Operator: GoingBatty ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 02:18, Thursday May 23, 2013 ( UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Programming language(s): AWB
Source code available: AWB
Function overview: Remove invalid |author=
parameters from citation templates
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):
Edit period(s): As needed
Estimated number of pages affected: Hundreds
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes
Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes
Function details: When
Reflinks suggests citation templates to be added to articles, users sometimes save the suggestions without first removing incorrect |author=
parameters, such as
Log in om een reactie te plaatsen. for YouTube. This bot would remove those incorrect values, and perform any other
AWB general fixes at the same time. See
this edit for an example processed manually.
I have noticed that, perhaps due to misclassification of metadata by site webmasters, Reflinks often populates the |author=
with days of the week, dates, timestamps and other similar chaff. It may also include incidental "by" "[newspaper] staff" and "staff reporter", which are not recommended by our guidelines. Will these be targeted for removal? --
Ohc
¡digame!¿que pasa?
02:58, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
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|date=
parameter is empty, and I don't want to accidentally remove a valuable (albeit misplaced) piece of information.
GoingBatty (
talk)
00:47, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
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