User:Deltaspace42
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Fight with vandalism
- Go to recent changes.
- Use Likely have problems and Latest revision filters.
- Look at all diffs
- If it is vandalism, revert it with Twinkle and give warnings on user's talk page
- If user persists, report here.
Diffuse categories (recategorize pages so that they go to subcategories of current category)
- 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.
- Use HotCat (see ad on the top) when you need to fix one page.
- Use StubSorter when you need to change stub templates.
- Use Cat-a-lot when you need to move many pages at once to the subcategory.
- 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. There are still many categories like this: Category:Overpopulated_categories
Fix spelling mistakes (typos)
- Type in the search box some word with a typo (for example, "funtion" or "for for" - duplicate words).
- 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]
- If there are pages with this typo, they will all be listed.
- Go to these pages and fix the typo.
Merge duplicate references
- Sometimes there are duplicate references (which have the same links or their links go to the same page).
- 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)/>.
- This template can be used to reference certain pages from a book.
Repair dead links
- Click links in references.
- If they go to 404 or other errors, use Wayback Machine.
- 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.
- 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.
- Unfortunately, sometimes Wayback Machine doesn't have saved page. In that case, add {{dead link|date=March 2026|fix-attempted=yes}} directly before </ref>.
Improve references with bare URLs
- If reference doesn't have title= or it is empty, click the link and search title there.
- It is often missing date= or author= (first=, last=, first2=, etc.), and if the page has this information, add it to the reference.
- This category contains all articles with bare URLs.
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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar |
| Test because you undo vandalism NickUserIvan (talk) 07:23, 12 September 2022 (UTC) |
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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) |
