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

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

Time filed: 23:37, Thursday, March 3, 2016 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Perl

Source code available: User:AnomieBOT/source/tasks/EnDashRedirectCreator.pm

Function overview: Create redirects from the title with hyphens for pages with titles containing en-dashes.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): WP:BOTREQ#Bot for dashes

Edit period(s): Periodic

Estimated number of pages affected: 230735 redirects will be created for the first run, then it depends on how many new titles with en-dashes are created.

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes (not that it matters)

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Yes

Function details: The bot will look for existing pages with titles containing en-dashes ("–") where the corresponding title with en-dashes replaced with hyphens ("-") does not exist. It will then create the title with hyphens as a redirect to the title with en-dashes. If this would result in a double redirect, it will bypass the redirect.

Discussion[edit]

Created redirects will be tagged with ((R from modification)). The bot code is a minor modification of the code from AnomieBOT 71. Anomie⚔ 23:37, 3 March 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Seems reasonable enough. Approved for trial (75 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. — Earwig ^talk 03:06, 4 March 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Trial complete. [1] Anomie⚔ 01:49, 5 March 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Not sure why this was advertised at WP:VPPOL, since this is simply straightforward compliance with WP:MOSDASH; it's not a "proposal", it's just maintenance.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  17:59, 4 March 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Because that's what WP:MASSCREATION says to do. Anomie⚔ 01:49, 5 March 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]

This sounds OK to do, as the redirects will be harmless. The issue will be whether or not the article that is the target should be renamed, but of course that is beyond what a bot can consider. Perhaps it or someone can also spot article titles with other kinds of dash things in them, like −,—, or from other languages, but just lit them, as it would take a person to see why they are used. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 02:18, 5 March 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Probably want to put a period in that edit summary, but I see no other issues. An expansion of the task to titles containing em-dashes would be reasonable (I think?), though I imagine there are far fewer titles containing — than –.  Approved. — Earwig ^talk 06:59, 8 March 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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