Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Erik9bot 4

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Erik9bot 4

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Operator: Erik9 (talk)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Manually started, performs edits automatically.

Programming Language(s): Uses Wikipedia:AWB with autosave function

Function Overview: Replaces transclusions of the confusing cross-namespace redirects Portal:Box-header-round, Portal:Box-header-square, Portal:Box-header-watch, and Portal:Box-header1 with their template namespace targets.

Edit period(s): continuous, as needed

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Y

Function Details: This task would perform the replacements {{Portal:Box-header-round => {{Box-header-round, {{Portal:Box-header-square => {{Box-header-square, {{Portal:Box-header-watch => {{Box-header-watch, and {{Portal:Box-header1 => {{Box-header1 to eliminate confusing cross-namspace redirects per the discussion at Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Need_a_bot_to_change_a_template_link. Erik9 (talk) 23:26, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Discussion

Speedily Approved. Straightforward search-and-replace job, and the bot op has done more complicated replacements using AWB in the past. Anomie⚔ 00:42, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

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