Operator: Pkbwcgs ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 12:26, Sunday, September 15, 2019 ( UTC)
Function overview: Weekly clean up of Category:CS1 errors: markup
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Supervised
Programming language(s): AWB
Source code available:
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):
Edit period(s): Once a week
Estimated number of pages affected: Over 50,000 at the moment
Namespace(s): Mainspace
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No):
Function details: The bot is going to remove italics and bold from the following parameters within the cite templates: publisher, journal, magazine, newspaper, periodical, website and work. An example of a sample edit to eliminate the problem is here.
|publisher=
parameters because the wiki markup is a good indicator of such misuse. If all that PkbwcgsBot/task 24 does is remove wiki markup from |publisher=
and the periodical parameters, then Monkbot/task 14 will lose an important source of articles that it could have corrected. I oppose approval of this task if it accomplishes its goal by simple removal of wiki markup.Denied. There is a very well-established bot that is handling this and many other CS1 errors in templates. Were this a "simple" task I might have less issue with there being duplication, but given that it doesn't perform the same functionality as an existing bot and (from the sounds of it) might actually cause more issues for that bot, I see no choice but to deny. Primefac ( talk) 14:10, 22 September 2019 (UTC) reply
Operator: Pkbwcgs ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 12:26, Sunday, September 15, 2019 ( UTC)
Function overview: Weekly clean up of Category:CS1 errors: markup
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Supervised
Programming language(s): AWB
Source code available:
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):
Edit period(s): Once a week
Estimated number of pages affected: Over 50,000 at the moment
Namespace(s): Mainspace
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No):
Function details: The bot is going to remove italics and bold from the following parameters within the cite templates: publisher, journal, magazine, newspaper, periodical, website and work. An example of a sample edit to eliminate the problem is here.
|publisher=
parameters because the wiki markup is a good indicator of such misuse. If all that PkbwcgsBot/task 24 does is remove wiki markup from |publisher=
and the periodical parameters, then Monkbot/task 14 will lose an important source of articles that it could have corrected. I oppose approval of this task if it accomplishes its goal by simple removal of wiki markup.Denied. There is a very well-established bot that is handling this and many other CS1 errors in templates. Were this a "simple" task I might have less issue with there being duplication, but given that it doesn't perform the same functionality as an existing bot and (from the sounds of it) might actually cause more issues for that bot, I see no choice but to deny. Primefac ( talk) 14:10, 22 September 2019 (UTC) reply