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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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Currently not supported but considered |
No. | Description | dewiki | enwiki | Supported by Auto-Formatter |
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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}}
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2 | Break, <center> or <small> tag with incorrect syntax | low | high | Yes, <br /> syntax is enforced, empty <center /> and <small /> are removed
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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
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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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>
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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
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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 />
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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
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99 | Sup with no correct end | high | high | Yes, common mistakes like <sup></sub> are fixed
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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
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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 }}}
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No, to many edge-cases | ||
553 | <nowiki> after internal link
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No, this is not an error but intentionally done | ||
554 | <nowiki> in <gallery>
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No, not even an error | ||
555 | <nowiki> in the text
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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
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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
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No, not even an error | ||
563 | Unused parameters | Yes, unnecessary extra | are removed
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564 | Unknown parameters | No, not hard to detect, might even be intentional | ||
565 | <nowiki> tag between bold/italic
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No, not even an error | ||
566 | <abbr> tag
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No, not even an error |