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

Time filed: 23:51, Wednesday, February 9, 2022 (UTC)

Function overview: Fixes MOS:CONSECUTIVE errors following wikilinks

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Source code available: The bot will be operated by running through lists of pages from the RegEx search query insource:/\.\]\]\./ with a find and replace for .]].→.]], skipping pages with ...]].. It will use the edit summary Fixed consecutive punctuation error and general fixes (task 3).

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): MOS:CONSECUTIVE is the relevant guideline.

Edit period(s): Daily

Estimated number of pages affected: 38,000 per this search

Namespace(s): Mainspace

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: Per MOS:CONSECUTIVE, Where a word or phrase that includes terminal punctuation ends a sentence, do not add a second terminal punctuation mark. This bot will fix some violations of this, using the AWB settings detailed above. I did 400 test edits through my non-bot account, which can be reviewed here. The only issue that came up was a revert here from D.Lazard for an instance of a linked term ending in an ellipsis. I'm not sure whether or not I agree that MOS:CONSECUTIVE doesn't apply for ellipses, but as that's not fully resolved I've excluded those pages with the skip function.

Discussion[edit]

Approved for trial (200 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. – SD0001 (talk) 04:05, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete. Diff of edits. ((u|Sdkb)) ^talk 05:39, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

 Approved. No issues. – SD0001 (talk) 15:44, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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