Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DPL bot 4


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DPL bot 4
Operator:

Time filed: 20:34, Tuesday September 25, 2012 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): PHP

Source code available: No

Function overview: Tags and removes tags from articles based on whether they should have the incoming links template.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Templates for discussion/Log/2012 September 5, User talk:JaGa, Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation pages with links

Edit period(s): Twice daily

Estimated number of pages affected: around 600 pages on the first run, after that, somewhere around 5/day

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Y

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

Function details: During the deletion discussion for incoming links, it came up that the template is not getting removed when it should, and it was suggested that a bot should take care of the task similar to dablinks. I've written the bot, using a similar approach as the dablinks task; start with a high threshold (only disambigs with 30+ incoming links would get the template - that's just under 50 disambigs) and gradually lower the limit over time. For removal, it would take down the template for articles with 25 or fewer incoming links. That would de-tag around 600 disambigs.

Discussion
 MBisanz  talk 16:43, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Results on talk. Everything looks good - the bot added the template only to disambigs with 30 or more incoming links, and removed it only from disambigs with fewer than 25. -- Ja Ga  talk 18:09, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
 *  MBisanz  talk 17:51, 28 September 2012 (UTC)


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