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BLP tagging

I'm hoping somewhere here is more familiar with the correct policy on this. According to the section on this page, AWB "removes |blp=no, |activepol=no, |collapsed=no" from banner shells. It also says:

If WikiProject Biography exists inside the shell:

with |living=no then removes |blp=yes if exists

with |living=yes then adds |blp=yes

with |activepol=yes then adds |actipol=yes

with |blpo=yes then adds |blpo=yes

This means that talk pages with blp=no in their banner shell will lose the living parameter when AWB is run on the page. The living parameter is required on all biographies per Template:WikiProject banner shell#Parameters. See this edit for example. The biography articles without a living parameter category has a sudden 650+ page backlog because of this. I'm assuming this is supposed to happen but I don't understand the point. Are articles supposed to have the blp parameter in the banner shell or in the WikiProject Biography template? Is the |living= alias preferred over blp=? Does this change if the subject is living or dead? Because right now AWB just seems to be removing living parameters and not replacing them.

Thanks in advance, Clear friend a ^💬 17:04, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Can this please be fixed? AWB General Fixes should not be removing blp=no as it is still a valid, possibly required, setting for dead people according to {{WikiProject banner shell}}. Changing living to BLP must remain. The-Pope (talk) 03:43, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please see Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Archive 34#Removal of blp parameter by genfixes. I was told this was fixed, so hopefully it was — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 06:35, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, but I'm not a coder, but that comment about "it's fixed" by User:Rjwilmsi was dated October 2024, but the latest AWB version V6311 is still dated August 2024, unless there is a beta version available somewhere. The-Pope (talk) 14:18, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Per New_AWB_snapshot I have created a new snapshot release of AWB, a beta version if you like. It includes all changes since last release. Rjwilmsi 19:04, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/General fixes#WikiProjectBannerShell fixes (WikiProjectBannerShell) probably needs an update if this is now fixed. -Kj cheetham (talk) 11:27, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

AWB 6.4.0.0 does not condense duplicated references

In uk:Вступ Болгарії до Європейського Союзу AWB does not condense 2 named references: p24 and Ragaru042. It seems these refs meet all requirements. Is it OK? A.sav (talk) 08:21, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The text has refs named Ragaru042 and Ragaru04, they are both named but have different names, so DuplicateUnnamedReferences isn't relevant. Rjwilmsi 14:52, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

AddMissingReflist with list-defined references and empty group attribute

[1] was an unnecessary/incorrect WP:COSMETICEDIT. Should AWB check for and stop when detecting an <references> tag despite an empty group="" attribute and/or list-defined references? 216.58.25.209 (talk) 14:42, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, same was reported and has been fixed for next AWB release under T388328. Rjwilmsi 14:49, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]