Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Hazard-Bot 5

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Withdrawn by operator.

Hazard-Bot (5)

Operator: Hazard-SJ (talk · contribs)

Time filed: 20:32, Friday December 9, 2011 (UTC)

Automatic or Manual: Automatic unsupervised

Programming language(s): WP:AWB

Source code available: WP:AWB

Function overview: Remove instances of "Add caption here" from pages.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks#Add_caption_here

Edit period(s): When I am online

Estimated number of pages affected: 14,972

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Y

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

Function details: I will attempt to remove as many instances of "Add caption here" as possible from pages. For an idea of the reality, see Special:Search/Add caption here.

Discussion

I support the idea. However, in the off chance that there might be some false positives, I think that this should be restricted to a) only working in the article space, and b) only remove "Add caption here" if it detects "Add caption here File" or "Add caption here Image" (no need for case sensitivity). A quick search shows that "Add caption here" when used improperly pretty much takes the form "Add caption here File:Filename.ext" Sven Manguard Wha? 09:35, 13 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I support your first point, but there will be a lot of articles left "untreated" with your second point, by a short observation. Hazard-SJ ± 02:59, 14 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Most that I found took the form of [[File:filename.ext|thumb|Add caption here]]. GoingBatty (talk) 04:48, 15 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If you want I can run a scan of the database for this phrase. ΔT _{^{The only constant}} 04:50, 15 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, that would be appreciated. Hazard-SJ ± 05:10, 15 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
tools:~betacommand/reports/add_caption.txt ΔT _{^{The only constant}} 11:30, 15 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. Hazard-SJ ± 20:20, 15 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The "15,100 article" figure is for a search without quotes. The Search with quotes currently returns only 17 articles. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:58, 15 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
It reduced to 14,972, but what causes the main difference? With quotes, I get Results 1–20 of 148 for "Add caption here". Strange. Hazard-SJ ± 20:20, 15 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Without quotes the it searches a little different, if the words add, caption, here appear anywhere in the article (or depending on the algorithm, any partial matches) will show up. Using quotes it must match the exact phrase in that order, next to each other. ΔT _{^{The only constant}} 20:27, 15 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Considering how few actual matches there are, is a bot really necessary? This should just be done manually or with regular AWB. --Chris 11:34, 17 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

FYI, I manually removed over 300 earlier this month. GoingBatty (talk) 20:50, 17 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn by operator. Per above, since this was already done and only few instances appear, this isn't necessary. Hazard-SJ ㋡ 22:42, 17 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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