Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 61


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DannyS712 bot 61
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Time filed: 01:56, Tuesday, September 10, 2019 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: Fix citation template errors `Italic or bold markup not allowed in:` parameter

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Bot requests

Edit period(s): As needed, first 39000 are a one-time run

Estimated number of pages affected: 39000

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

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

Function details: Remove bold/italic formatting from the publisher field in Cite news and other citation templates, following Help talk:Citation Style 1.

Discussion

 * This is context sensitive. For example:
 * The correct solution is remove the italics and rename publisher to newspaper. There are a bunch of other scenarios.  --  Green  C  02:08, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
 * The correct solution is remove the italics and rename publisher to newspaper. There are a bunch of other scenarios.  --  Green  C  02:08, 10 September 2019 (UTC)


 * , please explain the proposed fixes in more detail. – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:11, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
 * There is already WP:Bots/Requests for approval/Monkbot 14. --Izno (talk) 02:14, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Ah, I see... can you delete this please? DannyS712 (talk) 02:15, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
 * is this BotWithdrawn ? — xaosflux  Talk 02:30, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I guess, but given that it was filed in error (I didn't realize the task already existed) I'd rather it be deleted if that is possible DannyS712 (talk) 02:31, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
 * as others have already participated in this discussion, deletion isn't the best option. Marking as withdrawn and closing. —  xaosflux  Talk 02:34, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
 * No longer required per the discussion above. — xaosflux  Talk 02:34, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
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