Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Bosnia and Herzegovina

A while back, I discussed Wikipedia:Request a query/Archive 2#identifying a list of toponym articles using a specific title format with No such user. Basically there's a bunch of village articles for Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as Serbia that are named "Place (Municipality)" instead of the more normal "Place, Municipality" (WP:NCGN).

Since then, I don't think we did much work on this, but it occurs to me now that something that happened in the meantime was @Ponor: who made a bot that did a mass-update on Croatian populated place articles. Could I recruit you to think about writing a bot to try to do these kinds of moves? Or maybe just help generate a reliable list of entries that could be input for a WP:RM?

Thanks in advance :) --Joy (talk) 14:38, 6 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

To avoid checking a long list of articles in those categories, I'd use List of populated places in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the first iteration: insert a new line before every bullet, grep for lines containing anything in parentheses, use regex to extract article titles and create new titles. If there's anything left, it shouldn't be hard to spot the pattern in PetScan (filter by settlement infobox usage). WP:RM would be the place to go, bot approval takes much more negotiation. @Joy? Ponor (talk) 07:50, 7 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

The catch is, a lot of those articles has been moved somewhere since that list was created, i.e. a lot of those targets are now redirects. As I remember, the regex I proposed back then /\([A-Z].*\)$ worked well, producing a list of articles disambiguated with uppercase A-Z within parentheses. I can't get it to work now, however (not that I tried too hard).
As for the process, I'm not sure... RM historically does not like handling so long lists, and the matter is rather trivial. Basically, we have had a consensus for that move for quite some time, but nobody could be arsed to do it since it's technically challenging. But where did your bot run for Croatian place names -- here or on hr.wiki? No such user (talk) 09:09, 8 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

@No such user it ran on enwiki, it was Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PonoRoboT. --Joy (talk) 15:18, 14 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

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I've submitted a move request for Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina → Austro-Hungarian Bosnia and Herzegovina. The article is tagged as a high priority for this project. You may be interested in participating. 122141510 (talk) 19:53, 26 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

So apparently there's been this slow-burning edit warring going on for years now, where a lot of places in Bosnia, including inside and outside of Republika Srpska, get a {{lang-sr-Cyrl}} Cyrillic spelling added to the lead section by whatever anonymous editor, and then a different anonymous editor removes it, repetitio ad nauseam.

A recent example that popped up in my watchlist was [1] where an anonymous left this edit summary:

Can anyone explain the relevance of this to an English speaker. Apparently included because of Serbianization POV.

Obviously this is WP:ASPERSIONS, but at the same time this matter isn't going away and ignoring it is unlikely to de-escalate it...

We had a similar set of problems at Talk:Josip Broz Tito and Talk:Nikola Tesla as well, as well as with some of the Serbian-inhabited municipalities in Croatia.

In some cases, it's easy to see the rationale - there's going to be a body of work in Cyrillic about the place. Now, the likelihood that this would be seen in a source search by English readers will probably vary by topic. With prominent topics (or prominent cities), esp. those with a notable Serb population, it's easy how this would be relevant. With less prominent ones, it's harder.

I can't find some other place where this might have been discussed, so here we go. MOS:LEADLANG is applicable here, but it's a matter of editorial discretion whether this label and text is clutter or not.

Maybe we could have a blanket rule to use {{efn}} for such notes in the Federation, where the usage of Cyrillic is probably uncommon?

Thoughts, anyone? --Joy (talk) 15:33, 14 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

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