Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 7


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DannyS712 bot 7
Operator:

Time filed: 18:59, Thursday, February 28, 2019 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: Remove from the ~8000 files with that tag in Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons reviewed by ShakespeareFan00

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): WP:BOTREQ#One Shot: Removing Commons eligibility assessment from images reviewed by ShakespeareFan00

Edit period(s): One time run

Estimated number of pages affected: 8170

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

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

Function details: explains that This is requested because both Commons and Wikipedia policy has changed in significant ways since the vast bulk of the images were tagged. It would be tedious to remove the tag individually. Using AWB, I would go through the category and replace the copy to commons template with an empty string using AWB's find-and-replace.

Discussion
Seems like a good task for a bot - F ASTILY   07:32, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
 * it should be clear that this is by request of the person who added the tags --DannyS712 (talk) 23:09, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
 * BAGAssistanceNeeded --DannyS712 (talk) 08:14, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Seems like a fairly straightforward task, but I'd like to stick to the procedure and do a brief trial. I see your bot has never touched the File namespace so it will be simple to identify the edits. Just ping me when the trial is complete. &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  01:21, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
 * 50 edits made . The one complication I encountered is that File:De Sitter crater 4080 h3.jpg was skipped. Not sure why, but I don't think it really matters. The only issue that remains is to ask if these edits should be marked as minor or not? (I do trial edits as not-minor, so that they can be seen by relevant users) Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 02:02, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

The handling of newlines was the only thing I was worried about, and I see that was done perfectly. I think the edits should be marked as minor, as they presumably are of no interest to page watchers and patrollers. If for whatever reason some pages are skipped, like you say, you can just re-run the task as needed until the category is empty. At that time, please tag Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons reviewed by ShakespeareFan00 with db-c1. &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  02:14, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
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