Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Mdann52 bot 10


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Mdann52 bot 10
Operator:

Time filed: 19:25, Tuesday, October 27, 2015 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Auto

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: standard

Function overview: Adds/Remove XfD notices from bulk discussions

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): one time runs

Estimated number of pages affected: who knows

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): NA

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: For situations like User talk:Mdann52, where lots of XfD tags need adding/removing. Hopeing for speedy approval, as this is not contriversial. I'll use the same code as my last run (WP:Bots/Requests for approval/Mdann52 bot 7)

Discussion
(This case only.) Primarily for the technical aspect; this should be fine (are you also adding Old AfD, though?). I'm not really sure why you ran the tagging without approval but want approval for de-tagging. However, I urge more caution when doing this sort of mass-AfDing in general (less of a concern for other XfDs). If there are so many articles that you are unable to manually tag each for deletion, then I doubt you've made sure there aren't exceptional cases that make individual articles undeserving of deletion while others should be deleted. I note Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pages in Category:Lists of airline destinations and Categories for discussion/Log/2015 March 12 were both closed as keep with a fair amount of opposition to the way the nomination was conducted. —  Earwig   talk 06:02, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
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