Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/LivingBot 2


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LivingBot 2
Operator: - Jarry1250 (t, c)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic, supervised

Programming Language(s): PHP

Function Summary: To run through Category:Year of birth missing (living people) removing (living people) from those who are deceased.

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

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

Function Details: Following discussions with Magioladitis, it appears that I could help sorting out Category:Year of birth missing (living people), by running through it and checking whether people are now deceased in the same way I did with Living people. It would then remove/alter all categories relating to them being alive.

I would be using extensive criteria, which I feel were proved effective by the runs I did on Category:Living people earlier.

Discussion
I'm currently running a log only run to see how many articles are affected, I'll post the results here. - Jarry1250 (t, c) 09:17, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
 * The log run turned up 22 pages that need editing. Probably not enough to warrant a bot this time round, so I was wondering if, in future, a similar search turned up more results, and these results were checked by a human (probably me), could I get approval for that in advance, or should I apply at the time? - Jarry1250 (t, c) 16:50, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I support the idea. The bot detected 22 mistakes. There were only 22 pages because I manually fix these issues very often. If we have a short backlog we can create lists and manually fix them every month for example. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:52, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 22 pages fixed by a bot is still 22 pages that humans don't need to worry about! And the idea of fixing these on a regular basis to keep backlogs down sounds good.  Richard 0612  22:38, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
 * As Magioladitis has fixed those 22 already I think, the trial may have to wait for a bit for a backlog to emerge. - Jarry1250 (t, c) 12:29, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
 * If you want, you can withdraw this request with no prejudice to reopening it when a backlog has built up (if you feel it won't build up again for a while), otherwise it can just wait here, no problem either way really.  Richard 0612  13:51, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
 *  Richard 0612  19:13, 5 February 2009 (UTC)


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