Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/JL-Bot 6


 * The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA. The result of the discussion was Symbol keep vote.svg Approved

JL-Bot 6
Operator:

Time filed: 16:59, Monday July 4, 2011 (UTC)

Automatic or Manual: Automatic (operator initiated & supervised)

Programming language(s): Perl (uses MediaWiki::Bot)

Source code available: Upon request

Function overview: Updated configuration for removing stale in-use templates

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Templates for discussion/Log/2011 June 8

Edit period(s): Once per day (approximate)

Estimated number of pages affected: Handful a day

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): No

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

Function details:

JL-Bot is already approved (JL-Bot 2) to remove underconstruction and inuse templates from articles that have not been edited in 7 days. Recently, the inuse template was nominated for deletion (Templates for discussion/Log/2011 June 8). While the debate resulted in keeping the template, the discussion favored reducing the time before the template was removed by the bot. This request is to update the prior approval in accordance with that discussion.

Inuse templates (currently GOCEinuse, In use, Inuse-section and their redirects) would be reduced to 1 day since article last edited.

Underconstruction templates (currently In creation, Isrev, New page, Under construction) and their redirects) would remain at 7 days since article last edited.

As of this writing, there are only 8 articles in total tagged with a inuse template and only 2 of those are over 24 hours without an edit. I do not expect this to be a large change in the number of edits performed by the bot as, from what I have seen, inuse templates typically do not hang-around as much as underconstruction ones.

Discussion
Simple change based on rough consensus for a seldom used template. — HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK 17:07, 4 July 2011 (UTC)


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