Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WOSlinkerBot 10

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

Time filed: 07:18, Thursday, August 12, 2021 (UTC)

Function overview: Add missing closing italics from uses of the Template:Rb, Template:Rfd bottom Template:Poll bottom, Template:Afd bottom, and Template:Ffd bottom templates.

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Javascript

Source code available: At User:WOSlinkerBot/linttask10.js

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): one time run

Estimated number of pages affected: Excluding the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion subpages and Article talk polls, about 5000 pages.

Namespace(s): Talk pages and Wikipedia namespace

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

Function details:

Will be adding the missing closing italics to various discussions. However, will not be doing the 300k Afd bottom subpages of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion as it's too many for me to manage. I'll only be editing those pages that also fall into one of those other searches for now.

Below is a list of seaches to find affected pages.

• Template:Rb: 466
• Template:Rfd bottom: 1147, 287
• Template:Poll bottom: 10822, 532 excl. Article talk
• Template:Afd bottom: 335258, 407 excl. Articles for deletion Articles for deletion pages
• Template:Ffd bottom: 3766 total, 976 excl. Files for deletion pages
• Template:RM bottom: 8395, 161 excl. Article talk

Discussion

• I'm really starting to wonder why these headers are substituted, since it makes maintenance a complete nightmare, but I guess that's a discussion for elsewhere. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 13:12, 12 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 13:12, 12 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment. While working on the trial edits, I found another template, Template:RM bottom, so I'll include that as well and will do some of the trial edits on that. -- WOSlinker (talk) 15:51, 12 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    • Sure. Change trial to 60 edits from the 50 (10 of each template). ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 15:54, 12 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
      • Trial complete. Below are the links to the edits. -- WOSlinker (talk) 17:22, 12 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
        • Template:Rb, 9 edits
        • Template:Rfd bottom, 9 edits
        • Template:Poll bottom, 5 edits & 4 edits
        • Template:Afd bottom, 10 edits
        • Template:Ffd bottom, 10 edits
        • Template:RM bottom, 10 edits
•  Approved. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 14:14, 18 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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