Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Seppi333Bot 2


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Seppi333Bot 2
Operator:

Time filed: 22:49, Thursday, December 19, 2019 (UTC)

Function overview: Create missing redirects from gene symbols to articles about the corresponding gene/protein and categorize them using.

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: No. Not going to write it unless approved for trial.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):
 * Bots/Requests for approval/Seppi333Bot - see my conversation with SCIdude and his subsequent post on my talk page.

Edit period(s): One time run

Estimated number of pages affected: 2000 or 4000, give or take a few hundred (2000 if just the gene symbol redirects; 4000 if the parenthetically disambiguated redirects as well - see discussion below)

Namespace(s): Mainspace

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: Create missing redirects from gene symbols to articles about the corresponding gene/protein and categorize them using.

Discussion
BAGAssistanceNeeded  Seppi  333  (Insert 2¢) 23:17, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Give us a little bit to review before BAGAN tagging please. — xaosflux  Talk 00:38, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
 * My bad; will wait next time.  Seppi  333  (Insert 2¢) 01:13, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

It might be worth creating the corresponding set of parenthetically disambiguated " (gene)"-suffixed redirects (a la Bots/Requests for approval/BogBot 3) along with the proposed set, though it's not quite as necessary. Doing so would double the number of redirects I'd need to create. Wondering what others think; you in particular.  Seppi  333  (Insert 2¢) 03:30, 24 December 2019 (UTC)


 * The justification for the parenthetical redirects was very clear: provide an unambiguous mechanism for locating Gene Wiki articles. Most of these redirects have already been created. Hence it would very useful to provide redirects for the newly created articles and update redirects for the rare cases where the official gene has changed. The redirects provide an efficient mechanism to find Gene Wiki articles.  Why is necessary to create and maintain lists of tens of thousands of genes?  Who is going to use these lists and for what purpose? Boghog (talk) 15:08, 24 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Hmm; I don't think it's that rare TBH; I saw around half a dozen gene symbols change when I updated those gene lists today. That said, the gene lists aren't relevant to this task in any way; I'm just proposing the creation of redirects. But, to answer your questions, it's not any more or less necessary than creating and maintaining any other article on Wikipedia. I do it voluntarily because I know there are some who would find it useful/interesting for the same reason I do. I suspect that people who would "use" these lists are readers who are interested in human genes. The alternative is HGNC's gene browser which cuts off the list at 1000 entries and utilizes such an excessive amount of pagination so as to render the viewer relatively useless.  As for the purpose, I can't say; I only know what I used it for.  But, for what purpose would any of the other lists in lists of human genes be used for that matter?  Seppi  333  (Insert 2¢) 18:44, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

Been about a month, so... BAGAssistanceNeeded.  Seppi  333  (Insert 2¢) 05:26, 18 January 2020 (UTC) Primefac (talk) 21:54, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
 * If anyone would have an issue that should be a large enough number to make them notice. Primefac (talk) 21:46, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Shouldn't take long to program this. Will work on it as time permits. Expect to be done a few days.  Seppi  333  (Insert 2¢) 04:18, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
 * D How are things coming along? If this still isn't ready, I think that we should put this request on hold for the time being. -- The SandDoctor  Talk 06:54, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Putting this on hold seems reasonable. I haven't had the time to work on it lately and don't expect to for another month or two.  Sorry for the late reply.  Seppi  333  (Insert 2¢) 22:04, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
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