Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Helpful Pixie Bot 45/archive

Helpful Pixie Bot 45
Operator: Rich Farmbrough

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: Yes;

Function overview: Change some parameters in Infobox ice hockey player

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Template talk:Infobox ice hockey player

Edit period(s): One time

Estimated number of pages affected: 2876 2669

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Yes

Function details: To quote the talk page The logic for a bot would be :
 * For all articles using "Template:Infobox ice hockey player"
 * if template contains " " or " ", insert a parameter of " " above the first occurance
 * find " " and delete " "  ( becomes, etc)
 * find " " and delete " "  ( becomes, etc)
 * if template contains " " or " ",
 * change  to
 * change  to

Discussion
Note that a couple of other changes requested are better done in the template itself (adding a maint category) or, at least to start with, on an "as and when" basis (bypassing redirects).Rich Farmbrough 21:08, 17 November 2011 (UTC)