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Time filed: 05:37, Friday, March 22, 2019 (UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic
Programming language(s): AWB
Source code available: AWB
Function overview: Clean up Category:Wikipedia templates to be automatically substituted
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):
Edit period(s): As needed
Estimated number of pages affected: Few (likely less than a dozen per run, except initial run of ~34)
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No
Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes
Function details: Category:Wikipedia templates to be automatically substituted currently contains around 35 user talk pages, suggesting that the templates were merely copied and pasted rather than actually substituted. This task would only edit user talk pages, and would just remove that category (and its sort key). I filed this as a BRFA so that I can avoid triggering "New Messages" notifications using nominornewtalk
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Generally I'd say copy-pasted templates should be completely fixed rather than bot-mangled. At least this proposed mangling wouldn't make it harder to fix later, it would just remove one avenue of finding them.
More interesting is that, of the 32 instances currently in the category, all are apparently actually a substitution of ((uw-corpname)), which was created as a broken wrapper around ((uw-username)) by the same user who seems to be the primary user of the template. I've fixed the wrapper, so now someone just needs to clean up the 32 instances. There seems little need for a bot to do that, it'd be quicker for a human to make the 32 edits. Anomie⚔ 12:23, 22 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]