Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Dexbot 4

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Approved.

Dexbot 4

Operator: Ladsgroup (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 07:41, Monday, August 31, 2015 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): python

Source code available: based on pywikibot core and mwparserfromhell, I will publish it soonish

Function overview: Deprecating Template:Cite doi, Template:Cite pmid and several others.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): There are some discussions in WP:MED

Edit period(s): one time run

Estimated number of pages affected: ~20K

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes as pywikibot avoids them

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: Replacing Template:Cite pmid and similar templates with what they transclude. You can see edits of my bot for example. :)Ladsgroup^overleg 07:41, 31 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Approved. I take the edits done as "bot trial". Any issues should have been fixed by now. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:31, 31 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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