Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 39

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DannyS712 bot 39

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Operator: DannyS712 (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 19:39, Thursday, May 16, 2019 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: Replace {{Better source|reason=per WP:CIRCULAR with {{Circular reference

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks#More specific maintenance tag

Edit period(s): One time run

Estimated number of pages affected: ~2500

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: As a result of a discussion (User talk:Basilicofresco#FrescoBot Better source tag), Basilicofresco updated their bot to tag circular references with {{circular reference}}, rather than {{better source}} - this task would convert the old better source tag that have "per WP:CIRCULAR" as the reason to use {{circular reference}} instead.

Discussion

• @Finnusertop, StudiesWorld, and Basilicofresco: see BRFA above. --DannyS712 (talk) 19:40, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:11, 18 May 2019 (UTC)

@Xaosflux: Trial complete. - 51 edits made, sorry: [1]. I didn't see any issues. I ran the trial without genfixes enabled, but I can enable them if you want. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 19:37, 18 May 2019 (UTC)

{{BAGAssistanceNeeded}} Ping to Xaosflux. DannyS712 (talk) 15:33, 24 May 2019 (UTC)

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 Approved. As per usual, if amendments to - or clarifications regarding - this approval are needed, please start a discussion on the talk page and ping. --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 17:10, 26 May 2019 (UTC)

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