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PascalBot

Operator: Pascal666

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): AWB

Function Overview: Fix template parameters

Edit period(s): As needed

Already has a bot flag (Y/N):

Function Details: Users often accidentally type template parameters incorrectly. Unfortunately MediaWiki provides no method for a template to find if it has been passed a named parameter it does not recognize. The most common error users make is in parameter capitalization (most template parameters are case sensitive). I have been using database dumps to locate pages with template calls with parameters those templates do not recognize. AWB general fixes can fix many of these automatically: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]. I just pulled a report for the cite templates, and now have a list of over 3000 articles that need to be fixed. I would like to use AWB in bot mode to fix those that it can, and I will then make a manual pass to fix stuff like this. --Pascal666 08:50, 28 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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