Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot III 48


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DannyS712 bot III 48
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Time filed: 18:54, Sunday, June 16, 2019 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): Javascript

Source code available: New rule to be added to User:DannyS712 test/redirects.js

Function overview: Automatically patrol redirects where the only difference between the title and the target (excluding differences in capitalization and diacritics/accents) is the presence of absence of "The "

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Follow up to Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot III 38 and Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot III 45

Edit period(s): As needed

Estimated number of pages affected: A few per week

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

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

Function details: See Special:Permalink/902125164 for the 19 currently unpatrolled redirects that meet this critereon

Discussion
The unpatrolled sample looks fine. Is the script only looking for "the" at the beginning of the title? That was the case for all of the examples in the sample. signed,Rosguill talk 20:49, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
 * No, it’s all instances of “the”, though the sample is just some of the current redirects that meet the rule. —DannyS712 (talk) 22:23, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Is there a reason this is not just an extension of the previous BRFA? Primefac (talk) 20:58, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I guess it is, but I have ideas for a number of future rules that could be added but I haven't coded yet, and was planning to file the "extensions" as individual BRFAs because each one results in automatically patrolling an entirely new group of redirects, and thus should be evaluated separately --DannyS712 (talk) 21:06, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Is this rule based on "the" or "the "? The summary and your prior comment don't match. As for as the "only at the start" question, what else is going to match that you think should be done? - here are some examples but the 4th and 5th are just wrong. — xaosflux  Talk 13:28, 20 June 2019 (UTC)


 * 1) ✅The foo --> Foo
 * 2) ✅Foo --> The Foo
 * 3) ✅ Foo --> The foo
 * 4) ❌ FooBar --> FooThe Bar
 * 5) ❌ Salle Ba (singer)--> Sally Bathe (singer)
 * — xaosflux  Talk 13:28, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I hadn't considered those. In that case, it will only be based on "The " (with a space) being at the start. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 16:19, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
 * — xaosflux  Talk 19:55, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I've done the first 14 (list at Special:Permalink/903763964 and log entries at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/DannyS712_bot_III&dir=prev&offset=20190627200123&limit=13&type=&user=DannyS712+bot+III) - will post as trial continues --DannyS712 (talk) 20:37, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I accidentally patrolled 27 more instead of 26, so it was 41 total; the other 27 are at . I didn't see any issues --DannyS712 (talk) 05:21, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
 * its been almost 2 weeks --DannyS712 (talk) 17:08, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

As per usual, if amendments to - or clarifications regarding - this approval are needed, please start a discussion on the talk page and ping. -- The SandDoctor Talk 05:00, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
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