Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Rschen7754bot 3

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 Denied.

[edit] Rschen7754bot

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

Operator: Rschen7754

Automatic or Manually Assisted: automatic

Programming Language(s): AWB

Function Summary: Replacing old references tag with {{reflist}}.

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

Edit rate requested: 10 edits per min

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

Function Details: replacing old references tag with {{reflist}}

[edit] Discussion

What old references tag? How are you generating the list of articles? Is there consensus that all articles should use {{reflist}}? —METS501 (talk) 00:25, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

<references />. The list will be generated from the state highway categories. There is no consensus that I am aware of regarding reflist, but there is no harm in changing it, for it does make the article look cleaner. However, there are many articles with no {{reflist}}. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 03:20, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

You need to get consensus first. Without consensus, this task will not be approved. —METS501 (talk) 03:35, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

I agree with Mets. Tasks like this (changing one perfectly valid way of doing things to another, without a clear mandate) is exactly the sort of thing that tends to result in a mass of complaints and frenzied posting on the admin boards. You need to show at least consensus from the WikiProject and ideally a wider consensus, showing that reflist is now the preferred way. --kingboyk 12:14, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

This request will be denied soon if there is no consensus found on this topic. —METS501 (talk) 16:10, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

WT:USRD. Still developing. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 20:14, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

How do you propose to obtain the list of candidate articles currently using the tag? Or did you have in mind doing this spiderwise, or opportunistically? Ideally, if someone with access to a full-text db dump could generate such a list... Alai 02:58, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

By doing a find-replace through the U.S. Roads articles (categories). --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 03:01, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

There seems to be pretty clear cut consensus on WT:USRD already; one editor replaced all the ones for Illinois Routes.  V60 ^{干什么？ · VDemolitions} 16:50, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

I don't think consensus from 7 editors at one WikiProject is enough; try WP:VPR. —METS501 (talk) 18:05, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

This is not going to be Wikipedia-wide, just WikiProject wide.  V60 ^{干什么？ · VDemolitions} 18:07, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Proposed. —METS501 (talk) 18:20, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Denied. No clear consensus; and no demonstration of how this is useful to Wikipedia when offset against the use of server resources (however small). Running a bot is not a right. Please come back when you have wider consensus. That might be in a day or two, it might be six months, it might be never.

Further note: Any attacks against me of the sort that Mets has been getting will be reported, so don't bother. Request is denied per Met's arguments here and at the discussion referenced above. --kingboyk 19:52, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

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