Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/HFbot

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Withdrawn by operator.

HFbot

Operator: Hurricanefan24 (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 14:52, Sunday April 22, 2012 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Initially supervised; if bot approved w/o any problems with edits, automatic, but if there are problems with edits made, will be supervised

Programming language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Source code available: AWB defaults

Function overview:' Adds non-breaking spaces to dates where needed per MOS:NBSP

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): ?

Edit period(s): Once daily/when possible

Estimated number of pages affected: Based on a sampling of 20 random pages (which may give a very inaccurate view), 40% of enwp pages, or around 1.5 million pages(!)

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes (AWB settings)

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

Function details: For example, in replacing dates that need nbsps, the bot will only replace the date and month; for now, it won't add nbsps to the year, as I think that should be a separate task:

22 April 2012 → 22 April 2012
April 22, 2012 → April 22, 2012
April 22 → April 22
22 April → 22 April

Thanks for your consideration, hf24 14:52, 22 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Policy backed change, but with hardly any change to the actual page and thousands of edits being made, I'm worried this may be a case of WP:COSMETICBOT - where it should only be made with another substantial change. This task may be included in the AWB general fixes; is it best to leave it there or let you have a task making thousands of edits where there is little difference afterwards? Rcsprinter (speak) 15:22, 22 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Agreed. Far to cosmetic a task to be approved as a bot's only task. I move that this request be denied. --Chris 15:42, 22 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
k, can this be withdrawn? Thanks. hf24 20:51, 22 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn by operator. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 20:59, 22 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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