Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 24


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DannyS712 bot 24
Operator:

Time filed: 05:37, Friday, March 22, 2019 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: Clean up Category:Wikipedia templates to be automatically substituted

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): As needed

Estimated number of pages affected: Few (likely less than a dozen per run, except initial run of ~34)

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

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

Function details: Category:Wikipedia templates to be automatically substituted currently contains around 35 user talk pages, suggesting that the templates were merely copied and pasted rather than actually substituted. This task would only edit user talk pages, and would just remove that category (and its sort key). I filed this as a BRFA so that I can avoid triggering "New Messages" notifications using.

Discussion
Generally I'd say copy-pasted templates should be completely fixed rather than bot-mangled. At least this proposed mangling wouldn't make it harder to fix later, it would just remove one avenue of finding them.

More interesting is that, of the 32 instances currently in the category, all are apparently actually a substitution of uw-corpname, which was created as a broken wrapper around uw-username by the same user who seems to be the primary user of the template. I've fixed the wrapper, so now someone just needs to clean up the 32 instances. There seems little need for a bot to do that, it'd be quicker for a human to make the 32 edits. Anomie⚔ 12:23, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
 * given that this was transcluded from the main BRfA page, and I am no longer interested in pursuing it as a task, are you okay with deleting it? I had too many BRFAs open at once, so this dropped off of the radar. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 22:17, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
 * We don't normally delete BRFAs, as far as I know, but withdrawing is an option. Anomie⚔ 22:26, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
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