Tool to clean up Wikipedia articles where there are duplicate references

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Sometimes when editing Wikipedia I find an article where references have been duplicated.

Is there a tool that makes it easy to merge all those references to the same url into just one reference?

Here is an example page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Green_(social_entrepreneur)&oldid=936659277

You can see in the example that the same schwabfoundation page has multiple references to it.

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I went on the wikipedia-en-help IRC and asked.

Someone suggested using Refill as a solution and it worked quite well but is exceptionally slow so I hope to find an alternative.

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Wikipedia RSS – How to Get RSS Feeds for Articles Created

You can get the feed if you check out the New pages watch and filter for your name only.

Toolbox > Special Pages > Recent changes and logs > New pages
Enter your Wikipedia handle in the Username: field
Hit Go

You'll then get results showing all the newly created pages started by that username.

Grab the "Special:New pages" Atom feed that is created for that result output.

The URL for that will look like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NewPages&feed=atom&hideliu=&hidepatrolled=&hidebots=&hideredirs=1&limit=50&namespace=0&username=USERNAME

Replace USERNAME in the above with yours.

Wikimedia Commons – How to Add Multiple Files to a Category

Yes, if you have a list of pages that you want to add to some category, AutoWikiBrowser can help you do that. But, as with any other mass change, you should have a consensus to do so, or the change should be uncontroversial.

Also, to be able to use AWB on Commons, you need to be approved first, see Commons:AutoWikiBrowser for more information.

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Wikipedia RSS – How to Get RSS Feeds for Articles Created

Wikimedia Commons – How to Add Multiple Files to a Category

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