Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Bot requests

WikiProject Films has tens of thousands of articles about film, and it usually involves repetitive and mundane tasks to update them. Wikipedia has automated or semi-automated tools called bots which can perform these tasks. WikiProject Films can file bot requests to complete tasks such as infobox formatting or revising article elements to new standards. This page is intended to list such tasks in full so the project can file bot requests.

Infobox

 * Insert the template with basic parameters filled in articles that don't have it?
 * Change " ", " ", and " " to " "
 * Remove links from values in  parameter
 * Implement film date template for dates in  parameter
 * Remove non-existent parameters from infobox using current list of parameters
 * Remove typically unused parameters (if empty) from infobox such as:


 * In  parameter, change "min"/"mins"/"min." to "minutes" as well as delink minute (and hour if included)
 * Add missing parameters that ought to be used:


 * Delete parameters  and   due to their removals

Article body

 * Remove links from regular dates used in articles (e.g., October 7 and 2010)
 * Remove links from common terms such as film and United States.
 * Add nowrap templates to month-day or day-month pairings per WP:DATE
 * Add nowrap templates to dollar figures such as £11 million or $18 million
 * Fix headers such as "The plot" → "Plot" or "External Links" → "External links"
 * Fix header titles such as "Awards" → "Accolades" and "DVD release" → "Home media".
 * Fix common typos (e.g., "Blu-Ray Disc" → "Blu-ray Disc")

External links and footer

 * Fix common redirects in external link templates:
 * " ", " ", and " " to " "
 * " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", and " " to " "
 * " " and " ", and " " (ambiguous links cleaned up) to " "


 * Remove "cinema of" templates from individual film articles

Talk pages

 * In mainspace talk pages (article talk, template talk, category talk, etc), change template name " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " " to " "
 * In Category:Film, add  to all sub-categories' talk pages
 * In Category:Film templates, add  to talk pages of all templates in all sub-categories
 * If possible, remove botspam that is outdated and not worth archiving. Maybe 2009 and before?