Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MoohanBOT 6


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MoohanBOT 6
Operator:

Time filed: 11:47, Monday March 24, 2014 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): WP:AWB

Source code available: Standard AWB

Function overview: Go through pages at Database reports/Stubs included directly in stub categories and remove the direct stub category and add a generic stub tag.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s):

Estimated number of pages affected: Around 1600 in current database dump though some may have been fixed already, I don't expect it to be this high regularly especially after the bot cleans through it the first time.

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

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

Function details: It will find any stub category in the text and replace it with a stub tag this will bring it to the attention of many editors who regularly sort stubs but may not be aware of the database dump. General fixes and tagging will then be applied to the page. If there is already a stub tag on the page the bot will skip it so as not to undo any previous good work.

Discussion
 MBisanz  talk 20:09, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I have reviewed all of the edits and didn't spot any errors. I have made two slight additions/changes to the task however.
 * If the AWB attempts to remove the stub tag (because it deems it too long to be a stub) skip the page. I feel this kind of decision should not be automated and should be left to the judgement of humans.
 * If the page is a biography article (using the same logic as MoohanBOT Task 2) add bio-stub instead of stub. This just means that my bot is making less edits overall.
 * -- slakr \ talk / 06:58, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I've done a few edits so far (30-50) it seems to be working as planned.
 * After comments from PamD and Redrose64 on my talk page I will edit the Bot task; It will no longer remove the direct stub category, but simply add the relevant stub/bio-stub along with a comment Jamesmcmahon0 (talk) 10:41, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Have you finished the 200 edits or otherwise done enough to be confident in final approval? Thanks.  MBisanz  talk 18:36, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
 * The database report is updated on the first of the month and they tend to get fixed reasonably quickly. In May the bot only made a couple of edits and there have been no edits made using the updated task. I should be able to get a sizeable number of edits done on 1 June, if not then I will look into doing the database search myself and running it on those. Jamesmcmahon0 (talk) 09:25, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
 * June 1 has come and gone. Any updates to report? Hasteur (talk) 13:32, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

Since I can't find enough pages to perform a trial, there's probably not a need for this bot. Editors have routinely got to and cleared the database dump before I've had a chance to run the Bot. Since those guys are actually sorting the stubs (rather than just bringing them to the attention of other stub sorters as my bot does) making them wait for the bot to run wouldn't improve anything. Jamesmcmahon0 (talk) 11:38, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
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