Trappist the monk

Just thought I'd pop by to say how great Monkbot is, pretty impressive and much appreciated! LittleDwangs (talk) 23:02, 5 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hi Trappist: I wasn't sure if you were aware that your update to the {{cite OED}} template seems to have introduced an error. There's now a "Missing or empty |title=" message coming up on references that were fine a couple of weeks ago. It's showing in the template documentation as well. MeegsC (talk) 12:50, 6 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

Never mind; I figured out what I needed to add. But the documentation may need some tweaking to help those of us who are suddenly faced with a rash of red error messages! ;) MeegsC (talk) 13:06, 6 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

I suck at documentation so if you know how to make the documentation better, please do.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 13:34, 6 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

Actually, when I really read the documentation instead of just skimming it, it's absolutely fine. I was just too lazy on my first pass! XD The "Term needed" message at the top of the template page before was a little more intuitive, but I think most of us will get there. MeegsC (talk) 13:55, 6 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hi - I wanted to pop round and say thank you for your work with Monkbot. It's a breath of fresh air to see a bot dealing with issues surrounding citation markup - I've being going around and cleaning bits and pieces up, but obviously, your bot will be a bit quicker than me(!).

I don't know if this is in your remit, but seeing as it's in the same area as cleanup, I thought I'd drop it in. I know there might already be a bot working on this issue, but if there is, I haven't seen it - double spaces. They're easy enough to remove by users, true, and I have no knowledge of operating bots on Wikipedia, but, to a layman, it seems like the sort of thing Monkbot could check for, and remove, at the same time it cleans up citation parameters.

Another thing, wildly more complex, would be machine learning to tentatively tag articles as potentially requiring language tags - even flagging up potential words that would need tagging - but that's a pipe dream for another time, I think...

Anyway. Thank you for your diligent work in cleanup of our Wikipedia! Your work is so much appreciated :) --Ineffablebookkeeper (talk) 01:23, 7 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

@Ineffablebookkeeper: See this recently archived discussion about double-spaces bot. In a nutshell, it's a bad idea. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 01:50, 7 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

Thank you. Spaces are, apparently, something that some editors will fight to the death to preserve so Monkbot task 18 seeks to maintain the spacing in cs1|2 templates as is.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 11:41, 7 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

It seems like Task 18 of Monkbot is failing to fix instances of |accessdate=, such as here. I have no idea what is going on. -BRAINULATOR9 (TALK) 01:43, 9 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

|accessdate= fixes were disabled on 28 November as a result of Help talk:Citation Style 1 § deprecation and removal of nonhyphenated multiword parameter names. The fixes were reenabled on 8 December. Because Stranger in Moscow has |accessdate=, the bot will eventually revisit it.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 11:51, 9 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

Lee Soodam from Kpop girlgroup SECRET NUMBER (traditional dance) .. Thank you WhouyuC (talk) 04:41, 10 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

Plz edit the trends section of barak valley, i.e lakhipur circle Hindu and Muslim population is wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2409:4065:E8C:C5D7:6A4B:465D:15C1:E917 (talk) 16:20, 11 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

No. If you cannot edit the page yourself, make an edit request at Talk:Barak Valley.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 16:31, 11 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

I've been working on an article to get it up to GA standard. Before I put it up for peer review, I'd like to clear out any silly errors. So is there a way for an editor to request a monkbot run, as with citationbot? --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 16:52, 11 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

Nothing formal. Tell me the article name and I'll add it at the top of the queue.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 16:58, 11 December 2020 (UTC)Reply