Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SoxBot 18
- The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was
Request Expired.
Operator: X!
Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic
Programming language(s): PHP with Pillar framework
Source code available: Not yet
Function overview: Adding parameter to talk page templates.
Edit period(s): One time run
Estimated number of pages affected: Roughly 1800
Exclusion compliant (Y/N): N
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Y
Function details: Per this botreq, this bot will go around through all pages in Category:WikiProject EastEnders articles, and will get the text of each one. If it detects the presence of a listas parameter, it skips the page. Else, it adds it to the {{EastEnders project class}} template.
It's not exclusion compliant, seeing at the Pillar framework does not yet support it.
Discussion
[edit]The Pillar framework does support exclusion compliance, as far as I can see; can you not call checkexcluded('SoxBot') on each page before you modify it? — madman bum and angel 20:50, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
- Ah, yes. I didn't know that it existed. (X! · talk) · @075 · 00:47, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
I'd like to see source code, especially as I'd understand it, but you're an experienced bot operator. Please make this task exclusion compliant, then you are 
Approved for trial. Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete.. — madman bum and angel 03:44, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
- {{BotTrialComplete}} (X! · talk) · @252 · 05:02, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
- Per [1], please fix and
Approved for trial (20 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete.. — madman bum and angel 22:57, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
- Per [1], please fix and
A user has requested the attention of the operator. Once the operator has seen this message and replied, please deactivate this tag. (user notified) It's been over a month... any updates on this one? The Earwig (Talk | Contribs) 00:03, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
Request Expired. — JamesR (talk) 00:52, 13 September 2009 (UTC)- The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.
