Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PearBOT 2


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PearBOT 2
Operator:

Time filed: 22:32, Wednesday, August 21, 2019 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: User:PearBOT/Infobox request/source

Function overview: Removing infobox requests for articles having an infobox.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Bot requests

Edit period(s): Between once a week and once a month

Estimated number of pages affected: Variable depending how many WikiProjects use it. For WikiProject Academic Journals about 300

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

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

Function details: Will remove infobox requests for WikiProjects that have signed up at User:PearBOT/Infobox request config. It can look for specific infoboxes or for all templates in the infobox pseudo-namespace.

Discussion
~300 for now. More in the future as Category:Journal articles needing infoboxes gets cleared out. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 00:55, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Going to grant a trial for 25 edits, but I'll recuse from final approval since this is my bot request. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 00:55, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
 * 25 edits no issues found. I messed up the BRFA link in the first two edits, sorry for that. --Trialpears (talk) 08:28, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Looks all good to me, but like I said, I'll let someone else do the final approval. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 21:06, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
 * BAGAssistanceNeeded --Trialpears (talk) 19:16, 29 August 2019 (UTC)


 * I'm confused about the scope of this task. Are you looking to clear out this category entirely (and then check it once/twice a month), or are you only wanting to do this for WikiProject Academic Journals? If it's the latter, are you planning on eventually clearing the rest of the category? Primefac (talk) 23:45, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I was planning on starting with only WikiProject Academic Journals, but advertise on WT:WikiProject Council and maybe talkpages for individual WikiProjects with large infobox request categories. I'm not sure if running it on the entire Category:Wikipedia articles with an infobox request is a good idea since different WikiProject may have different preferences, such as WP Journals only looking for Infobox journal and some projects looking for "infoboxes" not in the infobox pseudo-namespace, such as Starbox begin. If you think running it on the whole category would be a better idea that could be done instead. --Trialpears (talk) 00:03, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
 * pinging. --Trialpears (talk) 20:16, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
 * BAGAssistanceNeeded I will start by running it only on WikiProjects that opt-in for now. It is possible this changes in the fututre, but then that scope change can be discussed at WT:Bots/Requests for approval/PearBOT 2. --Trialpears (talk) 15:21, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * The source code says "standard Pywikibot". Apologies for my ignorance, but does that mean you're running a standard Pywikibot module/script? If so, which one? Or are you running a Python script that you wrote yourself that happens to call a bunch of Pywikibot functions? If that's the case, can you post the code here? Enterprisey (talk!) 03:42, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
 * , sorry complete source is at User:PearBOT/Infobox request/source. --Trialpears (talk) 08:10, 6 October 2019 (UTC)

As per usual, if amendments to - or clarifications regarding - this approval are needed, please start a discussion on the talk page and ping. As you have already said, a change in scope from opt-in to "all" (or whatever else/other model) will require at minimum an amendment to this BRFA. -- The SandDoctor Talk 01:06, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
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