Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BU RoBOT 8


 * The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA. The result of the discussion was Symbol keep vote.svg Approved

BU RoBOT 8
Operator:

Time filed: 17:03, Thursday, March 24, 2016 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: AWB, regex below

Function overview: Substitute all transclusions of Tennis events 2 across all namespaces to complete the merge into Tennis events.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Templates_for_discussion/Log/2014_March_30

Edit period(s): One time run

Estimated number of pages affected: 6,596

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

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

Function details: Very simple task. Tennis events 2 has been a wrapper for ages, but no-one ever got around to substituting all the transclusions. Please note that the documentation for Tennis events 2 suggests updating with "men" or "women" according to the type of tournament, but those two inputs generate the exact same output currently (which you can see at Module:Tennis events nav, where  is used).

\{\{\s*(Tennis events 2|MastersEvents2|TennisEvents2) --> {{subst:Tennis events 2

Discussion

 * As a side note, many similar tasks are coming up as I clean out the backlog at WP:TFD/H. Thoughts on whether it would be appropriate to file a general BRFA to use similar regex to carry out simple substitution of wrappers to complete TfD merges/deletes would be helpful. There is precedent for such a BRFA here. ~ RobTalk 23:48, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, I think approval for substitution of wrappers for template merging or deletion in response to clear TfD closures will be fine after we're done. Until then, —  Earwig   talk  05:47, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
 * The edits are here. I looked through over half while it was running and found no errors. ~ RobTalk 14:10, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
 * BAG assistance needed Only tagging this because it should be a very easy task to assess. ~ RobTalk 14:01, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
 * —  Earwig   talk 23:21, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA.