Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Yobot 43


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Yobot 43
Operator:

Time filed: 13:01, Thursday, February 2, 2017 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AWB / WPCleaner

Source code available:

Function overview: Convert HTML list elements to wikimarkup

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Check_Wikipedia

Edit period(s): Daily

Estimated number of pages affected: Less than 5 per day.

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

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

Function details: Replace  with * etc.

Discussion

 * How does this change the output of the page? ~ Rob 13 Talk 13:24, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
 * It does not. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:26, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
 * What is the benefit to the encyclopedia, then? Are these tags likely to become non-functional in the near future? ~ Rob 13 Talk 13:35, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Help:Wiki markup may have answers. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:41, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Indeed, it does. "In addition to wiki markup, some HTML elements are also allowed for presentation formatting." ~ Rob 13 Talk 15:10, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Exactly. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:22, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Um... doesn't that mean you've just proven it's not necessary to run this task? Primefac (talk) 19:31, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

Primefac I only wrote that the visual outcome won't change. This does not mean the task is not useful. For example WP:LISTGAP is easier to handle with wiki markup. Tools such as Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Check_Wikipedia and AutoEd convert this for simplicity that can also have impact in allowing editors (and Visual Editor) to work with lists, merge them, expand them. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:37, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
 * This one seems to require consensus as well. I'll also note the "Exclusion compliant" field hasn't been filled in, and I'm curious what the "etc" means in the function details? &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  01:38, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

No consensus demonstrated for this cosmetic task. The linked discussion does not seem to have anything relevant to this task, the closest thing is unclosed tags rather than a need for replacing all HTML list markup. Furthermore, I find flooding WP:BRFA with 20 requests all at once is probably bordering on WP:POINT: I suggest you limit yourself to fewer than 5 open requests at a time so you can more easily express yourself clearly and so you and the community can have time for necessary discussion. Anomie⚔ 02:16, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
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