User:AnomieBOT/Dating rules

This page lists templates that AnomieBOT should add dates to, in much the same way that AutoWikiBrowser/Dated templates lists templates for AWB. For that matter, AnomieBOT uses AutoWikiBrowser/Dated templates too; this page is just for more complicated situations.

Format

 * Each line begins with a *, then the template linked using tl, then a specification of parameters using the para template.
 * To specify parameters that are required, say  and then the list of parameter templates (all must be present); to specify parameters that are required to be absent, say   (all must be absent). If both   and   are needed, specify with first and then without.
 * If only certain values of the parameter should be matched, use the second parameter of para. Different options may be separated with ; a run of multiple characters may be specified with.
 * To specify that a parameter other than date is to be dated, say  followed by the parameter (in the para template).
 * If the template accepts dates in unnamed parameters 1–5, these may confuse the bot. To ignore them entirely, use  followed by the parameter (in the para template). To use them to try to determine the maintenance date but refrain from deleting them as bogus, use   followed by the parameter (in the para template)

Examples
* rp with needed * Weather box without source source1 * orphan with att date parameter att The first line will only date rp when needed is given; the second will only date Weather box when both source and source1 are absent. The third will effectively validate the date in att, since it will date that parameter (instead of date) only when it is already present.

Rules

 * rp with needed
 * Weather box without source source 1
 * orphan with att date parameter att
 * orphan without att
 * update ignore 2
 * afd-merge to without 3
 * afd-merge from keep 3
 * afd-merge required keep 3
 * complete list keep 1
 * clarify span ignore 1