Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WOSlinkerBot

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Approved.

WOSlinkerBot

Operator: WOSlinker (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 08:16, Sunday, October 28, 2018 (UTC)

Function overview: Updating talk pages to fix html tag issues such as font tags to make the pages readable and properly formatted. Also reducing Multiple unclosed formatting tags lint errors. Will initally start with user talk archive pages before moving on to other talk pages and wikipedia pages.

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Manual

Programming language(s): Javascript

Source code available: At User:WOSlinkerBot/lint.js

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): Adhoc

Estimated number of pages affected: Search queries listed at User:WOSlinker/user lint. There is some overlap between some of the queries.

Namespace(s): User Talk pages initally, then other user talk pages and lastly other talk pages and wikipedia pages.

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

Function details: Updating talk pages to fix html tag issues such as font tags to make the pages readable and properly formatted. Also reducing Multiple unclosed formatting tags lint errors. Will initally start with user talk archive pages before moving on to other talk pages and wikipedia pages. Each edit is previewed to check that the end of the page looks ok before saving.

Discussion

I like the idea, and since it's manual the risk is fairly low. My question is, do we have clearly established consensus to change peoples' signatures on talk pages en-masse? The changes are mundane, but it seems prior approvals (Ahechtbot and Galobot) may have excluded user talk pages, and this tends to be the kind of thing that bothers people. — Earwig ^talk 02:50, 1 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not changing how they look, but the tags so that they are properly closed or ordered correctly. If you scroll to the bottom of a few example pages such as example1, example2, example3, example4, example5, example6 you'll see that the sigs are messing up the rest of the text which is why they need fixing. A few of the ones I want to update do not mess up the talk page as much, but closing some tags on a sig isn't really changing them much. -- WOSlinker (talk) 08:11, 1 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Both Galobot and Ahechtbot ran on user talk pages. Only excluded user talks on initial trial without bot flag so as to not cause "new message" notifications. Galobtter (pingó mió) 10:58, 1 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@The Earwig, WOSlinker, and Galobtter: There is consensus; WP:TPO allows for both "Signature Cleanup" and "Fixing format errors" -- this is both. ProgrammingGeek^talktome 19:32, 22 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Sure, works for me, just confirming. Approved for trial (50 edits) Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete., talk archives only. — Earwig ^talk 03:33, 23 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Trial complete. I've done 50 talk archive edits. -- WOSlinker (talk) 13:43, 24 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Looks like the trial went well, Approved. SQL ^{Query me!} 23:07, 3 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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