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SmackBot 38

Operator: Rich Farmbrough (talk · contribs)

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic

Programming language(s): Perl/AWB

Source code available: AWB, yes; Perl no.

Function overview: Remove duplicate tags

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): User_talk:Rich_Farmbrough#SmackBot_duplicate_tags_feature_request

Edit period(s): Continuous

Estimated number of pages affected: maybe 1 per day

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Yes

Function details: Any sequence of successive tags will be examined for duplicates, and the later dated, or an undated will be removed.Examples (in line tags)

Will naturally divide into

  1. top tags,
  2. section tags
  3. in-line tags
  4. bottom tags.

but the functionality is the same.

Discussion

Simple in principle, should be non-contentious.Rich Farmbrough 15:47, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

Can't see any major problems with this; seems straightforward. What do you do with |reason= field? —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 22:50, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
Most, if not all templates ignore it. One of the things SmackBot does - or rather doesn't do is date tags with invalid parameter names - the exceptions are "reason", "comment" and possible one other. In usual operation, where SB is fixing 99.5% + of undated tags, theses are easy for me to pick up with the other cruft - subst'd stuff, "custom" usage, etc.. Of course right now SB is running at 5% of new tags and about .25% daily so the 10k + undated, while they can wait til 30 Sept with no problem also maska bunch of problems that will need sorting. - bit of a tangent ther - Rich Farmbrough, 12:55, 15 October 2010 (UTC).
Approved for trial (5 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. MBisanz talk 23:56, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks, now I need to find 5 examples! Rich Farmbrough, 12:55, 15 October 2010 (UTC).
{{OperatorAssistanceNeeded}} whats the current status of this request? ΔT The only constant 00:12, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
No luck finding examples to test. Rich Farmbrough, 19:12, 14 November 2010 (UTC).
If it helps I noticed a couple linking to the template BLP unsourced recently. In fact if you can link to my contributions for the last couple days you should find a couple. --Kumioko (talk) 04:07, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Ok I'll give that a go. Thanks. Rich Farmbrough, 04:17, 17 November 2010 (UTC).

A user has requested the attention of the operator. Once the operator has seen this message and replied, please deactivate this tag. (user notified)

Any luck finding examples? —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 13:41, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Request Expired. Operator should feel free to re-open at any time - Kingpin13 (talk) 03:09, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
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