to the bot's scope. It will notify editors, for example, if a change they make to an article results in that article being added to
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I'm not clear what this BRfA is asking for. Also, please provide source code.
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P.S. The question of source code was responded to in the original BRfA. –
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Pages with citations using translated terms without the original‎
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate.
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To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at
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To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at
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Pages with citations having wikilinks embedded in URL titles
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Pages with citations using conflicting page specifications
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and approve them before I go away in a few days? Thanks,
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This BRfA is asking to expand the scope of activity for
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Knowledge:Bots
Requests for approval
WT:BRFA
ReferenceBot 2
BRFA
Approved BRFAs
talk
contribs
count
SUL
logs
page moves
block log
rights log
flag
A930913
talk
contribs
SUL
edit count
logs
page moves
block log
rights log
ANI search
UTC
Programming language
Source code
Knowledge:Bot_requests/Archive_57#New_REFBot
Knowledge:Bots/Requests_for_approval/ReferenceBot

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