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Hello. When I created Category talk:Zimbabwe history-related lists I copied the code from Category talk:Zimbabwe-related lists. Why then did the bot do this and has not touched the exact same syntax at Category talk:Zimbabwe-related lists which has been that way for 15 years? Also the bot's edit summary says it has "Added Template:WikiProject banner shell" when it is not. It's making changes within existing banner shells. Just curious. --DB1729^talk 10:03, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

@DB1729: Hi there! Please note that Category talk:Zimbabwe-related lists only has two WikiProject templates, and AWB's general fixes only adds {{WikiProject banner shell}} when the talk page has 3 or more WikiProject templates. BattyBot should have skipped Category talk:Zimbabwe history-related lists because it already contained {{WikiProject banner shell}}. I reverted my bot's edit, fixed my skip logic, and tested to ensure the page is now skipped. I appreciate you bringing this to my attention. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 18:27, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for looking into this and the reply. I am aware of the two no, three yes rule with banner shells. What I'm not familiar with is the purpose/scope of the bot. I was just curious why the bot is bothering to change WPZW → WikiProject Zimbabwe. Am I doing something wrong? Another example in a category I created[1]: The bot changed WP Australia → WikiProject Australia. It just seems like a pointless change unless there is something wrong with this syntax I'm not aware. Are these abbreviations something I should avoid in the future? DB1729^talk 19:18, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

@DB1729: That's another case of a pointless change that the bot should not have made, because the page already contained {{WikiProject banner shell}}. The bot changes WP XXX → WikiProject XXX because AWB's general fixes only adds {{WikiProject banner shell}} when the talk page has 3 or more WikiProject templates named "WikiProject foo" and not with their redirects. As long as you're manually adding {{WikiProject banner shell}} (or one of its redirects), it doesn't matter whether you use the full WikiProject template or one of its redirects, as now (thanks to your report) BattyBot will ignore those pages for this task. GoingBatty (talk) 19:29, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

AWB question

I found that {{Dedham}} is a sidebar nav template indiscriminately used on hundreds of article that just mention this small community in any way, in violation of WP:BIDI. So it needs to be removed from around 200 articles, all except the ~40 that at linked in the template. Can you do this, or do you have a quick way to make a list and I can do it with AWB. (Some are from the redirect {{DedhamHistory}}). MB 21:03, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

@MB: Here's my suggestion:

1. Make a list using AWB with "Source: What transcludes page" and "What embeds: Template:Dedham", which gives me 261 pages.
2. Click Tools > List Comparer and click OK to copy the list into the ListComparer.
3. For List 2, choose "Source: Links on page" and "Links on: Template:Dedham" and click Make List, which gives me 48 pages. You probably want to keep the template on these pages.
4. Click the Compare button
5. In the main AWB window (not the ListComparer window), click List > Clear current list.
6. In the ListComparer window, under "Unique in List 1", click "Use list", which copies the list into the main AWB window.
7. Close the ListComparer window
8. Create a Find and Replace rule for \{\{Dedham(History)?\}\} → nothing, with the Regex box checked.
9. Create a default edit summary of something like: "Removed indiscriminate use of {{Dedham}} per WP:BIDI"
10. Go through the list, skipping those articles that should have the template.

Hope this helps (and it's not mansplaining). GoingBatty (talk) 21:17, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Thanks. Never used List Comparer before. Your instructions were clear and this "project" is in progress. 150 more to go (I always see other things to fix while there). MB 22:43, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Thanks

For clean up (here&here. I just can't get how could I miss so much at April. Or these emails appeared there later? 85.238.101.64 (talk) 12:06, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Your bot

intrigued me much here&here - first time I see really working automated solution by deleting emails from cite template. Can I use your bot for that? What parameters have I provide tou your bot to be able to use it for such task? Thank you in advance 85.238.101.64 (talk) 13:05, 5 October 2022 (UTC)