Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PrimeBOT 36


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PrimeBOT 36
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Time filed: 17:03, Thursday, June 3, 2021 (UTC)

Function overview: Replace invalid year values in articles

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: WP:AWB

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): BOTREQ (permalink)

Edit period(s): OTR

Estimated number of pages affected: 1,211

Namespace(s): Main

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: Replace  (and other variations of the dash) with. Generally speaking these will be in redirect links to Jin dynasty (265–420) or non-linked times given in prose.

Discussion
Is there a substantive reason to retarget these redirects without making other changes to the page? Some people object to cosmetic edits by bots. It looks like at least some of the articles, like Murong Wei, have the affected text only in a wikilink with a label. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:19, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I guess redirects came in because I did an insource: search. Even without changing those redirects, there are over 600 pages that specifically list the incorrect information, which is more than I'd like to do manually. Primefac (talk) 17:21, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Oh bother. Most of those uses are from categories., you might need to run some CFDs to get those changed first. Primefac (talk) 17:24, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * BotOnHold until the above gets sorted - if the cats drop it below a couple hundred, I'll do it manually, otherwise I'll un-hold and proceed. Primefac (talk) 17:24, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Can’t we move the categories too without further discussion? I don’t even know how to run a CFD. --ExperiencedArticleFixer (talk) 17:37, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I would suggest going the WP:C2D route, which is "speedy renaming to match the article name"; no discussion needed (hopefully). Primefac (talk) 17:47, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I don’t think I’ll do all that, but thanks. --ExperiencedArticleFixer (talk) 18:26, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * With the cat issue sorted, there are only about a dozen places where the text even occurs, and most of them are piped links to the redirect. Primefac (talk) 01:45, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
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