Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Addbot 29


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Addbot 29
Operator:

Time filed: 23:23, Sunday January 13, 2013 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): PHP

Source code available: on request

Function overview:

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Removing recently phased out templates from pages (Currently Wikify and its redirects.

Edit period(s): daily

Estimated number of pages affected: A few a day

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

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

Function details: Remove phased out templates from articles where the template has already been removed from articles but has been re added to a few articles through the use of scripts and editing.
 * Get the transclusions from such pages and then go to those pages and removed the template. (as you can see these have all been added since the template was phased out.

Discussion

 * I see no issues. Pretty straightforward task.— cyberpower ChatOnline 17:18, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
 * BAGAssistanceNeeded Nothing can really go wrong, task is a simple find and replace from a list provided by the api  ·Add§hore·  T alk T o M e ! 18:49, 14 January 2013 (UTC)


 *  MBisanz  talk 23:53, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Started the trial, there currently aren't many instances in the list to check. Currently just  ·Add§hore·  T alk T o M e !  17:46, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
 * This may end up being very stale now due to the fact that most of the tools for the wikify template have been fixed.  ·Add§hore·  T alk T o M e ! 22:11, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
 *  ·Add§hore·  T alk T o M e ! 19:56, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
 *  ·Add§hore·  T alk T o M e ! 01:16, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
 *  ·Add§hore·  T alk T o M e ! 01:51, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
 * 18 is sufficient for me.  MBisanz  talk 02:55, 1 February 2013 (UTC)


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