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Replace \{\{other people2 ?\|(?:.*?\{\{!}})(.*?)}} with {{other people||$1}}
Unless I missed something, this should catch just about everything (piped and non-piped), and put it as the DAB link whilst saving the original message (i.e. no extra text, links, or wording). Now, this does end up putting things like "Alan Garner (disambiguation)" into the second link, but that might just mean a second run removing one of the pipes. Primefac (talk) 03:26, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
  • @Primefac: A few comments:
    1. You'll need to escape the right curly brackets as well.
    2. It's always a best practice to use \s* frequently for templates to pick up all forms of white space. For instance, some editors include newlines between each parameter or multiple spaces and you need the greedy regex to pick that up.
    3. As written, the regex would take a page that was named "Bob Smith (disambiguation)" but displayed as "Bob Smith" and send them to the actual page named "Bob Smith".
    4. Your regex didn't consider redirects.
I haven't tested this, but I think the following regex is closer to what you'll want.
\{\{\s*other ?(?:people|persons) ?2\s*\|\s*((?:[^\{\}]*\{\{\!\}\})?[^\{\}]*)\}\} with {{other people||$1}}
As far as running the bot, I could do it or you could. An AWB bot is literally as simple as downloading AWB, filing a WP:BRFA, and then checking the auto-save box that pops up in AWB after your account is flagged as an AWB bot. It's not at all complicated. If it required any coding ability, I wouldn't be able to do it myself. ~ Rob13Talk 03:45, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
Are we over-thinking this? To keep the text as "For other people with the same name" the {{{1}}} param of {{other people2}} just becomes {{{2}}} of {{other people}}. So... just replace the 2 with a | and it would work. {{!}} has valid use in OP so it shouldn't affect the display. Primefac (talk) 04:39, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
That would involve similar regex: \{\{\s*other ?(?:people|persons) ?2\s*\| to {{other people||. There needs to be at least a search for the template name and the following pipe to ensure other templates aren't accidentally affected. I'm not familiar with the underlying templates, but it does appear this would be simpler and accomplish the same thing. ~ Rob13Talk 04:58, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
No regex needed; AWB has a template replace tool, so swap OP2 (and its redirects) and use a simple "find 'other people' and replace with 'other people |'" rule afterwards. Primefac (talk) 05:30, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
@BU Rob13 and Primefac: I've replaced the guts of {{other people2}} with {{other people||{{{1}}}}} and filed a BRFA for template substitution at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/NihiltresBot 2. {{Nihiltres |talk |edits}} 15:54, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

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That sounds like a good place to hold the conversation. Primefac (talk) 05:27, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
Category:Toei Animation television has been created/populated with the shows found in that section. Primefac (talk) 04:08, 16 July 2016 (UTC)

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