User:ReferenceBot
Deactivated
This bot is no longer active on Wikipedia.
 | This user account is a bot operated by A930913 (talk). It is used to make repetitive automated or semi-automated edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually, in accordance with the bot policy. This bot was previously approved but has since been retired, and therefore shouldn't be making edits that appear to be unassisted except in the operator's or its own user and user talk space. Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it. |
| This user is a bot | |
|---|---|
| (talk · contribs) | |
| Operator | A930913 |
| Author | A930913 |
| Approved? | RETIRED Yes |
| Flagged? | No |
| Task | Inform editors that they may have broken the references on a page |
| Edit rate | ?/day |
| Edit period | Daily |
| Automatic or manual? | Automatic |
| Programming language | Python |
| Exclusion compliant? | Yes |
| Source code published? | If someone wants it, bug me to release it. |
| Emergency shutoff-compliant? | Yes |
| Other information | ReferenceBot is run from the Wikimedia Laboratories. |
What the Bot Does
[edit]ReferenceBot finds edits from the previous day that cause referencing errors, and notifies the editors requesting that they fix them. ReferenceBot does not fix any errors.
If it has to create a talk page for the user, it will {{welcome}} them.
ReferenceBot notifies editors about edits that add articles to the following categories:
- Category:CS1 errors: arXiv
- Category:CS1 errors: authorlink
- Category:CS1 errors: coauthors without author
- Category:CS1 errors: DOI
- Category:CS1 errors: ISSN
- Category:CS1 errors: LCCN
- Category:CS1 errors: OL
- Category:CS1 errors: PMC
- Category:CS1 errors: PMID
- Category:Pages with archiveurl citation errors
- Category:Pages with citations having redundant parameters
- Category:Pages with citations having wikilinks embedded in URL titles
- Category:Pages with citations using conflicting page specifications
- Category:Pages with citations using translated terms without the original
- Category:Pages with citations using unnamed parameters
- Category:Pages with citations using unsupported parameters
- Category:Pages with DOI errors
- Category:Pages with empty citations
- Category:Pages with ISBN errors
- Category:Pages with OL errors
- Category:Pages with URL errors
- Category:Pages with broken reference names
- Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting
- Category:Pages with missing references list
Template
[edit]The current templates used are {{User:ReferenceBot/inform/top}}, {{User:ReferenceBot/inform/middle}} and {{User:ReferenceBot/inform/bottom}}.
In Case of Malfunction
[edit]Emergency bot shutoff button
Administrators: Use this button if the bot is malfunctioning. (direct link)
Non-administrators can a malfunctioning bot to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.