Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AnomieBOT 2

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Operator: Anomie⚔

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: [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. 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. BJ^Talk 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)

I think it would also be better to replace the template with '' rather than '\n'. BJ^Talk 12:20, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

The template is never replaced with "\n". The issue at hand is when the template being removed is the only thing on the line, should the empty line be left or should it be removed also? Anomie⚔ 16:43, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

• Looks good to me,  Approved. SQL^{Query me!} 03:51, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

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