Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/John Bot II 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] John Bot II

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

Operator: CWii(Talk|Contribs)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Auto

Programming Language(s): Python (pywikipedia)

Function Summary: Creates redirects for WikiProject U.S. Roads

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

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

Function Details: Creates redirects to List of highways numbered *** (the stars are the road number) from

  • Route ***
  • Highway ***
  • State Route ***
  • State Highway ***
  • State Road ***
  • SR_***
  • SH_***
  • SR-***
  • SH-***
  • SR***
  • SH***
  • Federal Highway ***
  • National Highway ***
  • Federal Road ***
  • National Road ***
  • Federal Route ***
  • National Route ***

(See Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Creating_redirects )

[edit] Discussion

I have posted the source code at User:John Bot II/Code CWii(Talk|Contribs) 21:16, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

This something that has consensus beside one guy saying "Hey this would be neat" ? That's quite a lot, imo, of redirects especially when you're multiplying that by $foo articles. Q T C 14:26, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
User Dividing has been doing this by hand until recently, where BAG asked him to get a bot account to do this. I'm sure he has consensus to do this already. CWii(Talk|Contribs) 15:51, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
Since it's already being done, Approved for trial (51 edits). (51 being equal to 3 sets of 17 redirects, so you don't have to stop in the middle of one road. I'm not fussy about seeing exactly that many.) --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 15:32, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
Y Done It went very smoothly, one problem being a spelling mistake in the code(Which of course is fixed). The bot also made some userspace edits to change its status indicator. CWii(Talk|Contribs) 16:14, 27 April 2008 (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.