Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Arjunaraocbot


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Arjunaraocbot
Operator:

Time filed: 04:09, Saturday, March 23, 2024 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s):

Source code available: Standard Pywikipedia

Function overview: Maintenance edits like Adding or removing categories Adding or removing templates

using Pywikipedia scripts such as replace.py and others using https://hub-paws.wmcloud.org/

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): as required

Estimated number of pages affected: Usually 50-500

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): No

Function details: I identify the pages which need changes using petscan, quarry or similar tools. I will formulate appropriate regexes for detecting the search string and replacement and use replace.py script for making the changes.

If the use of other pywikipedia bot scripts requires consensus, I will use the apropriate talk pages for discussion and then use the scripts, if consensus is obtained.

I have used this account with bot flag on Telugu wikipedia for 10+ years without issues.

Discussion
Bot requests on the English Wikipedia generally require one specific task to be stated, not just a general request to run some script. This sort of one-off ad-hoc task sets are normally handled using a different tool such as WP:AWB/WP:JWB. And you shouldn't run the bot before getting approval as you just did. The edits the bot made themselves could do with some work - they left several articles such as Veerapunayunipalle completely uncategorized, and you claimed these pages are not mandal articles, which is not supported by the article itself (Veerapunayuni Palli is a mandal in YSR Kadapa district) * Pppery * it has begun... 04:14, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
 * As pppery says, this is too vague and open-ended. Please do not edit with the bot until a task has been approved for trial. Primefac (talk) 07:32, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
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