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Request to periodically mass-delete surely non-notable items (2026-04-21)
[edit]Request date: 21 April 2026, by: Epìdosis
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Considering the current Notability policy, and the current discussion about its reform, I think it would probably be useful to have an admin-bot periodically deleting surely not notable items; in order to find them, and to exclude any kind of possible false positives, I consider 100% safe to delete items meeting all the following conditions:
- no sitelinks - ?item wikibase:sitelinks 0 (so not notable per N1)
- no sources (so not notable per N2), specifically:
- no references in any statements - MINUS { ?item ?p ?st . ?st prov:wasDerivedFrom ?ref }
- no external identifiers - ?item wikibase:identifiers 0
- no described by source (P1343) - MINUS { ?item wdt:P1343 ?ds }
- no described at URL (P973) - MINUS { ?item wdt:P973 ?du }
- no incoming links from other items - MINUS { ?item2 ?r ?item . ?property wikibase:directClaim ?r } (so not notable per N3)
All these criteria are encoded in https://qlever.dev/wikidata/eeLK41 which unfortunately times out; to avoid this, adding one restrictive statement is necessary, like e.g. in https://qlever.dev/wikidata/0jFbLB. I think the total results might be at least tens of thousands (note: a much smaller of surely deletable items is User:Pasleim/notability, updated by @DeltaBot: managed by @Pasleim, MisterSynergy:).
I think the bot should run daily (or weekly) and:
- delete the aformentioned items, filtering only those created more than 48 hours ago, setting as motivation "Does not meet the notability policy" + one of the labels of the item
- ideally, the bot should check if the item had been created as part of an edit group
- keep a log page with some statistics (e.g. number of deleted items per day and month; number of deleted items per creator; edit groups with more than 100 deleted items)
- send a standard message (I suggest codifying it in a template) to the creator of the item, specifying the list of deleted items, each with QID and label, and how to request further information or the undeletion; if some of the items were created as part of an edit group, this should be mentioned in the message; in order not to flood user talk pages, each message should be about all the items deleted in the same run of the bot; if the list is very long (e.g. above 100 items), it should be substituted by the total number of deleted items and a sample of e.g. 10 items
- note: for the first run of the bot, which might take more than one day, I suggest sending the message only at the end of it
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- This process is describing "surely incomplete items", not "surely non-notable items". There is quite a big difference.--Pharos (talk) 18:01, 21 April 2026 (UTC)
- Kinda risky and aggressive. We do continuously look after quite a bunch of non-notable items and delete them without notice. I don’t see a need for this kind of automated mass-deletion right now. —MisterSynergy (talk) 18:13, 21 April 2026 (UTC)
- Not sure this would be good. The current main problems of WD are the lack of data, not the opposite, and technical issues with scalability as it relates to the former. If these items are deleted I think one should at least add some warning note to the item at least 30 days before deletion. --Prototyperspective (talk) 14:40, 22 April 2026 (UTC)
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Request to import TVmaze ids (2026-04-26)
[edit]Request date: 26 April 2026, by: Zestier
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Populate the TVmaze series id property where it is both missing and possible to retrieve unambiguously from TVmaze. Would leverage the TVmaze API which contains mappings for both imdb and thetvdb. Would not use any heuristic searches, instead only using exact matches from TVmaze's database of external ids.
The core logic would be to find the set of items with imdb or thetvdb ids but not tvmaze ids, look them up in tvmaze, and populate the tvmaze ids. This idea comes from seeing that Josh404Bot does a similar thing for TMDB, but this would be for TVmaze.
My thinking is that this is a fairly straightforward initial bot that would later be followed up by various additional requests for extending the bot beyond TVmaze, but remaining within the scope of using well-curated APIs to populate unambiguous facts.
- Licence of data to import (if relevant)
My understanding is that facts already pose no license problem, but the TVmaze API license page also contains "Use of the TVmaze API is licensed by CC BY-SA. This means the data can freely be used for any purpose, as long as TVmaze is properly credited as source and your usage complies with the ShareAlike provision. You can satisfy the attribution requirement by linking back to TVmaze from within your application or website, for example using the URLs available in the API.[1]" which implies that the license would be satisfied anyway by the bot simply including a relevant TVmaze link for the information source.
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Request to Add ja.wikinews link to wikidata work (2026-05-02)
[edit]Request date: 2 May 2026, by: Mario1257
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none.
- Task description
ja.Wikiniews's category by date is linking wikidata until 29th Feb. 2024. But not links wikidata after 1st Mar. 2024. So, please link wikidata and wikinews. This process to until July 31, 2026 by every day. Also, this task desirable before WikiNews is view-only mode. (However, if the closure don’t affect the linking process, then a not need done immediately.)
Example, n:ja:Category:2024年3月1日 is shuld connectioning d:Q124706287 (March 1, 2024) in wikidata, look other languages.
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Request to import 1389 taxon author citation (P6507) from :ca (2026-05-16)
[edit]Request date: 16 May 2026, by: Paucabot
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Import taxon author citation (P6507) from this Catalan Wikipedia list, compiled by bot from the articles.
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Request to change preferred rank on household count statements for Moroccan rural communes (2026-05-18)
[edit]Request date: 18 May 2026, by: Listz3
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On all items that are instances of Q17318027 (rural commune of Morocco), the property P1538 (number of households) currently has the 2014 census value set as preferred rank. A 2024 census value has since been added to these items as a normal rank statement. This bot task would:
- Set the P1538 value sourced from the 2014 census (Q56292710 or equivalent) to normal rank
- Set the P1538 value sourced from the 2024 census to preferred rank
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- Discussion
I think this task has been completed, mostly by this QuickStatements batch. @Belteshassar: Can you confirm? William Avery (talk) 14:01, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
- Correct. There was a discussion on svwiki about a few edge cases. I think those have been handled too, but if anything persists I don't see it requiring a bot to fix. Belteshassar (talk) 04:50, 5 August 2026 (UTC)
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Request to add qualifiers to Grove Music Online ID
[edit]Request date: 28 June 2026, by: Rettinghaus
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Many music related items (e.g. instruments and composers) have a "Grove Music Online ID" (Property:P8591). Grove provides information on the author and the year the article was published in the metadat of the article page. I would like to run a bot that scrapes this info and adds qualifiers for Property:P1810, Property:P577, and Property:P50/Property:P2093.
- Licence of data to import (if relevant)
Free (CC0) metadata.
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Request to change P170 for P14574 (2026-07-08)
[edit]Request date: 8 July 2026, by: Paucabot
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The task consists in changing these 1072 items. It has to change creator (P170) to the new property photographer (P14574).
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Request to correct instance of parameter for A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms items
[edit]Request date: 28 July 2026, by: TE(æ)A,ea.
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The Wikidata items for entries in A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms are set as instance of: encyclopedia article, when they should be instance of: Q1580166. wdt:P31 wd:Q13433827. ?item wdt:P1433 wd:Q10886720. in Query
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Request to automatically update Wikidata:Administrators by language (2026-08-04)
[edit]Request date: 4 August 2026, by: IntensionalLogician
- Task description
In my capacity as a mentor, I would like to direct new users to this page when they ask to speak with someone in their native language. I have already pointed a few users here before realizing it is outdated. Automating this seems like a straightforward task using the administrator list and the babel boxes on each administrators user page.
- Licence of data to import (if relevant)
N/A
- Discussion
I will take a look at this. The page to be updated is Wikidata:Administrators by language/Table. William Avery (talk) 14:54, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
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Accepted by William Avery (talk) 14:54, 4 August 2026 (UTC) and under process
Request filed at Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/William Avery Bot 15. William Avery (talk) 12:25, 9 September 2026 (UTC)
Request to replace some improper properties in references with proper alternatives (2026-08-25)
[edit]Request date: 25 August 2026, by: Janhrach
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N/A. Usage of all the properties that are to be replaced in references is already discouraged by constraints.
- Task description
Can you please do the following replacements in references:
official website (P856) --> reference URL (P854)
URL (P2699) --> reference URL (P854)
image (P18) --> reference image (P10253)
Thank you.
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Request to add Wayback Machine archive links (2026-09-23)
[edit]Request date: 23 September 2026, by: Bender235
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This may be too ambitious of a task, but could we have a bot scan the reference property reference URL (P854) then retrieving a link to an archived version (and possibly in combination with retrieved (P813), for the correct date) from Wayback Machine, and add it as archive URL (P1065)?
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Request to remove Croatian machine translations (2026-10-24)
[edit]Request date: 24 October 2026, by: Croxyz
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- Hi, I don't know if this is the right place to report this.
In May and June a bot called MarisDreshmanisBot (talk • contribs • logs) made hundreds or thousands machine translated edits into Croatian (hr). During the past hour I removed a lot of them manually. However, I realised that it would take too much time to find and remove every single edit. I don't even know if its possible to perform this request with a bot.
Also I'd like to report that there are over 3000 items with the Croatian description Godina (instead of godina) and over 7000 items with the Croatian gibberish description Talijanske općine (literally translates to Italian municipalities, in plural, not singular). This is an incorrect description as these are articles about Italian cities and villages (which are not municipalities). It would be best to remove the description entirely for these Italian Wikidata items.
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Hi Croxyz, this is the right place. The edits by MarisDreshmanisBot are indeed problematic. I was looking at this a couple of weeks ago, and tried to create a script for undoing the edits in all languages. But I noticed that it wasn't possible to undo the edits via API if there were intermediate edits made to the descriptions (which is most of the items since MarisDreshmanis did later edit the added Russian descriptions).
Today I tried a new method whereby the script compares MarisDreshmanisBot's edits to the current version of the items, and checks if there are MarisDreshmanisBot's descriptions left in each language, and then creates a QuickStatements batch to revert the ones that still exists. I just ran the first batch of 1000 items. I'll have a look at the results before continuing. Samoasambia ✎ 17:07, 30 October 2026 (UTC)
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Accepted by (Samoasambia ✎ 17:07, 30 October 2026 (UTC)) and under process
Request to .. (2026-10-30)
[edit]Request date: 30 October 2026, by: Spuddybike
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Dataset is located at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QH5cMkyRs98j371zU6klbf5CGAZQf7FS/edit?usp=share_link&ouid=103277712116248639979&rtpof=true&sd=true
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