Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Botryoidal


 * The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was Symbol keep vote.svg Approved.

Botryoidal
Operator: William Allen Simpson

Automatic or Manually assisted: supervised

Programming language(s): Python Wikipediabot Framework

Function overview: CfD, TfD, orphaning, fixing templates that include categories

Edit period(s): infrequently

Estimated number of pages affected: 2,000+ over the next few days

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

Function details: It's been several years since I've run this old bot. The approval process is more involved now. Much the same task as before: maintenance functions that require individualized replace functions.

As an example, over the next few days, I'm planning on removing the nocat parameter from Surname (as I've been doing by hand on complicated names for several days), but have a long simple series that could better be done with the standard replace.py function.

Presumably I don't have to ask approval for every new edit. The bot is already listed as approved (but inactive), so I'm trying out the process again.

Discussion

 * Why are you removing the nocat parameter from Surname? – Quadell (talk) 16:52, 2 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Category:Surnames is allincluded. The nocat parameter is an old leftover, superseded by "cat=none" some years ago, and now all the old "cat=", "language=", and "nationality=" parameters have been removed as well (by hand). This is a very involved cleanup process, thoroughly documented and tracked:
 * Category:Surname template has nocat
 * Category:Surname template has cat none
 * Category:Surname template has cat
 * Category:Surname template has language
 * Category:Surname template has nationality
 * --William Allen Simpson (talk) 11:40, 10 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I am leary of overbroad approvals, so I'll comment here in closing. Any task previously approved under any BAG method is still valid.  Non-controversial implementation of the Function above are approved.  New things not dealing with XFDs, and template/category cleanup should be brought for BRFA.  If you are going to add a new feature (like including SFDs with the TFD and CFD work), please be sure to check with the local project to make sure they are aware/in agreement.  Otherwise it looks fine.   MBisanz  talk 22:09, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
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