The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was Speedily Approved.

Operator: Anomie⚔

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic, unsupervised

Programming Language(s): Perl

Function Summary: Replace ((Segaproject)) with ((WikiProject Video games))

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): one-time

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

Function Details: Per request at User talk:Anomie#You're the VG botter, it seems?, the bot will replace ((Segaproject)) (and any redirects to that template) with ((WikiProject Video games)), or just remove the Sega banner if the WPVG banner is already on the page. It will also add the taskforce parameter tf=Sega (or tf2/tf3, as needed) to the WPVG template if that parameter is not already in place. If the Sega banner contains a tf=Sonic parameter, that task force will also be added to the WPVG banner.

Since it is editing the WPVG template anyway, it will also canonicalize any ((WikiProject Video games))-redirects (such as ((vgproj))) to ((WikiProject Video games)), and it will renumber the parameters of ((WikiProjectBanners)) or ((WikiProjectBannerShell)) if the removal of the Nintendo project banner necessitates that.

Discussion[edit]

This is essentially the same code as was approved at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AnomieBOT 4 and 7, just updated with the new target template and with a few small bugs fixed. The code is at User:AnomieBOT/source/tasks/TemplateReplacer5.pm, and the diffs from the approved code are here and here. Anomie⚔ 04:44, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedily Approved. BJ^Talk 05:00, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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