Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Theo's Little Bot 12

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Theo's Little Bot 12

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

Time filed: 11:29, Friday May 10, 2013 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Python + mwclient

Source code available: on github

Function overview: Removes links to 'playerhistory.com' and 'soccerdatabase.eu' per request and community discussion

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): ANI thread, resulting BOTREQ

Edit period(s): One time run

Estimated number of pages affected: ?

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

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

Function details: Uses exturlusage in API to get a list of pages to process, then uses regex to remove...

• references including a link to the given site
• lines in an external link list including solely that link
• other random uses of that link (i.e., run of the mill [ghdjd.daa fjd])

Discussion

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!} 13:24, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

• Trial complete. [1] Theopolisme (talk) 21:28, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
• Some specific examples: removing an entire reference, removing an external link in a list Theopolisme (talk) 16:02, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

 Approved. MBisanz ^talk 04:18, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

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