Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BattyBot 28


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BattyBot 28
Operator:

Time filed: 14:06, Sunday March 30, 2014 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: Fix incorrect wikilinks in citation templates

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): Occasional runs

Estimated number of pages affected: hundreds

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

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

Function details: Fix incorrect wikilinks in the work/journal/magazine/newspaper/publisher parameters of citation templates. For example:
 * →  (e.g.  )

Discussion
-- slakr \ talk / 07:11, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm sure GB knows this, and only gave the above three examples, but a more comprehensive list (not exhaustive) can be found at User:Ohconfucius/test/Sources_subscript3.js, even better list here. --  Ohc  ¡digame! 08:31, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Wow - that's a ton - thanks! Three more: Liberty, Parent, Q.  GoingBatty (talk) 02:01, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Actually, that's only for completeness' sake. You might not want to weigh down your regexes too much. I think that in practice, the operational list can be a lot smaller because the vast majority of these will never be cited. I wonder what criteria we can use to filter the less important... --  Ohc  ¡digame! 03:11, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Since DPL bot lets users know when they add ambiguous wikilinks such as Mojo or Wired, I'm going to start with a small list of wikilinks that go to articles unrelated to the magazines: Billboard, Blender, Ebony, Empire, Essence, Esquire, Gourmet, Interview, Liberty, Life, Money, Ms., Musician, National Geographic, Parade, Parent, Parents, Parenting, People, Premiere, Q, Scouting, Self, Slate, Smithsonian, Star, Stern, Sunset, Tennis, Time, and Women's Health.  GoingBatty (talk) 16:03, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
 * - see these diffs. GoingBatty (talk) 22:20, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
 * GoingBatty (talk) 14:12, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
 *  MBisanz  talk 05:10, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
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