Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FeedBot

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Approved.

FeedBot[edit]

Operator: Feedintm (talk · contribs)

Time filed: 02:36, Wednesday December 28, 2011 (UTC)

Automatic or Manual: Automatic unsupervised

Programming language(s): Java

Source code available: not currently

Function overview: Cleans up WikiProject templates on talk pages in "Members of the Canadian House of Commons" categories (e.g. Category:Members of the Canadian House of Commons from Ontario)

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): As per Arctic.gnome's request

Edit period(s): one time run, later upon request

Estimated number of pages affected: ~4000 on first run (exacts at 22:46, 28 December 2011 (UTC): 4028 distinct pages, 4062 edits)

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Y

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

Function details: Checks through pages and adds missing parameters in WikiProject Canada and also adds WikiProject Canada and WikiProject Biography templates. Removes redirects to these templates as well.

Discussion[edit]

A couple of questions to clarify:

Checks through pages and adds missing parameters in {{WikiProject Canada}} — I'm assuming you're talking about the provinces. Are there any other template parameters you were going to update? Also, if there are already template parameters on it, will it preserve existing ones?
Adds WikiProject Canada and WikiProject Biography templates. — If either of these templates are already on the talk pages, will it detect them appropriately?
Removes redirects to these templates as well. — Does you mean it'll replace templates that have been redirected to other templates? Will it migrate any existing template parameters? Also, do you happen to have an example of one of the redirected templates it's looking for?

Cheers =) --slakr^\ talk / 02:28, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Q1 - Yes, it adds the province and ppap parameters (set at yes), and it preserves existing parameters. It also does check if these parameters (province and ppap) already exist.

Q2 - It detects them appropriately (detects all redirects).

Q3 - It'll remove the redirects to these two WikiProject templates, and it only replaces the name. It doesn't actually touch any of the parameters. An example is changing the redirect "{{WPCANADA" to the original "{{WikiProject Canada".

Sorry for not being specific enough in stating the function details.

~Feedintm^Parley 03:07, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial (150 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. --Chris 14:15, 3 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

[1][2][3] These bugs have been fixed.

Trial complete. ~Feedintm^Parley 23:54, 3 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm assuming the bugfix will now leave all html entities alone? For example, will [4] not happen again? --slakr^\ talk / 02:27, 5 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Also, somewhat minor, but it made a null edit when there was presumably nothing to change. --slakr^\ talk / 02:32, 5 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

For the first one, that shouldn't occur again, and the second one, it makes a very minor edit of removing the space. ~Feedintm^Parley 02:55, 5 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Those bugs are relatively minor, and I'll take your word that they've been fixed. Approved. --Chris 11:27, 8 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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