User:TheJJJunk/Automatic Referencing Assistant

			ARA by JJJ
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Overview	Talk	Functions	Script	History	Users	Errors

A Remote implementation of ARA is currently being developed and initially tested.

Overview

The Automatic Referencing Assistant (ARA) is a script which aids users in correcting referencing errors. It notifies the user when the article being edited is missing the {{Reflist}} template, has invalid or broken <ref></ref> tags, or is missing the "Name" parameter in the Persondata template. Clicking a fix link will automatically add the necessary template or information to the correct location in the article.

For a written history of the script, see here.

Usage

To use this script:

Place

importScript('User:TheJJJunk/ARA.js'); // [[User:TheJJJunk/Automatic Referencing Assistant]]

in your common.js. If the script doesn't work immediately, Bypass your cache.

Add your name to the list of users.

List of functions

Function	Status	Description	Activity
missing {{Reflist}}	Approved	Adds the `{{Reflist}}` template to the article if citations are present.	-Active
Missing {{Notelist}}	Approved	Adds the `{{Notelist}}` template to the article if notes ({{efn}}) are present.	-Active
inapplicable tag	Approved	Removes `{{unreferenced}}` and `{{no footnotes}}` tags if `<ref>` tags present.^[a]	-Active
missing reference groups	Approved	Adds the `{{Reflist\|group}}` template to the article if citations using the `\|group=` parameter are present.	-Active
unnecessary reference groups	Approved	Removes the `\|group=` parameter from citations that have an improper group listed.	-Active
extra whitespace in citation	Approved	Removes extra whitespace from citations.	-Active
URL containing space(s)	Approved	Replaces spaces in the URL parameter with `%20` (the URL-encoded representation of a space).	-Active
URL ending with a period	Approved	Removes trailing periods in the URL parameter.	-Active
invalid ref position	Approved	Fixes spacing before `<ref>` tags and periods (.) after `</ref>` tags.	-Active
Invalid <ref></ref> tags	Approved	If citations using `<ref></ref>` tags are listed below the `{{Reflist}}` template, removes the `<ref></ref>` tags.	-Active
broken <ref></ref> tags	Approved	Fixes malformed `<ref></ref>` tags (`./ref>`, `,/ref>`, or `</ref`).	-Active
broken {{Reflist}}	Approved	Fixes a malformed `{{Reflist}}` template. Examples: `{{reflist))`, `{{relist}}`, `{{Reflist\|2}`.	-Active
references on `Portal:` Pages	Approved	Per Wikipedia Talk:Portal guidelines#References in portals, Portal pages should not include references.	-Active
{{Reflist}} on `Portal:` Pages	Approved	Per Wikipedia Talk:Portal guidelines#References in portals, Portal pages should not include {{Reflist}} templates.	-Active
URL scheme error	Approved	Adds `http://` onto invalid URLs in citations.	-Active
URL scheme error (Capital)	Approved	Adds `http://` onto invalid URLs in citations that begin with a capital letter (These are most likely not actually URLs).	-Active
empty citations	Approved	Removes empty citations ("`<ref></ref>`") from the article.	-Active
empty Persondata template	Approved	Adds the parameters to `{{Persondata}}` templates located on the page.	-Active
missing Name in Persondata	Approved	Adds the `\|NAME=` parameter to the article's PERSONDATA.	-Active
accessdate without URL	Withdrawn by operator	Removes the `\|accessdate=` paramater from citations lacking the `url=` parameter.	-Inactive
citation type	Withdrawn by operator	Replaces `{{cite web}}` with `{{citation}}` if the citation lacks the `title=` parameter.	-Inactive
coauthors without author	Withdrawn by operator	Replaces the `\|coauthor=` paramater with `\|author=` if the citation lacks the `last=` and `author=` parameters.	-Inactive
heading style	Withdrawn by operator	Removes spaces in headings (`== Heading ==` → `==Heading==`).	-Inactive

Report errors, comments, and suggestions

To report an error with this script, to comment on it, or to suggest new functions, leave a message on my talk page or the script talk page.

Notes

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