Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/LivingBot 13


 * The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was Symbol oppose vote.svg Withdrawn by operator.

LivingBot 13
Operator: Jarry1250

Automatic or Manually assisted: Supervised fading to unsupervised automatic

Programming language(s): AWB (see below)

Source code available: Probably (unless any hitches) standard AWB.

Function overview: Reflinks for a handful individually selected bare links, each of which has been used many times as a bare reference.

Edit period(s): One time run

Estimated number of pages affected: ~ 20,000 edits, depending on how much effort I put in.

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Whatever AWB is

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

Function details: Processing a recent dump revealed that several URLs were used many times as bare references (either or with extra square brackets): 8098   data.gbif.org/species/browse/taxon/13143053 5377   itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt (seems problematic, maybe something went wrong with the count). 5118   itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=152643 254   cne.gob.ve/estadisticas/e016.pdf 217   planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov 184   riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH_RESULTS 180   corse.culture.gouv.fr/monuments/actions_crmh/carte_tours.gif 172   rianz.org.nz/rianz/chart.asp 160   nomen.at/Actia 128   monstersandcritics.com/books/comics/news/article_1343405.php/Creators_of_Transformers_Beast_Wars_The_Gathering_are_back 128   ariacharts.com.au/pages/charts_display_singles.asp?chart=1U50 106   secondthought.co.uk/fsol/ 106   politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clarken-claytee.html 106   informaworld.com/index/757500068.pdf 101   bpi.co.uk/

If top-quality cites could be drawn up for these, then many bare urls could be ticked off with little effort and no reliance on automated decision making for drawing up the cite templates.

Discussion
Helpful timestamp. - Jarry1250 [ In the UK? Sign the petition! ] 16:26, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Are you going to take the bare reference and replace it with a proper citation? That sounds very useful. What is the citation format you will use? It seems there would be templates already that do this. It appears to be a basic, bot-appropriate, and useful task in my opinion, but can you add details? --68.127.233.138 (talk) 21:02, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm going to use cite web (rather than citation) because citation tends to appear solely on articles people actively maintain. All dates are going to be ISO YYYY-MM-DD, to avoid confrontation. I'll work on the exact citations on the talk page of this page (I've skipped the "bad" one). - Jarry1250 [ In the UK? Sign the petition! ] 14:18, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I should mention my forthcoming absence of a week, as I am going on holiday (yay). - Jarry1250 [ In the UK? Sign the petition! ] 14:19, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Both this task and the reflinks tool, of which I had not heard before approval of this task was requested, interest me. This task looks like it will both be useful and in the hands of a capable operator. – optimally, could you try one of each of these fifteen URI prefixes? Thanks! &mdash; madman bum and angel 04:36, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

OperatorAssistanceNeeded Status? Mr.Z-man 00:22, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry guys, must have accidentally unwatched the page. Pray mark it as withdrawn until I get round to looking at it again. - Jarry1250 [ In the UK? Sign the petition! ] 16:30, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅, feel free to re-open anytime - Kingpin13 (talk) 16:56, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.