Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BU RoBOT 16
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Approved.
Operator: BU Rob13 (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 13:15, Thursday, May 19, 2016 (
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Programming language(s): AWB
Source code available: AWB
Function overview: Replace hyphens with endashes within the "years" set of parameters in {{
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): None; this task is non-controversial and similar to past tasks such as Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/DASHBot, which took the much more significant action of moving pages to make the same stylistic change.
Edit period(s): One time run
Estimated number of pages affected: Around 2000 to 2500
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes
Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes
Function details: It's very common for editors to mistakenly use hyphens instead of endashes when providing a date range. In transclusions of {{Infobox gridiron football person}}, this problem occurs in around 1/3 of articles based on a ~500 article sample I checked. This task will replace hyphens with endashes between years. It only replaces hyphens within the various "years" parameters (i.e. playing_years1, administrating_years3, etc). It will not replace hyphens that are followed by a letter.
Discussion
- Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. — xaosflux Talk 13:54, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
Approved. — xaosflux Talk 15:01, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
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