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Task 9:Tagging people who died as "living=no" (This will be done by working in Category:xxxx deaths) and those are alive as "living=yes" (This will be done only by working in Category:Year of birth missing (living people) and nowhere else)
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I already have ran tasks 7-9 making thousands of edits. Task 7 and 8 are just a normal expand of tasks already done. Task 9 will run only in the categories given above.
The reason I added Task 10 is because there was a consensus against "BD". This template suffix -SORT so as to clue in editors that it embeds and replaces DEFAULTSORT, making it very dangerous about its function. Right now at about 20,000 are using it. Of course, I would prefer to complete subst this template. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:03, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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For task 10 both of those template redirect to {{Lifetime}}. BJTalk 22:56, 16 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
No problem. I can change BD to Lifetime. I think BIRTH-DEATH-SORT has to change as well. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:13, 16 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. for Task 9, eye towards approving all four. MBisanztalk 11:49, 30 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Do you mean Task 10? I did 50 trials for Task 10 by substituting BD. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:10, 30 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Done I did 50 trial for task 9 by pressing Save manually. Task 9 can't be tested automatically right now because Kingbotk AWB Plugin has a problem. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:25, 30 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
What's the point of task 10? Its replacing a redirect with another redirect. If it is done, it should replace it with the target template, and only if its doing something else on the page (per Wikipedia:R#NOTBROKEN) unless there is a plan to repurpose {{BD}} for use as something else (which would warrant replacing all existing uses). Mr.Z-man 03:04, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
BD must be orphaned and deleted as a redirect because it's hiding DEFAULTSORT from its name. It was a discussion about that and the reason we changed the name from BD to Lifetime. We already have deleted it from the manual of Lifetime as a valid redirect. In my test edits I completely subst BD, not just renamed it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:24, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Just FYI, this discussion inspired me to write rev:43077, which, once it goes live, ought to reduce the potential problems with this or other similar templates. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 14:46, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]