Page: Crown & Anchor, Adelaide

Diff: Special:Diff/1338923749

Comment/question:

Your bot is out of control.

Zizek Rocks (talk) 07:39, 23 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Zizek Rocks, how so? — Qwerfjkltalk 11:51, 23 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

False positives. Why is it flagging the edit? Zizek Rocks (talk) 00:40, 26 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Zizek Rocks, you added a reference with |url=URL HERE. That is invalid. — Qwerfjkltalk 09:44, 9 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

There is no hyphen in Major General, as generated by yourself.
See here for reference: Major general

As observed here:
Barrington Campbell, 3rd Baron Blythswood Shipsview (talk) 10:22, 26 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

There was a hyphen in major-general and other such ranks until the 1990s. So officers who held the rank before that date should have one. -- Necrothesp (talk) 10:35, 26 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Shipsview, I am not sure why you are asking me about this? — Qwerfjkltalk 14:21, 26 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

It is here because it seemed your bot made the change Shipsview (talk) 14:08, 1 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Shipsview, made what change? — Qwerfjkltalk 17:53, 1 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Page: L'Héautontimorouménos

Diff: Special:Diff/1341072572

Comment/question:

Kaspar Hauser (talk) 08:10, 1 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Mafarkafut,

<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Brix |first=Michel |date=2007-12 |title=Baudelaire et l’énigme de «J. G. F.» |url=https://akjournals.com/doi/10.1556/verb.9.2007.2.3 |journal=Verbum |language=fr |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=181–186 |doi=10.1556/Verb.9.2007.2.3 |issn=1585-079X}}</ref>

has the wrong|date=, it should be December 2007. — Qwerfjkltalk 11:00, 1 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

thank you! Kaspar Hauser (talk) 21:46, 1 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Bot generally send CS1 error notice on user talk, but see this edit where bot send notice on article mainspace.––KEmel49(📝,📋) 18:30, 1 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

This was probably some sort of database update issue. Sunnymachocho moved their entire user talk page to article space, triggering all sorts of messes. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:46, 1 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

However bot managed to put notice while it was on mainspace.––KEmel49(📝,📋) 18:51, 1 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

True. As I said, the bot was probably working from a stale database cache or mirror. The page ID for the User talk page went with the page when it was erroneously moved to article space. This is an extreme edge case that was highly unlikely to happen. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:07, 1 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the bot waits for 15 minutes before posting a message, and doesn't check to see if the talk page has been moved in the meantime. — Qwerfjkltalk 11:59, 2 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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What to do about links to articles that no longer exist? Do I just delete the hyperlinks? --Zlovak (talk) 07:15, 2 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:REDDEAL.––KEmel49(📝,📋) 09:33, 2 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Page: Battle of Jurjān (748)

Diff: Special:Diff/1341294833

Comment/question: I need help on his to fix the date thing. Imhereforonethinganditsforeditingandhelp (talk) 11:37, 2 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Imhereforonethinganditsforeditingandhelp, |date=1994-06 should be |date=June 1994— Qwerfjkltalk 12:00, 2 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

MediaWiki message delivery 17:50, 2 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, you are my mentor on Wikipedia, so I wanted to ask how to get a page semi-protected. --Richard the Lionheart MS (talk) 18:40, 2 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Richard the Lionheart MS, you can ask at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:51, 2 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Page: 2026 Florida gubernatorial election

Diff: Special:Diff/1341371186

Comment/question:

LoganStylus (talk) 21:48, 2 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

aye bruh your bot is trash and its ruining the site with false flags, maybe consider letting HUMANS run the site? - loganstylus

LoganStylus, you missed |title=. Please also note Wikipedia:Civility. — Qwerfjkltalk 09:50, 3 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

im not the only one who hates this bot btw LoganStylus (talk) 14:49, 5 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Is that so? Qwerfjkltalk 18:01, 5 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Page: Kot Choudrain

Diff: Special:Diff/1341402801

Why has my edits been removed? They all had proper sources from gazeetters and books published everything was good? 

Comment/question:

Sardar of Chakwal (talk) 12:18, 3 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Sardar of Chakwal, maybe because you used AI to write it? — Qwerfjkltalk 10:57, 4 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I did used some ai but wasnt it correct ? Like i did check all of it 100% inserted all the proper sources etc Sardar of Chakwal (talk) 18:17, 4 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Sardar of Chakwal, you can ask @Materialscientist who reverted you. Qwerfjkltalk 18:01, 5 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

How can I make my Wikipedia #1 search on google --Caitlyncd (talk) 00:07, 4 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Caitlyncd, Wikipedia is not the place to promote yourself. — Qwerfjkltalk 12:00, 4 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Page: Hugo Keenan

Diff: Special:Diff/1341731371

all URLS provided seem to work, not sure why citation was flagged

Tadcu (talk) 19:27, 4 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Seens like you fixed it. Qwerfjkltalk 18:03, 5 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Page: IPolitics

Diff: Special:Diff/1341360789

Comment/question:

Jimrupert1983 (talk) 22:14, 4 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Jimrupert1983, it was reverted as spam anyway. Qwerfjkltalk 18:04, 5 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Page: Rhodium

Diff: Special:Diff/1341743150

How can I stop these Talk page notifications? Thanks

Johnjbarton (talk) 00:33, 5 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Johnjbarton, there are instructions on the bot's userpage. Qwerfjkltalk 18:05, 5 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Where is the "the bot's userpage"? Johnjbarton (talk) 18:12, 5 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Johnjbarton, User:Qwerfjkl (bot). Qwerfjkltalk 18:14, 5 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks but I found nothing on that page about stopping notifications. Johnjbarton (talk) 18:16, 5 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Johnjbarton, If the bot gave a notification of a reference error (task 17), add {{bots|optout=cs1-errors}} at the top of the talk page to opt out. Qwerfjkltalk 18:22, 5 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. These notifications should be placed on the Talk page of the article with the error or better they should be surfaced at edit commit time. Johnjbarton (talk) 18:26, 5 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Johnjbarton, the bot explicitly waits 15 minutes to allow time to fix the error. As for using the talk page for notifications, all notifications for a user are placed on the user's talk page. Putting it on the article's talk page would clog it up (article talk pages are less likely to have archiving in place). — Qwerfjkltalk 10:46, 6 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Your assertion here do not match my experience. I receive Alerts and Notices all the time without clogging up my Talk page. My Talk page does not have archiving and this is true of almost every Talk page I have visited. On the other hand, almost all of the pages I work on have archiving.

Other bots work by setting categories on the article page and I have seen this work well. In fact the bot could post a category change edit to the page with a summary "Mark page with CS1 error introduced by <User>" and then the User would see it in their watchlist, as well as everyone else and anyone motivated to fix these errors by watching the category. As it is currently I will never know about CS1 errors I introduced because I've blocked the bot. Johnjbarton (talk) 15:06, 6 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Johnjbarton:
I receive Alerts and Notices all the time without clogging up my Talk page. how?
Other bots work by setting categories on the article page and I have seen this work well. which ones? — Qwerfjkltalk 15:08, 6 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• I don't know how the systems work. The Alerts include "mentions" like @Qwerfjkl and "Qwerfjkl left you a message on your Talk page" items. Notices include Thanks, notification of pages reviewed, and Wikidata items.
• I see routine semi-automatic edit like this one all the time. The edits are driven by Category:CS1 errors: dates

Johnjbarton (talk) 15:32, 6 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Here's another idea: create User talk:Qwerfjkl/CS1-errors and post your messages on that page using @Qwerfjkl mentions. End the post with "Please reply 'Done' when you have had a chance to fix the problem". The user gets a notification pointing to the post. The page and its archive become a database for the bot actions. Johnjbarton (talk) 16:10, 6 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

┌───────────────────────────┘
Johnjbarton, there is no direct way to trigger such notifications. All I can do is talk page messages and pings. I could, as you suggest, post to a dedicated page, but that's not how notifications are typically done on Wikipedia. There is no need for a database for the bot actions, they are quite easily queryable by the edit summary.
I don't see any indication the edit you gave as an example is semi-automated, but it's not a notification and not done by a bot. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:54, 6 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Where do we learn how notifications are typically done? Among the pages where posts might be made we have:

• The article Talk page. Visible to all editors interested in the article; one gets pinged.
• The users Talk page. Only easily visible to one editor; that editor also gets pinged.
• Error Talk page. Visible to anyone interested in such errors; one gets pinged.

So the notification is the same across the options. But which page gets clogged up differs. I think the clog should be on the Error Talk page.

My example was intended to point out that a tracking category is another way of marking article to be fixed. I think the category is automatically created. Let's ask @Ira Leviton: your edits that I see always say "Fixed references. Please see Category:CS1 errors: dates." Are they semi-automated? Johnjbarton (talk) 19:12, 6 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Some of my edits are semi-automated, but not those with the edit summary "Fixed references. Please see Category:CS1 errors: dates." For those, I go to that tracking category page, click on the article name, and correct the date format manually. (The article is automatically placed in that tracking category when it has a date format that is not formatted correctly, as detailed above the list of articles.) I hope this info helps. Ira Leviton (talk) 19:28, 6 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! In all cases here the fixes are manual. The page Category:CS1 errors: dates says Pages with this error are automatically placed in Category:CS1 errors: dates. So that is why I called it semi-automated. Johnjbarton (talk) 19:43, 6 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Johnjbarton, the point is not merely to have one instance of the error fixed, but to point out to users that they've made a mistakes when adding the reference, so that hopefully they won't do it again. See Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DPL bot 2 for a bot that works similarly. — Qwerfjkltalk 19:42, 6 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The notification accomplishes that goal. The clogging-of-user-talk page however works against that goal. I will never see these error messages again because I've blocked posting on my talk page. Of course perhaps I'm the only one.

Yes, DPL bot is also an offender in my opinion. At least it tells me in every post how to opt out.

Both of these solution are a waste of editor time: the error message should occur at or before the edit is submitted. That is when the fix is easy. Johnjbarton (talk) 19:49, 6 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for listening, I won't pester you further. Johnjbarton (talk) 19:50, 6 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Johnjbarton, that would be nice, and mw:Edit check/Reference Check exists, but I wouldn't be too hopeful. — Qwerfjkltalk 12:17, 7 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Page: Aluminium

https://www.fishersci.com/store/msds?partNumber=AC192430050&productDescription=ALUMINUM+SULFATE+99.999+5GR&vendorId=VN00032119&countryCode=US&language=en

Diff: Special:Diff/1341836407

Aluminium (revision 1341836869)

Comment/question:

The "page" is not a page but a pdf download link. In the pdf the title is 'SAFETY DATA SHEET'. Should I have used the title of https://www.fishersci.com/us/en/home.html <title>Lab Supplies, Research Equipment, and Production Essentials | Fisher Scientific </title> ?

Darsie42 (talk) 11:16, 5 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Darsie42, just use a descriptive title, like "Safety data sheet for Aluminium Sulfate". Qwerfjkltalk 18:11, 5 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Page: Njalla

Diff: Special:Diff/1342231661

Comment/question: Apparently the false positive has resulted from the author's last name containing the string "Reuters".

VampaVampa (talk) 21:09, 7 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@VampaVampa, fixed in Special:Diff/1342505486. — Qwerfjkltalk 09:42, 9 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Page: The Omni Grove Park Inn

Diff: Special:Diff/1334119917

I have double-checked, and I don't see the broken footnote being flagged? Footnote 15 Can you help? I'm not sure what I might be missing here TIA Appreciate you.

WikiCloudPedia (talk) 12:58, 8 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCloudPedia, you missed |title=. — Qwerfjkltalk 17:44, 8 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again for your help. WikiCloudPedia (talk) 12:38, 9 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Page: Susan Durant

Diff: Special:Diff/1342403547

Comment/question: False positive?

JiunnJiTan (talk) 23:09, 8 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@JiunnJiTan, |first= and |last= are wrong and should be removed. They give Alamy Limited which is not a human name. — Qwerfjkltalk 09:29, 9 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Page: IHS Towers

Diff: Special:Diff/1342253463

Comment/question:

Jcobobogo (talk) 00:56, 9 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Jcobobogo, |first= and |last= are wrong. They give Group MTN which is not a person's name, and so should be removed. — Qwerfjkltalk 09:30, 9 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Page: MTN Group

Diff: Special:Diff/1342255663

Comment/question:

Jcobobogo (talk) 00:57, 9 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Jcobobogo, the date wasn't formatted correctly. You seem to have duplicated the reference as well, so I fixed both of the issues at the same time: Special:Diff/1342505139. — Qwerfjkltalk 09:39, 9 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

h bro 67 --Pixelgoated (talk) 13:34, 9 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

MediaWiki message delivery 18:51, 9 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

2018 Brazil truck drivers' strike

Page: 2018_Brazil_truck_drivers'_strike

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Brazil_truck_drivers%27_strike

Diff: Special:Diff/1342654751

The bot is telling me that my title for the subsection that I added is too generic. It was the Political and Economic Consequences subheading. 

Comment/question:

Avescio29 (talk) 02:51, 10 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Avescio29, you used |title=Wayback Machine which is the name of the archive, not the pdf you were citing. In any case I reverted the edit because it duplicated information already in the article, and would have been better placed in the Impacts section. — Qwerfjkltalk 11:08, 10 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

have I configured my intrests and preferances? --Rdwivedula (talk) 06:44, 10 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Rdwivedula, I don't understand what you are talking about. — Qwerfjkltalk 11:09, 10 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Are there any guidelines/policies for 'Legacy' sections in biographies? Specifically, I'm interested in rewriting this section because of its very promotional writing style. --Newtbytes (talk) 19:36, 10 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Newtbytes, I can see what you mean. The "Current Relevance" section has similar issues. I couldn't find a specific policy on such sections, though of course promotional writing anyway is not permitted on Wikipedia (per Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a soapbox or means of promotion). You can try asking at Wikipedia:Teahouse or Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biography and see if any editors more knowledgeable than I can point you to a specific page addressing these kinds of sections.
That said, the promotional tone is largely introduced through two edits: Ruzena Bajcsy (Diff ~1283699123), and Ruzena Bajcsy (Diff ~1324198578). There have been no other substantive edits to the article since, so it might be a better idea to revert the article to a state before all the promotional material was introduced. Then, if you want, you could rewrite the section from scratch; I don't think anything from the section as it is now is really worth saving. — Qwerfjkltalk 20:23, 10 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to make a wikipedia page for myself how would i do that? --Josephdipentino (talk) 22:05, 10 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Josephdipentino, see Wikipedia:Autobiography. — Qwerfjkltalk 10:22, 11 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Page: Eephus

Diff: Special:Diff/1342661955 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=1342661955 Comment/question: I have been asked a while ago to round to the nearest million in terms of box office. Evope (talk) 23:52, 10 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Evope, the issue us you wrote "March 9 2026" instead of "9 March 2026" in |access-date=. — Qwerfjkltalk 10:21, 11 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Page: Payam_Akhavan

Diff: Special:Diff/1342857776

Comment/question: The date is correct

Oceanflynn (talk) 01:47, 11 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Oceanflynn, the issue is |date=17 décembre 2013, though you didn't add it, the bot detected it because you fixed the previously-broken citation template. — Qwerfjkltalk 10:24, 11 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, You were right, there was an error in the date. I am bilingual and had not even noticed December was written in French. :) Thanks for catching this.Oceanflynn (talk) 16:20, 11 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Page: Oh!_You_Pretty_Things

Diff: Special:Diff/1342947109

Comment/question:

Not sure if it counts as a false positive, but the reference I used was from a facebook post so it doesn't have a title.

Jippa99 (talk) 14:16, 11 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Jippa99, I can't see the facebook post, but from the url, 'We did a version of David Bowie's "Oh! You Pretty Things" for FX's brilliant new TV show' might work? In general, however, facebook should mostly not be used as a source (per WP:FACEBOOK, with some exceptions). — Qwerfjkltalk 19:07, 11 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Page: Williams_Residential_Historic_District

Diff: Special:Diff/1343015190

Comment/question:

Whispersfromthepast (talk) 20:19, 11 March 2026 (UTC)I got a bot response telling me my date for a correction was wrong but I cited me source and it's correct[reply]

My dates are cited and they are correct Whispersfromthepast (talk) 20:19, 11 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

A tag has been placed on AEOM (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is:

• a disambiguation page with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" which lists only one extant Wikipedia page (i.e., there is a primary topic);
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Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time. Please see the disambiguation page guidelines for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 20:30, 11 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]