User talk:Chris Capoccia

Thank you for all of your help! I just have a couple of questions.

Hi Chris, I have been working on the Bioelectricity Wikipedia page with my colleagues and I really appreciate all the help that you have provided us in making the page more suitable for Wikipedia. We have put in citations in all the places that citations have been requested and also responded to the suggestion to merge with Biomagnetics (which we do not agree with and put our statement in the appropriate talk page a couple of weeks ago). I am wondering if you'd be willing to remove the two tags on the top of the page that indicate the need for the citations (which we have put in) and the suggestion for the merge (which we don't agree with and no one else has added to the conversation)? I really appreciate your help with our efforts to make the field of Bioelectricity more available for the general public to learn about and to hopefully enrich and inspire lives through learning.

Best wishes and many thanks,

Tiadeeharrison (talk) 15:55, 29 May 2018 (EST)

Thanks

Thanks Chris for all your great editing for wiki.

Citation clean-up at Physella acuta

Hi Chris, thank you so much for your work cleaning up my references in the article! I spent hours yesterday adapting it to the Template:Sfn. The whole time I thought 1. there must be a better way of doing this and 2. I am probably messing something up. Were your edits made with the help of any tool? Barbalalaika 🐌 07:01, 21 January 2026 (UTC)

Mostly I use Citation bot and the related tools. In the edit box there is a citation expander where you put in something like a DOI and it builds a whole citation with a template.   — Chris Capoccia 💬 13:04, 21 January 2026 (UTC)

I didn't know citation bot could be used as a tool. I'll look into that. And are you referring to Wikipedia:Citation expander? Seems to save a ton of time! I'll enable it, thank you for the hint.

I also edited Neritina pulligera, so thank you for your work there as well. I have some specific questions: could you explain your changes here? And why did you revert the Linnaeus edit here? I had edited the latter following a GAR request to standardise all citations. Cheers! Barbalalaika 🐌 07:18, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

I use both Citation bot and Citation expander. Most of the edit is eliminating URLs that go to the same place as the DOI and replacing JSTOR URLs with parameters. If you really want the title to be linked to the DOI even when the DOI doesn't have a full free version, it can be done with the parameter |title-link=doi.   — Chris Capoccia 💬 12:44, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

Found the name for the other thing I use. It's Wikipedia:RefToolbar/2.0. You can put in some identifier like DOI for journal or google books URL for book citation and it will fill out all the details in a form that you can still edit before adding to the page.   — Chris Capoccia 💬 23:01, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

CS1 error on Social media

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• A missing title error. References show this error when they do not have a title. Please edit the article to add the appropriate title parameter to the reference. (Fix | Ask for help)

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Your edit on the "Madagascar"edit

Chris, I'm the editor doing the copy edit that was requested for this article. You, like five other editors who seem very closely involved with it, slipped through the large announcement that we in the Guild of Copy Editors (GOCE) place at the top of articles that have been requested for this sort of copy edit. Never in all my experience doing this sort of job has this happened more than once or twice—and even then, just once per article.

The problem is, this creates major confusion for us. I won't go into the sad tales of woe because I now think there may have been some misunderstanding all the way around when, as with this article, there is something like an FAR going on too. I knew there was, but I never dreamed anyone else but me would work directly on the article till the announcement at the top of the article was removed.

Because your edits seem to have been on the references—something we from GOCE don't usually get involved in—how I've decided to deal with thiis situation is ask you to tell me right away about any changes, if any, that you made elsewhere in the article. Hopefully, you didn't make any and I can just get back to editing again. Augnablik (talk) 12:05, 28 January 2026 (UTC)