Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BattyBot 48


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BattyBot 48
Operator:

Time filed: 12:26, Sunday, September 27, 2015 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: Fix last-author-amp parameters in citation templates

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 9, Template:Citation Style documentation/display

Edit period(s): One time run, run again upon request

Estimated number of pages affected: 750-1000

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

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

Function details: Due to the change of functionality of the last-author-amp parameters in citation templates, change values such as "1" or "&" to "y". GoingBatty (talk) 12:26, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

Discussion
, thanks for submitting this bot request. In the interest of completeness, I have also found the following values for lastauthoramp and last-author-amp: "no", "n", "noe", "yese". The ones that mean "no" should simply be blanked. I have some regex patterns near the bottom of User:Jonesey95/AutoEd/unnamed.js. Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:55, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
 * This is technically sound, but I'm not clear why we need to make the parameter more strict. Some users are likely to continue to use the old values; can't we leave in support for it but have the alternate values be undocumented? —  Earwig   talk 22:16, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Could you please ask your question at Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 9? Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 22:34, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Done. —  Earwig   talk 22:38, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm satisfied enough with Jonesey95's response to continue here. We're dealing with a small number of pages, so there's not a ton of room for issues. Let's go for it. —  Earwig   talk  01:27, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
 * - see . GoingBatty (talk) 20:33, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I don't seen any issues with the trial. Would normally wait a bit longer, but since this is causing errors in mainspace pages I'd like to get the bot running quickly. —  Earwig   talk 20:51, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
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