Note

This page exists solely as a list of articles for processing to cleanup bare URLs (see WP:Bare URLs). I do that by feeding these lists to Citation bot.

In the vast majority of cases, these are articles in which I have no interest other than fixing bare URL references.

The lists have no other significance, and represent only a subset of the topic described in the title. Note that the definition of "bare URL" used here is narrow: ref tags which contain only the URL, optionally preceded or followed by spaces, and/or enclosed in square brackets [].

For example:

• bare URL, with no spaces: <ref>https://www.example.com/foo</ref>
• bare URL, with spaces: <ref> https://www.example2.com/foobar </ref>
• bracketed URL, with no spaces: <ref>[https://www.example.com/foo]</ref>
• bracketed URL, with spaces: <ref> [https://www.example2.com/foobar] </ref>

There are of course many other types of inadequately described citation. This exercise targets only the simplest, worst examples. However, when Citation bot processes a page, it can fix many other citation issues, so this exercise fixes more than just the targeted problem.

Updates

Please note that this page is updated with a new list after a batch has been started to be processed, and sometimes before it has finished processing. So if you have come to this page after it is mentioned in an edit summary, please note that the current version of this page may not be the one used for that series of edits. For earlier versions, see this page's history.

Lists

These lists are built from the set of all pages which:

• were found in a scan of the latest database dump to contain untagged non-PDF bare links, i.e. they matched the regex <ref\b[^>]*?>\s*\[?\s*https?:[^>< \|\[\]]+(?<!\.pdf)\s*\]?\s*<\s*/\s*ref\b
  but
• were not included in the list of newly-added bare URLs from that database dump

This list was made on 28 May 2022, from the 20220520 database dump. The process above left a set of 93,551 pages.

That of 93,551 pages was the split into five groups (A–E) of roughly 18,710 pages each: Group A, Group B, Group C, Group D, Group E.

Each list was then filtered to remove any page which no longer contains a bare URL.

This Group E has 18,087 pages.

Blanked, to prevent accidental re-submission.
The latest batch " Remaining articles with bare links from 20220520, Group E, part 3" (3,845 pages) ​is currently being processed by Citation bot, as of 13:04, 30 May 2022 (UTC)