Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 25

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DannyS712 bot 25

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Operator: DannyS712 (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 22:42, Sunday, April 7, 2019 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: Cleaning out Category:Pages using infobox song with deprecated parameters

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): As needed, ~weekly

Estimated number of pages affected: Around ~20 per run

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

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

Function details: Clean up by substituting the infobox (with invokes unsubst, so it doesn't create new problems) to fix deprecated parameters. It also removes html comments associated with the template, because otherwise substitution doesn't always work. I have manually done this repeatedly with AWB and have fixed issues that have come up so far; in the last (manual) run, nothing went wrong. See the edits at the bottom of [1] for examples.

Discussion

Approved for trial (20 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. — xaosflux ^Talk 03:37, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

@Xaosflux: Trial complete. the category only had 19 pages to fix, so I made 19 edits: [2]. I didn't see any issues. I ran without genfixes enabled, but I could enable them. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 04:02, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

a 20th edit made, just to be on the safe side. --DannyS712 (talk) 07:00, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

 Approved. task approved - this is a low volume job so I'm not too concerned. If something were to be changed with that template that all of a sudden caused thousands+ entries then file a new BRFA to review what is going on. — xaosflux ^Talk 11:38, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

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