Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SoxBot 7

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Approved.

SoxBot

Operator: Soxred93 | talk bot

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): AWB

Function Summary: WIkiproject tagging

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

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

Function Details: ~~2 parts to this request: Tag all talk pages of Category:Vermont with {{Project Vermont|class=}}, and then replace {{Project Vermont}} with {{Project Vermont|class=}}~~ I am changing this request, to generic WikiProject tagging. After a conversation with Reedy, he says his bot was approved so he could do wikiproject tagging whenever. I would like to request that too, to avoid going into the triple digits on Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SoxBot XXX. However, I still want the Vermont tagging done anyway.

Discussion

Are you planning to recurse through subcategories? (Presumably you are, because the main category is almost empty.) What's the chance of the bot recursing too far and tagging irrelevant pages (I don't know how organised the categories in that tree are)? --ais523 11:55, 23 April 2008 (U T C)

IIRC there's a plugin for this, but, I'm drawing a blank on the name, are you using that? (I know, vague!). Also, have you checked with the relevant wikiproject? SQL ^{Query me!} 01:45, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I ran a full AWB recursion on the category and picked up some subcats its hitting, that it shouldn't tag, like Category:Amtrak stations in California and Category:Canadian National Railway executives. Maybe ~5% of all the recursive cats I picked up looked wrong, can't tell though what % of the ~7,900 pages it picked up belong to that 5% of cats. MBisanz ^talk 21:23, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

the best thing to do is create a list of categories and let the wikiproject look over them. β^_command 21:24, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed there! Had my bot blocked many a time due to bad category tree's!! —Ree dy 19:04, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In order, ais523: yes. It's probably not a great chance, but I'll look over the names of every page before it begins. SQL: the Kingbotk plugin. Also, I am a member of the wikiproject. Soxred93 | talk bot 22:34, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds fine with me. Anybody object to a trial? — Werdna talk 10:02, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not me—sounds simple enough; just some basic tagging. —paranomia (formerly tim.bounceback)^{a door?} 14:42, 11 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Request changed. Soxred93 (u t) 19:37, 11 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. - Only needs a low short edit. Note, due to COI with AWB and the plugin, i cant actually approve this. —Ree dy 19:57, 11 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done 50 edits. Soxred93 (u t) 22:10, 11 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Approved. — Werdna talk 12:11, 15 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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