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

Time filed: 03:42, Saturday, March 9, 2019 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Perl

Source code available: User:AnomieBOT/source/tasks/POTDPageDeleter.pm

Function overview: Delete Template:POTD protected/YYYY-MM-DD dated more than 30 days ago.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): WT:POTD#Unused Templates

Edit period(s): Daily

Estimated number of pages affected: About 4688 deletions and 3753 edits to clear the backlog, then usually 1 deletion and 1 edit per day.

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Yes

Function details: Delete Template:POTD protected/YYYY-MM-DD (per WP:CSD#G6) dated more than 30 days ago, and remove the "See also" link to the deleted template from the corresponding Template:POTD/YYYY-MM-DD. Also delete any talk pages and subpages of the deleted Template:POTD protected/YYYY-MM-DD per WP:CSD#G8 (honoring {{g8-exempt}}).

• Notification of new adminbot task left at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Admin_bot_task_-_delete_old_POTD_process_pages. — xaosflux ^Talk 13:06, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• @Anomie: please create a WP:TFD discussion (individual page tagging absolutely not required) for the batch, to ensure that all venues that could be involved in this have had an opportunity to participate. We'd be looking for a tfd result of "speedy delete" - as that is how you want to proceed in the future. — xaosflux ^Talk 14:49, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Sigh. Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2019 March 9#Old Template:POTD_protected/YYYY-MM-DD templates. Anomie⚔ 20:18, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    • (FWIW I'm fine with a "delete" result due to the way it was explained). There is at least one question awaiting an answer at the TFD right now. — xaosflux ^Talk 03:22, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Approved for trial (10 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. as the TfD is going this way, go ahead and do the trials while it is pending. — xaosflux ^Talk 13:12, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Trial complete. assuming the "10 edits" includes deletions. Instead of starting from the beginning I had it start with 2009-01-01 so it could have 5 of each: [1][2] Anomie⚔ 00:54, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    @Anomie: ok looking fine, give me a ping when the TfD closes and I'll move this to approved. — xaosflux ^Talk 13:02, 16 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    ​I've closed the TfD. — JJMC89 (T·C) 06:59, 17 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Pinging Xaosflux, see JJMC89 closure Hhkohh (talk) 13:47, 17 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Tfd closure: Special:PermaLink/888158919#Old_Template:POTD_protected/YYYY-MM-DD_templates. — xaosflux ^Talk 14:45, 17 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

 Approved. task approved. — xaosflux ^Talk 14:46, 17 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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