Sprintf replacement specifiers for strings are used instead of integers

[Nao]

In wp-admin/edit.php, many of the messages for bulk edit include %s as replacement specifiers for decimal strings instead of %d (ref: ​http://php.net/sprintf)

While this does not affect the displayed message in English, replacing them with correct replacement specifiers will help translators understand the context.

[johnbillion]

The %s replacement specifier is used for number formatting purposes. The value passed in is not necessarily an integer. This is especially important with localisation, where the translation could be a word, a number with formatting, or a non-Latin numeral.

As an example (albeit an unlikely one), you could delete 1,000 pages and the number would show up as 1000 with your patch rather than 1,000.

[nacin]

Replying to johnbillion:

As an example (albeit an unlikely one), you could delete 1,000 pages and the number would show up as 1000 with your patch rather than 1,000.

printf( '%d', '1,000' ) actually truncates to 1, even worse.

[johnbillion]

For a bit more context, the numbers passed into these strings are first passed through number_format_i18n() ​see here, at which point they are localised and may not be integer-like.