This user account is a bot that uses code stored at https://bitbucket.org/WilliamAvery, operated by William Avery ( talk). It is used to make repetitive automated or semi-automated edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually, in accordance with the bot policy. The bot is currently inactive but retains the approval of the community. Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it.

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Completed tasks

• Move pages for mollusc species that are already categorised by year of description to the appropriate "Molluscs described in..." or "Gastropods described in..." category. ( William Avery Bot BRFA)

• Changes to non-gastropod molluscs currently placed in animal categories
• Changes to gastropod molluscs currently placed in animal or mollusc categories

• Remove dead URLs and associated {{ Dead link}} tagging from CS1 templates if there is a free alternative available via an identifier. ( William Avery Bot 3 BRFA)

• Edits

• Sort tables of draft picks in articles under Category:Lists of National Football League draftees by college football team that have been tagged with {{ Chronological}} into chronological order, and remove the {{ Chronological}} tag. ( William Avery Bot 4 BRFA)

• Edits

Ongoing tasks

• Adding a parameter ('fish', 'insect', etc) to template {{ R from scientific name}}.( William Avery Bot 2 BRFA)

Current BRFAs

Convert tables that use plain row headers to use TemplateStyles ( William Avery Bot 5 BRFA)

Wikidata

• d:User:William Avery Bot - runs the TaxonBarSyncerBot