User:Qwerfjkl/Fixing CheckWiki errors
This page contains instructions for fixing Check Wikipedia errors via Bandersnatch. To use Bandersnatch, paste the following in to your common.js page:
mw.loader.load('https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benutzer:Schnark/js/search%2B%2B.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript'); //related
mw.loader.load('https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benutzer:Schnark/js/diff.js/core.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript'); mw.loader.load('https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benutzer:Schnark/js/bandersnatch.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');
$.when( mw.loader.using( ['mediawiki.util'] ), $.ready ).done( function() { mw.util.addPortletLink( 'p-tb', mw.util.getUrl('Special:Bandersnatch'), 'Bandersnatch', 't-bandersnatch', 'Run Bandersnatch' );
});
To use Bandersnatch, click on the link in the toolbar. You can get the list of articles from clicking on the task number in the list, and then "List for bots!". Replace the code with the code provided, if avaliable. If not, You can try AWB or WPCLEANER. The ticks indicate whether the tool can handle it: green means yes, yellow means it can sometimes handle it, sometimes it just warns; and orange ticks mean the tool only warns.
| # | Priority | Cosmetic | Error | WPC | AWB | AF | Type | Reason |
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| 03 (dump) |
High | No | Reference list missing | 
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Display problem | The article contains one or more <ref> tags, but is missing a {{Reflist}} or <references /> tag
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| 04 (dump) |
Mid | No | HTML text style element <a>
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Display problems | The article contains one or more <a> tags. <a> tags will not show up in the rendered article and should use normal wikilink code for external links.
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| 05 (dump) |
High | No | Comment tag with no correct end | 
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Display problem | Missing closing comment tag. <!-- -->
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| 06 | Low | No | DEFAULTSORT with special characters |
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Syntax error | Don't use special lettering in DEFAULTSORT |
| 07 (dump) |
Mid | No | Headlines all start with three "=" |
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Accessibility | First headline starts with "=== XY ===". It should be "== XY ==" header. This causes organisational and accessibility problems. | |
| 08 (dump) |
High | No | Headline should end with "=" |
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Display problem | Headline should end with "=". | |
| 10 | High | No | Square brackets with no correct end |
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Display problem | Found a "[[" brackets with no corresponding "]]" brackets. | |
| 13 (dump) |
High | No | <math> tag without correct match
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Display problem | Missing </math> or <math> tag.
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| 14 (dump) |
High | No | <source> tag without correct match
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Display problem | Missing </source> or <source> tag.
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| 15 (dump) |
High | No | <code> tag without correct match
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Display problem | Missing </code> or <code> tag.
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| 19 (dump) |
High | No | Headlines start with one "=" |
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Accessibility | A heading section starts with just one "=". This causes organisational and accessibility problems | ||
| 21 | Off | No | Category: in English |
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Incident detection | [[Category: ]] found when the native language should be used |
| 23 (dump) |
High | No | <nowiki> without correct match
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Display problem | Missing </nowiki> or <nowiki> tag.
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| 24 (dump) |
High | No | <pre> without correct match
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Display problem | Missing </pre> or <pre> tag.
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| 25 (dump) |
Mid | No | Headline hierarchy |
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Accessibility | After a section headline "==", there should not be a headline of "====". This causes organisational and accessibility problems. | |
| 28 (dump) |
High | No | Table with no correct end |
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Display problem | " tag, but no corresponding closing "|}" tag. | ||
| 29 (dump) |
High | No | <gallery> without correct match
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Display problem | Missing </gallery> or <gallery> tag.
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| 30 | Off | No | Image without alternate description |
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Accessibility | |||
| 32 | High | No | Double pipe in a link |
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Display problem | Article contains a wikilink like [[text|text2|text3]] (displays as text2|text3), [[text||text3]] or [[text|text2||]], or a broken wikilink inside a table. | |
| 34 | High | No | Template programming element |
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Syntax error | A template programming element, such as {{{1}}}, #if or #switch, was found. They are usually not needed or a regular template can be substituted instead. | ||
| 35 | Off | No | Image gallery without description |
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Accessibility | ||
| 36 | Low | No | Redirect with incorrect syntax |
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Display problem | Redirect will not work |
| 37 | Low | No | DEFAULTSORT missing for titles with special letters |
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Display problem | Don't use special lettering for sorting. DEFAULTSORT should be set without the special lettering. | |
| 39 | Low | No | HTML text style element <p>
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Accessibility | Found a <p> tag. Usually should use wiki markup's blank line. Some tags, such as <ref> must use <p> due to a wikimedia bug.
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| 43 | High | No | Template with no correct end |
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Display problem | Found a "{{" brackets with no corresponding "}}" brackets. | |
| 44 (Bandersnatch) | Low | No | Headlines with bold |
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Against convention | A headline is all or partially bold. This should rarely be used and may or not be bold depending on the browser used. |
| 45 | Low | No | Interwiki duplication |
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Display problem | Duplicate entry. Now that interwiki links have been moved to wikidata, this error is possibly due to wikilinks that ought to be rendered that omits the leading : in pt:Jorge de Mascarenhas. Should often be converted to internal redlinks per WP:BUILD/WP:REDLINK.
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| 46 | High | No | Square brackets without correct beginning |
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Display problem | A broken wikilink was found. | |
| 47 | High | No | Template without correct beginning |
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Display problem | Found a "}}" brackets with no corresponding "{{" brackets. | ||
| 48 (dump) (Bandersnatch) |
Low | No | Title linked in text |
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Display problem | A wikilink of the article's title was found. This creates an unnecessary circular wikilink per /WP:SELFREDIRECT and inappropriately bolds the linked word. | |
| 49 | High | No | Headline with HTML |
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Accessibility Source readability |
Found a headline created with HTML tags <h1>, <h2>, etc. per and .
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| 51 | Mid | No | Interwiki before last headline |
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Syntax error | With interwikis no long used, this usually means a syntax problem with a interlanguage link, ie de:foo
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| 53 | Mid | No | Interwiki before last category |
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Syntax error | With interwikis no long used, this usually means a syntax problem with a interlanguage link, ie de:foo
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| 54 (dump) |
Low | No | Break in list |
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Accessibility | WP:LISTGAP |
| 55 (dump) |
Low | No | Double <small> tags
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Accessibility | Causes the text to be smaller than 85%. This goes against accessibility guidelines. |
| 56 | Off | No | Arrow as ASCII art |
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The article had an arrow like "<--" or "-->" or "<==" or "==>". Write better this arrow with the Unicode "←" or "→" or "⇐" or "⇒". | |||
| 57 | Low | No | Headlines end with a colon |
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Against convention | Remove the : |
| 58 | Mid | No | Headline all CAPS |
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Against convention | Headlines should normally use , unless referring to titles of works and all-caps acronyms. | ||
| 59 | Low | No | Template value ends with a <br>
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Syntax error | Causes whitespace errors | |
| 60 | High | No | Template parameter with a problem |
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Syntax error | Usually means a broken wikilink inside a template. Can also mean the '=' sign is missing and replaced with another character. | ||
| 61 | Low | No | Reference before punctuation |
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Display problem | <ref> comes after not before various punctuation marks (.,?:;!); see WP:REFPUNC
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| 62 | High | No | URL without http:// |
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Syntax error | A URL was found that contained no http://. Example: [en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] | |
| 63 | Low | No | <small> in a <ref>, <sub> or <sup>
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Accessibility | <ref> and <sub> tags already create smaller text. Adding a <small> would cause the text to be smaller than 85%. This goes against accessibility guidelines.
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| 66 | Low | No | Image description with full <small>
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Accessibility | Image description text is already smaller. Adding a <small> would cause the text to be smaller than 85%. This goes against accessibility guidelines.
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| 67 | Off | No | Reference after punctuation (see 61 instead) |
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| 68 | Off | No | Link to other language |
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| 69 (dump) |
Mid | No | ISBN with incorrect syntax |
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Incorrect content | Per WP:ISBN, the correct format is ISBN 978-2345-78383-1. Also finds ISBNs inside external links as Wikimagick doesn't work and ISBN template can cause problems. |
| 70 (dump) |
Mid | No | ISBN with wrong length |
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Incorrect content | ISBNs should have a length of 10 or 13 characters | ||
| 71 (dump) |
Mid | No | ISBN with wrong position of X |
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Incorrect content | X is only allowed in the last position of the ISBN | ||
| 72 (dump) |
Mid | No | ISBN-10 with wrong checksum |
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Incorrect content | ISBN checksum is wrong, verify the ISBN | ||
| 73 (dump) |
Mid | No | ISBN-13 with wrong checksum |
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Incorrect content | ISBN checksum is wrong, verify the ISBN | ||
| 74 | High | No | Link with no target |
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Against convention Incorrect content |
foobar links to foobar. The pipe is either unneeded, someone forgot to give a target, or someone vandalized the article.
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| 77 | Off | No | Image description with partial <small>
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| 78 | Low | No | Reference list duplication |
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Display problem | Found two or more {{reflist}} or <references /> tags
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| 79 | Off | No | External link without description |
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| 80 | High | No | External link with a line break |
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Display problem | Found a newline character inside an external link or a missing closing bracket. A newline character causes the link not to work. | |
| 83 (dump) |
Mid | No | Headlines start with three "=" and later with two "=" |
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Accessibility | organisational and accessibility problems. | ||
| 84 | Off | No | Section without content |
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| 86 (Bandersnatch) | High | No | External link with two brackets |
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Display problem | Found an external link surrounded by double brackets. Example: [Wikipedia]
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| 87 | Off | No | HTML named entities without semicolon |
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Display problem | ||
| 89 | Low | No | DEFAULTSORT with no space after the comma |
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Syntax error | The script found a DEFAULTSORT without a space after the comma . The causes the article to be sorted as the first DuBois article. | |
| 90 | Mid | No | Internal link written as an external link |
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Syntax error | The script found an external link that should be replaced with a wikilink. An example would be on enwiki Larry Wall should be written as Larry Wall. | |
| 91 | Mid | No | Interwiki link written as an external link |
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Syntax error | The script found an external link that should be replaced with an interwiki link. An example would be on enwiki Larry Wall should be written as fr:Larry Wall. | |
| 92 (dump) |
Off | No | Headline double |
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Accessibility | This causes navigation and accessibility issues | ||
| 93 | Mid | No | External link with double http:// |
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Syntax error | The script found an external link that had double http://. An example would be [http://http://www.google.com]
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| 94 | Mid | No | Reference tags with no correct match |
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Display problem | A <ref> or </ref> tag was found without the corresponding beginning or ending tag.
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| 95 | Low | No | Editor's signature or link to user or draft space |
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Syntax error | See and WP:SIGNHERE | |
| 96 | Mid | No | Table of Contents after first headline |
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Accessibility | TOC should be placed at the end of the lead section of the text, before the first section heading. Users of screen readers do not expect any text between the TOC and the first heading. See WP:TOC. | ||
| 97 | Mid | No | TOC has material after it and before the first headline |
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Accessibility | Screen readers don't process material that comes between the Table of Contents and first headline. See WP:TOC. | ||
| 98 (dump) |
High | No | <sub> with no correct end
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Display problem | Missing </sub> tag. Can cause display problems in Visual Editor and mw:Html5Depurate
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| 99 (dump) |
High | No | <sup> with no correct end
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Display problem | Missing </sup> tag. Can cause display problems in Visual Editor and mw:Html5Depurate
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| 101 (dump) |
Low | No | Ordinal number found inside tags |
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Against convention | Ordinal numbers should be in regular text, not inside tags See . | |
| 102 (dump) |
Mid | No | PMID with incorrect syntax |
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Incorrect content | Per WP:PMID, the syntax should be PMID 4957203 Also checks if PMID is inside an external link as Magiclinks and {{PMID}} template won't work. |
| 103 (dump) |
Mid | No | Pipe Template inside a wikilink |
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Syntax error | shouldn't be used inside a wikilink. | should be used instead.
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| 104 (dump) |
Mid | No | Unbalanced quotes in ref name |
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Syntax error | The script found unbalanced quotes in a reference tag. For example <ref name="ref 1>
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| 105 (dump) |
High | No | Heading should begin with "=" |
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Display problem | A heading should begin with a "=". | ||
| 106 (dump) |
Mid | No | ISSN with incorrect syntax |
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Display problem | The script found a problem with ISSN syntax. A normal ISSN looks like ISSN 3895-2372 or 3957-957X. There must be a - between the numbers (don't use dashes). Best if {{ISSN}} template is added. Also finds cases where the ISSN is inside an external linkss |
| 107 (dump) |
Mid | No | ISSN with wrong length |
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Incorrect content | The script checked the ISSN and found it not containing 8 characters. ISSN should have 8 characters. | ||
| 108 (dump) |
Mid | No | ISSN with wrong checksum |
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Incorrect content | The script checked the ISSN and found a problem with the checksum in the ISSN. Also see Category:Articles with invalid ISSNs. | ||
| 109 (dump) |
High | No | Include tag error |
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Display problem | The script found a problem with opening or closing tags for <includeonly>, <onlyinclude> or <noinclude> tags. This can cause transclusion problems.
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| 110 | Off | No | Include tag found |
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Display problem | The script found a <includeonly>, <onlyinclude> or <noinclude> tags.
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| 111 (dump) |
Off | No | Ref after last reference list |
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Display problem | There are <ref> tags, after the {{reflist}} or <references> tags.
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| 113 | Low | No | Newline inside a wikilink | Display problem | Found a newline character inside a wikilink. A newline character causes the wikilink not to work. | |||
| 501 | Bot | No | Spelling and typography |
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Proposals for fixing spelling and typography based on suggestions. | |||
| 503 | Off | No | Internal link in title |
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| 504 (dump) |
Off | No | Reference in title |
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| 505 | Off | No | Image without alternative description |
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| 506 | Off | No | Reference with a numeric name |
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| 507 | Off | No | Gallery without caption |
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| 508 | Off | No | Missing template |
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| 510 | Off | No | Non working pipe trick |
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| 511 | Off | No | Internal link written as external link |
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Replaced by CW Error #90 | ||
| 512 | Off | No | Interwiki link written as external link |
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Replaced by CW Error #91 | ||
| 513 (dump) |
Off | No | Internal link inside external link |
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An external links contains an internal link, see Special:LintErrors/wikilink-in-extlink | |||
| 514 | Off | No | Missing named reference |
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