Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SocietyBot

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Withdrawn by operator.

SocietyBot

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

Time filed: 07:54, Wednesday, March 18, 2015 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: Text substitution in template transclusions using AutoWikiBrowser

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): one time run

Estimated number of pages affected: 2000

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

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

Function details: Use AWB to update transclusions to reflect changes to templates. Templates are those converted to Lua: Module:TeamBracket, Module:TeamBracket-Compact-Tennis.

Discussion

I don't see that you have any links to relevant discussions; I've poked around a little and it seems that the use and changing of these templates and modules has caused some editors to get hot around the collar; I read wholesale changes to be controversial. Please point to a discussion whereby the consensus opinion is to make the change; please show test-cases in the lua modules that demonstrate compatibility with the existing templates (yet fix the problems with the existing templates), please publicize the BRfA on the associate template and module pages, and the affected wikiprojects. Josh Parris 21:34, 20 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn by operator. --SocietyBox (talk) 04:55, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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