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The following types of redirects can be automatically patrolled
Per Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot III 38 A) Redirects from "FooBar (disambiguation)" to "FooBar" B) Redirects where the difference between the source and the target is limited to different capitalization and use of accents/diacritics Per Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot III 45 C) "FooBars" or "FooBares" -> "FooBar" (plural to singular) D) "Foo’Bar", "Foo'Bar", or "Foo‘Bar" -> "Foo'Bar" (different types of apostrophes) E) "Bar, Foo" -> "Foo Bar" (sorting name) F) "FooBar" -> "List of FooBar" (to lists) G) "Foo Bar" or "Foo-Bar" -> "FooBar" (or vice versa; differences in spacing) H) "Foo v Bar" or "Foo vs. Bar" or "Foo vs Bar" -> "Foo v. Bar" (different format of case names) Per Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot III 48 I) "Foo" -> "The Foo" (without "The" at the start) Per Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot III 56 J) "Foo[-‒–—―]Bar" -> "Foo[-‒–—―]Bar" (different dashes) Per Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot III 64 "D" is extended to include ʻ
as well Per Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot III 66 Per Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot III 63 K) Automatically patrol redirects with the difference between the title and the target is using: US vs U.S. / USA vs U.S.A. / & vs and / UK vs U.K. / FC vs F.C. / SC vs S.C. Other ideas for rules Baz Foo[-‒–—―]Bar Qux" -> "Baz Bar[-‒–—―]Foo Qux" (different order, differences in dashes ignored) "FooBar" -> "FooBars" or "FooBares" (singular to plural) Adding the character substitution rules listed at Special:Permalink/900029473 to all current rules