Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FACBot 6


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FACBot 6
Operator:

Time filed: 01:51, Tuesday, February 11, 2020 (UTC)

Function overview: Go through all the Featured Articles, and merge certain templates in the Article History template.

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Supervised

Programming language(s): C#

Source code available: TBA

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates see also Bots/Requests for approval/GimmeBot 2 from 2007.

Edit period(s): A series of runs, doing more articles each time.

Estimated number of pages affected: There are 5,674 featured articles, but most should not require a change. FACBot has been performing this for featured articles upon promotion since 2014, but an error was found, under which not all peer review templates were merged.

Namespace(s): Talk

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: Go through the talk pages of featured articles and merge the DYK, featured article, peerreview, oldpeerreview and GA templates into the Article History template. If the article does not have an Article History template, then create one (but all FAs should already have one).

Discussion
Seems reasonable. Primefac (talk) 21:26, 23 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Trial conducted with 50 edits. Pages updated are list here. All looks good. Some improvements were made to error handling.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  05:36, 27 February 2020 (UTC)


 * -- The SandDoctor Talk 20:42, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
 * please remember to mark as BotTrialComplete when done, or we won't know that it isn't still in trial ;) -- The SandDoctor Talk 20:42, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

Looks good to me. As per usual, if amendments to - or clarifications regarding - this approval are needed, please start a discussion on the talk page and ping. -- The SandDoctor Talk 20:51, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
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