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I often come across wikilinks in section headers and currently fix manually, however, after coming across nearly 20 in an article I was wondering if anyone has written regex or C# to find and do the bulk of the work to change to 'see also', which seems to fit 99% of the time? Neils51 (talk) 14:18, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

I don't see how moving them to 'see also' usually fits. I usually unlink the term in the header and link it in the section, usually in the first sentences. MB 14:23, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

As discussed here MOS:LINKSTYLE although may be context related. Depends on the article I suppose. Neils51 (talk) 15:03, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

@Neils51: Here's a small trick using regexes, but it will only work with headers that contain one wikilink:

Replace /^(=+)(\s*.*)(\[\[([^#|<>{}\[\]]+?(?:#.*?(?=\||\]\]))?)(?:\|.+?)?\]\])(.*\s*)\1$/gm

with $1$2{{subst:Delink|$3}}$5$1\n{{see also|$4}}

Basically, we capture the link's target, delink the header with {{Delink}}, then wrap that target into {{see also}} and add it add a second line.

Note that user scripts or AWB plugins should be preferred as JS and C# are real, Turing-complete programming languages with much more power than regex.

NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 19:25, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

Addendum: You may re-replace the regex above multiple times, then clean up {{see also}}s by replacing /(?<=^{{[\t_ ]*[Ss]ee[\t_ ]+also[\t_ ]*(?:\|\s*([^#|<>{}\[\]]+?(?:#.*?(?=\||\}\}))?))+)}}\n{{[\t_ ]*[Ss]ee[\t_ ]+also[\t_ ]*/gm with nothing. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 19:45, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

@NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh: Much appreciated! Will look at a plugin at some point. Neils51 (talk) 21:15, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

Have this working just fine in AWB. Used in Advanced Setting, else in Normal Settings the edit summary gets a little messed. Made modifications to the replace function and don't use the de-link, currently running with two iterations enabled. The 'see also' cleanup is in a subrule. Plan to use a macro to push in an edit summary. Neils51 (talk) 11:23, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

The typo list currently changes "a NZ" to "an NZ" which is correct, but I've just found an exception to this rule: changing "a NZ$420 million" to "an NZ$420 million" is incorrect, because it's pronounced" a $420 million New Zealand dollar ..." or just "a $420 million dollar ...". Could someone fix this please? ―Panamitsu (talk) 21:22, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

This error is still being made so I would appreciate it if someone could fix it. I'm not sure how to do it myself. It should change "an NZ$" to "a NZ$". Panamitsu ✨ 11:00, 26 March 2026 (UTC)

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