Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SmackBot 37

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Operator: Rich Farmbrough {{toolbar|separator=dot|talk | contribs }}

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic

Programming language(s): Perl/AWB

Source code available: AWB, yes; Perl no.

Function overview: Use as date things that were almost certainly date

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): User_talk:Rich_Farmbrough/Archive/2010Oct#Smackbot_comma request from User:Sladen

Edit period(s): Continuous

Estimated number of pages affected: small backlog and maybe 1 per day

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Yes

Function details: Changes would be for default parameters:* {{Tlx|Clean up|October 2010}} => {{Tlx|Clean up|2=date=October 2010}}

Generic parameters

• {{Tlx|Clean up|2=reason = October 2010}} => {{Tlx|Clean up|2=date=October 2010}}
• {{Tlx|Clean up|2=comment = October 2010}} => {{Tlx|Clean up|2=date=October 2010}}

Oddities

• {{Tlx|Clean up|2=reason = date= October 2010}} => {{Tlx|Clean up|2=date=October 2010}}
• {{Tlx|Clean up|2=comment = reason = October 2010}} => {{Tlx|Clean up|2=date=October 2010}}

and the usual mis-spellings, mis-formatting etc, as and when they can be implemented.

This is something that has been requested/suggested many times. I have previously turned it down, arguing that people might actually mean "reason= October 2010". Moving from default parameters is already covered in a previous BRFA I think, but I include it here for completeness.Rich Farmbrough 17:48, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

:Sometimes an editor means to space out parameters for readability, for example:

:{{Undated       |date=October 2010}}

:{{Unwritten     |date=October 2010}}

:{{Unmaintained  |date=October 2010}}

:{{Uncited       |date=October 2010}}

:I would argue, you should preserve spacing as much as possible. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 10:32, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

::Well I respect that concept for infoboxen and the like, but there should really never be more than 2 or 3 clean up templates together, and the dates are only (I would submit) relevant to the system, and to me as the guy that clears up the .5% that SB can't. If the above were real boxes they should be consolidated into {{Tl|Multiple issues}}. And we are talking about 1 edit a day, to an already broken template. Lets not get into minutiae of minutiae.Rich Farmbrough, 14:29, 13 October 2010 (UTC).

:::Well, I was just giving some input since noone else is. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 14:49, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

::::And it is appreciated. All this stuff needs thinking about. I'm checking a database dump now, to see if there are examples of what you suggest using the "unreferenced" tag (looks like there aren't, so far) so I also take the suggestion seriously. Even if a discussion at BRFA results in no change to a spec, it does serve to show that the bot community is serious and thoughtful. Rich Farmbrough, 15:22, 13 October 2010 (UTC).

{{tlx|BAG assistance needed}} Rich Farmbrough, 14:30, 13 October 2010 (UTC).

:{{BotTrial|edits=50}} MBisanz ^talk 23:55, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Various questions:

1. What tags is this task going to touch? Only maintainance templates (top, inline, section, bottom), I presume (i.e. probably those in :Category:Cleanup templates)?
2. What do you mean by "the usual mis-spellings, mis-formatting": Only incorrect parameters that were still likely intended as a date, or anything else as well?
3. How are your rules going to transform the following, noting that {{tl|Clean up}} redirects to {{tl|Cleanup}} or ({{tl|cleanup}} for those in Team Lcfirst), and neither is listed at WP:AutoWikiBrowser/Template redirects:
4. {{   Clean_up   |reason = October 2010}}
5. {{   clean _ _up   |reason = October 2010}}
6. {{   Cleanup   |reason = October 2010}}
7. {{   cleanup   |reason = October 2010}}
8. {{cleanup
   | comment = Foo!
   | reason = October 2010}}

Amalthea 17:37, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

:# Yes, I've got a little list.

:# Yes, and see below.

:#Typically there will be a rule like so:

{{\s*(Cleanup|Attention[ _]+\(on[ _]+talk[ _]+page\)|Clean|Cu|CU|Tidy|Cleanup-quality|Cleanup-date|Attention[ _]+needed[ _]+\(article[ _]+page\)|Attn|Attention[ _]+see[ _]+talk|Attention|Attention[ _]+needed[ _]+\(talk[ _]+page\)|Clean[ _]+up|Cleanup-because|Clean-up|Cleanup-reason|Cleanup-since|Ugly|Cleanup-Pitt|Improve|Quality|Clu) *([\|}\n]) => {{Cleanup$2

:Followed by a rule something like

:(Cleanup|templatename2|tempaltename3|... templatename570)\|\s*reason\s*=\s*(\d+)\s+(|october)\b =>$1|reason=$2 October

:followed by

:(Cleanup|templatename2|tempaltename3|... templatename570)\|\s*reason\s*=\s*(\d+)\s+(Janaury...October...)\s*(\||}) =>$1|reason=$3 $2

etc etc...

:As for the multi-line, they are scarce with almost all tags but it's a check box in AWb and careful choice of rex-ex bits to make that work. Not sure that I'd worry about it though.

:Rich Farmbrough, 18:32, 24 October 2010 (UTC).

{{BotTrialComplete}} [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&dir=prev&offset=20101114235101&target=SmackBot here] Minor problem with Battle of Mons Grapius which is corrected, otherwise straightforward. Rich Farmbrough, 00:14, 15 November 2010 (UTC).

In the interests of moving things forward, and given that there have been no substantive objections to the task itself, {{BotExtendedTrial|edits=100}}. - Jarry1250 ^{[Who? Discuss.]} 11:54, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

:{{OperatorAssistanceNeeded|D}} Has this trial been completed? Mr.Z-man 04:10, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

:{{OperatorAssistanceNeeded|D}} Any updates? MBisanz ^talk 10:12, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

:{{BotExpired}} MBisanz ^talk 08:28, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

:The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA.