Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DeadBot 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 Approved.

[edit] DeadBot

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

Operator: TheFearow

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): Java

Function Summary: Adds the template deadend to pages on the dead-end pages list.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): It will be run alongside my existing runs, however chances are itll only update pages on its first run or after the list is updated for a new DB dump.

Edit rate requested: 12 edits per minute (approx 1 every 5 seconds)

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

Function Details: Adds the deadend template to pages in the dead-end pages list, when it finds one without it on its scheduled runs. It will also be logged at User:DeadBot/Log (not every page, but number of pages updated)

[edit] Discussion

There has been discussion about this template at Template talk:Deadend and it appears we have a consensus (4 support, 1 nuetral) (This is about the total count of active DEP contributors anyway). Matt/TheFearow (Talk) (Contribs) (Bot) 00:24, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Looks good. Approved for trial. Make 100 edits or so. —METS501 (talk) 02:02, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
Ok, i'll run that through this afternoon. I'll tag 100 pages. Matt/TheFearow (Talk) (Contribs) (Bot) 02:13, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
{{BAGAssistanceNeeded}} Done, see User:DeadBot/Log and Category:Dead-end pages for pages. (Log says it did 138, but it seems to be messed up, its still doing the correct thing) Matt/TheFearow (Talk) (Contribs) (Bot) 09:42, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
Edits look good, with no errors that I can see from the contributions. I am supporting approval of this bot. E talk 04:16, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
Approved. —METS501 (talk) 22:18, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
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