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| Operator | Headbomb (talk · contribs) |
| Author | Headbomb (talk · contribs) |
| Approved? | BRFA |
| Flagged? | Yes |
| Task(s) | See here |
| Edit period(s) | Irregular |
| Automatic or manual? | Automatic/Semi-automatic |
| Programming language(s) | WP:AWB |
| Exclusion compliant? | Yes |
| Source code published? | Just ask |
| Emergency shutoff-compliant? | Yes |
The bot has approval for the following 5 tasks. Tasks 1–4 are approved for automated editing, while task 5 is approved only for semi-automated editing.
|work=, |journal=, |magazine=, |publisher=.
(journal|magazine|publisher|work)(\s*)=(\s*)\[\[([^\|\n]*) \((journal|magazine|publisher)\)\]\]journal(\s*)=(\s*)Journal of Foobar\.? (case insensitive) → journal$1=$2Journal of FoobarJournal of foobar → Journal of Foobar) and dot removal (Journal of Foobar. → Journal of Foobar), and be guaranteed to only touch the |journal= parameter.Journal of Foobar\. (case insensitive) → Journal of FoobarBob published an article in Journal of Foobar.. This will be used for cases where it'll be quicker to be sloppy and perform a manual review.Listing every type of 'non-correct' journal names would be rather long. But they have 7 common themes:
Paleontology → PalaeontologyJ. Phys. A. → J. Phys. AJ Phys. A → J. Phys. AJ Phys AJ phys A → J Phys AJournal of physics → Journal of PhysicsAm J Physics → Am J PhysBr J Psychiatr → Br J PsychiatryTrans Am Math Soc, but the MathSciNet abbreviation is Trans Amer Math Soc, and won't convert from one form to the other.Clinical Cancer Research: An official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research → Clinical Cancer ResearchCanadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d'études du développementCanadian Journal of Development Studies or Revue canadienne d'études du développement|journal=Journal of Immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) → |journal=Journal of Immunology
Under the BRFA, the bot only touches |journal= for 2A, but I eventually plan on covering |work= / |magazine= / |publisher= later. Later means "once we get the equivalent compilation to WP:JCW for magazines and publishers". There will be a specific BRFA for those, although I'm pretty sure that would get speedily approved.
Although I take great care to ensure that it doesn't screw up, it's possible that I screwed up the logic somewhere, or that there's a corner case it didn't handle correctly.
If the bot screwed up, follow these few simple steps:
If the bot affected more than a handful of pages, I would advise against mass-reverting before discussion. If the bot was right, it'll be annoying to have to re-do those edits later. And if the bot was wrong, it'll likely be easier to use the bot to fix the problematic edits.
