Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TNTBot 6
- The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard. The result of the discussion was Speedily Approved.
Operator: TheresNoTime (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 19:59, Tuesday, November 19, 2024 (UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: supervised
Programming language(s): Python
Source code available: github
Function overview: As part of centralising bots, this task is just a copy of Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Xphoisbot — if/when approved, the bot flag can be removed from Xphoisbot and it will be retired.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Xphoisbot
Edit period(s): Weekly
Estimated number of pages affected: ~100s
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No
Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): No
Function details: The bot, when manually run, scans all of the editors listed in the subcategories of Category:Wikipedia usernames with possible policy issues and checks to see if they have an active indef block. If they do, the bot will remove the category from their user page. (The <!-- THE FOLLOWING TWO CATEGORIES (down to ***) [...] -->
bit)
Discussion
[edit]So just to ask the dumb question - you have two bots, and you are moving the task from one bot to the other in order to have only one bot to deal with? Primefac (talk) 20:49, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Exactly (and in the process, rewriting things in Python, but that's beside the point I imagine..) — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 21:01, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Speedily Approved. Drop me a note when the old bot can be shut down. Primefac (talk) 21:23, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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