User:ButlerBlogBot/Task 2

Status: approved

Description

The primary objective of this task is to fix date formats per the documentation for the following templates:

This includes the correct use of {{Start date}}, {{End date}}, and removing {{Start date}} format of the {{Episode list}} |AltDate=.

This task applies general fixes for {{Infobox television}} per that template's documentation and previous discussions on its talk page:

Remove unnecessary use of |name=: See name param documentation
Remove deprecated parameters: The following parameters have been deprecated. See notes at template docs
- |preceded_by=
- |followed_by=
- |distributor=
- |first_run=
- |production_website=
- |production_website_title=
- |show_name=
- |audio_format=
- |picture_format=
Fix known/common invalid parameters: removes unknown parameters and attempts to update commonly misspelled or misused parameters.
- convert |opentheme= to |open_theme=
- convert |endtheme= to |end_theme=
Remove "File:" or "Image:" when infobox uses |image=
Remove "px" specification from |image_size=
Remove |italic_title=yes (which is invalid).

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1.0 - original fixes listed above
1.1. - unrecorded updates
1.2 - add removal of {{start/end-date}} {{start/end date text}}, reformatting of {{start/end date and age}}
1.3 - adds support for {{start and end date}}
1.4 - (current version) replaces {{Film date}} with {{Start date}} and {{End date}}

This task monitors the following maintenance categories from the television project: