User:Research Bot/issues

This page serves the curation of issues that have come up with edits made by User:Research Bot.

Please help describe/resolve existing issues, use Template:Curate issue to add.

Duplicates

duplicates at source

label	duplicates at source
samples	Strategies used in the clinical trials of gene therapy for cancer (Q38563811) and Strategies used in the clinical trials of gene therapy for cancer (Q41924800)
description	items are apparently about the same publication, but the latter gives a dysfunctional PubMed publication ID (P698)
to do	build queries to identify all of them, merge items
query	if same journal only
impact	anecdotal
status	open

duplicate

label	duplicate
samples
description	two or more items are created for the same article
to do	normalize doi? make doi check non case-dependent? (phab:..), merge duplicates
query
impact	high for impacted items, overall: TBD
status	open

Missing statements

non-English article

label	non-English article
samples
description	only English title is imported; except for the brackets, English title is presented as original title
to do	Add Q66724591, identify language in language of work or name (P407), add actual title with preferred rank, remove brackets from English label. See also: Bot requests#Add original title of scientific articles
query
impact	low/medium
status	open

mostly blank item

label	mostly blank item
samples	Q28681089, Q28705231, Q28661357
description	possibly metadata missing at source or not correctly imported
to do	complete
query	[1], maybe all of: [2]
impact	low
status	open

no "published in" statement

label	no "published in" statement
samples	Q24799245
description	published in (P1433) is usually missing due to the item for the publication venue not existing at the time of creation of the item for the article. At Q24799245, it seems to be due to a mismatch between the journal's official title and the title used in source
to do
query	Special:Search/haswbstatement:P31=Q13442814 -linksto:P:P143
impact	TBD
status	open

no author (closed)

label	no author
samples
description	seems to happen if there is explicitly no author listed or for corporate authors
to do
query
impact	low
status	closed (import not planned)

Description

no English description

label	no English description
samples	Wikipedia: An Info-Communist Manifesto (Q66711338) (by another bot, had description)
description	item lacks a description such as "article published <date>" which can lead to its confusion with items for non-articles
to do	complete description, bot request at Wikidata:Bot_requests#Add_description_to_items_about_articles
query	Special:Search/haswbstatement:P31=Q13442814 -article
impact	medium/high for items with short labels/titles, low for others
status	open

Character set

mojibake

label	mojibake
samples
description
to do	fix import, repair items; Krbot fixes some of them in author name strings
query
impact	high for affected items, tbd overall
status	open

P31

P31 value (closed)

label	P31 value
samples	Q64665886
description	use of scientific publication (Q591041) instead of scholarly article (Q13442814)
to do	replace
query	[3]
impact	high for impacted item, low overall
status	closed (edits by another bot)

use of scholarly article (Q13442814) in P31

label	use of scholarly article (Q13442814) in P31
samples	Q21563418, Q56162962
description	scholarly article (Q13442814) is used for any type of article from such publications. This is correct for most, but not all.
to do	see discussion at Wikidata:Project_chat#Use_of_scholarly_article_(Q13442814). Possible solution: use more general article (Q191067)
query
impact	low
status

Label and title

English label includes a final "." (closed)

label	English label includes a final "."
samples
description	the bot imports a dot added by the source it's using, generally not present in the original
to do	TBD/add original title
query
impact	low
status	closed (considered an editorial decision)

title statement includes a final "." (closed)

label	title statement includes a final "."
samples
description	the bot imports a dot added by the source it's using, generally not present in the original
to do	TBD/add original title
query
impact	low
status	closed (considered an editorial decision)

label is in CAPS (closed)

label	label is in CAPS
samples	Q66615545
description	label is added in capital letters
to do	normalize label per Help:Label
query
impact	high
status	closed (edits by another bot)

title is in CAPS (closed)

label	title is in CAPS
samples	Q66615545
description
to do	normalize title
query
impact	medium
status	closed (edits by another bot)

English label is copied to other languages (closed)

label	English label is copied to other languages
samples
description	label in English (translation or original title of article) is copied to other languages, e.g. nl
to do	TBD/delete?
query
impact	low/medium for these languages as it requires additional maintenance there
status	closed (edits by another bot)

title/label includes HTML tag

label	title/label includes HTML tag
samples	Q28937634
description	labels include HTML tags such as <i> or <br>
to do	remove html-tag from label and title and add markup version with qualifier title in HTML (P6833) to title
query	see constraint reports on P1476
impact	low overall, medium for items with the issue
status	open

title/label includes "formula: see text"

label	title/label includes "formula: see text"
samples	Q35209922
description	as the formula is complicated to reproduce, the label/title merely includes "formula: see text"
to do	add qualifier title in LaTeX (P6835) to the title with complete title in LaTeX markup
query	see constraint reports on P1476
impact	low
status	open

title/label include $$ or $ and TeX markup

label	title/label include $$ or $ and TeX markup
samples	Q29396284, Q30039935 (by another user)
description
to do	add qualifier title in LaTeX (P6835) to the title with complete title in LaTeX markup, normalize title/label. Automated conversion may be possible
query	see constraint reports on P1476
impact	low overall, medium for items with the issue
status	open

missing title element

label	missing title element
samples	A Novel Monoallelic Nonsense Mutation in the NFKB2 Gene Does Not Cause a Clinical Manifestation (Q64100401)
description	part of the title/label is missing
to do	complete title
query
impact	high for impacted items, overall: TBD
status	open

Other

author name string conversion

label	author name string conversion
samples
description	author name string (P2093) is meant to be a temporary solution. Eventually these should be converted to author (P50). Given their mere number, it's not easy to find which string is most in need of conversion. Papers with hundreds of authors aren't easy to edit in Wikidata
to do	some tools are available to decode them, e.g. /author-disambiguator/ or an identifier based one. A report of most frequent strings could be interesting (e.g. as provided by Scholia's /missing pages, which exist, e.g., for topics, venues, organizations, authors, awards). A tool starting from a given paper could be helpful too.
query
impact	TBD
status	open

coverage

label	coverage
samples	n/a
description	it's unclear which parts are imported or skipped
to do
query	TBD, check by id?
impact	TBD
status	open

recent import

label	recent import
samples	n/a
description	recent articles might not be imported, making the overall quality of the corpus stale
to do	request made at Wikidata:Bot_requests#weekly_import_of_new_articles
query
impact	medium
status	open

label
samples	XXX
description
to do
query
impact	TBD
status	open