Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests/Archive 6
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Please Read the FAQ
I hope this doesn't seem bitey, but it would be so helpful to have a script that could let me answer/close a post with a kindly-worded "Please read the FAQ" message on articles that are getting huge numbers of redundant posts for days and weeks on end after a major incident. It's a major time-waster for editors. —valereee (talk) 18:42, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
- Valereee, is this just a script to reply to a person on a talk page with that message, your signature, maybe a ping, and using the proper indent? Does the script need to add {{archivetop}}{{archivebottom}} around it? Any other requirements? –Novem Linguae (talk) 14:03, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
- Novem Linguae, ideally it would be able to answer and close a discussion or semi-protected edit request, in the case of a semi-protected edit request also mark it answered, but not archive it. I usually don't archive early as I'm hoping other new editors coming in to make similar requests will see there are already ten on the page and maybe not ask after all. :) —valereee (talk) 15:32, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
- Some sort of language like, "Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia. The edit you're requesting has been discussed multiple times. For more information, see the FAQ at the top of this page. Thank you!" —valereee (talk) 15:33, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
In progress User:Novem_Linguae/Scripts/edit-request-read-faq.js –Novem Linguae (talk) 17:37, 10 December 2020 (UTC)- Sorry. I haven't had as much time to work on this as I would like. I will try to finish this when I get some free time. Also, I ran across another tool that doesn't do exactly this, but might be helpful for quickly replying to edit requests: User:Jackmcbarn/editProtectedHelper –Novem Linguae (talk) 07:32, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
- @Novem Linguae, that .js -- is that safe to install and try, or were you saying it's not quite ready for prime time yet? —valereee (talk) 11:09, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
Done. Valereee. Hello there! I'm happy to report that I spent a few hours on it this morning and got it working. Feel free to install and use. It probably has some bugs, please check carefully each time you use it, and please report any buggy diffs. Happy editing. –Novem Linguae (talk) 14:03, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
- Wow, thanks! Will do! —valereee (talk) 14:05, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
- @Novem Linguae, that .js -- is that safe to install and try, or were you saying it's not quite ready for prime time yet? —valereee (talk) 11:09, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
- Some sort of language like, "Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia. The edit you're requesting has been discussed multiple times. For more information, see the FAQ at the top of this page. Thank you!" —valereee (talk) 15:33, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
- Novem Linguae, ideally it would be able to answer and close a discussion or semi-protected edit request, in the case of a semi-protected edit request also mark it answered, but not archive it. I usually don't archive early as I'm hoping other new editors coming in to make similar requests will see there are already ten on the page and maybe not ask after all. :) —valereee (talk) 15:32, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
- @Valereee: I think this one is relevant and probably may be reused: User:Enterprisey/reply-link. You can configure it in your commons.js to point out to the FAQ like so:
window.replyLinkPreloadPingTpl = "Please, READ [[Wikipedia:FAQ]]";. AXONOV (talk) ⚑ 09:46, 14 May 2021 (UTC)- An addition to DannyS712's User:DannyS712/DiscussionCloser.js ? Cabayi (talk) 10:31, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
Wikilink News Citations
The idea would be to identify a list common sources in the publication= field of a news citation, and use the script to wikilink them to the relevant page.
For example, Reuters to Reuters or New York Times to The New York Times. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RoanokeVirginia (talk • contribs) 10:28, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
- There is no
|publication=parameter in cs1|2. When Reuters or AP or AFP or other news agencies are directly referenced, their name goes in|work=. When The New York Times or San Francisco Chronicle or other news papers are referenced, their names (without italic markup) go in|newspaper=(or optionally,|work=). When citing a news source that is using work from a news agency (Reuters, AP, AFP, etc), the agency name goes in|agency=and the news source name goes in the appropriate 'work' parameter. None of these types of names belong in|publisher=. - I would otherwise object to this script because, in general, wikilinking every news source name just because it is a news source name seems to me to be sea-of-blue-like clutter. Wikilink news sources that are not familiar so that readers can easily evaluate that source's reliability;
common sources
, like the two you mentioned, do not need to be wikilinked to establish their reliability. - —Trappist the monk (talk) 15:08, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
External to internal links
A script for changing external links to internal links if applicable. ― Qwerfjkl | 𝕋𝔸𝕃𝕂 (please use {{reply to|Qwerfjkl}} on reply) 20:32, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
- meta:User:TMg/autoFormatter claims to fix this problem. You can find a list of pages at CheckWiki error 90. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:46, 23 June 2021 (UTC)