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Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete.Primefac (talk) 10:26, 8 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I have a concern about warning users about a hidden warning (missing periodical) because they could not have known about it otherwise (whether that specific message should be hidden is connected to the big hullabaloo a few years ago regarding CS1 things). The existence of the {{cite document}} redirect to {{cite journal}} may cue you in to the separate problem that not all documents have a periodical to go with them; there's probably a potential problem on that front as well with a task like this.
I also have an itch about missing title, but I'm not sure exactly what. Only one or two templates have a work around for the case where the work itself doesn't have a title. I know we have gone around a few times on Help talk:CS1 about some parameter to support some descriptive title, and we have the |title=none keyword in particularly {{cite journal}}, but the other template {{cite magazine}} has no such support. (Whether it should or not.)
I otherwise endorse this activity and would like to see it expanded to other categories in the batch if possible/feasible/desired by others.
Last note: Please have the bot link to the BRFA in your edit summaries for new tasks, and add a short "task N" for the summaries for old tasks. I had to chase down this activity because it was not listed at the bot's user page. Izno (talk) 08:27, 10 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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