Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/RileyBot 15

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Withdrawn by operator.

RileyBot 15

Operator: Riley Huntley (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 19:00, Monday April 22, 2013 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: Source has not been written yet

Function overview: Run through a list (list created via db scan) that contains only section redirects and adds Template:R to section to the page if the template (and any of its redirects) is not already on the page. As a safety, the bot will ignore the section redirect if "<nowiki>" and "</nowiki>" tags are around it. -- Cheers, Riley 19:00, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Redirects_to_sections

Edit period(s): Continuous

Estimated number of pages affected: ~~10,000+~~ Possibly 500,000+

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: Run through a list (list created via db scan) that contains only section redirects and adds Template:R to section to the page if the template (and any of its redirects) is not already on the page. As a safety, the bot will ignore the section redirect if "<nowiki>" and "</nowiki>" tags are around it. -- Cheers, Riley 19:00, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Seems rather simple. Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 19:38, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion - You may want to exclude pages that are in Category:Redirects to sections and its subcategories, to ensure you're not duplicating {{This is a redirect|to section}}. GoingBatty (talk) 22:57, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Seems bot appropriate, useful task, community requested –166.137.116.18 (talk) 23:01, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn by operator. Bot operator has retired. -- Cheers, Riley 23:14, 29 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment. Now that I have returned, can we try this again? -- Cheers, Riley 07:00, 5 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Riley Huntley: Okay, feel free to undo this edit and re-add it to WP:BRFA. — Earwig ^talk 03:01, 6 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind; I just saw you created a new BRFA. Carry on. — Earwig ^talk 03:09, 6 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]