Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Jerodlycett-autobot

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Jerodlycett-autobot[edit]

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

Time filed: 06:55, Saturday, August 29, 2015 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: Replace dates and update {{Use mdy dates}} or {{Use dmy dates}} as appropriate.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Category:Use mdy dates and Category:Use dmy dates both talk about a theoretical bot. This is it.

Edit period(s): Monthly

Estimated number of pages affected: Currently 566,009 and likely rising.

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes (according to the documentation)

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

Function details: I can even post the regex used in AWB. It just replaces dmy/mdy and ISO dates to the correct dates, and updates the date of the templates. Three tests I did:

The bot won't do any other corrections, only the updates.

Discussion[edit]

It needs broader discussion before any trial. Try somewhere in the village pump to get some opinions first. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:35, 31 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn by operator. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jerodlycett (talk • contribs) 07:30, 1 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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