Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BU RoBOT 31


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BU RoBOT 31
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Time filed: 21:35, Friday, January 27, 2017 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: Replace hyphens with endashes within the relevant years parameters in Infobox football biography as per MOS:DASH

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): None; this task is non-controversial and similar to past tasks such as Bots/Requests_for_approval/DASHBot, which took the much more significant action of moving pages to make the same stylistic change. See also Bots/Requests for approval/BU RoBOT 16, Bots/Requests for approval/BU RoBOT 21, and Bots/Requests for approval/BU RoBOT 22

Edit period(s): One-time run, possibly recurring at some point in the distant future to pick up new incorrect uses of hyphens.

Estimated number of pages affected: 31,749

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

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

Function details: See Bots/Requests for approval/BU RoBOT 21 for all the relevant details. This task uses the exact same code with the parameter names changed. No errors were ever reported for the multiple previous runs of this type of task.

Discussion
Hope I'm not jumping ahead by giving speedy approval, but given the circumstances a new trial would nearly seem like a repeat of the other three similar tasks, all of which had no issues &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  21:04, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
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