User talk:WOSlinker

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Help with protected pages

Hey, can you remove the subst template from the following protected pages per Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/VWF bot 5? The bot couldn't remove them.

Gonnym (talk) 08:56, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Done -- WOSlinker (talk) 09:07, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Gonnym (talk) 09:18, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Can you also help with

and replace the tt tags with {{Mono}}? Gonnym (talk) 13:05, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Done, also updated border-radius style on editnotice -- WOSlinker (talk) 18:01, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Big misnested tag pattern for the bot

Thanks so much for running your misnested tag bot! If you're looking for a big pile to work on, the HostBot patterns linked from Wikipedia:Linter/Signature submissions appear to represent around 5,000 of the 81,000 remaining misnested tag errors. Let me know if you need any help finding patterns for your bot. – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:40, 8 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

If you can, could also add the fixed lint errors tag to your bot edits? I'm not sure if you run it with Pywikibot but if so, I've explained at Wikipedia:Linter#Bots how to add it. Gonnym (talk) 10:06, 8 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I'm just doing the talk and wikipedia namespaces to start with. Will look at those later on. I'm running with some javascript automation, so not sure how to add the tag with that. -- WOSlinker (talk) 10:15, 8 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

ChatGPT says to put the block below after document.getElementById('wpMinoredit').checked = true;

// Add change tag
var form = document.getElementById('editform');
if (form && !form.wpChangeTags) {
    var tagInput = document.createElement('input');
    tagInput.type = 'hidden';
    tagInput.name = 'wpChangeTags';
    tagInput.value = 'fixed lint errors';
    form.appendChild(tagInput);
}

No idea if this work though. Gonnym (talk) 18:18, 8 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Just tried that and it worked. -- WOSlinker (talk) 19:15, 8 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, that worked for me too! Interesting. I hope it helps somebody. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:22, 8 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

WOSlinkerBot causing html5 misnests

Hi, your bot caused a misnest here. — Tenshi! (Talk page) 21:00, 9 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

That is some terrible GIGO, and totally understandable. WOSlinker, you might want to visit each page that your bot edits to ensure that it does not create new problems. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:32, 9 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know. -- WOSlinker (talk) 23:35, 9 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Redirects

Last time I checked we don't usually remove redirects just because they exist. Any reason you're doing this to dozens of templates? Primefac (talk) 22:31, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

While there is no point in removing redirects when they are just pointing at other pages, when doing transculusions, it all adds to the "Pages transcluded" list shown at the bottom of a page when editing it. Not using redirected templates inside other templates helps reduce this list. No point in doing all pages as that is many thousands but a few hundred templates is not that many to update. -- WOSlinker (talk) 23:01, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]