Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BetacommandBot Task 2

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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 Speedily Approved.

[edit] BetacommandBot

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per this BOTREQ change {{s-off}} to {{s-gov}}

[edit] Succession boxes

The following request was posted on my talk page. Unfortunately, I don't have the resources to accept bot requests at the moment (running on a laptop, and have jobs queued up). Please note that I've not read the request thoroughly, whether or not it's feasible or allowable is up to you folks to decide. --kingboyk 23:00, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Governors of California, New York, etc need a S-off after Start-box (where they have one) because they are political offices. However I have been going through British Colonial Governors of e.g. Nova Scotia, Hong Kong, Newfoundland, Victoria, Queensland, Bermuda and find a large number are shown as S-off although they should in fact be S-gov. If I and others add the appropriate categories here, I wonder if your bot could adjust them from s-off to s-gov ?? It will be tedious because many will be correct and many will be missing succession boxes altogether.

- Kittybrewster (talk) 20:44, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Could you explain a little better and show a few diffs please? Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 02:57, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
Sure. By way of example - [1] But many governors were governors of several places and that leads on to additional lists I have not yet found which should be included above. - Kittybrewster (talk) 15:10, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
this is a very simple task ill get started on this PDQ. Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 15:17, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
This seems very simple, and I'd be inclined to approve this, but what is the difference between a "political office" and a "government office"? Why are British Colonial Governors different from Governors of California? Some of the people in the above lists have held numerous offices. -- RM 15:39, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
It only needs to be changed of course where they are government appointments to governing offices. A political office is one where the person is elected (e.g. Governor of New York) rather than appointed (e.g.. Colonial governor of New York). Or where he has a political office (e.g. Minister of War). - Kittybrewster (talk) 21:13, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
Could this article be done manually so I can see how it works in cases like that? Thanks. -- RM 17:16, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Thank you. Good one. Done. - Kittybrewster (talk) 22:42, 24 April 2007 (UTC) diff --kingboyk 00:19, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Speedily Approved. There are just not enough potential edits for there to be a trial, but please treat it as a trial by spot checking the changes made. The categories above only have a few hundred entries and not all of them are going to be changed. As can be seen from the diff above, in cases where a person is a governor AND some other governing office, the bot must be intelligent enough to separate the governor with its corresponding s-gov template and leave the rest with s-off template. In the remaining case where s-off refers only to the governorship, then a simple replacement is warranted. Obviously we ignore any where s-gov already exists. -- RM 20:37, 27 April 2007 (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.