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

Time filed: 04:04, Sunday, December 10, 2017 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available:

Function overview: Remove ((italics title)) from pages with ((Infobox journal)) and ((Infobox magazine)) on them. The functionality is already provided by the infobox so is redundant. While this is technically WP:COSMETICBOT, the double-italics thing can confuse people and gets copy-pasted in other articles because of highly-visible pre-2010 leftovers. It also causes issues if |italic title=no is set, since there's a clash, and the article title will remain italicized. I plan on running this with genfixes enabled.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Magazines#Removing pointless italics title templates from articles with a bot

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Academic Journals#Removing pointless italics title templates from articles with a bot

Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Remove spurious Template:italics title from articles with infobox journal/magazine

Edit period(s): One time run

Estimated number of pages affected: One time run, ~715 articles for ((Infobox journal)), ~433 for ((Infobox magazine))

Namespace(s): Mainspace

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: Find \{\{(Ital|Italic|Italic title|Italic title infobox|Italicised title|Italicisedtitle|Italicize title|Italicized title|Italicizedtitle|Italicizetitle|Italics|Italics title|Italicstitle|ITALICTITLE|Italictitle|Redirect italic title|Title italic)\}\}, replace with nothing. Running only on pages with ((Infobox journal)) and ((Infobox magazine))

Discussion[edit]

• This needs discussion at an appropriate WikiProject (or Village Pump). Gaining consensus shouldn't be done at the BRFA itself. ~ Rob₁₃^Talk 14:41, 10 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Headbomb: Can you start a discussion at the Village Pump per the above? We need affirmative consensus (or at least an attempt to gain one) to satisfy COSMETICBOT. ~ Rob₁₃^Talk 15:52, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    • Just noting I haven't forgotten about this. I'd usually approve a trial about now, but VPT has been low-activity due to the holiday week. If there's still no opposition there several days from now, I'll approve a trial. ~ Rob₁₃^Talk 07:21, 30 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. — xaosflux ^Talk 04:28, 5 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete. [1]. Worked like a charm, nothing to report. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 22:05, 6 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

 Approved. Task approved. — xaosflux ^Talk 04:30, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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