Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PrimeBOT 14


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PrimeBOT 14
Operator:

Time filed: 17:12, Saturday, April 8, 2017 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: Fix  links in bluelinks

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): BOTREQ request and the related RFD.

Edit period(s): One time run initially, though if it crops up again it might need another go

Estimated number of pages affected: 966 pages, based on this search ~3000: 2600 (Five Pillars), 262 (Newsletter), 171 (Dec Newsletter)

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): yes

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

Function details: Replace incorrect  links in code with   per the BOTREQ request and the RFD (which basically said "we're not going to delete this terrible redirect until the incoming links are fixed").

Discussion

 * Note that, per Redirects for discussion/Log/2017 April 5 not all Wikipedia:Wikipedia links are incorrect. The BOTREQ discussion was for links to specific pages only, not all pages found by the linked search. Thryduulf (talk) 00:43, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Of the ten pages that have a double-Wikipedia opening, that particular redirect (and maybe Wikipedia:Wikipedia: the movie) are the only two suffering from being the right name when it's a double. It's also interesting to note that neither of those redirects actually has more than three non-maintenance incoming links. Primefac (talk) 00:51, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
 * The rest, if I'm reading it right, were all created due to typos in some sort of newsletter/announcement/template/etc (i.e. things that should be fixed). Primefac (talk) 00:56, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Given the lack of links to all but three of the redirects, I think it would be safe to narrow it down to "what links" to Wikipedia:Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Newsletter/Banner, Wikipedia:Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Newsletter/Banner (December Version), and Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Five pillars, since those are the only three that have more than a half-dozen incoming links. Primefac (talk) 01:06, 9 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Creating new pages with double namespace prefixes is now blocked by the titleblacklist. So the chances of it cropping up again are very low. – Train2104 (t • c) 02:16, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Good to know. Updated request. Primefac (talk) 15:10, 9 April 2017 (UTC)


 * I'm unsure how the search only found an estimated 966 pages. Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Five pillars just by itself has over 2500 incoming links. Steel1943  (talk) 22:29, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
 * , search timed out and I missed the notice. I'll update the request accordingly. Primefac (talk) 01:12, 12 April 2017 (UTC)


 * . — xaosflux  Talk 21:46, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
 * - Edits. Primefac (talk) 22:12, 9 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Task approved. — xaosflux  Talk 22:24, 18 April 2017 (UTC)


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