Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/JJBot

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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 The result of the discussion was Withdrawn by operator.

[edit] JJBot

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Operator:   jj137 (Talk)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Manually Assisted

Programming Language(s): Python, AWB

Function Summary: Adding necessary content to baseball articles (and their corresponding talk pages); adding, fixing, or replacing categories with the proper ones.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Daily, although probably no more than 50-60 minutes per day.

Edit rate requested: 10 edits per minute at the very most; probably more along the lines of 5-7 edits per minute.

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

Function Details: This bot will make minor edits using Python or AWB to:

  • Add, fix, or replace categories to articles.
  • To baseball articles, automatically add some content to seasonal articles that should be on every seasonal article, but is missing the necessary content. The bot may also add {{WikiProject Baseball}} to baseball article talk pages.

[edit] Discussion

What categories will it Add, fix, or replace? What kind of cotent will it add to seasonal articles? MaxSem(Han shot first!) 18:24, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

See here. It could automatically add an empty game log template if no game log is present. You may say that game logs are not necessary, but they are already on quite a number of articles and will eventually be on all of these seasonal articles; it will definitely help if the bot goes around and adds this to all of these seasonal articles. Also, the bot can add categories (for example, for a Cincinnati Reds article, Category:Cincinnati Reds); it will also fix/replace them (for example, making sure that a category like Category:WikiProject Baseball only contains content related to WikiProject Baseball).   jj137 (Talk) 21:17, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
Approved for trial (50 edits). To add categories only for now. Dreamy § 00:27, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
Check markY Done. Bot added Category:Cincinnati Reds to 50 articles (or maybe 49, I'm not sure) and worked flawlessly, right on time also.   jj137 (Talk) 03:17, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
Looks fine. I'm not sure if it's appropriate to add Category:Cincinnati Reds to an article that already has Category:Cincinnati Reds seasons seasons, though - it's a subcat, isn't it? Dihydrogen Monoxide 10:11, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
Ya, it is a kind of pointless thing for it to do. You should add a code that doesn't allow that. Dreamy § 13:20, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
Once you fix that, you may Approved for trial (50 edits). On all of the functions. Dreamy § 13:30, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
OK, and yes, I did think about what I was doing, although now I realize it was rather redundant.   jj137 (Talk) 20:23, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Is it OK is I sort of "delay" this for a while? I still will use exactly the same parameters as specified above, so I can still use this page when I come back to it later, but need some time off from this to think; I also will need to write a new Python script for some of the tasks defined above. Let me know if this is OK.   jj137 (Talk) 21:38, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Sure. If you want, we can just mark it Withdrawn by operator. and you can re-activate it later. — madman bum and angel 21:40, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

I went ahead and withdrew the request with no prejudice. Once you feel you are ready, feel free to just reactivate it. — Coren (talk) 23:25, 12 November 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.