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Operator: Mr.Z-man

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): Python

Function Overview: replace {{unreferenced}} on BLPs with {{BLP unsourced}}

Edit period(s): 1 large run initially, then probably weekly after that

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

Function Details: Finds the intersection of Category:Living people and Category:All articles lacking sources and replaces {{unreferenced}} on the pages with {{BLP unsourced}} (or removes {{unreferenced}} if it has both) for proper categorization. I think there's about 19,000 pages that would be updated on the first, main run, and based on a query of recentchanges, about 40 per week after that. Mr.Z-man 01:15, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Discussion

19,000 pages? Good Christ. More technically, I assume you've sampled the pages to ensure that all (or nearly all) will be appropriately modified if you change the template. Corner cases may need consideration here, too. Like pages that use the template multiple times (sometimes people put one in each unreferenced section) or pages that already have {{BLP_unreferenced}} on them in addition to {{Unreferenced}}. (This of course assumes you didn't exclude all of those already.) Other than that, the request looks good. --MZMcBride (talk) 01:46, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

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