Operator: Trialpears ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 02:03, Friday, December 20, 2019 ( UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic
Programming language(s): AWB
Source code available:
Function overview: Remove confusing date parameter from taxapad citations.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks#Taxapad
Edit period(s): One time run
Estimated number of pages affected: 3833
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes
Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes
Function details: The bot will look for a very specific string ("|date=1997–2012 |url=http://www.taxapad.com") and remove the date parameter. This should avoid any false positives. For the why see Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks#Taxapad where Soap explains it better than I could.
So is it a complete removal of the date or a replacement with "2012"? Primefac ( talk) 17:55, 30 December 2019 (UTC) reply
I created most of those references when the Taxapad website went down and I used AWB to set up the archive links. Since each database entry has no date, I used the copyright date range in the pages' footer in the |date=
. That's not a good date, but I figured it was better than none. I've no objection to the removal of the range.
SchreiberBike |
⌨ 04:09, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
Approved.
Primefac (
talk) 19:01, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
reply
Operator: Trialpears ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 02:03, Friday, December 20, 2019 ( UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic
Programming language(s): AWB
Source code available:
Function overview: Remove confusing date parameter from taxapad citations.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks#Taxapad
Edit period(s): One time run
Estimated number of pages affected: 3833
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes
Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes
Function details: The bot will look for a very specific string ("|date=1997–2012 |url=http://www.taxapad.com") and remove the date parameter. This should avoid any false positives. For the why see Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks#Taxapad where Soap explains it better than I could.
So is it a complete removal of the date or a replacement with "2012"? Primefac ( talk) 17:55, 30 December 2019 (UTC) reply
I created most of those references when the Taxapad website went down and I used AWB to set up the archive links. Since each database entry has no date, I used the copyright date range in the pages' footer in the |date=
. That's not a good date, but I figured it was better than none. I've no objection to the removal of the range.
SchreiberBike |
⌨ 04:09, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
Approved.
Primefac (
talk) 19:01, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
reply