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Apply capitalization logic to Turkish / Russian languages too.

Status

new bug

Reported by

Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 23:36, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

What happens

The bot leaves all caps things like

|journal=ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННОЕ ОБРАЗОВАНИЕ И НАУКА
|journal=SELÇUK ÜNİVERSİTESİ İLETİŞİM FAKÜLTESİ AKADEMİK DERGİSİ alone

What should happen

It should convert them to

|journal=Художественное Образование и Наука (note the small и )
|journal=Selçuk Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi Akademik Dergisi

We can't proceed until

Feedback from maintainers

Same for the Greek language. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 02:04, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

Bad journal title

Status

new bug

Reported by

Pi.1415926535 (talk) 19:56, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

What happens

Incorrectly converts from {{cite book}} to {{cite journal}} and adds obviously incorrect (and badly formatted) journal title

Relevant diffs/links

Special:Diff/1112917250

We can't proceed until

Feedback from maintainers

Another instance Special:Diff/1114768642 "journal=Includes:reports from Commissioners, Inspectors and Others" jnestorius^(talk) 06:26, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

Volume vs Issues

Status

Fixed. now correctly prefers issue over volume for Bulletin of the United States National Museum

Reported by

UtherSRG (talk) 10:55, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

What happens

duplicate volume & issue

Relevant diffs/links

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fraser%27s_dolphin&diff=prev&oldid=1116596207

We can't proceed until

Feedback from maintainers

Removal of "format" parameter in cs1 citations

Status

new bug

Reported by

XAM2175 ^(T) 19:14, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

What happens

The |format=PDF parameter is being removed unnecessarily from references using the {{Cite book}} template.

What should happen

It should be left in place, per the advice at HELP:CS1#Using |format=

Relevant diffs/links

[1]

We can't proceed until

Feedback from maintainers

Incidentally, it also says it upgraded an ISBN10 to 13 but all it did was add dashes to an ISBN13. --Izno (talk) 19:30, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

Removing |format=PDF is correct, as the cite template now knows to display the PDF sign regardless. - UtherSRG (talk) 21:01, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

The reason it should not be removed is because |format=PDF displays to everyone, whereas the icon is not available to all users. Izno (talk) 21:07, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

(PDF) displays regardless of whether or not format is declared. It can be removed without any difference to the output. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 23:03, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

How does it determine that it's a PDF? If it's from the file extension in the URL, then is it not possible that the automatic determination could miss PDFs that are reached via URLs that don't have that extension?

Regardless, it strikes me as odd to go to such lengths to remove a piece of human-verified metadata that is 1) potentially useful and 2) absolutely harmless when it isn't be useful, simply because some uses of it are redundant. XAM2175 ^(T) 00:11, 18 October 2022 (UTC)