Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AnomieBOT 2
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- The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was
Approved.
AnomieBOT
Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic
Programming Language(s): Perl
Function Summary: Replace {{WP MMOG}} with {{WikiProject Video games}}
Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): One-time
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N
Function Details: Replace {{WP MMOG}} with {{WikiProject Video games}} per request at Wikipedia:BOTREQ#Template Deletion bot and discussion at Wikipedia talk:VG#Template:WP MMOG. Since it is editing these talk pages anyway, it will also replace {{vgproj}} and any other redirect to {{WikiProject Video games}} with {{WikiProject Video games}}.
Discussion
I've already done some test edits in my bot's sandbox: . Note that I've since commented out the portion that adds the tf=MU*, since it turns out that is not actually desired. Bot code is at User:AnomieBOT/source/tasks/TemplateReplacer.pm. Anomie⚔ 23:23, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
- Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. BJTalk 06:19, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
Trial complete. Edits in bot contributions. I see two potential issues: perhaps the bot should renumber {{WikiProjectBanners}} and {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} when those use multiple numbered parameters, although it doesn't seem to cause any issues when a blank number is included; and perhaps the bot should check for the special case of the template being alone on a line ("\n{{...}}\n") and remove it to "\n" instead of "\n\n". Anomie⚔ 11:28, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
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