Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AnomieBOT 23


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AnomieBOT 23
Operator: Anomie⚔

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic, unsupervised

Programming Language(s): Perl

Function Summary: Replace obsolete, , and templates (and redirects).

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): one-time

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Y

Function Details: Per request, the bot will replace, , and with the corresponding need-X parameters to. On the pages it edits for this reason, the bot will also bypass redirects to, remove the obsolete parameters ,  ,  , and portal[12345]-name , and check the numbering on any banner shells in case that needs updating.

Discussion
Note that the bot will not go through all 54333 uses of Film looking for parameters to remove or redirects to bypass; it will only take these actions on pages it is already editing to remove the three named templates. This is a straightforward variation of my TemplateReplacer code. Source is here. Anomie⚔ 03:22, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
 *  Richard 0612  22:34, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
 * No problems. Anomie⚔ 23:09, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Mr.Z-man 01:10, 16 January 2009 (UTC)


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