Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/UsbBot


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UsbBot
Operator:

Time filed: 00:08, Friday December 17, 2010 (UTC)

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic

Programming language(s): pyWikipedia

Source code available: yes

Function overview:  Adds a references section with a ΔT The only constant 00:10, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Are you aware of the discussion at WP:VPR, that may end up affecting how this bot would work? Anomie⚔ 03:30, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
 * You should also be careful about a common cause for missing or &lt;references/&gt;. IMHO it appears that most of them are caused by some bad tag closing (usually a missing &lt;/ref&gt;). You maybe should also pay attention to this tag : (Tag: references removed) in the history page. This tag denoting that the references section has been dropped or more probably has been made ineffective (see edit made on 17 December by ip address 193.1.104.2   Fti74 (talk) 15:22, 17 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Fti74, the noreferences script in pyWikipedia automatically checks to see if the last edit was an IP edit and if so skips the article as the page as probably been vandalized, so that should fix that. ∆, about the Category:Pages with missing references list, that is a better idea but the part that I wonder is that it says the -start and then the category name says that it iterates over every category starting at the category name you put in, which obviously is not going to make that work, and I don't see any other way to do it (they probably is a way, however, that the documentation didn't talk to much about 0_0). Do you know of a way? Usb10 Connected? 00:10, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
 * that would be  not  . ΔT The only constant 00:14, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks, ∆. Anomie, about this discussion, I understand how they want everybody to set the number of columns to a certain number depending on the number of refs and I do know how this will affect the bot. At this point, since they have established no consensus, it will be okay to run the bot for now, but if they do find a magic rule for columns I will change the script. Usb10 Connected? 00:32, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
 * The status quo on columns is 1, i.e., un-specified and set to default value 1. The RfC is mostly on how to use it when using it. This shouldn't stop us adding reference tags because an RfC is about one of it's parameters, not the adding of the tag. Besides, most untagged article won't have enough references anyway to worry about columns.
 * A more important question is how the bot handles problem cases, which I suspect is where the majority of these articles come from. Like  / or whatever other cases one could mistype/misuse. And does the bot respect sections (including misused titles) that should come after references section? —  HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK 13:20, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
 * The bot does respect sections and knows that the references section should come before the interwiki links and the categories and below any PersonData and stuff like that. However, it does not look for typos like that, but I do think if it sees the references section itself it skips it, so if the references tag was misspelled but there was a references or notes section then it would skip it. Usb10 Connected?
 * Does it respect navigational templates and ==External links== and ==Further reading== sections that come after ==References==? — HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK 11:57, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes. Usb10 Connected? 00:01, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

— HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK 10:11, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
 * BAGAssistanceNeeded Do deleted edits count towards the fifty trial edits? If so, then I have completed the trial. Usb10 Connected? 01:01, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Issues noted with the trial:
 * - The ref was incorrectly placed in the reference section, and the bot put the tag above the reference, which means it didn't actually fix the problem. Ideally it would convert the improperly placed reference into a plain link, but it should at least make sure the tag is below all refs.
 * The page already had a references section under a different name
 * Same as above
 * Like the first one
 * Again
 * Also, you should probably put a blank line between the section header and the text above it when you add the section. Mr.Z-man 05:06, 2 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I will take that as a Going to go ahead and fix the problems Mr. Z-man described above.  Usb10  plug me in 01:01, 9 January 2011 (UTC)


 * BAGAssistanceNeeded The problems should be fixed now. Could somebody approve this for extended trial? Thanks. Usb10  plug me in 00:44, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

— HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK 10:46, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
 * D Any progress? Anomie⚔ 16:58, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, just fixing some bugs. I have been on a bit of a long break, so I didn't get a chance to fix it fully yet.  Usb10  plug me in 23:47, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Almost ready? Mr.Z-man 00:27, 12 March 2011 (UTC) Anything?  MBisanz  talk 04:18, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Most recent edit of the bot operator in question was in February. --43?9enter ★☭ 05:13, 5 May 2011 (UTC)


 *  MBisanz  talk 02:03, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
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