Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PrimeBOT 38


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PrimeBOT 38
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Time filed: 13:53, Sunday, November 27, 2022 (UTC)

Function overview: Remove spurious span tags in template call

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: WP:AWB

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): OTR

Estimated number of pages affected: ~600

Namespace(s): Talk

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: For some reason there is a glut of talk pages calling old prod with  in the condate, which is messing with some of the functionality and ability to show dates in the same style as the other date parameters. This bot task is just a quick run through to remove this span from those pages.

Discussion

 * — xaosflux  Talk 17:45, 27 November 2022 (UTC)
 * See . Main thing to note is that I had to expand the scope slightly as there were some template substitutions that involved some extra #if statements and code, so I expanded the scope to include those. I will note that Special:Diff/1124183299 was fixed completely in the subsequent edit. Primefac (talk) 20:51, 27 November 2022 (UTC)
 * FYI, it appears that the "for some reason" is because from 2013 until 2019 the documentation said to use {{subst:ISO date}} to fill in those fields. Anomie⚔ 12:34, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Indeed; that was pointed out on the talk page after I filed this. Primefac (talk) 12:44, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 17:13, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
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