Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Chris G Bot (5th request)


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Chris G Bot
Operator:  Chris 

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Auto, supervised

Programming Language(s): PHP, with Cobi's classes

Function Summary: Mass moving of pages

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Function Details: (see botreq for more info) Moves the subpages of List of asteroids and Meanings of asteroid names to List of minor planets and Meanings of minor planet names.

Discussion
The source code is on svn -- Chris  08:41, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Renewing 4th request, as no action was ever taken. MBisanz was ready to approve, but evidently Chris G was not available to answer.

Requested by User:Urhixidur and kwami (talk).

We would like to move the subpages of List of asteroids and Meanings of asteroid names to List of minor planets and Meanings of minor planet names, and while we're at it, comply with Naming conventions (long lists). There are hundreds of articles, differing only in the range of numbers at the end. For example:


 * List of asteroids/1001–2000 → List of minor planets: 1001–2000 (iterate by 1000s)
 * Meanings of asteroid names (501-1000) → Meanings of minor planet names: 501–1000 (iterate by 500s)

They are enumerated on the two category pages listed below.

If possible, it would be nice to make the visible wording of the articles consistent with their titles. This is only relevant to the 'meanings of asteroid names' subpages, where on each page there is either the phrase 'asteroid names' or 'Asteroids not yet given a name'. In both cases, "asteroid" should be changed to "minor planet".

I would also ask you to consider rewording the cats from "asteroid" to "minor planet" in:
 * "Category:Lists of asteroids by number|List of asteroids (######-######)"
 * "Category:Meanings of asteroid names|Meanings of asteroid names (######-######)"

but that is less important and might depend on server resources.

kwami (talk) 00:07, 25 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I went ahead and moved the 'List of asteroids' articles by hand. kwami (talk) 14:52, 16 December 2008 (UTC)


 * And now I've moved and edited the 'Meanings of asteroid names' articles. The only remaining issue is replacing the category of the 'list' articles. kwami (talk) 06:32, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Since BAG seems to have been AWOL for the past month, I just went ahead and did it on my own. Something should be done about the transcluded pages left in Category:Lists of asteroids by number, but that's outside the scope of this request. — east718  |  talk  | 08:37, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks! kwami (talk) 17:07, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

BJ Talk 03:01, 23 December 2008 (UTC)


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