User:TMg/autoFormatter/Check Wikipedia

A list of errors that are found by the Check Wikipedia Project (Checkwiki) and can be automatically fixed with the Auto-Formatter tool.

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No. Description dewiki enwiki Supported by Auto-Formatter
1 No bold title off off No, deprecated, however probably possible to automate
1 Template contains useless word template: low low Yes, including colons as in {{:Template:Reflist}}
2 Break, <center> or <small> tag with incorrect syntax low high Yes, <br /> syntax is enforced, empty <center /> and <small /> are removed
3 Reference list missing high high No, impossible to automate, easy to spot and easy to fix manually
4 Article with weblink off off No, deprecated, impossible to automate
4 HTML text style element <a> mid mid No, should be automated in articles, may be valid in templates
5 Comment tag with no correct end high high No, impossible to automate
6 DEFAULTSORT with special characters low low Yes, most Latin, Greece and Cyrillic characters are replaced; please tell me if you are using the script in an other language
7 Headlines all start with "===" mid mid No, shouldn't be automated in my opinion, may be valid on subpages, needs a human to look at
8 Headline should end with "=" high high No, shouldn't be automated in my opinion, lines starting but not ending with = are valid wiki syntax
9 Categories multiple in one line low low Yes
10 Square brackets with no correct end high high No, shouldn't be automated in most cases in my opinion. The only thing I try to fix are wrong brackets around external links.
11 HTML named entities low off Yes, all hex- and decimal encoded characters and a few very common named entities
12 HTML list elements low low No, it's valid in some cases, properly replacing nested lists is hard
13 Math not correct end high high No, may be possible but requires scanning for valid LaTeX syntax which is very hard
14 Source not correct end high high No, impossible to automate
15 Code not correct end high high No, impossible to automate
16 Unicode control characters low low Yes, most common control characters are removed or made visible
17 Category duplication low low No, should be easy to do but is not spotted very often
18 Category's first letter is small low off Yes
19 Headlines start with one "=" mid high No, shouldn't be automated in my opinion, level one headlines are valid on talk pages and archives
20 Symbol for dead low low Yes
21 Category: in English low off Yes, namespace names are localized; this can be disabled
22 Category with space low low Yes
23 Nowiki with no correct end high high No, impossible to automate
24 Pre with no correct end high high No, impossible to automate
25 Headline hierarchy mid mid No, shouldn't be automated in my opinion, needs a human to look at
26 HTML text style element <b> (bold) low low No, simply replacing it with ''' can introduce errors
27 Unicode syntax off off Yes, all encoded Unicode characters are decoded except for spaces and control characters
28 Table with no correct end high high No, very hard to automate
29 Image gallery with no correct end low high No, but should be possible to automate by scanning for lines that start with a file name
30 Image without alternate description high off No, impossible to automate, but I may add a |
31 HTML table element low low No, may be valid in some cases, very hard to automate, out of the scope of my script, use an external HTML to wikitext converter
32 Double pipe in a link high high No, but should be possible to automate
33 HTML text style element <u> (underline) off off No, disabled anyway
34 Template programming element low high No, template syntax in an article needs a user to look at, may be valid in rare cases, may be a mistake, …
35 Image gallery without description high off No, impossible to automate, but I may add a |
36 Redirect with incorrect syntax low low Yes
37 DEFAULTSORT missing for titles with special letters low low No, but planned
38 HTML text style element <i> (italics) low low No, simply replacing it with '' can introduce errors
39 HTML text style element <p> low low No
40 HTML text style element <font> low low Yes, but only for a few noncontroversial cases
41 HTML text style element <big> low off No
42 HTML text style element <small> off off No, deprecated because it's valid HTML 5 now
42 HTML text style element <strike> off low Yes, replaced with <s>
43 Template with no correct end high high No, impossible to automate
44 Headlines with bold mid low Yes, but only for full headlines
45 Interwiki duplication high low No, virtually obsolete because of Wikidata
46 Square brackets without correct beginning high high No, impossible to automate
47 Template without correct beginning high high No, impossible to automate
48 Title linked in text mid low No, may be intended
49 Headline with HTML low high No
50 en dash or em dash low off Yes, encoded characters are decoded
51 Interwiki before last headline low low No, virtually obsolete because of Wikidata
52 Category before last headline low low No
53 Interwiki before last category low low No, virtually obsolete because of Wikidata
54 Break in list low low Yes, unnecessary <br /> at the end of list items are removed
55 HTML text style element <small> (small text) double mid low Yes
56 Arrow as ASCII art mid off No, shouldn't be done because of confusion with HTML comments
57 Headlines end with a colon mid low Yes
58 Headline all CAPS mid mid No, impossible to automate
59 Template value ends with break low low No, but should be possible to automate
60 Template parameter with a problem high high No, I can't remove possible valid characters from template parameter names
61 Reference before punctuation off low Yes, but only a few because there is no consensus
62 Headline alone off off No, deprecated, impossible to automate
62 URL without http:// mid high No, may be possible to automate, also should be in my Weblink-Checker script
63 HTML text style element <small> (small text) in ref, sub or sup low low Yes
64 Link equal to linktext low low Yes
65 Image description ends with break low low No, but should be possible to automate
66 Image description with full <small> mid low No, but should be possible to automate
67 Reference after punctuation (see 61 instead) off off No, disabled anyway
68 Link to other language mid off No, valid in external links sections and talk pages, what I do is converting external links to other languages to the shortest possible internal link syntax
69 ISBN with incorrect syntax high mid Yes, but currently only for English and German books. Please tell me if you are using the script in an other language.
70 ISBN with wrong length high mid No, requires to search for the correct number
71 ISBN with wrong position of X high mid No, requires to search for the correct number
72 ISBN-10 with wrong checksum high mid No, requires to search for the correct number
73 ISBN-13 with wrong checksum high mid No, requires to search for the correct number
74 Link with no target high high No, since the script can be used while editing this would destroy intermediate steps
75 Indented list off off No, using incomplete definition lists for indention is very common, especially on talk pages
76 Link with encoded space low low Yes, in both image file names and links
77 Image description with partial <small> low off No, I shouldn't touch this because it may have a meaning
78 Reference list duplication low low No, valid and possibly meaningful syntax, not necessary an error
79 External link without description high off No, requires to call the external website and fetch the title somehow
80 External link with a line break high high No, does not fit into my rules, it's broken anyway and should be easy to spot in the preview
81 Reference duplication mid off No, could be automated, but there is no consensus across projects and users
82 Link to other wikiproject mid off No, impossible to automate
83 Headlines start with three "=" and later with level two mid mid No, impossible to automate
84 Section without content high mid No, impossible to automate
85 Template coding tags without content low low Yes, all except <nowiki />
86 External link with two brackets high high Yes
87 HTML named entities without semicolon mid mid Yes, but only for a few very common characters
88 DEFAULTSORT with a blank at first position off low Yes
89 DEFAULTSORT with capitalization in the middle of the word off off Yes, but deprecated because it doesn't matter any more
89 DEFAULTSORT with no space after the comma off low No, easy to automate but I need to check if it's correct in all languages
90 DEFAULTSORT words start with lowercase letters off off Yes, but deprecated because it doesn't matter any more
90 Internal link written as an external link off mid Yes, in both the text and the summary line
91 DEFAULTSORT missing for title with lowercase letters at start of words off off No, deprecated because it doesn't matter any more
91 Interwiki link written as an external link off mid Yes, in both the text and the summary line
92 Headline double mid off No, shouldn't be automated in my opinion, I can not simply drop headlines and merge paragraphs
93 External link with double http:// mid mid Yes
94 Reference tags with no correct match high high No, impossible to automate
95 Editor's signature or link to User space low low No, shouldn't be automated, is most probably part of something bigger
96 Table of Contents after first headline mid mid No, needs a user to decide
97 TOC has material after it and before the first headline mid mid No, needs a user to decide
98 Sub with no correct end high high Yes, common mistakes like <sub></sup> are fixed
99 Sup with no correct end high high Yes, common mistakes like <sup></sub> are fixed
100 List tag with no correct match low low No, pretty much impossible to automate, shouldn't be used anyway in Wikitext
101 Ordinal number found inside <sup> tags low low No, but should be easy to add
102 PMID with incorrect syntax low mid Yes
103 Pipe magicword inside wikilink low mid No, template syntax in an article needs a user to look at, may be valid in rare cases, may be a mistake, …
104 Unbalanced quotes in ref name mid mid Yes, many common mistakes are automatically fixed
105 Headline should begin with "=" high high No, lines ending with == are not necessarily an error
106 ISSN with incorrect syntax mid mid Yes, in plain text and Template:ISSN
107 ISSN with wrong length mid mid No, impossible to automate
108 ISSN with wrong checksum mid mid No, shouldn't be fixed automatically
109 Include tag error high high No, impossible to automate
110 Include tag found off off No, not even an error
111 <ref> after last <references> off off No, not even an error
112 Bad or deprecated CSS attributes low low No, might be possible to automate partially, but almost always needs a user to look at
113 Line break or <br> error in wikilink low low No, automation is most probably going to cause more destruction than it helps
501 Spelling and typography No, should never be done automatically
502 Template namespace in template usage Yes, same as error #1
503 Internal link in title No, not even an error
504 Reference in title No, not even an error
505 Image without alternative description No, impossible to automate
506 Reference with a numeric name No, impossible to automate
507 Gallery without caption No, impossible to automate
508 Missing template No, impossible to automate
509 Internal link could be compacted Yes
510 Non working pipe trick ?
511 Internal link written as external link Yes, same as error #90
512 Interwiki link written as external link Yes, same as error #91
513 Internal link inside external link No, hard to automate
514 Missing named reference No, impossible to automate
515 Title linked in text through redirect link No, not even an error
516 <br /> tags in main namespace No, not even an error
517 strike tags Yes, same as error #42
518 nowiki tags in main namespace No, not even an error
519 a tags in main namespace No, same as error #4
520 Weird characters (pawns, snowmen) in main namespace No, not even an error
521 Date format in templates ?
522 Empty title No, impossible to automate, probably work-in-progress
523 Duplicate image No, impossible to automate
524 Duplicate arguments in template calls No, rare and often impossible to automate
525 Span tag No, not even an error
526 Incorrect date link No, impossible to automate
527 Reference with different content No, impossible to automate
528 PMID magic link ?
529 ISBN magic link ?
530 RFC magic link ?
531 Reference inside reference No, impossible to automate
532 Missing end tag No, impossible to automate
533 Multi colon escape Yes
534 Bogus image options ?
535 Tidy bug affecting font tags wrapping links No, but sounds like it can be automated
536 Tidy whitespace bug No, while technically possible, it's hard and not worth it
537 Unclosed quotes in heading No, but sounds like it can be automated
538 Whitespace characters after heading Yes
539 Misnested tags No, to many edge-cases
540 Missing end bold/italic No, impossible to automate
541 Obsolete tag Yes, some deprecated HTML tags are replaced
542 Empty ref tag No, to many edge-cases, might even be intentional or work-in-progress
543 Pipe in external link Yes
544 Missing end template in a pair No, impossible to automate
545 Template with deprecated parameter No, impossible to automate
546 Article without categories No, impossible to automate
547 Empty list item No, to many edge-cases, might even be intentional
548 Punctuation in link No, not even an error
549 Split link No, not even an error
550 Link without text No, impossible to automate, might even be intentional or work-in-progress
551 Empty line No, probably intentional or work-in-progress
552 Template ending with }}} No, to many edge-cases
553 <nowiki> after internal link No, this is not an error but intentionally done
554 <nowiki> in <gallery> No, not even an error
555 <nowiki> in the text No, not even an error
556 External link No, impossible to automate
557 Missing whitespace before a link No, to many edge-cases
558 Duplicated reference No, not an error, some users do this intentionally
559 Separator between <ref> tags No, not necessarily an error, can't be automated anyway
560 Duplicated attribute No, rare and usually not automatically solvable
561 Redirection with target text No, not even an error
562 Consecutive <nowiki> tags No, not even an error
563 Unused parameters Yes, unnecessary extra | are removed
564 Unknown parameters No, not hard to detect, might even be intentional
565 <nowiki> tag between bold/italic No, not even an error
566 <abbr> tag No, not even an error

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