View source for User:Topbanana/Reports/This article may contain a badly formed ISBN reference

== Overview ==

The list below shows articles which contain badly formed ISBN references.  It was generated on 9th June 2005 from the 15th May 2005 [[Wikipedia:Database_download|database dump]].

It was completed on [[June 28]] [[2005]].

== Preamble ==

ISBN references uniquely identify published books.  Well-formed references can be used by the [[MediaWiki]] software to form special links to places the book can be found.

== Regenerating this report ==

This report is generated from a [[User:Topbanana/Reports/Scripts/Create Link Analysis Database|Link Analysis Database]] using the SQL:

<pre><nowiki>
SELECT concat( '*[[', art_title, ']]' )
FROM art
WHERE art_text REGEXP '[[:<:]]ISBN:'
ORDER BY art_title ASC;
</nowiki></pre>

== Suggested improvements ==

*Search for any non-alpha character following the ISBN, to catch ISBN7838288228 type entries and other random characters. [[User:Josh Parris|Josh Parris]] [[User_talk:Josh Parris|&#9993;]] 00:38, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
*The regexp format for ISBN references in wikipedia is "[[:<:]]ISBN [0-9-]{10,13}[[:>:]]".  All articles matching "[[:<:]]ISBN" but not this probably belong on this list. - [[User:Topbanana|TB]] 07:10, 2005 Jun 24 (UTC)
::Actually, no. That would catch the article on ISBNs and anywhere ISBNs were written about.  But I think that would be a low false positive rate. If the few articles that wrote about ISBNs were excluded, that'd work fine. I'd suggest using that search technique initially, but add in a whitelist for subsequent runs. [[User:Josh Parris|Josh Parris]] [[User_talk:Josh Parris|&#9993;]] 07:57, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

== List ==

Note: all of these have been completed.