A bot for validating the values of citations instead of just their syntax.

cat pageNameList.txt | python main.py <blacklist_dir>

The blacklist directory contains a list of urls with the domains of suspicious,fraudulent or predatory sites.

• Blacklisted Domain
• Invalid(Unparsable) date formats
• Unrealistic Dates: Any year only date prior to the year 1000

• Unrealistic dates: Exact dates prior to user configurable cutoff year. e.g.( 1 February 100 )

• Weak Dates: Unspecific dates e.g.

• Fall 2018
• 2018
• Early 2018

Right now this is a good enough implementation for simple validation of some cases. In the long run

• Separate cite web, cite book, etc., into common and specific checks

• Generalize check logic

• Create different hooks for emit_bad_citation(), e.g. database, or actual page modification.

• Verify bad book publishers

• Distinguish between bad journals, books and self publishers.