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The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard. The result of the discussion was  Approved.

TolBot 4

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

Time filed: 20:52, Tuesday, July 20, 2021 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available:

Function overview: Remove Template:Draft categories from mainspace articles

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): Daily–weekly

Estimated number of pages affected: ~10/wk

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

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

Function details: The bot would use a regular expression (see User:Tol/Regex#AWB1) to replace all instances of Template:Draft categories in pages in Category:Articles using draft categories with their contents.

Discussion

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Approved for trial (20 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. I thought we came across a bot approval for something like this last year, but I may be misremembering and admittedly I don't know how to search the bot approval archives chronologically beyond what's shown at WP:BRFA. Either way, clearly the task isn't being done, so approved for trial. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 10:15, 25 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'll start this up tomorrow; I haven't entirely finished the find-and-replace. (I'm also thinking of just doing this in AWB, but I have no idea how to make an AWB bot.) Tol | talk | contribs 04:14, 26 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Trial edits:
  1. diff #1035831556
  2. diff #1035831562
  3. diff #1035831565
  4. diff #1035831567
  5. diff #1035831570
  6. diff #1035831576
  7. diff #1035984608
  8. diff #1035984609
  9. diff #1035984612
  10. diff #1035984614
  11. diff #1036126622
  12. diff #1036126628
  13. diff #1036126633
  14. diff #1036126637
  15. diff #1036126638
  16. diff #1036126645
  17. diff #1036126647
  18. diff #1036126653
  19. diff #1036318220
  20. diff #1036318223
— Tol | talk | contribs @ 23:00, 27 July 2021 (UTC); 20:16, 28 July 2021 (UTC); 17:23, 29 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I've just run the task; I've been using AWB to trim the category so there aren't too many pages. I'll run it again in a few days. Interestingly, there were two empty draft categories templates; the bot handled these well. Tol | talk | contribs 23:01, 27 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Should probably adjust the regex to also remove whitespace within the template. e.g. to account for diffs like [1]. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 00:21, 28 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@ProcrastinatingReader: I'll do that; it's currently just designed to replace the template with its contents (whitespace and all). Tol | talk | contribs 00:54, 28 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I've run the task again; see diffs 7–10 above. Tol | talk | contribs 20:16, 28 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
And again; see diffs 11–18. Tol | talk | contribs 17:23, 29 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Trial complete. I've finished the last trial run (diffs 19 & 20). Tol (talk | contribs) @ 20:06, 30 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
 Approved. Primefac (talk) 21:04, 22 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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