Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MadmanBot 9


 * 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 The result of the discussion was Symbol oppose vote.svg Withdrawn by operator.

MadmanBot 9
Operator: Madman

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic.

Programming language(s): PHP.

Source code available: No.

Function overview: Tags U.S. county articles that don't have Infobox U.S. County with Category:Missing U.S. County Infobox.

Edit period(s): One-time run.

Estimated number of pages affected: 6483 U.S. county articles - 12 articles in Category:Missing U.S. County Infobox - 14 articles in Category:Former counties of the United States, - 3065 articles embedding Infobox U.S. County = 3392 articles.

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes.

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

Function details: This task adds all distinct articles in the following fifty categories (U.S. county articles), then subtracts articles in Category:Missing U.S. County Infobox, then subtracts articles in Category:Former counties of the United States, then subtracts articles embedding Infobox U.S. County. It then tags all articles with Category:Missing U.S. County Infobox.

Discussion
I think current guidelines would prefer you to tag talk pages rather than the articles themselves, but other than that, everything seems fine. - Jarry1250 [ In the UK? Sign the petition! ] 18:09, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Yes, it looks like the tags are on talk pages rather than in article space. This seems like a straight-forward categorizing task that would make articles available to interested editors, particularly if it's on the talk page. I don't see any issues. That's my opinion. --68.127.233.138 (talk) 04:56, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Shouldn't be too taxing to tag talk page, god knows why anyone would complain. - Jarry1250 [ In the UK? Sign the petition! ] 18:23, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
 * – This task has completed; it didn't even take 100 edits. First I was having issues because the bot was tagging articles in these categories that weren't U.S. county articles; I fixed this by adding a filter for ", " and a state name. Also, the estimated number of pages affected was way too high because it included non-articles (almost every article has a corresponding category, etc.). Once I'd ironed the bugs out of the trial, the task was complete because there were almost no U.S. county articles not tagged. I verified this with AWB, loading the list of articles within these categories and taking the symmetric difference of articles transcluding Infobox U.S. County. 0 pages. Cheers! &mdash; madman bum and angel 21:28, 2 August 2009 (UTC)