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Around 230 misattributed author name parameters to remove

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Hi! Can someone with AWB permissions have a quick go through the articles returned by a search for insource:"last Company first Rand McNally"?

These citations appear mostly to support claims of 1925 populations in United States populated places, from Rand McNally's 1925 Premier Atlas of the World etc. The citations do already correctly contain |publisher=Rand McNally & Company, and the source provides no other attribution, so the bogus |last=Company and |first=Rand McNally and parameters can simply be removed.

Thanks in advance, Folly Mox (talk) 13:29, 14 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Folly Mox, seems reasonable. I'm  Doing... it. – DreamRimmer (talk) 14:16, 14 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Folly Mox, I can see the author parameter when I export this citation, and it also lists Rand McNally and Company as a contributor, so should this really be removed? – DreamRimmer (talk) 14:42, 14 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Attributing authorship to the entire company isn't an unreasonable proposition, although it does feel duplicative to the |publisher= field. If we wanted to retain corporate authorship attribution, then the substitution would be last= Company | first=Rand McNally and author=Rand McNally and Company.
This is something of an editorial choice: I do see people citing sources where the publisher and corporate author are identical. As mentioned, it feels duplicative to me, but it's not an invalid approach. Having said that, google books is not a particularly accurate arbiter of what kind of attribution is necessary for Wikipedia (for example, their edited volumes never attribute chapter authorship in metadata, their periodicals don't have volume and issue information in metadata, etc).
In any regard, thanks for any fix you do perform. This is a lot of articles to go through by hand. Folly Mox (talk) 14:53, 14 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Folly Mox  Done – DreamRimmer (talk) 09:23, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! 🙏🏽 Folly Mox (talk) 00:00, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
In the event that this sort of request turns up again, H:CS1 says at Help:Citation Style 1 § Authors:
When using |author= avoid citations like {{cite news |work=Weekday Times |author=''Weekday Times'' editors |title=...}}, unless the article is on a field in which the majority of professional journals covering that field use such a citation style.
I think that H:CS1 can be interpreted to cover cases where |lastn=Company |firstn=Rand McNally or |authorn=Rand McNally & Company unnecessarily duplicate |publisher=Rand McNally & Company.
—Trappist the monk (talk) 13:57, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Removing Template:midsize from infobox parameters (violation of MOS:SMALLFONT)

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When {{small}}, {{midsize}}, and other size-reducing templates are used inside infobox parameter values, it is almost always a violation of MOS:SMALLFONT, an accessibility guideline (exceptions are in enlarged parameters like |title=). I have found that an editor added {{midsize}} to {{Infobox judge}} parameter values in about 350 articles, and to {{infobox officeholder}} parameter values in as many as 960 articles. Is anyone available to tidy these up, like this? The fixes should be limited to infobox parameter values; uses in the body of the article are often acceptable. I expect that there will be another, similar request once those are cleared up and I can see where else {{midsize}} is being used. Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:30, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No takers? Moving to WP:Bot requests. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:01, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Jonesey95 hey I’ll take a look at this in a couple hours. Dr vulpes (Talk) 20:08, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Consensus: Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo

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I kindly ask, in accordance with the consensus recently reached for "e" (here), since there are almost 1,000 results for this group (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?fulltext=1&ns0=1&ns10=1&ns118=1&ns14=1&profile=advanced&search=Aldo%2C+Giovanni+%26+Giacomo&title=Special%3ASearch), to activate a bot for all these results. Thanks in advance. JacktheBrown (talk) 17:31, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Remove categories from 86 redirects

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I seek to depopulate several categories with similar contents, which are almost all redirects with a common format and which sometimes point to synonyms (e.g. Order-3-4 square honeycomb is another name for the cubic honeycomb).

–LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 23:31, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done VanIsaac, GHTV contWpWS 07:46, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Would someone please be able to retarget all of the existing links to Assiniboia (electoral district) to the article's current title, Assiniboia (federal electoral district)? The title Assiniboia (electoral district) is ambiguous with Assiniboia (provincial electoral district) and there is no primary topic for the former title. Thanks, Graham (talk) 03:43, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Graham11,  Done. — Qwerfjkltalk 07:35, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Qwerfjkl: Thank you for your help! Graham (talk) 17:36, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Would someone please be able to retarget all of the existing links to Mark Kelly (general) to the article's current title, Mark Kelly (Australian general)? The article's former title was ambiguous with Mark D. Kelly. Thanks, Graham (talk) 17:54, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Doing... Rusty 🐈 14:19, 6 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Graham11:  Done. Rusty 🐈 14:21, 6 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Cleaned up the spare, feel free to check my dab updates. Primefac (talk) 13:21, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

MP start dates

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Please change 200+ MP start dates from "5 July 2024" back to "4 July 2024". This has been discussed at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:CarterPD editing against consensus and ignoring talk page messages and User talk:CarterPD.--Launchballer 08:00, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done before i saw this request. Happy days, ~ LindsayHello 09:09, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Birthday Committee/Calendar

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Can someone go through all the days and change [[Category:Wikipedia Birthday Committee]] to 

{{user other||
[[Category:Wikipedia Birthday Committee]]
}}

Thanks Nobody (talk) 13:00, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done. Rusty 🐈 14:34, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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