Wikipedia

Deltaspace42

Joined 28 August 2020
This editor is a Most Perfect Tutnum and is entitled to display this Book of Knowledge with Coffee Cup Stain and Cigarette Burn.
Wikipedia ad for Wikipedia:HotCat
Wikipedia adsfile info – #286

Hello! Let's improve Wikipedia together!

edit

Fight with vandalism

edit
  1. Go to recent changes.
  2. Use Likely have problems and Latest revision filters.
  3. Look at all diffs
  4. If it is vandalism, revert it with Twinkle and give warnings on user's talk page
  5. If user persists, report here.

Diffuse categories (recategorize pages so that they go to subcategories of current category)

edit
  1. Often pages are included both in the category and its subcategory which is rarely a good thing. Remove the parent category from the page in this case.
  2. Use HotCat (see ad on the top) when you need to fix one page.
  3. Use StubSorter when you need to change stub templates.
  4. Use Cat-a-lot when you need to move many pages at once to the subcategory.
  5. Category:Free software once had over 400 pages! I went over each page and recategorized it by including a category like by open-source license used or programming language it was written in. Took me 2 days to finish the job, now this category contains only 6 pages. There are still many categories like this: Category:Overpopulated_categories

Fix spelling mistakes (typos)

edit
  1. Type in the search box some word with a typo (for example, "funtion" or "for for" - duplicate words).
  2. When you search for duplicate words, use double quotes and regex
    • For example, I adopted the typo "the the", so when I search for duplicate "the" I type:
    • "the the" insource:/the the /[typo 1]
  3. If there are pages with this typo, they will all be listed
  4. Go to these pages and fix the typo
  1. ^ "the the" insource:/the (\[\[[^\]\|]*\|The |\[\[The [^\]\|]*\]\])/ - this for capturing duplicates with internal link texts (currently over 600 duplications, you can help! Click here to start) Nevermind, just fixed all 600 pages with the help of AutoWikiBrowser, took only five hours.

Merge duplicate references

edit
  1. Sometimes there are duplicate references (which have the same links or their links go to the same page).
  2. In that case, add <ref name=(unique reference name - usually author or first words from title)> to the first reference, and then replace all other duplicate references with <ref name=(reference name)/>.
  3. This template is very useful!
edit
  1. Click links in references.
  2. If they go to 404 or other errors, use Wayback Machine.
  3. This is important: Wayback Machine often has saved versions of the page with various dates - before choosing, look at access-date= or at Retrieved: and choose date which is closest and has the page with relevant information.
  4. add archived link to reference:
    • If reference used {{cite web}} template, add archive-url=(url from wayback machine), archive-date=(date of saved page) and url-status=dead.
    • If it is an external link, use {{webarchive |url=(wayback url) |title=...}} template.
  5. Unfortunately, sometimes Wayback Machine doesn't have saved page.
  6. In that case, add {{dead link|date=November 2024|fix-attempted=yes}} directly before </ref>.

Improve references with bare URLs

edit
  1. If reference doesn't have title= or it is empty, click the link and search title there.
  2. It is often missing date= or author= (first=, last=, first2=, etc.), and if the page has this information, add it to the reference.
  3. This category contains all articles with bare URLs and number of them became very huge. Currently I am trying to reduce this number and you can help!

Articles I expanded from stub

edit

Articles where I made significant contribution

edit

Barnstars

edit
  The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
Test because you undo vandalism NickUserIvan (talk) 07:23, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
  The Barnstar of Diligence
Hey, good job on the thorough WP:BEFORE at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sing and Dance With Barney. Keep up the good work! microbiologyMarcus (petri dish·growths) 20:28, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
  The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
For all you do around here to keep vandalism at the lowest level possible. Keep it going! Volten001 ☎ 06:40, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
Committed identity: 8fc1922591b7300879cce5e1885b3f9305c24f481fc205648fa95ab1b591b83a is a SHA-256 commitment to this user's real-life identity.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Deltaspace42&oldid=1198213374"