Category talk:CS1 errors: URL

Excluded namespaces

The note states "Pages in the User, User talk, and Wikipedia talk namespaces are not included in the error tracking categories." Should other namespaces be excluded, such as Talk, Help talk, Module talk, Template talk? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 01:20, 3 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You might want to take this question to Module talk:Citation/CS1/Archive 7#Error categories and user pages.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 01:44, 3 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Request to expand

Could this category please be expanded to also capture URLs starting with "hhttp" (e.g. New Jersey Devils reference #77) and "hhttps" (e.g. Hiyasmin Neri reference #2)? If so, I would expand BattyBot's task to fix them. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 03:51, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

An insource:hhttp search turns up 58 instances. Is that really enough of a problem for us to change Module:citation/CS1?

—Trappist the monk (talk) 12:15, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Trappist the monk: Having them included in the category would make them easier to find and fix quickly. I will go fix these manually now. I trust you have a better sense of the impact of making this change when you are implementing other changes to the module. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 19:12, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Right now, the tests are: (1) does the value assigned to |url= look like it might be a relative protocol uri? (2) are there zero or more characters that are not a forward slash preceding a colon? (^[^/]*:). There are at least 80 permanent uri schemes plus some number more that are provisional, historic, or other. To properly identify uri schemes that aren't correct, Module:Citation/CS1 must know which are correct. This of course, is doable. The question is: should we. This backwater is probably not the place to discuss that possibility.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 23:41, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]