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Playstation, Blu-Ray and such

This search finds over 3500 articles with "Playstation", all of which (or almost all) should be "PlayStation". Similarly, "Blu-Ray" should be "Blu-ray" in nearly 3000 articles. These are among the common errors hinted at in Wikipedia:Database reports/Linked miscapitalizations; I keep fixing links to them, so the number of links is small, but they keep coming back and the errors in contexts that are not links aren't getting reported. If someone would like to make an AWB setup to run now and then to catch such things, that would sure help stamp out widespread errors. Other common capitalization errors like failure to CamelCase in Paypal, Pepsico, Linkedin, Github, Doordash, Eastenders, etc., would also be good to catch and are also hinted at in that report. Some attention or smart pattern matching is needed to avoid changing in file names and such. Dicklyon (talk) 10:41, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

These seem like perfect easy non-controversial tasks of the right size for AWB. Any takers? I've also got about 600 over-capitaliations of train stations amenties ("Ticket Machines, Customer Service, Shops, Vending Machines") in this search; easy to fix with AWB. Dicklyon (talk) 10:13, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

Some of these are already covered in existing capitalization rules and some rules need updating to cover permutations not already covered. Will take a bit of time. Neils51 (talk) 11:53, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

An UNESCO -> A UNESCO

As a mirror to the MBA one above we have 200 or so of "An/an UNESCO -> A/a UNESCO" with an exception for "Tràng An UNESCO" and "Hoi An. UNESCO-MAB" - I'll leave these ones up for testing a regex. Ϣere SpielChequers 16:49, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

Will look at this. Yes, please don't do any fixes. Can't supply timeframe. Neils51 (talk) 09:10, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

"an UNICEF" had the same problem though i've fixed the current batch, but hopefully you could include that in your regex. We also have 27 examples of "an UFO", I've fixed one that was in a short description, and there is another in a quote that I suspect you'll leave. But that leaves 25 that hopefully AWB can fix and prevent recurring. Ϣere SpielChequers 20:12, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

Have installed this. AWB won't pickup some items in links. Suggest copy the RETF and install into your AWB->Options->Normal Settings (select Case Sensitive,Regex,Enabled) to cater for links. Neils51 (talk) 20:47, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Also "a NZ" -> "an NZ"[2] ―Panamitsu (talk) 23:13, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

And "a/A URL" or "a url" to "an/An URL" I've looked at the 28 examples, I didn't see a false positive and left them in place for regex testing. Ϣere SpielChequers 14:07, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

Removing Orthodox Church piped links

I was wondering if this action could be performed to remove this wikitext reduncancy I've noticed time and time again on many articles.

It's to remove every instance of [[Serbian Orthodox Church|Serbian Orthodox]], [[Romanian Orthodox Church|Romanian Orthodox]], [[Bulgarian Orthodox Church|Bulgarian Orthodox]] and [[Russian Orthodox Church|Russian Orthodox]] on English WP and replace them with [[Serbian Orthodox]], [[Romanian Orthodox]], [[Bulgarian Orthodox]] and [[Russian Orthodox]] respectively.

There are like other similar ones regarding piped links to Greek Orthodox Church, Macedonian Orthodox Church, Polish Orthodox Church, Belarusian Orthodox Church, etc. Could these also likewise be trimmed similarly to the examples I gave above? Thanks in advance. 𝔅𝔦𝔰-𝔖𝔢𝔯𝔧𝔢𝔱𝔞? 20:30, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

Bis-Serjetà?, bad idea per WP:COSMETICBOT. — Qwerfjkl talk 21:41, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

This isn't a bad idea (and it's definitely not a black and white issue). If you'd like to make these changes, feel free, but just make sure that you're also making a visible change to the article while you're at it. WP:COSMETICBOT even makes this suggestion "Such changes should not usually be done on their own, but may be allowed in an edit that also includes a substantive change." There are lots of ways to make the necessary substantive changes required like typo-fixing, changing hypens to en-dashes where appropriate, improving poor link choices, adjusting image placement. This list is quite large; just use your imagination and have an artistic sense about it. Dawnseeker2000 04:20, 20 March 2025 (UTC)