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The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA. The result of the discussion was Approved.

SmackBot XXIX

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Operator: Rich Farmbrough (talk · contribs)

Automatic or Manually assisted:

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: Clean up specific section headers, expand month abbreviations, various minor fixes common to pages in Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): this is a general cleanup

Edit period(s): one time

Estimated number of pages affected: 1600 1390 1322 1076

Exclusion compliant (Y/N):

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

Function details:

  1. Fix some incorrect caps in headers
  2. Replace "Military Airfield" with "Military airfield" in infobox
  3. Remove redundant image names from portal flags, and box up portals
  4. Expand month abbreviations "Jan" -> "January" etc.
  5. Replace some infobox redirects with their targets
  6. Also fix up any maintenance tags at the same time
  7. Other minor fixes

Discussion

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This is an "ad hoc" clean-up, much like the work on the Rambot articles and the Album articles. Extensive manual testing over hundreds of pages has refined the ruleset so that it is now suitable for automatically running on the remainder. Rich Farmbrough, 19:55, 21 May 2010 (UTC).[reply]

What will prevent damage to Jan Matejko? Is this a manually supervised job? Josh Parris 07:32, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Jan Matejko is not a candidate article, not being in the category discussed. No it will not be manually supervised, I have done the manual stage. Rich Farmbrough, 18:22, 22 May 2010 (UTC).[reply]
Let me re-express myself. Will Jan Matejko become January Matejko? Josh Parris 06:14, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The reg-exe's are reasonably strict for such a small run, and I just scanned the first 500 to confirm they don't contain any cases anyway, the rest will be scanned shortly. Rich Farmbrough, 09:09, 23 May 2010 (UTC).[reply]
None. Rich Farmbrough, 09:24, 23 May 2010 (UTC).[reply]

Approved for trial (20 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Let's have a look then. Josh Parris 11:11, 24 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

here Rich Farmbrough, 14:23, 24 May 2010 (UTC).[reply]

This edit created * [[305th Operations Group]], 1 July 1995–-present (and did similar things in other edits). Josh Parris 09:57, 25 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Good catch, fixed. Rich Farmbrough, 19:28, 25 May 2010 (UTC).[reply]
New trial (50 edits) here. Rich Farmbrough, 15:08, 26 May 2010 (UTC).[reply]

 Approved. On the assumption you've checked through those edits yourself. Go forth and repair mil history articles. Josh Parris 15:12, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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