User:PhloxBot/ Current tasks

Feel free to discuss the current tasks on the discussion page, or make changes directly as appropriate. When Robin is happy with the description, I will code and implement it. -Phlox- (formerly Mak) 04:42, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Task:Retirement of
Goal: Eliminate the category in favour of use of the Template:Surname. The function of surname is among other things to assign the page to a surname category.

Relevant discussion is on Category talk:Lists of People by Surname

Unless corrected, the plan is for PhloxBot to do the following tasks: Pass1: Warnings Pass2: Surname Template. Pass3:
 * Go to the pages that will be affected by the following rules and post a Template warning users of the change
 * Walk the Lists of People by Surname tree.
 * For each individual, replace the surname category with the Template Surname
 * eg: for Cicely Champernon (Abt 1347-?),
 * delete.
 * add at end of article:.
 * Walk Lists of People by Surname category
 * replace with