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

Time filed: 18:27, Thursday, August 29, 2019 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): Awk with WP:BOTWIKIAWK

Source code available: User:GreenC_bot/Job_18/source

Function overview: Fix a devilish bug caused by VisualEditor

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Fix_or_tag_references_that_were_incorrectly_copied_along_due_to_a_VisualEditor_bug

Edit period(s): one time initially and any follow-up needed (bug has been fixed?)

Estimated number of pages affected: 1,500 apx

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

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

Function details:

• User:GreenC bot/Job 18 for description and example.

• Example diffs: diff 1, diff 2

• With the restored cite it adds a ((verify source)) with instructions to verify the cite in an abundance of caution, and due to technical limitations in certain scenarios that result a plain-text version of the citation instead of wikitext (diff #2 above).

• Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Primefac (talk) 18:37, 29 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Trial complete. Diffs start at Royal Holloway, University of London --> Axis powers at bottom. Ignore the edits to User:GreenC/testcases/iabdebug it is part of the bot process. It edited 46 articles and converted 148 references. -- GreenC 00:40, 30 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
•  Approved. Primefac (talk) 23:58, 31 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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