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Time filed: 14:03, Monday, March 7, 2022 (UTC)

Function overview: Remove "name=" parameter from {{Infobox television}} for pages where this value matches the {{PAGENAMEBASE}} value (to handle the Category:Pages using infobox television with unnecessary name parameter maintenance category).

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Source code available: AWB

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): Daily, until maintenance category is reduced to a manageable number.

Estimated number of pages affected: ~32,000

Namespace(s): Mainspace/Articles

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: An AWB regex to remove instances of |name= in {{Infobox television}} when page is in Category:Pages using infobox television with unnecessary name parameter.

My main account is already enabled for AWB, and I have been successfully running this regex on the maintenance category manually. My manual runs included AWB genfixes, but I would not run genfixes in automatic (depending on recommendations in discussions).

Discussion

Two things of note: first, there is a discussion about whether this is an appropriate task, see Template_talk:Infobox_television#Bot_needed. Second, if the consensus there is that this is an appropriate job for 32k essentially cosmetic edits (you can see where I'm falling on this side of the debate...), my bot is already approved to run it. In other words, this task is not necessary. Primefac (talk) 14:23, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Since you're right, I thought about withdrawing this request. However, after some thought, I decided to leave it for consideration as it is my desire to expand my skills in this area. This task is a basic step to feeling more confident taking regexes I have used manually and moving them to an automated process (the regex for this task is already being used via AWB by me manually). It doesn't hurt my feelings if it's denied on the basis of "already exists in another bot", but it would be a confidence builder if approved. ButlerBlog (talk) 13:52, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

 On hold. Pending the outcome of Template_talk:Infobox_television#Bot_needed. Primefac (talk) 10:29, 10 March 2022 (UTC)