Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Mr.Z-bot 6

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 Speedily Approved.

Mr.Z-bot 6

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Operator: Mr.Z-man

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): Python

Function Overview: Create a public watchlist for articles with potential BLP issues

Edit period(s): 1 edit per day

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

Function Details:

From bot request:

• Once per day, scan WP:BLPN to extract the titles from the section headers
• Any new titles will be added to Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Watchlist to create a public watchlist using Special:RecentChangesLinked

Mr.Z-man 20:41, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Discussion

The preferred format (according to the top of the page) is to use {{la}} below the header. Including links in section headers kills small African children who use Netscape 4 or something. --MZMcBride (talk) 20:45, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

And this request was looking uncontroversial for a minute then. Sigh. - Jarry1250 ^{(t, c)} 20:47, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Uh, it is uncontroversial (I'm not even sure why he'd seek approval for 1 edit per day...). I was just mentioning that he's going to have issues if he just looks at headers. --MZMcBride (talk) 20:54, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

It also says to use a link in the header, though I can have it look for {{la}} too. Right now it uses several checks to try to find the articles from the header and stops after it finds something:

1. Look for links
2. See if the whole section name corresponds to an article
3. Look for titles based on parenthetical disambiguation - (eg "Foo (Bar)")
4. Look for phrases set off by some punctuation like a dash or a colon.
5. And if it still can't find anything, check all consecutive groups of words 2 or more words long

In each case it verifies that the page exists and that its in either ns 0 or ns 1. Mr.Z-man 20:55, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Wheeeeeee. :-) Suggest speedy approval. --MZMcBride (talk) 21:28, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Speedily Approved. It's kind of hard to imagine this bot causing harm. – Quadell ^(talk) 18:48, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

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