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This user account is a bot operated by T-rex (talk ). It is used to make repetitive automated or semi-automated edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually, in accordance with the bot policy . This bot does not yet have the approval of the community, or approval has been withdrawn or expired, and therefore shouldn't be making edits that appear to be unassisted except in the operator's or its own user and user talk space. Administrators: if this bot is making edits that appear to be unassisted to pages not in the operator's or its own userspace, please block it .
Approved tasks [ edit ]
Template Redirection Removal
Function - Removes double redirects from templates (see request )
Approval - Approved
Operation - manually started for each catagory of templates
Edit Speed - approximately 1 per minute (guaranteed to be under four per minute)
Language - C#
Where - wherever needed/wherever requested
Details - it resolves all redirects from all templates in a given category, and all sub categories.
Requests to run this bot on a given set of templates should be left at User talk:T-rex
Template Substitution
Function - Subst's templates
Approval - Approved
Operation - once a week, fully automatic
Edit Speed - about 6 per minute
Language - C#
Where - everywhere
Details - it subst's templates that should be subseted
Requests to subst additional templates with this bot should be left at User talk:T-rex
HTML Conversion
Function - Removes html tags from articles (like <b> ), and replaces them with wiki-markup (like ' ' ' )
Approval - Approved
Operation - automatic
Edit Speed - max speed of 3 edits per minute, average speed is unknown
Language - C#
Where - to be run primarily on the wikify catagories
Details - converts tags for <b> <i> <em> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6>
Similar to what I was previously running at DinoBot
also handles <a href="example.com">link text</a>
as a special case
Ignores all articles with nowiki tags, to avoid where this change may be unwanted
Crosslinking Categories
Function - links categories to related categories (see request )
Approval - Approved
Operation - automatic
Edit Speed - fast
Language - C#
Where - within the Category namespace
Details - Finds Album and Song categories for the same artist within Category:Albums by artist and Category:Songs by artist
Finds matches that do not already link to each other and add link to both using {{ Cat see also }}
This will only have a one time run
Upgrading from deprecated template
Function - Upgrades articles from the deprecated {{ Rating-5 }} and {{ Rating-10 }} to {{ Rating }}
Approval - Approved
Operation - automatic
Edit Speed - 6 per min
Language - C#
Where - Articles currently using {{ Rating-5 }} and {{ Rating-10 }}
Details - Replaces the deprecated {{ Rating-5 }} and {{ Rating-10 }} templates with the more flexible {{ Rating }} template
This will initially have only a one time run
Proposed tasks [ edit ]
Sandbox Header
Function - restores the header on the sandbox
Approval - no (withdrawn )
Operation - automatic/semi-continuous
Edit Speed - once every 90 seconds
Language - C#
Where - Wikipedia:Sandbox
Details - SoxBot has been restored making this task unneeded
Tasks under development [ edit ]
Image duplication
Function - finds duplicate images and nominates them for deletion (request )
Approval - not yet
Operation - unknown
Edit Speed - unknown
Language - C#
Where - image namespace
Details - per this request
identify dupes using Multichill's tools (possibly replace with my own or another tool)
confirm that the images are "bit-for-bit identical copies"
move all links and image transclutions to a single image.
mark second image as a duplicate for deletion
notify uploader of about to be deleted image