Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Yobot 3


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Yobot 3
Operator: Magioladitis (talk)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): AWB

Function Summary:


 * Task 7: Moving Category:Place of birth missing, Category:Place of birth missing (living people), Category:Place of death missing, Category:Place of death unknown, Category:Date of death unknown from non-talk pages to Talk pages.
 * Task 8: If the page is not a talk page replace Category:Date of birth unknown with Category:Year of birth unknown.
 * Task 9:Tagging people who died as "living=no" (This will be done by working in Category:xxxx deaths) and those are alive as "living=yes" (This will be done only by working in Category:Year of birth missing (living people) and nowhere else)
 * Task 10: Replace BD with BIRTH-DEATH-SORT Lifetime or substitute it completely.

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

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

Function Details:

I already have ran tasks 7-9 making thousands of edits. Task 7 and 8 are just a normal expand of tasks already done. Task 9 will run only in the categories given above.

The reason I added Task 10 is because there was a consensus against "BD". This template suffix -SORT so as to clue in editors that it embeds and replaces DEFAULTSORT, making it very dangerous about its function. Right now at about 20,000 are using it. Of course, I would prefer to complete subst this template. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:03, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Discussion
For task 10 both of those template redirect to Lifetime. BJ Talk 22:56, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * No problem. I can change BD to Lifetime. I think BIRTH-DEATH-SORT has to change as well. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:13, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

for Task 9, eye towards approving all four.  MBisanz  talk 11:49, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Do you mean Task 10? I did 50 trials for Task 10 by substituting BD. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:10, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅ I did 50 trial for task 9 by pressing Save manually. Task 9 can't be tested automatically right now because Kingbotk AWB Plugin has a problem. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:25, 30 October 2008 (UTC)


 * What's the point of task 10? Its replacing a redirect with another redirect. If it is done, it should replace it with the target template, and only if its doing something else on the page (per R) unless there is a plan to repurpose BD for use as something else (which would warrant replacing all existing uses). Mr.Z-man 03:04, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
 * BD must be orphaned and deleted as a redirect because it's hiding DEFAULTSORT from its name. It was a discussion about that and the reason we changed the name from BD to Lifetime. We already have deleted it from the manual of Lifetime as a valid redirect. In my test edits I completely subst BD, not just renamed it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:24, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Just FYI, this discussion inspired me to write 43077, which, once it goes live, ought to reduce the potential problems with this or other similar templates. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 14:46, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

-- Magioladitis (talk) 22:22, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Mr.Z-man 17:04, 20 November 2008 (UTC)


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