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Welcome to the drive![edit]

Welcome, welcome, welcome Neko-chan! I'm glad that you are joining the drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.

Fix a random page lacking sources

CactiStaccingCrane (talk)18:53, 1 February 2024 UTC [refresh]via JWB and Geardona (talk to me?)

URL vs DOI[edit]

I notice you are changing URLs to DOIs in the EI2 and EI3 templates. The reason I do it that way is because (1) Brill might change their URLs (in fact, they have) and (2) the EI2 template is designed (badly, IMO) to take you to a page of search results for the title if you don't supply a URL. Srnec (talk) 02:39, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Srnec Can you say more about part (1) of this justification? The idea of DOIs, in theory, is that they are resource names rather than locations so are more permanent. That URLs can change is one thing DOIs are supposed to help with (in theory, but I don't know how well Brill uses them) hence why DOIs are preferred when both are available. Point (2) seems a good one but, on its own, it suggests that a longer term solution is to fix the template and prefer DOIs over URLs. Cheers, MartinPoulter (talk) 13:31, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The question is whether the DOI is in the template under the field |doi= or is used as a URL under |url=. Because of (2), that is, because the template automatically adds a (hidden) URL when none is supplied, it makes more sense to just use the DOI as a URL. This way the URL is actually correct and is safer from link rot. There is no need to have both a correct DOI and a potentially incorrect URL. Yes, I think this is bad template design. At one point the template even had "(search results)" added to the page title, but this was dropped after complaints (including by me) at Template talk:Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. —Srnec (talk) 19:11, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Srnec I believe I have fixed the EI2 template, it works on my sandbox, I'll undo some reverts to check in more use cases ~ฅ(ↀωↀ=)neko-chan^nyan 02:20, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it appears to work now. Thank you! Srnec (talk) 02:40, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

'fix cite'[edit]

I have recently found myself cleaning up after your visits to pages where you convert |url= to |doi=. If you are going to 'fix' templates like this, you should also remove |url-access=subscription (or registration or limited) to avoid the resulting error message and inclusion in Category:CS1 errors: param-access. Here is the latest batch that I have fixed:

—Trappist the monk (talk) 11:32, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Rescuing 10 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.9.5"[edit]

I don't know what you meant to do with this edit, but you introduced Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors and duplicated the Wörner source. I have fixed the errors for you. DuncanHill (talk) 20:54, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Here is another edit where you removed a source and caused a no-target error. DuncanHill (talk) 23:44, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]