Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MinusBot 2

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

Time filed: 17:57, Monday, February 10, 2025 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: Find: (.+)\n\1 Replace: $1

Function overview: Cleanup AAlerts Achirves of duplicate entries.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): One time run, then perhaps yearly or so.

Estimated number of pages affected: ~3128, e.g. Category:Wikipedia article alert archives

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: E.g. [1] and [2]

Courtesy ping to @Hellknowz: for "enhanced awarity of the needful". Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 18:06, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, sounds good. I never really figured out what was causing it. And since it's mostly in older alerts, I'd need extra code to fix it by bot itself since it won't edit older pages, which never seemed worth it. —  HELLKNOWZ ∣ TALK 22:34, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Speedily Approved. Known operator, non-critical pages being edited. Primefac (talk) 14:15, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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