Operator: Primefac (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 22:16, Monday, November 12, 2018 (UTC)
Function overview: Remove deprecated/invalid parameters from templates as well as "infobox genfixes"
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Programming language(s): AWB
Source code available: WP:AWB
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Previous bot tasks 7, 8, 10, 18, 20, 23, 26, 28, and 29, as well as current discussion regarding ((infobox UK school))
Edit period(s): As needed/requested, but each request will be a OTR
Estimated number of pages affected: 1000-8000 pages, depending on transclusion count and size of category
Namespace(s): Main
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes
Function details: As seen in my previous bot runs, I have a lot of past experience with removing deprecated/unnecessary/etc parameters from templates. With this number seemingly increasing (4 of the last 5 BRFAs were for this purpose) I thought I would get an open-ended approval for this task. The general criteria for running this bot would be something along the lines of the following:
As a result of the last two bot runs (28/29) I also worked out most of the kinks in Headbomb's proposed logic for infobox cleanup, which basically involves one-param-per-line and piping fixes. Specifically, 1.a, b, c, and 2.d - I never did get around to investigating the others. This logic makes the actual task of tweaking params a lot easier, hence my interest in including it.
As a note/thought, this would also be used/useful for when TFD mergers are implemented, which is really what motivated me to file this BRFA as I might have been stretching Task 24 a little farther than it should have been stretched on a couple of occasions. Primefac (talk) 22:18, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support your methodology. Getting a list of parameters from the editor(s) leading the merge effort will be useful to show that the bot is performing a consensus-based task. With regard to your first criterion, it might need to be tweaked a bit to be applicable to the Infobox UK school to Infobox school merger: the bot's work will migrate current parameters in a TfD'd infobox to supported parameters in the merge target, thereby avoiding the creation of 1000+ unsupported parameters when the TfD'd infobox is turned into a redirect. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:30, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support the running of this bot, Primefac does have a lot of past experience with removing deprecated/unnecessary/etc parameters from templates as noted above and has done bot runs for me in the past for Infobox school which was excellent and really helpful. Steven (Editor) (talk) 20:03, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
(+genfixes)
which is not the same as infobox genfixes. Primefac (talk) 21:05, 27 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Function overview: Remove deprecated/invalid parameters from templates as well as "infobox genfixes", I understand you want it to also be "+AWB genfixes" which overall isn't an issue if that is what it is supposed to be doing. Can you talk more about what the special added "infobox genfixes" are? — xaosflux Talk 03:39, 28 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
((BAGAssistanceNeeded)) Steven (Editor) (talk) 17:41, 30 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]