Monkbot task 3 is a variant of the task 2 script. Like task 2, it is intended to pluck some of the low hanging fruit from Category:Pages containing cite templates with deprecated parameters.
This script replaces the deprecated Citation Style 1 parameters |coauthor= and |coauthors= (hereafter |coauthor=) with individual |authorn= parameters where n is a number 2–10. task 3 operates on CS1 citations that have |coauthor= parameters that are lists of names that roughly follow the Vancouver system.
In general, author lists in Vancouver system citations have the form: Last FM, Last FM, etc. where Last is the author's last name and where F and M are the author's first and middle initials. Task 3 supports author names with 1–3 initials which must be upper case. Author names are separated by <opt space><comma><opt space>. The last name in the |coauthor= list may be separated from the other names with <opt space><comma><opt space><'and' or '&'><opt space>. Task 3 recognizes this form and the corrupted forms: Last F M, Last F. M., Last F.M. along with other space/period/initial variants.
The last name in a multiname |coauthor= parameter may be et al.
When |coauthor= has only a single name, the Vancouver system restrictions do not apply. Uses the same rule as task 2.
Task 3 will not change citations:
|ref=harv, which includes all {{citation}} templates because {{citation}} sets |ref=harv by default|coauthor= precedes |last=, |last1=, |author=, or |author1=|lastn= or |authorn= where n is greater than 1Beyond the exceptions noted in §Ancillary tasks, task 3 does not evaluate, modify, or remove parameter values.
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| – | initial release; |
| a | Added ability to fix single wikilinked |coauthor= with these forms:[[<author name>]][[<article name>|<author name>]][[<article name>{{!}}<author name>]]
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| b | Bugfix; Protection rule failed when |lastn= or |authorn= (n>=2) value begins with a square bracket - beginning of wikilink
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