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==[[User:CpiralBot|CpiralBot]]==
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'''Operator:''' {{botop|Cpiral}}

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'''Time filed:''' 22:32, Monday, December 28, 2015 ([[UTC]])

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Supervised.

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AutoWikiBrowser

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A regular expression, for which I am a highly capable.

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'''Function overview:''' 
Retrofit template usage to achieve template feature parity and avoid the need for backward compatible code. Change or remove unwanted template usage. Change a feature or add a new feature in lock step with a new version of a template. 

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The bottom part of [[template talk:In title#All the above questions, again]], and the following section [[template talk:In title#How to alter this template and its wiki landscaping]]. Also [[template talk:Look from]].

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One time run, per cleanup/template-change issue.

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{{val|10070}} today, with 5{{ndash}}10 newly added problem pages per day.

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No.

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'''Function details:''' 
This is for {{tl|intitle}}, but the approval needs to extend for the sister template {{tl|lookfrom}}.
{{#section:Template talk:In title|procedure}}
As seen by the query, the list of pagenames to run through AWB all match precise, regex-generated search results.

===Discussion===
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Having search links on an article page is a dubious affair.  Nevertheless, {{tl|intitle}} exists on 2% of dab pages, and on over 2000 ''more'' pages in article space that are ''not'' a dab page.  In most cases they are showing up in the printed article.  Because they are often bullet items, no addition of HTML in the template can remove their bullets from print, hence this bot request.

The new version of the template, {{tl|in title/sandbox}}, outputs its own "noprint bullet".
There is no better approach to solving the problem, and {{tl|lookfrom}} must be done as well.

Current plan is under scrutiny at {{plainlinks|url=//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:What_Wikipedia_is_not&oldid=697560212 WP:NOT}}, but some kind of bot will definitely be needed on these same pages (printing issues due to template). &mdash; [[User:Cpiral|<span style="color:#00C000;">Cp</span><span style="color:#80C000;">i</span><span style="color:#C08000;">r</span><span style="color:#C00000;">al</span>]][[User talk:Cpiral|<span style="color:#2820F0;">Cpiral</span>]] 08:01, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

At {{oldid2|698750432|Bot-fix consensus|Village pump (technical)}} it was pointed out that although it is a fine idea to run a bot to fix the print problem, that it complicates certain patches of HTML in lists for an issue that is almost certainly going to be a normal priority bug-fix.  Then I began to realized that any bot fix now is temporary, and should end up, after some time, needing yet another bot-fix to cleanup the complicated HTML patches.  

Anytime a second, cleanup run should be done after an awaited, deeper, fix of a minor problem, this should be a classical reason for denying a bot approval request.  This is because the first bot-fix makes any cleanup a low priority, plus the time interval between the two related bot-runs, say, a year, can make the need for the second run much less noticeable. 

The bot fix consensus is now depending on a response to the matter at {{phab|T123093}}. &mdash; [[User:Cpiral|<span style="color:#00C000;">Cp</span><span style="color:#80C000;">i</span><span style="color:#C08000;">r</span><span style="color:#C00000;">al</span>]][[User talk:Cpiral|<span style="color:#2820F0;">Cpiral</span>]] 00:53, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

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