Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TeckWizBot

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] TeckWizBot

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

Operator: TeckWiz

Automatic or Manually Assisted:Supervised Automatic

Programming Language(s):. AutoWikiBrowser

Function Summary: Simple find and replace of [[Category:WelcomeBotResearch]] to [[Category:WelcomeBotResearch|subst:{{BASEPAGENAME}}]]

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run):Probably once a day at most (possibly less)

Edit rate requested: 10 edits per minute (as bot features aren't shown unless your account has bot status, I don't know if you can set this. I assume you can)

Already has a bot flag (Y/N):No

Function Details:Find and replace of [[Category:WelcomeBotResearch]] to [[Category:WelcomeBotResearch|subst:{{BASEPAGENAME}}]] to sort currently over 9,000 usernames.

[edit] Discussion

Sorry, but this function really does not seem important. It seems like you are only trying to sort the category by letter. Care to explain why this is necessary? alphachimp 02:33, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

• At Category talk:WelcomeBotResearch, we're trying to see if it would be useful to use a bot to welcome users. Sorting would make it easier to find specific sections. After the initial run, the bot probably won't take that long anyway. Also, it would probably have other tasks in the future (which I would get approval for later)--TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@ 02:39, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

I tend to agree, and don't see the point of that cateogry yet, am looking in to a bit more before writing up a CFD. — xaosflux ^Talk 02:55, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

The point is to see how useful it will be to have a bot welcome new users instead of people. --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@ 02:57, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I do hope that catefory is in a limited run though, or that category will become unmaintainable and will need a bot (like mine!) just to depopulate it. — xaosflux ^Talk 03:19, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

FYI, still don't see a usefulness of a sortkey on this. — xaosflux ^Talk 03:19, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Just to get the cat sorted by letter. It won't run that much after the initial time. Once research is done, the bot will be stopped and will not be used again until needed (and when needed will get approval again). --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@ 03:28, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Won't the cat already sort by letter though? All the pages are under U for User talk:, yes, but they're in order within that. —METS501 (talk) 12:08, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

• I'm motioning this for a deny if usefulnes is not asserted in the next few days. — xaosflux ^Talk 18:15, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Denied. It's pretty obvious what this bot is going to do, and we've shown that it's unnecessary. If TeckWiz wants to open a new request, then he can feel free. —METS501 (talk) 18:19, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

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