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

Time filed: 23:10, Monday, December 28, 2020 (UTC)

Function overview: From @Chris the speller::

There are about a thousand articles that contain the parameter

Ship sail plan = Full rigged ship

but should be

 Ship sail plan = Full-rigged ship

according to well-known dictionaries and common understanding of compound modifiers. About a hundred or so are unlinked, and it wouldn't hurt to link them while we're at it. There may or may not be spaces on either side of the equals sign.

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: AWB

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 81#Full rigged ship

Edit period(s): One time run

Estimated number of pages affected: About 900

Namespace(s): Mainspace

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: Will make changes using the following "find and replace" regular expression rules:

• (\|\s*Ship sail plan\s*\=\s*)\[\[Full rigged ship\]\] → $1[[Full-rigged ship]]
• (\|\s*Ship sail plan\s*\=\s*)\[\[Full rigged ship\s*\|\s*Full rigged\]\] → $1[[Full-rigged ship|Full-rigged]]
• (\|\s*Ship sail plan\s*\=\s*)Full rigged ship → $1[[Full-rigged ship]]

The bot will not make changes that are not visible to the reader (e.g. will not change [[Full rigged ship|full-rigged]]).

The bot will also run AWB's general fixes if it is also making a change to "Full rigged".

Discussion[edit]

Can you advertise this request to relevant content pages? eg possibly Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships may be relevant. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 23:57, 28 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@ProcrastinatingReader:  Done - see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ships#Notification of bot request. GoingBatty (talk) 00:55, 29 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial (30 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Thanks GoingBatty. I’ll give this a bit longer for comments due to the holiday season, but I don’t think this is an overly broad issue so happy to see this go for a technical trial in the meantime. 30 edits - 10 of each regex please. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 02:58, 1 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete. @ProcrastinatingReader: The bot only made 23 edits, as there were only 3 edits of the second regex listed above. Thank you for your consideration. GoingBatty (talk) 01:20, 2 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

 Approved. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 00:38, 6 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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