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Are there really edit bots available to do some grunt work as mentioned here Traveller Wiki Editorial Team#Bots?

My observations of possible automated edits are (in order of perceived difficulty):

• replace http://stellarreaches.nwgamers.org/issues/ with https://stellarreaches.wordpress.com/issues/
• replace ‘’Parameter name = TBD in infoboxes with Parameter name =
• replace (defunct) for external links with {{dead link}}
• update double redirects by replacing the indirect with the direct link
• replacing duplicate/repeated citations with named references
• check external links and mark defunct links with {{dead link}}

—¿philoserf? (talk) 12:41, 10 June 2020 (EDT)

There are. There are two parts to a bot. The user (User:AB-101 is our resident bot user) and the code to make the changes. I have a chunk of code to do updates to the wiki and I'll start on these very good suggestions. Tjoneslo (talk) 18:44, 11 June 2020 (EDT)

Ok, I needed to do some minor updates to get my code to work again because I've not touched it in a while. But I got the Stellar Reaches external links updated. For the "TBD" in the template parameters, I would prefer to work through the articles affected by these by specific groups. And I've started on the "(defunct)" pages. But need more updates to the code. Tjoneslo (talk) 22:29, 11 June 2020 (EDT)