Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic (supervised)
Function Overview: Find and replace jobs
Edit period(s): Occasionally (when consensus exists for a job)
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Y
Function Details: A recent AN thread ( permlink) uncovered an editor who had been adding the line "Based on the article in the French Wikipedia." to articles on French communes. This runs afoul of WP:SELFREF & WP:RS (and wasn't even always an accurate statement) and consensus developed to remove the line en masse. I had started doing this with my alternate account and I just realized there are over 21,000 instances remaining, so I would like to complete it with my bot. Note that my bot's tasks 2, 3 and 4 already involve some manner of find & replace.
''Based on the article in the French Wikipedia''
Approved. You've essentially already run a trial. I checked the edits, and they look great. – Quadell ( talk) 17:56, 13 April 2009 (UTC) reply