Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PkbwcgsBot 16


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PkbwcgsBot 16
Operator:

Time filed: 10:54, Friday, December 28, 2018 (UTC)

Function overview: The bot will fix (Heading with bold) and  (Heading ends with a colon)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): WPCleaner

Source code available: WPCleaner

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): Once a week on a Sunday

Estimated number of pages affected: 150 to 200 a week

Namespace(s): Mainspace

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: The bot is going to fix cases of heading with bold and heading ends with colon. The bot will take out the three apostrophes on each side of the heading to take out the bold. ==Example== will become ==Example==. The bot will also take out the colon at the end of the heading so ==Example:== will become ==Example==.

Discussion
looks pretty low risk and non controversial -- Tawker (talk) 00:39, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
 * How many edits would you like made in this trial? Pkbwcgs (talk) 20:23, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I've included a 50 edit request on the tag above. — xaosflux  Talk 21:08, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Would you like 25 edits of each error? Pkbwcgs (talk) 21:18, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
 * not sure how many there are do at least 15 of each, up to 50 total. — xaosflux  Talk 22:16, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
 * The error 44 trial is done. The edits are located here. I will do the error 57 trial tomorrow. Pkbwcgs (talk) 23:04, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
 * The error 57 trial edits are located here. I have no issues from what I can see. Pkbwcgs (talk) 11:53, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Just out of curiosity, are tags (and other HTML entities) one of the WCW errors? I saw it in Special:Diff/876222088. Primefac (talk) 23:03, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
 * It is only a WCW error it is duplicated (error 55) or if it is in a reference, subscript or superscript (error 63). Pkbwcgs (talk) 12:41, 4 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Task approved. — xaosflux  Talk 14:33, 4 January 2019 (UTC)


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