Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Rschen7754bot

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 The result of the discussion was Withdrawn by operator.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] Rschen7754bot

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Operator: Rschen7754

Automatic or Manually Assisted: automatic

Programming Language(s): AWB, pywikipedia

Function Summary: This does highway tasks such as fixing disambiguations, finding and replacing and adding templates, article assessment, all that fun stuff.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): on and off running

Edit rate requested: 10-15 edits per minute

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

Function Details: This does highway tasks such as fixing disambiguations, finding and replacing and adding templates, article assessment, all that fun stuff. AWB and pywikipedia will be used in automated mode as it takes too much time to make the 10000+ edit backlogged edits for teh roads area.

[edit] Discussion

The request is too broad. You seem basically to be asking to do whatever you fancy with AWB or Python. Please restrict the application to one specific task and one technology. There shouldn't be any difficulty getting you approved quickly, but you're not getting a licence to do any ole thang :) --kingboyk 01:15, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

I'll limit this account to AWB. However, as this bot has already been approved and flagged, I do not see the need to specify specific tasks, primarily because these are similar tasks that I asked for approval for already. It is a pain to come back here every time I need to use this bot. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 04:11, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

It doesn't show as flagged in the log. Can you point me to the prior approval?

Coming back here every time you need to run a substantially different task is, I'm afraid, how the system works. Your alternative is to submit multiple applications now for each task. --kingboyk 13:04, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Approval: [1]. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 00:07, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

An added note, if tasks are similar to ones already approved, then this is an appropriate forum and will generally receive quick approval. That said, I see the bot has been operating for some time, and I cannot find any approval. That said, the bot has been running since November 6, 2005, so that may explain the log issue. I'll look into it. -- RM 14:17, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Indeed. "There shouldn't be any difficulty getting you approved quickly, but you're not getting a licence to do any ole thang". We can get this approved quickly if the request is targetted and reasonable, but the recent betacommand episode proves that having a carte blanche bot licence is not a good idea. --kingboyk 14:22, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm asking specifically for WP:USRD/A tagging for now then. Although the bureaucracy involved in getting this set up is ridiculous. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 00:07, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Sorry for your frustration, but there have been some issues with bots being way-off task upsetting people. That being said Trial Approved for the WP:USRD/A tagging function. Please limit your trial to <500 edits and report back. Approved for trial.

• Note to other WP:BAG members, this bot IS already bot flagged. (Tagged by steward under the old rights system [2]) — xaosflux ^Talk 04:31, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

• That's what I thought. -- RM 15:03, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Trial has been completed. Another task request: WP:USRD/NEWS delivery. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 04:09, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Also asking for {{reflist}} additions. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 00:26, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Struck out those other two task requests since user decided to submit separate requests for approval. —METS501 (talk) 00:20, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

I see a number of problems with the tagging.

1. How will you protect against things like this and this?
2. How about tagging talk pages of redirects? [3]
3. How are you tagging articles as needing maps? [4] What algorithm is being used to determine if a map is in the article?

—METS501 (talk) 00:23, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

The task has been carried out and done. Most states do not have maps for any articles in their state, so it is safe to set this in the find and replace. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 00:49, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi - have you sorted out the problems which Mets501 brings up? It may be worth using Kingboyk's plugin for the task (if you aren't doing so already) - see WP:AWB for details (click the "plugin" link). Martinp23 11:58, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

No, as the task has already been completed and done. I've found the plugin to be too slow, at least on my computer, so what I did is I AWB'ed the generic WP tag on there and tehn went back and assessed on my own. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 21:57, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Based on my understanding of what you've said above, I'm going to close this as "withdrawn". If I'm mistaken, feel free to leave a message for me and I'll reopen the request. Withdrawn by operator. Thanks, Martinp23 16:15, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

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