Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Mdann52 bot 10
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Speedily Approved.
Operator: Mdann52 (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 19:25, Tuesday, October 27, 2015 (UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Auto
Programming language(s): AWB
Source code available: standard
Function overview: Adds/Remove XfD notices from bulk discussions
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):
Edit period(s): one time runs
Estimated number of pages affected: who knows
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): NA
Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes
Function details: For situations like User talk:Mdann52#Lists of airline destinations, where lots of XfD tags need adding/removing. Hopeing for speedy approval, as this is not contriversial. I'll use the same code as my last run (WP:Bots/Requests for approval/Mdann52 bot 7)
Discussion[edit]
Speedily Approved. (This case only.) Primarily for the technical aspect; this should be fine (are you also adding {{Old AfD}}, though?). I'm not really sure why you ran the tagging without approval but want approval for de-tagging. However, I urge more caution when doing this sort of mass-AfDing in general (less of a concern for other XfDs). If there are so many articles that you are unable to manually tag each for deletion, then I doubt you've made sure there aren't exceptional cases that make individual articles undeserving of deletion while others should be deleted. I note Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pages in Category:Lists of airline destinations and Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 March 12#Natural "death by cause" categories were both closed as keep with a fair amount of opposition to the way the nomination was conducted. — Earwig talk 06:02, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
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