The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA. The result of the discussion was Denied.

Operator: Mdaniels5757 (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 18:43, Friday, May 1, 2020 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: Standard Pywikibot

Function overview: Find-and-replace templates where there is a consensus to do so.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): None that I'm aware of, although I'm sure others have done something similar in the past.

Edit period(s): As needed

Estimated number of pages affected: About 2000 at first

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

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

Function details: This bot would find-and-replace templates. For example, currently ((en icon)) needs to be replaced with (in English) per a TfD outcome. This bot would do so. Right now, I have Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2020_February_23#remaining_link_language_wrappers in mind, which would be no more than 2000-ish pages. Substing the templates would be inadequate, as many of these are in references, where substing does not work.

Discussion

• There are already a ton of other bots approved to do this: PrimeBOT (task 24), SporkBot (task 1), DannyS712 bot (task 47) and AnomieBOT (task 78) are some examples, although I've certainly missed some. Is there some reason that yet another bot task is necessary?
  Also, I believe AnomieBOT is smart enough to subst templates inside references, contrary to the claim in this nomination. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 19:36, 1 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  Pppery, Is it? If so, that'd be wonderful (although I would then probably want to get Template Editor permissions so I can actually edit the page). I'll conduct a test, and will withdraw the nomination if AnomieBOT can actually do this. Thanks, Mdaniels5757 (talk) 19:50, 1 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  Mdaniels5757 I already conducted a test, the bot can handle ref tags * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 19:52, 1 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Denied. As mentioned, there are a plethora of bots that are capable of handling this sort of task, from the mundane substitution to the more complex replacements. Primefac (talk) 19:53, 1 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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