Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Dušan Kreheľ (bot) III

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Dušan Kreheľ (bot) III[edit]

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

Time filed: 23:59, Wednesday, March 30, 2022 (UTC)


Function overview:

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatically


Programming language(s): Based / used the Wikimate (PHP).

Source code available: No.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): One time.

Estimated number of pages affected: Around 141,263 (2022-03-20).

Namespace(s): Mainspace

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

Function details: Bot will do only the syntax changes.
Example
Input: 

<ref>AAA</ref>
bbb
<ref>AAA</ref>

Output: 

<ref name="#1">AAA</ref>
bbb
<ref name="#1"/>
Replaces only definitions with the format: 
<ref>TEXT</ref>

Another (example with the "name" parameter or the "group" parameter) are not replaced.

How more changes?

  • Dump enwiki-20220320-pages-articles.xml.bz2 report 141,263 pages.

Discussion[edit]

  • Comment: Is there a discussion showing consensus for this sort of mass bot editing? I know that there is some dissatisfaction with the automatically numbered references generated by some editing tools. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:24, 31 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Needs wider discussion. It has been many years since the last discussion I've seen, but in the past the idea of having a bot combining duplicate references has been surprisingly controversial. I think it would be best to (1) have a clear description as to how exactly the bot will work, including how it will derive the names for the references it combines, and (2) have a discussion (probably at WP:VPR) showing that people now support the idea. Anomie⚔ 01:56, 31 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    AWB does this automatically anyways as part of its fixes. Gonnym (talk) 11:28, 2 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Dušan Kreheľ: This isn't going to end up with approval at this stage without wider discussion (unless that's happened and you can link us it); if it hasn't happened already, please do start a wider discussion at WP:VPR and come back here if it demonstrates community support for this proposed task. If you need help, I'd be happy to help craft the question. --TheSandDoctor Talk 17:14, 3 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

At this point I am going to mark it Denied. because wider discussion and consensus is required. That said, ping me or drop me a note if that is acquired and we can easily re-open this listing. Given the vast number of pages involved and AWB's rules, the fact that it is included as a standard fix holds little weight in my view; this would be an appropriate task for a bot, provided consensus was reached first. --TheSandDoctor Talk 17:19, 3 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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