Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DeprecatedFixerBot 4

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DeprecatedFixerBot 4

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Operator: TheSandDoctor (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 03:54, Friday, March 23, 2018 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: https://github.com/TheSandDoctor/DTS-Template-Repair/tree/master

Function overview: Bot analyzes pages in Category:Dts templates with deprecated parameters looking for |link=, which it then removes per the instructions at Template:Dts#Linking.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Template:Dts#Linking

Edit period(s): One time run

Estimated number of pages affected: 1,222

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes

Namespace(s): Mainspace only. All namespaces in which the template is present

Function details: Bot analyzes pages in Category:Dts templates with deprecated parameters looking for |link= inside of {{ts}}, which it then removes per the instructions at Template:Dts#Linking. As stated on the template page, "linking of dates is no longer supported." The parameter is deprecated and no longer used by the template nor was it replaced with anything.

Discussion

• Comment I would do these manually, but 1,222 pages is a decent chunk. Would be a one time only task. --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 04:04, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

{{BAGAssistanceNeeded}} --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 08:03, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:59, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

@Xaosflux: Trial complete., sorry about the two edits to the User namespace. They were accidental and caused by me getting the math wrong for offsets in a limited category run (complicated by the fact that user and talk namespaces are spotted throughout the category listing). With that said, the bot did, however, work correctly in every edit, including the two accidental user space edits. --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 23:06, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

 Approved. task approved. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:35, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

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