Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/STBot 13


 * 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.svg Approved.

STBot 13
Operator: --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs (st47)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): AWB

Function Summary: Populate some categories

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): As needed

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

Function Details: Populate categories as requested from lists supplied by humans, starting with these requests by Carlaude on WP:BOTREQ.

Discussion

 * Please approve. I have a (10) longish lists of of articles that need to be put in ten related catagories, such as:
 * 6th century Christian saints
 * 7th century Christian saints
 * etc.-- Carlaude (talk) 01:02, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Bot will also remove pages from parent categories. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs (st47) 01:37, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Where does the bot get its input from? If it's fully automatic and takes requests, it would act as an amplifier for vandalism, so I hope that's not the way it actually works.  r speer  / ɹəəds ɹ  07:45, 17 September 2008 (UTC)


 * In this case the lists were mostly genarated by cross-referencing many catagories of saints with catagories or lists of that are set-up by century.-- Carlaude (talk) 09:16, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Can the bot check for recent moves? Many of these names are shared by multiple people, and a Eufronius could easily have flip-flopped with a Euphronios since the creation of the list. Chick Bowen 06:46, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
 * It's a very simple AWB bot, if it needs to be more advanced than that for some basic categorizing, I'll throw it back on botreq. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs (st47) 01:14, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
 * to make sure it is running right in AWB. Full approval expected shortly.  MBisanz  talk 01:10, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Mr.Z-man 18:34, 14 October 2008 (UTC)


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