ActivelyDisinterested, or AD, or they, but not LCU.
I generally deal with technical issues around WP:V, one day I hope to upgrade Wikipedia's perceived reliability from meme worthy to just unreliable.
If I corrected an error that you couldn't see any error message for, you need to turn these error messages on as detailed in Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors.
Backlog: Harv and Sfn no-target errors |
If you are trying to deal with an new editor/IP (creating pages with / adding content that is) broken and poorly translated about Papua New Guinea see LTA Sony Esau Mbisikmbo.
Stuff to remember
[edit]{{harvc}}, {{Db-r2}}, {{Copyvio-revdel}}, MOS:SANDWICH, MOS:IMGSIZE, MOS:SECTIONLOC, MOS:CURLY, WP:PAREN, MOS:ORDER, WP:CS:EMBED, Module:Footnotes/whitelist, phab:T355914, as I'm always forgetting the right links.
For when I need to edit them:
User:ActivelyDisinterested/common.js
User:ActivelyDisinterested/common.css
{{navbox}} automatically adds the class nowraplinks which can be overridden, for example with |listclass=wraplinks.
Editting
[edit]In general I'm currently fixing no target errors, such edits usually have a summary including the tracking category:
Harv and Sfn no-target errors(4,520)
For when it doesn't update correctly
These seem to have some common causes.
Process for whitelisting False positives
I edit nearly exclusively on mobile using the desktop site, and apart from a few edits using reFill to de-duplicate refs or InternetArchiveBot to add archives, all my edits are done manually in source.
@&#£ing @&#% Category:Pages with broken anchors has 70,673 entries.
Things to check on
[edit]Unreliable sources:
Not a reliable source
Not a reliable source either
Use of w.wiki, it's going to become a problem
All the same things, but I can't get the regex right:
Sneaky uses of Wikipedia as a reference (a)
Sneaky uses of Wikipedia as a reference (b)
Sneaky uses of Wikipedia as a reference (b)
Misspellings:
Yhere
Yhey
Yhe
Formatting issues:
harvnb used in |ref=
Clear-up:
sfn whitelist clear-up
Category:Articles citing retracted publications
Category:Articles citing publications with expressions of concern
Category:Articles citing publications with errata
Merging identical references by the bot
Help talk:Footnotes/Archive 2#Mass merging of unnamed identical references and naming of those references
botno
Useful stuff
[edit]Wikipedia Library
Earwig's Copyvio Detector
For when you're being lazy
InternetArchiveBot
PetScan because why would you name it CatScan that would be to easy to find.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors
Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request
Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia
Keep an eye on these:
Filter 1254
Replication lag
Category:Module:Wd reference errors(48)
Special:TopicSubscriptions
Alternative account
[edit]I have an undisclosed single purpose account used to maintain privacy.[1][2] Its work is completely unrelated to this account.