Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AnomieBOT 20


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AnomieBOT 20
Operator: Anomie⚔

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic, unsupervised

Programming Language(s): Perl

Function Summary: Remove afd-mergefrom where the merge has been completed. Report afd-mergefrom where the AFDed page is a redirect to a different page.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Periodic

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Y

Function Details: Per request, the bot will go through uses of afd-mergefrom (and redirects) and examine the redirect status of page specified in the first unnamed parameter. If the AFDed page is a redirect to the subject page of the talkpage containing afd-mergefrom, the template will be removed. If the AFDed page is a redirect to a different page, it will be reported to an appropriate page.

Discussion
The source is available here. The report page is currently set to User:AnomieBOT/Afd-mergefrom report, but this can be easily changed. The run period is currently set to 6 hours, but this can also be easily changed. I may also add handling of "if the AFDed page has been deleted", which will probably result in removing the template. Anomie⚔ 22:52, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Seems a very useful task, allowing editors to see which mergers are still pending.  RichardΩ612  Ɣ ɸ 13:42, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I stopped the "main" run after 14 edits, so the 15th could be updating the reporting page. Anomie⚔ 02:19, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Everything looks fine to me:  RichardΩ612   Ɣ ɸ 14:12, 3 January 2009 (UTC)