Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BU RoBOT 16

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Approved.

BU RoBOT 16

Operator: BU Rob13 (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 13:15, Thursday, May 19, 2016 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: Replace hyphens with endashes within the "years" set of parameters in {{Infobox gridiron football person}} as per MOS:DASH

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): None; this task is non-controversial and similar to past tasks such as Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/DASHBot, which took the much more significant action of moving pages to make the same stylistic change.

Edit period(s): One time run

Estimated number of pages affected: Around 2000 to 2500

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

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

Function details: It's very common for editors to mistakenly use hyphens instead of endashes when providing a date range. In transclusions of {{Infobox gridiron football person}}, this problem occurs in around 1/3 of articles based on a ~500 article sample I checked. This task will replace hyphens with endashes between years. It only replaces hyphens within the various "years" parameters (i.e. playing_years1, administrating_years3, etc). It will not replace hyphens that are followed by a letter.

Discussion

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. — xaosflux ^Talk 13:54, 19 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete. Contributions can be found here. No errors. ~ Rob^Talk 13:50, 20 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Approved. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:01, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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