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

Time filed: 17:39, Saturday, July 25, 2015 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: authomatic

Programming language(s): awb

Source code available: yes, find this → \{\{\s*vcite2 and replace it with this → ((cite

Function overview: replace ((vcite2 journal)) with ((cite journal))

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): probably just one-time

Estimated number of pages affected: 3000

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): yes

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

Function details: The 25 July 2015 update to Module:Citation/CS1 added support for |vauthors= and |veditors=. |vauthors= was initially created as part of ((vcite2 journal)). The content of this parameter is parsed into multiple |last= / |first= pairs. To do this, ((vcite2 journal)) requires |vauthors= to be a comma-delimited list of author names where each name is one or more surnames, a space, and one or two initials: Last FM, Last FM; the Vancouver system style. The parsed name-list (along with all of the other template parameters) is passed to ((cite journal)) for rendering.

That functionality with additional error checking has been added to Module:Citation/CS1 and is now available to all of the cs1|2 citation templates. As such, ((vcite2 journal)) is no longer required and becomes an extra step in the citation rendering process. This bot request is made to rename all of the instances of ((vcite2 journal)) in article and template space to ((cite journal)). (selfishly, this request is made so that the bot operator doesn't have to spend several hours at the computor in a bleary-eyed haze: clicking ... clicking ... clicking ...)

I've made a hundred or so edits with this script. The results can be found in Special:Contributions/Trappist_the_monk search for convert ((vcite2 journal)) to ((cite journal))

Discussion[edit]

• You may also want to add rules to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Template redirects to make these conversions. GoingBatty (talk) 17:49, 25 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I added the support. Now only thing needed is to run with general fixes urned on. No find and replace is needed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:00, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Speedily Approved. -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:01, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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