Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Rob110178bot

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Operator: Rob110178

Automatic or Manually Assisted:Manually Assisted

Programming Language(s):AWB

Function Summary:Cleanup of various projects that I am a part of. WP:Airports and NC State Highways among others

Edit period(s) :Periodic as required approximately once a day

Edit rate requested: 1-3 edits per minute

Already has a bot flag :No

Function Details:Intended to work on assisting with Inline citations, tagging pages with appropriate categories and to assist in stub sorting which I am a part of sporadically. (My participation has waned due to the tedious nature of replacing categories manually however I still participate when I can. I eventually wish to be able to assist other users with requests as well.

Discussion

Can you please be more specific as to the functions that your bot will perform? We need for each task (a) what exactly the task is, and (b) how the task will be performed (e.g. where will it get the list of pages it will work on, etc.). Thanks. —Mets501 (talk) 03:12, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

In particular, I will be working on updating categories within WP:NCSH as well as stub sorting within category computer-stub. My intent is to conduct a category dump from various transport categories for cleanup such as NCSH and US Roads and maintenance related tasks involving stub-sorting.Rob110178 10:17, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

What do you mean by "updating categories"? —Mets501 (talk) 15:57, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Recategorizing articles as required. Putting articles in correct categories in various projects as well as stub sorting (i.e. cat compu-stub > compu-lang-stub). Rob110178 16:29, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Do you mean as required by categories for discussion? —Mets501 (talk) 16:32, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

How are you going to gauge consensus as to which tasks your bot should perform? HighInBC ^{(Need help? Ask me)} 17:00, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

While this does all seem alarmingly vague, if it's being done manually from AWB, which proper checking, at the rate stated, and without a bot flag, I don't see a problem. Alai 17:20, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Still, if it is done under a bot account, even if it's manually assisted, and if this user is making a huge number of edits, it should be clear what he/she is doing. —Mets501 (talk) 17:30, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Clear is always good, but aside from the fact that this request is here, and that the account name ends in "bot", this sounds to me more like what some people would call a "semibot", and others would call "normal use of AWB". Alai 17:38, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

All of that is true, and if he had just started doing the edits with AWB and they had turned out to be fine and uncontroversial, no one would have done a thing. But he didn't. He registered a bot account, came to bot approvals, and asked to do these edits quite often. Even though he said "manually assisted", I think he still wants to flip on bot mode. Well, let's ask him :-). Rob110178, do you plan on approving every edit that your bot makes before saving and not being able to have it save automatically? —Mets501 (talk) 17:46, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Hopefully I will make myself clear (Sometimes I can be confusing, my fault not anyone elses). I do NOT intend on running AWB full auto due to the fact that sometimes I may get called away or make a mistake. I intend on making what most would consider uncontroversial minor edits (i.e. stub-sorting, cleanup of citations and things of that sort). If a mass change could potentially invoke controversy, I would gain consensus prior to implementing the changes. I hope I answered everyones questions. Rob110178 20:53, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes, you have. Sorry for the confusion.  Approved. No flag is needed. (See below) Please do not make more than 3 edits per minute, and make sure not to do anything crazy without consensus :-) (basically just the AWB rules). —Mets501 (talk) 21:03, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

As Rob110178 has requested to run this bot above 3 edits per minute, I have requested and Taxman has granted this bot a flag. —Mets501 (talk) 21:46, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

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