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Bot Flag Request for User:SchlurcherBot

Appologies for posting in English. Also, I could not locate a dedicated page for bot request in English Wikispecies, so I am posting here. Please direct me to the correct page if one exists. Thank you.

• Bot name: User:SchlurcherBot
• Bot operator: commons:User:Schlurcher
• Bot task: Automatically convert links from http:// to https:// (secure protocol migration)
• Technical details: Please see meta:User:SchlurcherBot for full details, including the expected number of affected URLs on Wikispecies.
• Bot flags on other projects: Global bot status granted. Also flagged on English Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, and Commons. For a full list, see: sulutil:SchlurcherBot
• Comment: The bot is globally approved and active on the top 10 Wikipedia projects. As this wiki has opted out of the global bot policy, I am requesting permission to perform these link updates on Wikispecies as well. Please let me know if a local bot flag can be granted or if you have any questions. Thank you. --Schlurcher (talk) 07:59, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

There is no "English Wikispecies"; Wikispecies is a multilingual project, like Commons.

As I'm making 50+ requests on all kind of projects, I use a templated solution, which did not work out here. Now corrected. Thanks. --Schlurcher (talk) 08:20, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

How does your bot deal with websites that are still using only the http protocol?

There is no "expected number of affected URLs on English Wikispecies" (nor Wikispecies of any flavour) on the linked page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:07, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing: To answer your questions: 1) There are an expected 640'405 pages with http links on this project, as given on the linked page under specieswiki. 2) If any of the checked links fails (http or https), then nothing will happen. This will be the case for all websites that are still using only the http protocol. --Schlurcher (talk) 08:06, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

Thank you; support.

Please use the bot to make 50 test edits. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:30, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing: I'me made 50 edits, please have a look [1] Schlurcher (talk) 12:40, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

Thank you. No issues that I can see. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:10, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

I support as well. Andyboorman (talk) 11:05, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

Support. Neferkheperre (talk) 13:42, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

Support curious why this was put here we do have a bot request page. But not a real issue. Cheers Scott Thomson (Faendalimas) ^talk 16:54, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

@Faendalimas: Main reason was that I was unable to identify your bot request page. That was my oversight error. I'm making 50+ requests across multiple projects and whereas your page is listed on Wikidata I might have overlooked it. --Schlurcher (talk) 14:28, 16 April 2026 (UTC)

Comment I have moved the conversation from Wikispecies:Village Pump to this bot request page, and transcluded this page on Village Pump for discoverability and continuity. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 15:11, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

Bot flag granted. Scott Thomson (Faendalimas) ^talk 15:28, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

Thank you. I've also added the bot to Wikispecies:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON and Wikispecies:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage, in order for the bot operator to see the Bots tab and be able to use the AutoWikiBrowser function properly. –Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 18:07, 20 April 2026 (UTC).

Thanks. ---Schlurcher (talk) 16:34, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

@Schlurcher: When do you plan to start using your bot on this project? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:14, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing: I've just finished getting the bot approved for all project that did not have a proper Bot Request process. I will now start working on these. I can start soon, but it will take quite a while to complete. I can put specieswiki to the top of the next round. --Schlurcher (talk) 07:21, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

Deeringothamnus and Asimina

I have undertaken a brief review of Asimina and the tribe Annoneae. During this I have come to the conclusion that Deeringothamnus be taken into the synonymy of Asimina rather than as a disputed segregate. I will leave off making the required redirects etc for a week or so to allow for objections and discussion. Best regards Andyboorman (talk) 09:57, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

Image rendering at Wikispecies

Image quality rendering here appears to have declined dramatically recently; compare e.g. the original of File:Poecile palustris 3b Luc Viatour.jpg at Commons, and how it appears here now at Poecile palustris, all blurred and blotchy-looking. It isn't just reduced in size by the specified default (or other user-set dimension), the sharpness of the photo has reduced massively. It never used to be this bad, nor is it so at e.g. en:wikipedia. Anyone know what's happened? - MPF (talk) 15:39, 16 May 2026 (UTC)

The default thumbnail size preference for article content is now limited to three sizes, Small (180px), Regular (250px), and Large (400px). See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T424909.

Probably blurring happens while rendering if other pixel values are preferenced. Thiotrix (talk) 10:48, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

My preferences are set to 'Large'; they were set to 400px before, so no change then. But the pic quality displayed has dropped off a cliff - and I think it spoils the site - MPF (talk) 21:15, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

Wm S. Wright, lepidopterist

Can we be confident that the "Wm S. Wright" who wrote Report on the Lepidoptera of the American Museum Expedition to Arizona, 1916 : Geometridae and Epiplemidae (1920; [2]) is our William Sherman Wright? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:48, 16 May 2026 (UTC)

Category cleanup

I've been cleaning up some of our category oddities and found these two, which were created by Stephen Thorpe in 2013. Can they be deleted, and what—if anything—should be done about the potential issues he described for their (few) members?

• Category:-''colus'' suffix
• Category:-ii suffix

Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:11, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

Eurycarpus

Our sole use of {{Fake citation needed}} is on Decapoda, in reference to Eurycarpus, which is a redirect. How should the matter be resolved, and can the template then be deleted? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:00, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

Vestergren

Should (Jacob) Tycho (Conrad) Vestergren (created by User:Fagus in 2013) be moved to Jacob Tycho Conrad Vestergren? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:16, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

IPNI uses Vestergren, (Jacob) Tycho (Conrad) [3] so I am not sure. Andyboorman (talk) 17:23, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

IMO it should be either Tycho Vestergren or Jacob Tycho Conrad Vestergren without parentheses. The parentheses to me just indicates that he usually went by just Tycho Vestergren, Tycho being presumably his preferred given name in life, but that Jacob Tycho Conrad Vestergren is his full birth name. Monster Iestyn (talk) 19:41, 17 May 2026 (UTC)