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The Signpost: 7 February 2025

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Removing an edit in Gaza war hostage crisis article

I have to remove it because I could not find any English language article of Eli Sharabi said that. So, I worried that you are just spreadinv false news and/or extremely biased information. Qhairun (talk) 22:55, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

Sorry, *English language article Qhairun (talk) 22:56, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

article mentioning that in English Qhairun (talk) 22:57, 21 February 2025 (UTC)
I've added it back with the original reliable source and added another source that the wikipedia community deems to be a perennially reliable source - Haaretz, which is in English and confirms the information from the original source.

So, I worried that you are just spreadinv false news and/or extremely biased information. It's clearly coming from reliable sources. Your "concern" appears to be either unfounded or disingenuous. I'm going to presume the former. ButlerBlog (talk) 03:27, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
See this[1] Doug Weller talk 12:56, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
Thanks, @Doug Weller. Qhairun seems to have a questionable understanding of RS. I've actually pulled back a little bit as I overlooked the article Gaza war hostage crisis was a contentious topic. I should have been more careful. ButlerBlog (talk) 14:33, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
See my comments on his talk page. Doug Weller talk 15:26, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
@Doug Weller I think there might be some language barrier issues. It looks like what they mean by "links" is what we mean by "inline citation". Not sure if it's WP:CIR, but there definitely seems to be a disconnect on definition of terms, IMO. ButlerBlog (talk) 19:38, 23 February 2025 (UTC)
Could be. Links to sources. Doug Weller talk 19:45, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

Category:Pages using start date with invalid values

Hey, any chance your bot can go over Category:Pages using start date with invalid values and fix any of the easy one it can to the standard YYYY-MM-DD (in numbers)? Gonnym (talk) 11:48, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

@Gonnym: Yes - I think I can do that. Sorry I have just not been able to get the bot updated for some of the changes over the past 6-9 months (or has it been longer). It has mostly been an issue of available time as I've been busy off-wiki. I'd like to get it back to fully automatic, but I'm not sure when I'll be able to do that. But I will get this category looked at as soon as I can. ButlerBlog (talk) 15:33, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, no pressure. If you need anything from me, let me know. Gonnym (talk) 15:37, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

@Gonnym I did one full pass with the film date bot and that cleared out some. Then I made a couple of adjustments to that bot so it would check film date, start date, and end date. That seems to be catching a lot more. So far, I've cleared about 1000 or so from the category, but it will be more once I finish up that second run with the adjusted bot. Unfortunately, I can't run it unattended as there are some false positives that pop up, so I've got to keep an eye on it as it goes. ButlerBlog (talk) 19:39, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

I've seen the amount go down, good job! Gonnym (talk) 11:21, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for making these edits. Please adjust your script so that it doesn't convert "November 1961" to "11 1961". – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:08, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

Yeah... those "Redirects are cheap" also messed up some of my regexes a few days ago. I've converted some of the low count ones before I continued as it's impossible* to work around them. Gonnym (talk) 18:11, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

That edit actually should have been skipped - and since I'm running this bot observed, I should have noticed that before letting it do the change... sorry. ButlerBlog (talk) 18:16, 26 February 2025 (UTC)