Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BattyBot 72

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BattyBot 72

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

Time filed: 05:14, Friday, March 3, 2023 (UTC)

Function overview: Replace {{Empty section}} with {{No plot}}

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Source code available: AWB

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2023 March 2#Template:Empty section

Edit period(s): Monthly

Estimated number of pages affected: 500

Namespace(s): Mainspace

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: Using the database dump, find sections titled "Plot" with {{Empty section}}, and replace the template with {{No plot}}, along with AWB's general fixes. This will change the categorization to Category:Wikipedia articles without plot summaries, and hopefully will result in another editor adding a plot. Thank you for your consideration. GoingBatty (talk) 05:14, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

Discussion

Approved for trial (edits[100). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Just to clarify, this is not a replacement of the template because of the TFD, but because it is replacing a less-specific template with a more-specific template. Please correct me if I am wrong. Primefac (talk) 10:24, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

@Primefac: Trial complete. See these edits. You are correct that, regardless of the TfD (in which I did not express an opinion for or against), this is replacing a less-specific template with a more-specific template, with the goal of encouraging another editor to add a plot. This is consistent with the goal of many of my other bot tasks. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 02:31, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

{{BAG assistance needed}} GoingBatty (talk) 21:45, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

 Approved. Primefac (talk) 13:38, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

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