Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Mr.Z-bot 6


 * 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 keep vote.svgSymbol support vote.svg Speedily Approved.

Mr.Z-bot 6
Operator: Mr.Z-man

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): Python

Function Overview: Create a public watchlist for articles with potential BLP issues

Edit period(s): 1 edit per day

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

Function Details:

From bot request: Mr.Z-man 20:41, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Once per day, scan WP:BLPN to extract the titles from the section headers
 * Any new titles will be added to Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Watchlist to create a public watchlist using Special:RecentChangesLinked

Discussion
The preferred format (according to the top of the page) is to use la below the header. Including links in section headers kills small African children who use Netscape 4 or something. --MZMcBride (talk) 20:45, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
 * And this request was looking uncontroversial for a minute then. Sigh. - Jarry1250 (t, c) 20:47, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Uh, it is uncontroversial (I'm not even sure why he'd seek approval for 1 edit per day...). I was just mentioning that he's going to have issues if he just looks at headers. --MZMcBride (talk) 20:54, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
 * It also says to use a link in the header, though I can have it look for la too. Right now it uses several checks to try to find the articles from the header and stops after it finds something:
 * Look for links
 * See if the whole section name corresponds to an article
 * Look for titles based on parenthetical disambiguation - (eg "Foo (Bar)")
 * Look for phrases set off by some punctuation like a dash or a colon.
 * And if it still can't find anything, check all consecutive groups of words 2 or more words long
 * In each case it verifies that the page exists and that its in either ns 0 or ns 1. Mr.Z-man 20:55, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Wheeeeeee. :-) Suggest speedy approval. --MZMcBride (talk) 21:28, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

It's kind of hard to imagine this bot causing harm. – Quadell (talk) 18:48, 29 May 2009 (UTC)


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