Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/KingpinBot 3


 * 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.

KingpinBot 3
Operator:

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic

Programming language(s): C#

Source code available: Nope

Function overview: Removes Category:Wikipedian usernames editors have expressed concern over from user/talk pages of blocked users.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia_talk:U, WT:UAA, WP:BOTR

Edit period(s): Daily

Estimated number of pages affected:

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): True

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

Function details: Nothing more to expand on. Although I should note edits will be marked as minor, so they will not trigger the "New Messages" banner.

Discussion

 * This was requested at WT:U and WT:UAA, where it hasn't drawn any opposition, and it seems straightforward. - Dank (push to talk) 22:11, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Looks good; as Dank says, no apparent opposition. &mdash; The Earwig   (talk)  22:18, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Seems there was only two pages which need editing :/, I guess NJA went through them manually (using KittyBot) quite well. However, both of the pages which KingpinBot edited were edited previously by KittyBot, but had more than one instance of CAT:UAA (KingpinBot will remove every instance). - Kingpin13 (talk) 22:53, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm disappointed that we couldn't go through with the trial as planned, but I have no problem with two bots doing the same thing. If KittyBot is manual, but KingpinBot will run automatically every day, I suppose this is still approvable. Could you wait a few days, then run the bot, when there will hopefully be more pages to edit? &mdash; The Earwig   (talk)  01:26, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Will do. By the way, KittyBot will not (afaik) continue running if this is approved. NJA (KittyBot's op) sees to prefer the idea of a automatic bot doing this task - Kingpin13 (talk) 06:18, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Only did 39 edits, but hey :D. I had a problem where it was occasionally indenting the line after the category, but I fixed that just now. - Kingpin13 (talk) 19:14, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Looks fine; not glaring problems (aside from the one you fixed), and is an uncontroversial task. &mdash; The Earwig   (talk)  20:38, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
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