User:Monkbot/task 12: London Gazette deprecated parameters

Task 12 is a single use task that removes and replaces certain deprecated parameters in existing templates. The original has been converted to be a wrapper template around  and later around. To make the template both stylistically and functionally similar to common cs1|2 templates, some of the original parameters have been supplemented with their equivalent cs1|2 parameters. Task 12 revises existing instances of the templates to use the new parameters.

description
Task 12 removes and replaces these parameters: Task 12, like all Monkbot tasks, does not apply general fixes.
 * 1) ps with postscript – included mostly for completeness, this parameter has been deprecated for quite a long time so it is likely that only a very few if any of these parameters exist.
 * 2) separator with mode – cs1|2 templates no longer support separator.  Its functionality was replaced with mode.  Task 12 replaces instances of, with cs2.  Because the underlying  is cs1, . is removed because cs1 would be redundant.
 * 3) startpage and endpage with pages – The old template used the value assigned to startpage in the url that linked to that page on the London Gazette website.  It was then concatenated with an en dash and the value assigned to endpage to create the pagination information rendered for the reader.  The new version of the template is capable of extracting the first page number from a range of pages in xx–yy so neither of startpage and endpage are required.
 * 4) startpage (without endpage) with page – for consistency with item 3 above and for consistency with the common cs1|2 usage.

Task 12 skips pages that include.

ancillary tasks
There are a handful of other edits made to. These other edit are only made if one or more of the deprecated parameter removal/replacements described above are made. These edits are:
 * 1) removes accessdate and access-date – These parameters are intended to mark a point in time when the content of an ephemeral web page supported text in a Wikipedia article. The archived London Gazette facsimile is not ephemeral even though the wrapping html page may be. If an editor at Wikipedia is citing the content of the wrapping html page, then is not the correct template and the editor would be better served by using.
 * 2) removes empty parameters – Empty parameters clutter wikitext and do nothing to contribute to how the template is rendered. There is a single exception:
 * 3) replace ref with none – disables automatic  generation in a manner consistent with cs1|2.
 * 4) standardizes redirects, , and to
 * 5) standardizes yes to y – included mostly for completeness, most if not all, of these parameters have already been standardized.