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General fixer's list of "Multiple issues" templates is out of date
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The general fixer uses an array of template names (MultipleIssuesArticleMaintenanceTemplates) to identify those that should live inside the {{Multiple issues}} wrapper. This list contains several redirects where templates have been renamed over the years. The general fixer fails to move these inside the wrapper:

BLP unsourced > BLP unreferenced
Cleanup-biography > Cleanup biography
Cleanup-bare URLs > Cleanup bare URLs
Cleanup-list > Cleanup list
Cleanup-reorganize > Cleanup reorganize
Cleanup-rewrite > Cleanup rewrite
Cleanup-school > Cleanup school
Cleanup-tense > Cleanup tense
Condense > Too many sections
Contradict > Self-contradictory
Contradict-other > Contradicts other
Crystal > Speculation
Editorial > Essay-like
Example farm > Excessive examples
Expert-subject > Expert needed
Howto > How-to
Inadequate lead > Improve lead
Incoherent > Unfocused
Incomplete > Missing information
Local > Localist
Medref > More medical citations needed
More footnotes > More footnotes needed
News release > Cleanup-PR
Over coverage > Over-coverage
Plot > Long plot
Refimprove > More citations needed
Undue > Undue weight

These templates are redirects created where templates have been merged. I think they can safely be removed from the list:

Cleanup-laundry > Cleanup list
Cleanup-spam > Advert
Magazine > Tone
Out of date > Update
POV-check > POV

These templates are red links. I think they can safely be removed from the list:

Globalize/North America
Globalize/US
Historical information needed
Video game cleanup

That leaves "Expand article", which redirects to a page that explains why it shouldn't be used. I think this should be removed from the list.

The current contents of [[User:John of Reading/Sandbox]] has a link to each of these templates (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:John_of_Reading/Sandbox&oldid=1089533893 permalink). Scripts exist to turn redirect links green, making them easy to spot.

Event Timeline

In addition there is disagreement over whether templates such as {{Expand Afrikaans}} should be moved inside {{Multiple issues}}. Apparently the current position is that AWB editors and bots are moving them inside, and other bots are moving then out again.

For example, see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National_Museum_Zaje%C4%8Dar&diff=1111802450&oldid=1111796964 and the following edit.

Maybe the list could be loaded from an AWB configuration page at runtime? Then future changes could be handled without bothering the developers.