Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Yobot 43
- 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 Denied.
Operator: Magioladitis (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 13:01, Thursday, February 2, 2017 (UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Programming language(s): AWB / WPCleaner
Source code available:
Function overview: Convert HTML list elements to wikimarkup
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Check_Wikipedia#Replacing_Tidy
Edit period(s): Daily
Estimated number of pages affected: Less than 5 per day.
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes
Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes
Function details: Replace <li> with * etc.
Discussion edit
- It does not. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:26, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- What is the benefit to the encyclopedia, then? Are these tags likely to become non-functional in the near future? ~ Rob13Talk 13:35, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- Help:Wiki markup may have answers. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:41, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- What is the benefit to the encyclopedia, then? Are these tags likely to become non-functional in the near future? ~ Rob13Talk 13:35, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- It does not. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:26, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Primefac I only wrote that the visual outcome won't change. This does not mean the task is not useful. For example WP:LISTGAP is easier to handle with wiki markup. Tools such as Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Check_Wikipedia#Replacing_Tidy and AutoEd convert this for simplicity that can also have impact in allowing editors (and Visual Editor) to work with lists, merge them, expand them. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:37, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- This one seems to require consensus as well. I'll also note the "Exclusion compliant" field hasn't been filled in, and I'm curious what the "etc" means in the function details? — MusikAnimal talk 01:38, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Denied. No consensus demonstrated for this cosmetic task. The linked discussion does not seem to have anything relevant to this task, the closest thing is unclosed tags rather than a need for replacing all HTML list markup. Furthermore, I find flooding WP:BRFA with 20 requests all at once is probably bordering on WP:POINT: I suggest you limit yourself to fewer than 5 open requests at a time so you can more easily express yourself clearly and so you and the community can have time for necessary discussion. Anomie⚔ 02:16, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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