Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TolBot 10


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TolBot 10
Operator:

Time filed: 03:43, Friday, December 17, 2021 (UTC)

Function overview: Create redirects from titles without middle initials

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: Not fully written

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):
 * Bot requests (permalink)
 * Request a query (permalink)

Edit period(s): One-time, with possible future runs

Estimated number of pages affected: ≤18302

Namespace(s): (Article)

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No (mostly not applicable, as it creates redirects)

Function details:
 * A list of articles is input that satisfy the following conditions:
 * Are a biography (talk page with Template:WikiProject Biography)
 * Have a title matching "[word] [capital letter]. [word]" (first name, initial with period, last name)
 * there are no other articles with the name first and last name
 * It iterates over these titles, and:
 * It creates a redirect to the page, "[first] [initial]. [last]", from "[first] [last]".
 * The redirect will have a defaultsort of "[last], [first]".
 * The redirect will have the rcat of Template:R from short name.

Discussion

 * As requester, this looks great to me; thanks for taking this up! Once you're finished coding, having source code public would be useful, as we'll likely want to run this again sometime in the future. Cheers, &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 04:10, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you, @Sdkb! I've published the source code here, and licensed it under CC BY-SA 3.0/4.0 and GNU LGPL and FDL. (I know the licensing is weird; it's for ease of reuse and publishing elsewhere.) Tol  (talk &#124; contribs) @ 22:20, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
 * -- The SandDoctor Talk 22:48, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you, @TheSandDoctor! Diffs: (1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10 · 11 · 12 · 13 · 14 · 15 · 16 · 17 · 18 · 19 · 20 · 21 · 22 · 23 · 24 · 25 · 26 · 27 · 28 · 29 · 30 · 31 · 32 · 33 · 34 · 35 · 36 · 37 · 38 · 39 · 40 · 41 · 42 · 43 · 44 · 45 · 46 · 47 · 48 · 49 · 50).  Tol  (talk &#124; contribs) @ 21:56, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I checked a few, and they all look good to me! &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 22:37, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Looks fine to me but can we advertise this at a content venue before approval? eg WikiProject Biography. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 13:38, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
 * @ProcrastinatingReader: I've notified WikiProject Biography. Tol  (talk &#124; contribs) @ 20:27, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
 * (from said WikiProject) looks good to me. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 20:29, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Notified: WT:REDIRECT. &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 22:08, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
 * ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 22:23, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
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