Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Mass-created portals based on a single navbox/AWB module

This is the AWB module used as the final step in the list-making for this nomination.

I have not prettified the code. This is how it was when I ran it as part of the list-making described in selection process.

I am an occasional hacker (of 40 years intermittent experience) and not a professional programmer, so the code is crude as hell and as ugly as a very ugly thing. But since it relies on a positive identification, I am confident that any flaws will lead to false negatives, rather than false positives.

It take a portal page, and then:

1. tries to match a call to {{tl|Transclude list item excerpts as random slideshow}}
2. If not found, skip the page
3. Convert each run of whitespace characters to a single space
4. Strips everything except the parameters
5. Strips up to 7 named parameters
6. Strips up to 3 empty parameters from the end of the string. (I should have stripped any from the beginning too, but forgot. In the samples i viewed, that made no difference, but it may have led to some false negatives)
7. Checks whether the remaining text is a single parameter beginning Template:
8. If it is NOT a Template:, skip the page

public string ProcessArticle(string ArticleText, string ArticleTitle, int wikiNamespace, out string Summary, out bool Skip)
{
Skip = false;
Summary = "test";
Match tsramatch = Regex.Match(ArticleText, @"\{\{Transclude +list +item +excerpts +as +random +slideshow[^\}]*\}\}", RegexOptions.Singleline);
if (!tsramatch.Success) {
Skip = true;
return "no match";
}
//  | paragraphs=1-2 | files=1| Template:Bowerbirds |
string tsrcall = Regex.Replace(tsramatch.Value, @"\s+", " ", RegexOptions.Singleline);
string tsrstripped = Regex.Replace(tsrcall, @"{{Transclude list item excerpts as random slideshow([^}]*)}}", @"$1", RegexOptions.Singleline);
string tsrnoparams = Regex.Replace(tsrstripped, @"\s*\|[^=\|]+=[^=\|]*\|", "|");
tsrnoparams = Regex.Replace(tsrnoparams, @"\s*\|[^=\|]+=[^=\|]*\|", "|");
tsrnoparams = Regex.Replace(tsrnoparams, @"\s*\|[^=\|]+=[^=\|]*\|", "|");
tsrnoparams = Regex.Replace(tsrnoparams, @"\s*\|[^=\|]+=[^=\|]*\|", "|");
tsrnoparams = Regex.Replace(tsrnoparams, @"\s*\|[^=\|]+=[^=\|]*\|", "|");
tsrnoparams = Regex.Replace(tsrnoparams, @"\s*\|[^=\|]+=[^=\|]*\|", "|");
tsrnoparams = Regex.Replace(tsrnoparams, @"\s*\|[^=\|]+=[^=\|]*\|", "|");
tsrnoparams = Regex.Replace(tsrnoparams, @"\s*\|\s*$", "");
tsrnoparams = Regex.Replace(tsrnoparams, @"\s*\|\s*$", "");
tsrnoparams = Regex.Replace(tsrnoparams, @"\s*\|\s*$", "");
Match onetemplate = Regex.Match(tsrnoparams, @"^\s*\|\s*Template:[^\|]+$");
if (!onetemplate.Success) {
Skip = true;
return "BAD!!!:::: " + tsrnoparams;
}
// Success
return tsrnoparams;
}