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Task 1	Approved for trial. Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete.	U.S. Census	__-Trial

Tasks

1: U.S Census

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Add the results of the latest U.S. Census to all instances of {{US Census population}} & {{{Infobox settlement}}, adding the appropriate ref
Remove estimates from {{US Census population}} & {{{Infobox settlement}} in the case that the estimate was made before the latest census, per Category:Pages using US Census population needing update
Add new estimates to both templates, if possible
Does not change or add statements like "As of the 2010 census"
Generally conservative.

Doesn't add to a template if it sees there are multiple of it on the same page
Doesn't overwrite info if it is same age or newer

Tech

Data
The same reference is used for each page: {{Cite web |date=2020-04-01 |title=2020 Census Decennial Demographic and Housing Characteristics: Population by Place (Table P1) |url=https://data.census.gov/table/DECENNIALDHC2020.P1?t=Populations+and+People&g=010XX00US$0600000,$1600000&d=DEC+Demographic+and+Housing+Characteristics |archive-url=https://archive.is/XepMr |archive-date=2025-09-24 |access-date=2025-09-24 |website=Census Bureau Data}}

This is because there isn't really a good way to programmatically generate stablerefs. I've had good luck with https://data.census.gov/profile/${placeName.replace(' ','_')}?g=${placeGeoid}but that isn't really stable, not guaranteed to work, and most importantly doesn't represent a moment in time, like the moment the census was collected.
I could also cite the API directly but I think this is the better route.

Despite there being 40 thousand pages using {{US Census population}}, this script at most is capable of working on 30k of them at the moment, and the real amount is likely much smaller due to towns missing from Census data.

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Tasks

1: U.S Census

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