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 Speedily Approved.

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

Time filed: 04:04, Wednesday July 2, 2014 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: Fix articles in Category:Pages which use a template in place of a magic word

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Category:Pages which use a template in place of a magic word, User talk:GoingBatty#Pagename, Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature requests#Pages which use a template in place of a magic word

Edit period(s): Daily

Estimated number of pages affected: 730 in first run, a few per day

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

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

Function details: Fix articles in Category:Pages which use a template in place of a magic word such as:

• ((PAGENAME)) → ((subst:PAGENAME))
• ((DEFAULTSORT|foo)) → ((DEFAULTSORT:foo))

Also run AWB's general fixes. GoingBatty (talk) 04:04, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion[edit]

Trials

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. — xaosflux ^Talk 04:11, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete. - see these diffs. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 04:38, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

GoingBatty, AWB now correctly subst's "pagename". -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:39, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Speedily Approved. Speedily approving this, already flagged, established operator with non-controversial low-volume task. — xaosflux ^Talk 13:41, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]