Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic
Programming Language(s): AWB
Function Summary: Replacing references to "All Music Guide" to references to "Allmusic"- the site has been rebranded, and many pages need updating.
Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Not sure really- whenever I can find the time.
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N.
Function Details: I intend to use a simple batch of instructions that will replace "All Music Guide" with "Allmusic", "the All Music Guide" with "Allmusic" and "the [[All Music Guide]]" with "[[Allmusic]]". The site was rebranded, and there are a very large number of references to "All Music Guide" all over Wikipedia- it would be far more professional to update these to references to "Allmusic". I intend to run the bot through what links to All Music Guide, covering only the mainspace, the image space, the category space and the portal space. I have run through this manually for a few edits, and I cannot see any potential problems or false positives.
I am applying for a bot despite my lack of knowledge/experience as I have no desire to clog my account with thousands of edits (over 30,000) and spending many hours doing such a dull task- please point me in the right direction if I have got the wrong end of the stick here, or missed any key information. J Milburn ( talk) 23:06, 4 July 2008 (UTC) reply
You don't want to change "Allmusic (previously the All Music Guide)" to "Allmusic (previously Allmusic)" in the Allmusic article. Similarly, if an article says "Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic (then All Music Guide)..." you wouldn't want to change that either. Or direct quotes. This would be a useful task in AWB, provided it was monitored, but I don't think it should get a bot flag to run unsupervised. – Quadell ( talk) ( random) 13:56, 6 July 2008 (UTC) reply
Approved. BJ Talk 21:13, 6 July 2008 (UTC) reply
Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic
Programming Language(s): AWB
Function Summary: Replacing references to "All Music Guide" to references to "Allmusic"- the site has been rebranded, and many pages need updating.
Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Not sure really- whenever I can find the time.
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N.
Function Details: I intend to use a simple batch of instructions that will replace "All Music Guide" with "Allmusic", "the All Music Guide" with "Allmusic" and "the [[All Music Guide]]" with "[[Allmusic]]". The site was rebranded, and there are a very large number of references to "All Music Guide" all over Wikipedia- it would be far more professional to update these to references to "Allmusic". I intend to run the bot through what links to All Music Guide, covering only the mainspace, the image space, the category space and the portal space. I have run through this manually for a few edits, and I cannot see any potential problems or false positives.
I am applying for a bot despite my lack of knowledge/experience as I have no desire to clog my account with thousands of edits (over 30,000) and spending many hours doing such a dull task- please point me in the right direction if I have got the wrong end of the stick here, or missed any key information. J Milburn ( talk) 23:06, 4 July 2008 (UTC) reply
You don't want to change "Allmusic (previously the All Music Guide)" to "Allmusic (previously Allmusic)" in the Allmusic article. Similarly, if an article says "Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic (then All Music Guide)..." you wouldn't want to change that either. Or direct quotes. This would be a useful task in AWB, provided it was monitored, but I don't think it should get a bot flag to run unsupervised. – Quadell ( talk) ( random) 13:56, 6 July 2008 (UTC) reply
Approved. BJ Talk 21:13, 6 July 2008 (UTC) reply