Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/JCW-CleanerBot 4


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JCW-CleanerBot 4
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Time filed: 01:56, Thursday, May 10, 2018 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: Find

Function overview: Remove the deprecated parameter bypass-rcheck of Infobox journal from pages in: Category:Infobox journals with bypassed redirect checking. (And AWB genfixes if applicable.)

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): The parameter was introduced to suppress undesired WhatLinksHere entries created by an ifexist check (Template talk:Infobox journal). A hack was found by and is now implemented, meaning bypass-rcheck is no longer needed (and could gets in the way of further checks for different abbreviation as they are added).

Edit period(s): One time run

Estimated number of pages affected: ~176

Namespace(s):Mainspace

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes, but irrelevant

Function details: Remove the deprecated parameter bypass-rcheck of Infobox journal.

Discussion
BTW, I did a dry run without edit and there was zero issues. I believe this could be speedily approved. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 02:01, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
 * — CYBERPOWER  ( Chat ) 22:18, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
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