Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/NihiltresBot 2

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Approved.

NihiltresBot 2 edit

Operator: Nihiltres (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 15:47, Thursday, July 21, 2016 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: Replaces {{other people2|whatever}} (or its redirects {{other people 2}}, {{otherpeople2}}, and {{otherpersons2}}) with {{other people||whatever}} per Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2016 July 11#Template:Other people2.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2016 July 11#Template:Other people2

Edit period(s): One-time run

Estimated number of pages affected: 6263

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes, via AWB

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): No

Function details: {{Other people2}} has already been changed to transclude {{other people}}, so this will simply run AWB's template substitution function on {{other people2}} and its redirects to effect the conversion.

Discussion edit

This can be done by AnomieBOT already. I'll update the relevant pages when I get home. No additional approval is necessary. ~ Rob₁₃^Talk 17:46, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- If this template is added to Category:Wikipedia templates to be automatically substituted and then listed at User:AnomieBOT/TemplateSubster force, the existing bot would substitute all transclusions in the mainspace. We could handle the few left over without automation from there. I'll let Nihiltres review this possibility rather than doing it myself because I'm not very familiar with these templates, but I don't see why an AWB bot task would be preferable to the existing tested and approved task. ~ Rob₁₃^Talk 21:29, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  - I suppose you're right, *sigh* though I'd find it personally satisfying to run the AWB bot. I'll leave it to the BAG; this should probably end up either "withdrawn" or "speedy approved". In the vague, needless hopes of the latter, here's 10 edits submitted manually with the basic AWB settings. {{Nihiltres |talk |edits}} 22:10, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    - Meh. AnomieBot can do/will do(/has done?) it, but the test edits look fine, so there's no reason you can't do it too. Approved. — Earwig ^talk 05:35, 25 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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