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# Bot request Status 💬 👥 🙋 Last editor 🕒 (UTC) 🤖 Last botop editor 🕒 (UTC)
1 "Was" in TV articles 7 5 Bunnypranav 2024-11-26 13:08 Bunnypranav 2024-11-26 13:08
2 Replace standalone BLP templates  Done 7 3 MSGJ 2024-10-30 19:37 Tom.Reding 2024-10-29 16:04
3 Assess set index and WikiProject Lists based on category as lists 19 5 Mrfoogles 2024-11-06 16:17 Tom.Reding 2024-11-02 15:53
4 Request for WP:SCRIPTREQ 1 1 StefanSurrealsSummon 2024-11-08 18:27
5 LLM summary for laypersons to talk pages of overly technical articles? 10 7 Legoktm 2024-11-12 17:50 Legoktm 2024-11-12 17:50
6 Redirects with curly apostrophes 6 5 Pppery 2024-11-11 17:30 Primefac 2024-11-11 16:52
7 Bot for replacing/archiving 13,000 dead citations for New Zealand charts 3 2 Muhandes 2024-11-14 22:49 Muhandes 2024-11-14 22:49
8 Basketball biography infobox request 7 2 Dissident93 2024-11-18 21:04 Primefac 2024-11-17 20:44
9 Meanings of minor-planet names 1 1 Absolutiva 2024-11-18 16:20
10 Reference examination bot 4 3 Wiki king 100000 2024-11-25 17:00 Usernamekiran 2024-11-20 13:02
11 Replacing FastilyBot BRFA filed 25 9 DreamRimmer 2024-12-17 03:32 DreamRimmer 2024-12-17 03:32
12 Deletion of navboxes at Category:Basketball Olympic squad navigational boxes by competition  Working 4 4 Geardona 2024-11-20 23:48 Qwerfjkl 2024-11-20 17:32
13 Tagging Category:Cinema of Belgium BRFA filed 20 4 Bunnypranav 2024-12-21 15:58 Bunnypranav 2024-12-21 15:58
14 Bulk remove "link will display the full calendar" from articles about calendar years 6 5 Primefac 2024-12-09 16:31 Primefac 2024-12-09 16:31
15 Province over-capitalization 8 2 Dicklyon 2024-12-21 23:39 Primefac 2024-12-11 22:00
16 VPNGate Y Done 13 6 MolecularPilot 2024-12-22 01:39 DreamRimmer 2024-12-21 13:40
17 Creation for nano bot Declined Not a good task for a bot. 3 3 Primefac 2024-12-09 16:30 Primefac 2024-12-09 16:30
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