Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BotanyBot 2

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 Approved.

[edit] BotanyBot

tasks • contribs • count • sul • logs • page moves • block user • block log • flag log • flag bot

Operator: Rkitko

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Supervised Automatic

Programming Language(s): AWB

Function Summary: Article sorting and resorting into the most specific taxonomic category under Category:Plants.

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

Edit rate requested: 5 edits per minute

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

Function Details: Since completing the major work of tagging plant and botany related articles with the WP:PLANTS project banner, BotanyBot has gotten a bit bored. Articles on plant taxa, whether it be a species, genus, etc., are often placed in the most familiar category, which is usually at the family level (e.g. Category:Stylidiaceae), even when there is a more specific category. BotanyBot would remove the higher level taxa categories from the articles that appear in that category and place them in the more specific one. For example, there are a number of Acacia species articles that are in Category:Mimosoideae (subfamily) and there's even one in Category:Legumes (also known as the Fabaceae family in part). Many of these articles are already in one of the above categories and also Category:Acacia, so BotanyBot would be reducing overcategorization.

[edit] Discussion

First request and approval: Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BotanyBot

Approved for trial. for 50 edits. ST47Talk 15:16, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

47 edits completed using the above example category (Category:Acacia) and also placing Ficus species in Category:Ficus. --Rkitko ^(talk) 18:40, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Approved. Those tasks have been approved, bot flag should be on the way. ST47Talk 15:21, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

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