User:AnomieBOT/source/tasks/BrokenRedirectDeleter.pm/metadata

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Account Task Disable {{bots}} Status Description
AnomieBOT III BrokenRedirectDeleter Here Green tickY Approved 2014-02-26

Supplemental:
+ 2017-05-22

Cleans up broken redirects:

  • Attempted interwiki redirects are replaced with {{soft redirect}}
  • Redirects broken due to a move of the target without leaving a redirect are updated, if possible.
  • Other broken redirects are deleted if the following are true:
    • The redirect has only 1 revision OR was created more than 4 days ago
    • The redirect is not in the User or User talk namespaces
    • The target page has no log entries less than 12 hours ago
    • The redirect has 10 or fewer incoming links
    • The bot is not excluded, e.g. with {{nobots}}
  • When a broken redirect is deleted, any subpages, and the talk page (if any) and its subpages will be deleted, unless:
    • The page is a talk page with an existing subject page
    • The page is tagged with {{G8-exempt}}
    • The page has more than 10 incoming links
    • The bot is excluded, e.g. with {{nobots}}
    • The parent subpage wasn't deleted
  • Skipped redirects will be reported to User:AnomieBOT III/Broken redirects