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A ton of the infoboxes on this website are hopelessly out of date beyond belief. Is there a way to get a bot such as KillerRoboLeia3000 to auto-update all of them, also appropriately being able to figure out what parts to hide (as in when there's no birth, death or homeworld automatically implement hideb)? Hanzo Hasashi 18:31, September 14, 2011 (UTC)
- What do you mean by out of date? Can you give an example? Like they haven't been updated since their parent infobox code changed? Or that they haven't been updated to reflect more recent sources (like a changed birth year or something)? A bog might be able to do the former, but obviously not the latter. :) ~Savage
13:37, September 15, 2011 (UTC)
- Well for example after the infobox code changed to include mass for individuals, at least most quality articles on this site still use the older code. Still, even more articles don't even have the older code, just use a really outdated infobox code. As an example, take a look at the older version of Orrimaarko's article to see how his infobox was updated to include the mass field. That's an example of one of the many "old infobox code" articles, updated to accomodate the new info. And for an example of an infobox code older than that, here's the edit in which I updated Midge's infobox from a really old code to the "older current infobox" (I would later on update to include the mass field). 00:25, September 16, 2011 (UTC)Hanzo Hasashi
- Did my signature just rearrange the order of date/time and my username? That's interesting (please ignore this post :P). Hanzo Hasashi 00:27, September 16, 2011 (UTC)
- Well for example after the infobox code changed to include mass for individuals, at least most quality articles on this site still use the older code. Still, even more articles don't even have the older code, just use a really outdated infobox code. As an example, take a look at the older version of Orrimaarko's article to see how his infobox was updated to include the mass field. That's an example of one of the many "old infobox code" articles, updated to accomodate the new info. And for an example of an infobox code older than that, here's the edit in which I updated Midge's infobox from a really old code to the "older current infobox" (I would later on update to include the mass field). 00:25, September 16, 2011 (UTC)Hanzo Hasashi