Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TomBot 2

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TomBot 2

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

Time filed: 17:55, Tuesday, November 28, 2017 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Supervised

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: Replace obsolete HTML tag <font>...</font> in my previously unfixed signature with <span>...</span> (lint errors).

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): User talk:Tom.Reding#Your signature & User talk:BD2412#Your signature.

Edit period(s): one time

Estimated number of pages affected: ~800

Namespace(s): Article talk, user talk, template talk, category talk, help talk, Wikipedia talk, WikiProject talk, user subpages.

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Would be more thorough if not exclusion compliant. All edits will be checked for errata.

Function details:

Discussion

Please see Wikipedia talk:Linter#De-linting old signatures. This will probably be best handled by a bot fixing all known cases as to minimize perceived disruption rather than handling one at a time. Nihlus 18:02, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I concur. Best to have one bot do everything all at once. Primefac (talk) 18:04, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you; sounds good. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 18:35, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn by operator. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 21:00, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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