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style="{{prettycaption}}"\|description \| Pathosbot uses heuristic regex patterns to perform several distinct maintenance operations: Replace artifact template code with the visible output. : – supports: ParserFunctions, magic words, parameters, old modifiers, and [http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.2.4 HTML comments]. : – example: replaces "`{{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}\|User\|{{{username\|{{{1\|{{PAGENAME}}}}}}}}}}`" with "`Pathosbot`". Update old template calls (20). : – example: replaces "`{{pagemovevandal}}`" with "`{{indefblockeduser}}`". Reverse substitution of user block templates (8). : – note: this feature depends on a signature pattern unique to the given template, and theoretically matches all revisions. Detect and fix template redundancy. :– example: replaces "`{{indefblockeduser}}{{sockpuppetProven\|fuu}} {{imposter\|fuu}}{{attackuser-m\|fuu}}`" with "`{{sockpuppetProven\|fuu}}`". Correct IP address categorization. : – example: replaces "`{{indefblockeduser}}`" with "`{{indefblockedip}}`". Correct non-standard XHTML. : – example: replaces "`blah`" with "`blah ".`

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| template cleanup

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| Pathosbot uses heuristic regex patterns to perform several distinct maintenance operations:

Replace artifact template code with the visible output.
: – supports: ParserFunctions, magic words, parameters, old modifiers, and [http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.2.4 HTML comments].
: – example: replaces "{{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|User|{{{username|{{{1|{{PAGENAME}}}}}}}}}}" with "Pathosbot".
Update old template calls (20).
: – example: replaces "{{pagemovevandal}}" with "{{indefblockeduser}}".
Reverse substitution of user block templates (8).
: – note: this feature depends on a signature pattern unique to the given template, and theoretically matches all revisions.
Detect and fix template redundancy.
:– example: replaces "{{indefblockeduser}}{{sockpuppetProven|fuu}} {{imposter|fuu}}{{attackuser-m|fuu}}" with "{{sockpuppetProven|fuu}}".
Correct IP address categorization.
: – example: replaces "{{indefblockeduser}}" with "{{indefblockedip}}".
Correct non-standard XHTML.
: – example: replaces "blah" with "blah ".