Operator: Stuart P. Bentley (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 23:15, Sunday December 2, 2012 (UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Programming language(s): JavaScript via Node.js
Source code available: https://github.com/stuartpb/metapoint-wikibot (not yet finished)
Function overview: Replaces usages of the obsolete (requires a no-longer-obtainable ID number) Template:Tv.com with modern calls to Template:Tv.com show, allowing the obsolete template to be retired.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Template talk:Tv.com, Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2012_November_27#Template:Tv.com
Edit period(s): One time run
Estimated number of pages affected: 5800 or so
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes
Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): No
Function details:
I think this is a bit premature given that much of the discussion on the TfD is towards deleting it without a replacement. Legoktm (talk) 21:01, 4 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
((tv.com))
was initiated by an editor who apparently believed that "deprecated" meant "unused" when the template was still in use in thousands of articles; he just didn't check. That same editor has now, 10 days after the TfD began, added other templates to the nomination, which is inappropriate, as I pointed out. Meanwhile, another editor decided that TfD isn't an appropriate place to discuss deletion of templates (WTF?) and took it to WP:ELN, where I had to point out that WP:ELN is the appropriate venue for discussing the appropriateness of tv.com as an external link, but not whether or not ((tv.com))
should be deleted. Heading back to TfD, I've now had to point out that TfD is not the appropriate venue for discussing the appropriateness of tv.com as an external link. In the June 2011 TfD I voted for deletion of the templates but if the current TfD decided that the templates should be deleted, I'd have no choice but to take this to DRV because it doesn't really have wide consensus, which is what is required when you have a site that is linked to more than 9,000 times. I don't see any reason why the replacement of ((tv.com))
shouldn't go ahead. --AussieLegend (✉) 07:24, 8 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]Whatever the outcome of the other ELN and TFD discussions currently in progress, the TFD discussion pertaining to this bot's task has closed in favor of deleting the template once this bot has performed this task. Please approve this bot so the closed TfD discussion's decision can be acted upon. --STUART (talk) 22:59, 7 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]