Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/GurchBot 3


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GurchBot 3
Operator:

Time filed: 08:52, Saturday June 18, 2011 (UTC)

Automatic or Manual: Manual

Programming language(s): .NET

Source code available: no, but you can ask if you really want it

Function overview: add WikiProject Biography to discussion pages

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): having WikiProject Biography on talk page of BLPs seems relatively uncontroversial, I can dig up some discussions if necessary

Edit period(s): batches if and when I notice it's necessary

Estimated number of pages affected: ~10,000 talk pages initially, subsequent runs dependent on wiki activity

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): yes

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

Function details:

I seem to remember there being a bot or autowikibrowser user or something that added WikiProject Biography to the talk pages of BLPs. However I checked and there's like a zillion of them without one so I guess it hasn't been done recently.

Essentially, any article in Category:Living people that doesn't already have a talk page in Category:Biography articles of living people gets WikiProject Biography placed on there.

If there's a WikiProjectBannerShell it has its blp parameter set to yes, and WikiProject Biography goes inside that, otherwise it goes at the top of the page.

WikiProject Biography gets living=yes set, class=stub and auto=yes if the article has a stub template, and listas set appropriately if the article sets a default sort key.

I will look at each article first, so I don't blindly tag things that shouldn't be in Category:Living people at all.

I figured a zillion edits from a non-bot account might annoy someone so I'm requesting approval here. The bot already has a bot flag from years ago so no need to worry about that.

Discussion
— HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK 09:28, 18 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the response, that was quick. I'll run the trial some time in the next 24 hours. Gurch (talk) 10:31, 18 June 2011 (UTC)


 * any progress? — HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK 13:29, 10 July 2011 (UTC)


 * I have left a notice on the operator's talkpage, asking for an update on this request. SQL Query me!  08:22, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
 * SQL Query me! 10:03, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
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