William Avery Bot

This user account is a bot that uses code stored at https://bitbucket.org/WilliamAvery, operated by William Avery (talk). It is used to make repetitive automated or semi-automated edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually, in accordance with the bot policy. The bot is currently inactive but retains the approval of the community.
Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it.

Emergency shutoff: if you are an administrator, the button to the left will do what you want. Bot may be running on Toolserver, so please consider before issuing a hard block.

Completed tasks

Move pages for mollusc species that are already categorised by year of description to the appropriate "Molluscs described in..." or "Gastropods described in..." category. (William Avery Bot BRFA)

Remove dead URLs and associated {{Dead link}} tagging from CS1 templates if there is a free alternative available via an identifier. (William Avery Bot 3 BRFA)

Edits

Sort tables of draft picks in articles under Category:Lists of National Football League draftees by college football team that have been tagged with {{Chronological}} into chronological order, and remove the {{Chronological}} tag. (William Avery Bot 4 BRFA)

Edits

Ongoing tasks

Adding a parameter ('fish', 'insect', etc) to template {{R from scientific name}}.(William Avery Bot 2 BRFA)

Current BRFAs

Convert tables that use plain row headers to use TemplateStyles (William Avery Bot 5 BRFA)

Wikidata

d:User:William Avery Bot - runs the TaxonBarSyncerBot