Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/EarwigBot 12


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EarwigBot 12
Operator:

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic, unsupervised

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: available through ~earwig/earwigbot: blptaggerbot_run.py

Function overview: The bot adds yes to either WikiProject Banners or WikiProject Banner Shell on talk pages where WikiProject Biography is used along with yes and BLP is not used.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Bot requests/Archive 34

Edit period(s): Weekly on Thursdays

Estimated number of pages affected: Unknown (will provide details later)

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Y

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

Function details: BLP is an important talk page notice that is normally displayed by WikiProject Biography automatically when yes is specified. However, when the Biography WikiProject template is hidden by WPB or WPBS, the BLP template is not displayed. To correct this problem, both of the banner templates have a parameter, yes, which places BLP above the banner shell. The bot will go through talk pages with, either WPB or WPBS, and not BLP, adding yes to the banner shell template if it is not already there. The main query is done via MySQL, so it is quick and easy. &mdash; The Earwig   (talk)  03:12, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Discussion

 *  MBisanz  talk 13:13, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Starting this now. &mdash; The Earwig   (talk)  00:06, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Edits. No errors found; seems okay. &mdash; The Earwig   (talk)  01:44, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

What happened at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Frankie_Goes_to_Hollywood&diff=prev&oldid=350708166 ? Josh Parris 02:23, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Seems fine to me. What's wrong with it? &mdash; The Earwig   (talk)  02:24, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Like Line of succession to the British throne, it isn't a biography of a living person. Not much you can do about that, there seem to be a bunch of bogus BLP tags floating around. Josh Parris 02:30, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Go forth and tag; I'd love to see some thoughts on addressing all the non-BLPs tagged as BLPs. Josh Parris 02:34, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
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