Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Josvebot 4

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Denied.

Josvebot 4

Operator: Josve05a (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 19:09, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): WPCleaner

Source code available: Yes at sourceforge.net

Function overview: Fixing articles with false <br/> (CHECKWIKI-error #2)

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): Daily

Estimated number of pages affected: About 1-500 per day.

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): I don't know. I have not written the program and have not yet encounted this problem.

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

Function details: Tha bot will fix article with unicode control characters and migh also errors 6-7, 9. 16-22, 25, 32, 44-45, 54, 57, 64, 66, 76, 85, 87-88 if the article in question has any of thes errors (inluding the false <br/>-error). I will file for approval for those CHECKWIKI-errors also.

Discussion

Denied per WP:COSMETICBOT. We do not approve bots for non-essential cosmetic or stylistic changes (most "genfixes") without an otherwise major change to the page. Especially, since "<br/>" doesn't break anything (as this is MediaWiki markup and not any HTML standard). — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 19:36, 6 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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