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What the Bot Does
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
The current templates used are {{User:ReferenceBot/inform/top}}, {{User:ReferenceBot/inform/middle}} and {{User:ReferenceBot/inform/bottom}}.