User:Position holder bot

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The position holder bot updates pages based on the parameters of the Template:PositionHolderHistory template, to include a timeline of all the people who have had a position held (P39) relationship with a particular office. It will never edit items: only Project pages or Talk pages.

This works similarly to Listeria, but, unlike that, can handle the common scenario of someone having held the same office more than once. This version also shows helpful diagnostic information, for example where officeholders appear to have overlapping dates, or inconsistent successor information.

See, for example Wikidata:WikiProject every politician/Estonia/officeholder/Q1760777.