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:
<ref>https://www.example.com/foo</ref><ref> https://www.example2.com/foobar </ref><ref>[https://www.example.com/foo]</ref><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.
I create these lists by using WP:PETSCAN to make huge lists of articles, then I process them in various ways using WP:AWB, and create a list of only articles with bare URL refs, which usually amount to less than 10% of the initial lists. (The highest ratio I have seen is about 15%, and the average is probably about 8%). I then break the list up into chunks which fit under the 2200-page limit for citation bot batch jobs.
Note that since each list is cross-checked against the lists which have already been processed, to avoid having the bot process the same page twice. (There may be some glitches in this, since my filing system for lists made in July has some omissions).
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. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs)