Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Erwin85Bot 7


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User:Erwin85Bot
Operator: Erwin85 (talk)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Unsupervised from Toolserver

Programming Language(s): Python

Function Summary: Change KeepLocal to NoCommons and remove NowCommons for images tagged with both KeepLocal and NowCommons. Possibly remove NowCommons if the target image doesn't exist.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Continuous

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

Function Details: See summary.

Source code: None yet

Discussion
This only adds a task to the current script used for Bots/Requests for approval/Erwin85Bot 4. However, if this new task will be approved it will also edit the image pages. I therefore guessed a new BRFA could be necessary. The reason for this new task is a comment on my talk page about the KeepLocal tag. If this task would be added I could also add a task to remove NowCommons if the target image doesn't exist. Note that I haven't coded anything yet. I just want input to see if this new task is indeed an improvement or that it should just ignore those tags. --Erwin85 (talk) 13:26, 20 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Sounds fine to me, since that's what the template says you should do. (I could argue that the name of the template is misleading, since "" really sounds like it should mean "", but that's not really an issue with the proposed bot feature.)  Regarding misapplied, it might be interesting to compile a list of cases where it's used but the Commons image doesn't exist and try to find out the cause in each case: I'd guess the two main reasons are typos (including missing "Image:" prefix) and the image being deleted on Commons.  At least the lack of "Image:" in the parameter is something the bot could check for and automatically correct.  —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 15:13, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

BJ Talk 06:28, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for allowing me to trial, but I don't have much time for Wikipedia now and this has a low priority. I'll put this on hold for now. Could someone close this request as I don't know how to formally do so? Thanks, --Erwin85 (talk) 17:46, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

LegoKontribsTalkM 05:24, 7 September 2008 (UTC)


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