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Operator: JJMC89 (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 06:29, Sunday, June 9, 2019 (UTC)

Function overview: Bypass double (or more) category redirects

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: category_redirect_fixer.py

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): N/A

Edit period(s): Weekly

Estimated number of pages affected: Max: 110,564; Est. ~10% on the first run: ~9,000

Namespace(s): Category

Exclusion compliant: Yes

Function details: The bot will run over the subcategories of Category:Wikipedia soft redirected categories and update ((category redirect)) when there is a double (or more) redirect.

Example edit: Comedy-horror films: Comedy horror films → Horror comedy films

Notifications: WT:CAT, WT:CATP, WT:CFD

Discussion[edit]

I don't expect that this should be controversial, but I'll start a discussion at WP:VPR if necessary. — JJMC89 (T·C) 06:29, 9 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, seems like a no-brainer.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:44, 9 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. If possible, please also post how many pages were skipped, just for my own edification as far as how many pages we can expect to have edited on a full run. If not that's fine. Primefac (talk) 17:24, 9 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete. 50 edits with 705 pages skipped. — JJMC89 (T·C) 19:33, 9 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

 Approved. Primefac (talk) 20:53, 9 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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