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715: 48: 676: 466:. They're certainly fine if the bot does something else, but on their own it's not enough to warrant an edit. Items 7 and 8 seem enough to warrant an edit, however. I'd need examples of items 4 and 5 to know exactly what you're referring to. 380:, which automatically detects & responds to protection levels. (Protection templates are part of the 71 that get their aliases converted to their parent, making this regex, for example, much simpler.) 495:
None of these edits happen if #8 doesn't happen (maybe I should've put that at the top), i.e. the page is skipped if it's not a redirect, or if it is a redirect and already contains
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of edits that have the basic reader impact of drawing a rectangle around a page they would have already been redirected from will need a very clear consensus to let this run. —
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Can you do 5 of these (just use your editor account) and placed the diffs below - having clear examples helps explain what the edits will be to more people. —
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Standardizes 71 redirect templates from all of their aliases (not all {{R}}s were included because it would have taken a very long time to write the rules for
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Ah I see, then yes the task should be fine then. Let's wait on the VPR discussion to see what the consensus is on this, but I don't foresee many issues.
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says it's based on a proposal, but that proposal is from 2008. The template is extensively used and appears to already have general consensus.
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or its aliases don't make it onto the edit-list, but, just in case, they are also automatically skipped (in case someone added
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or its aliases. I figured that if I'm going to go through a boatload of pages, I might as well clean the rest of it up.
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Special:PermaLink/789559794#Adding_.7B.7BRedirect_category_shell.7D.7D_to_all_single-redirect-template_redirects
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to their parent, to make all following regex & rules easier to manage, debug, less complicated, and faster.
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Adds (if needed) 2 blank lines between the last category and first interwiki (they're still out there).
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line to remove leading whitespace, intervening colons, and force a single space before the wikilink.
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needs consensus. Please start a discussion at one of the village pumps. ~
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Community consensus for this type of work was not established, see
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Standardizes all remaining {{R}}s' aliases which do not start with
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate.
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To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at
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might be able to assist with more information here if needed?
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To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at
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Adds (if needed) a blank line between the #REDIRECT and
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between the last database scan and my attempted edit).
426:Adds (if needed) a blank line between the close of 243:Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): 765:Denied Knowledge (XXG) bot requests for approval 33:The following discussion is an archived debate. 383:Wraps the {{R}}-template on the redirect with 8: 246:Template:Redirect category shell/doc#Purpose 345:{{R}}s, so, instead, see next function). 370:, so as to eliminate duplication with 511:is an example edit of #4 & #5. 7: 262:Estimated number of pages affected: 562:Given the size of this task, this 28: 201:Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: 45:The result of the discussion was 713: 674: 458:A lot of those edits go against 436:and {{DEFAULTSORT}} or category. 193:14:28, Saturday, June 17, 2017 ( 46: 1: 258:Periodic, maybe once/month. 781: 705:00:12, 19 June 2017 (UTC) 670:19:42, 17 June 2017 (UTC) 628:19:25, 17 June 2017 (UTC) 604:16:07, 17 June 2017 (UTC) 578:15:49, 17 June 2017 (UTC) 558:16:41, 17 June 2017 (UTC) 530:15:33, 17 June 2017 (UTC) 490:15:15, 17 June 2017 (UTC) 742:Please do not modify it. 732:12:01, 8 July 2017 (UTC) 686:Thank you, I agree with 36:Please do not modify it. 500:Redirect category shell 431:Redirect category shell 418:Redirect category shell 408:Redirect category shell 398:Redirect category shell 388:Redirect category shell 375:Redirect category shell 329:Redirect category shell 312:Redirect category shell 231:Redirect category shell 355:Capitalizes the first 282:Already has a bot flag 22:Requests for approval 208:Programming language 18:Knowledge (XXG):Bots 269:Exclusion compliant 583:Discussion started 301:^\s*#REDIRECT*\[\[ 225:Function overview: 575: 320:Not relevant here 317:from its aliases. 299:Standardizes the 294:Function details: 239:#REDIRECT pages. 237:redirect-template 772: 744: 729: 717: 716: 702: 693: 682:wider discussion 678: 677: 668: 625: 620: 602: 571: 556: 528: 504: 498: 488: 457: 435: 429: 422: 416: 412: 406: 403:DNE. 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Knowledge (XXG):Bots
Requests for approval
WT:BRFA
TomBot
BRFA
Approved BRFAs
talk
contribs
count
SUL
logs
page moves
block log
rights log
flag
Tom.Reding
talk
contribs
SUL
edit count
logs
page moves
block log
rights log
ANI search
UTC
Programming language
Source code
Redirect category shell
redirect-template

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