Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Reedy Bot 2


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Reedy Bot
Operator: Reedy Boy

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): C#/DotNetWikiBot Framework

Function Summary: Correct Incorrectly Disambiguated pages in Category:National Football League players and subcategories

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): One time run (may need periodic maintenance runs)

Edit rate requested: 10 edits per minute

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

Function Details: Source

Moving any incorrectly disambiguated pages in Category:National Football League players and subcategories. Any pages not disambiguated, will not be touched (and therefore not included in the list). The list of articles to be disambigutated correctly, is currently at User:Reedy Boy/American footballers. Pages on that list will have their disambiguation changed to "(American football)"

Discussion
Although the source is written, there seems to be a bug with the DotNetWikiBot framework - reported. So i am waiting on that being fixed before being able to do any proper trials. Reedy Boy 22:01, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Turns out the target page just existed - Not realised as it was before i filtered the list for existing pages. So it should work now (will test on other test pages first) Reedy Boy 23:18, 24 August 2007 (UTC)


 * What are your plans for dealing with conflicts where 2 players have the same name? --After Midnight 0001 01:29, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Im just reworking the list to only include 3 of the disambiguations (down to 780). Im also going to take that list, and make a list of the "target pages", to see if any already exist. If any do exist, i'll remove them from the list, and therefore not move using the bot. That will solve where the target page already exists. Then i will look for any other duplicate names in the list, and will remove those. I will then report back when i have the list of articles to move/rename. Reedy Boy 09:04, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
 * User:Reedy Boy/American footballers now has 608 articles - exact duplicates removed, and any people with the same name removed. All pages checked so that all the moves can be done without causing problems to other pages. I have also changed the code to make sure the target page doesnt exist, and if it does, it wont move the page. Other pages, that need moving, will be sorted manually and lists checked manually before moving. These could be up to around another 400 based on the original list. So, the pages that are definately to be renamed/moved are those on User:Reedy Boy/American footballers. Reedy Boy 10:18, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 607, one was a redirect. Reedy Boy 12:51, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

For the record, can you just provide a link to a place where consensus has been reached on this issue, or else Wikiproject guidelines or something similar? — M ETS 501 (talk) 20:25, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
 * - Under discussion, will revert back when a decision is finalised. Reedy Boy 23:18, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Any news on it Reedy Boy? ~   Wi ki  her mit  01:20, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Theres some sort of consensus been reached. I just need to summarise it, and then re-work the lists. Hopefully not too long. Reedy Boy 10:08, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
 * When do you think you will be ready for a trial run? 201.216.215.177 21:02, 14 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Im not sure this will be moving too far... See User talk:Jmfangio. I'll have to check what others want to do. Reedy Boy 21:04, 14 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Status report?  CO 2  17:08, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
 * - As of now. No real consensus, and no one else is replying. The guy who brought the original idea has been blocked as a sockpuppet. Reedy Boy 14:06, 23 September 2007 (UTC)


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