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BattyBot 80
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Time filed: 19:11, Sunday, December 3, 2023 (UTC)

Function overview: Fix Australian Dictionary of Biography CS1 template errors

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Source code available: AWB

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks

Edit period(s): One time run (unless requested otherwise)

Estimated number of pages affected: 1,300

Namespace(s): Mainspace

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No):

Function details: Fix references to the Australian Dictionary of Biography in articles containing Category:CS1 errors: periodical ignored by doing the following: For examples, see this edit and this edit and this edit.
 * Convert with a website/work  value to  without the website/work parameter
 * Remove the publisher parameter
 * Convert the url parameter to id2/id per Template:Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography

This bot will not fix all issues. Some of the references will have to be fixed manually, such as those templates with different values in title and chapter.

The bot will also perform AWB's general fixes. Thank you for your consideration! GoingBatty (talk) 19:11, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

Discussion
Straight-forward task, just checking to make sure everything's aligned. Primefac (talk) 12:42, 14 December 2023 (UTC)


 * @Primefac: See these 25 edits. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 20:57, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Primefac (talk) 14:10, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
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