Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BattyBot 22


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BattyBot 22
Operator:

Time filed: 03:24, Saturday April 20, 2013 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: Remove invalid citation parameters

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Category:Pages with citations using unsupported parameters

Edit period(s): As needed

Estimated number of pages affected: hundreds

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

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

Function details: Recent changes to the citation templates now display deprecated parameters as errors for all to see. This request is to be able to programatically remove those parameters as needed, such as 300+ instances of y from cite news. (Suggestions welcome for additional parameters to be removed.)

Note that this is not a request to remove every incorrect parameter, as many are misspellings (e.g. accessdte) or may contain valuable information that should be moved to a supported parameter (e.g. unused_data).

AWB general fixes will also be done at the same time, which includes additional functionality to rename template parameters. GoingBatty (talk) 03:24, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

Discussion
 ·Add§hore·  Talk To Me! 17:38, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
 * - diffs are available here. GoingBatty (talk) 18:30, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
 * edits look good, good task, good bot op.  ·Add§hore·  Talk To Me! 14:26, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
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