User talk:AlexNewArtBot/NZSearchResult

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I find the feed most useful in identifying new articles related to New Zealand. I look at every article, and improve most of them. Almost all of these articles would slip by unnoticed if the bot didn't put them onto this page.

I don't put the articles onto Wikipedia:New articles (New Zealand) any more, but I wonder if we need to have the {{la}} and {{User}} templates used. The User information is deleted from each entry when it's moved; it might save work if it wasn't there in the first place. I'm not sure if anyone finds the links created by La useful either.-gadfium 00:18, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

As the person who 'does' now do the copying the the new articles list, I do the following: 1) Copy all the entries for a day into a text editor (Editplus) 2) do a line sort, 3) delete the dates via single replace all, 4) delete the users. Step 4 would be easy if I could work out a regex which matches }} * }} (no luck yet!), but I don't mind the user being there - it is often handy to see who created the article without having to open its history.
My main gripe is that if we delete an article from the searchresult (because it is deemed not sufficiently relevant to New Zealand) within 48 hours, the article is re-listed on the next bot run. Is there any way of preventing this? dramatic 03:14, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
I find that replacing "}}.*}}" with "}}" works for me, using Visual Slickedit (and with Unix regular expressions turned on). The .* means replace any character (.) any number of times (*).-gadfium 05:35, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

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