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:: I am afraid, this task request was archived before it was completed. I am ready to task up this task if not done already. -- [[User:Tinucherian|'''<em style="font-family:Kristen ITC;color:#ff0000"> Tinu</em>''']] [[User talk:Tinucherian|'''<em style="font-family:Kristen ITC;color:#ff0000">Cherian </em>''']] - 08:54, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
:: I am afraid, this task request was archived before it was completed. I am ready to task up this task if not done already. -- [[User:Tinucherian|'''<em style="font-family:Kristen ITC;color:#ff0000"> Tinu</em>''']] [[User talk:Tinucherian|'''<em style="font-family:Kristen ITC;color:#ff0000">Cherian </em>''']] - 08:54, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
::: I think you started it but never completed it. No-one took it up while you were away. If you could still do it I'd appreciate it. —[[User:Borgarde|Borgarde]]<sup>[[User Talk:Borgarde|talk]]</sup> 12:17, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
::: I think you started it but never completed it. No-one took it up while you were away. If you could still do it I'd appreciate it. —[[User:Borgarde|Borgarde]]<sup>[[User Talk:Borgarde|talk]]</sup> 12:17, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
:::: {{BOTREQ|doing}} : [[User:TinucherianBot|TinucherianBot]] -- [[User:Tinucherian|'''<em style="font-family:Kristen ITC;color:#ff0000"> Tinu</em>''']] [[User talk:Tinucherian|'''<em style="font-family:Kristen ITC;color:#ff0000">Cherian </em>''']] - 06:10, 10 October 2008 (UTC)


== Deprecated coordinates templates redux ==
== Deprecated coordinates templates redux ==

Revision as of 06:10, 10 October 2008

This is a page for requesting tasks to be done by bots per the bot policy. This is an appropriate place to put ideas for uncontroversial bot tasks, to get early feedback on ideas for bot tasks (controversial or not), and to seek bot operators for bot tasks. Consensus-building discussions requiring large community input (such as request for comments) should normally be held at WP:VPPROP or other relevant pages (such as a WikiProject's talk page).

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# Bot request Status 💬 👥 🙋 Last editor 🕒 (UTC) 🤖 Last botop editor 🕒 (UTC)
1 Bot to automatically revert date change vandalism 16 6 Pppery 2024-04-03 19:25 Primefac 2024-02-06 13:49
2 To add categories based on article's listing in a third page 8 3 Wikiwerner 2024-03-16 17:40 GoingBatty 2024-03-01 08:10
3 Implementing the outcome of Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (television)#Follow-up RfC on TV season article titles BRFA filed 18 9 Wikiwerner 2024-04-20 17:49 Primefac 2024-03-27 12:55
4 Auto-WP:NAVNOREDIRECT Declined Not a good task for a bot. 10 5 Wikiwerner 2024-04-28 12:22 Primefac 2024-03-13 18:37
5 Bot to add uncategorized tag to untagged uncategorized pages Y Done 3 3 GoingBatty 2024-03-23 03:43 GoingBatty 2024-03-23 03:43
6 NFL Draft move downcasing cleanup BRFA filed 22 4 Bsoyka 2024-03-23 02:55 Primefac 2024-03-18 10:12
7 Bot to clean up wikiproject templates 8 2 Cocobb8 2024-03-24 15:05 GoingBatty 2024-03-23 19:12
8 Update WP: maintaince pages 1 1 OrdinaryGiraffe 2024-03-21 23:43
9 IMDB Bot 1 1 BabbaQ 2024-03-29 13:27
10 Automatic NOGALLERY keyword for categories containing non-free files (again) 8 4 Usernamekiran 2024-04-13 02:17 Usernamekiran 2024-04-13 02:17
11 Automatically replace superscripts with sup and sub tags 5 3 Qwerfjkl 2024-04-06 19:54 Qwerfjkl 2024-04-06 19:54
12 Green Bay Packers draft picks (1936–1969) & Green Bay Packers draft picks (1970–present) Y Done 3 2 Gonzo fan2007 2024-04-22 15:57
13 UTF-8 debugging 4 2 Qwerfjkl 2024-04-07 20:55 Qwerfjkl 2024-04-07 20:55
14 Long-dash URL 1 1 GreenC 2024-04-08 22:16
15 Can we have an AIV feed a bot posts on IRC? 6 2 Lofty abyss 2024-04-29 10:29 Usernamekiran 2024-04-15 11:27
16 Bot to sync talk page redirects with their corresponding page 10 5 Anomie 2024-04-17 11:40 Anomie 2024-04-17 11:40
17 Bot to update match reports to cite template 1 1 Yoblyblob 2024-04-16 13:01
18 Converting Category:Harold B. Lee Library-related articles to talk page categories Y Done 10 3 HouseBlaster 2024-04-20 17:08 Primefac 2024-04-19 20:37
19 Bot to mass tag California State University sports seasons 2 2 Primefac 2024-04-19 18:13 Primefac 2024-04-19 18:13
20 Football league infoboxes 7 4 Bagumba 2024-04-25 13:43 Primefac 2024-04-25 12:01
21 Clear Category:Unlinked Wikidata redirects 6 3 A smart kitten 2024-04-23 10:56 DreamRimmer 2024-04-21 03:28
22 Find linkrot with a specific pattern 7 3 GreenC 2024-05-01 16:20
23 Converting positional parameters to named parameters  Done 10 2 MSGJ 2024-05-04 05:49
24 Fixing stub tag placement on new articles Declined Not a good task for a bot. 3 2 Paul 012 2024-05-10 14:28 Primefac 2024-05-10 11:14
25 Bot to change page links from Baetylus to Baetyl 2 2 Pppery 2024-05-12 23:45
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A difficult request?

Ok, I have what I think is a difficult request, and I would like to know if it is possible to do. Here's my problem, I have a list of 676 American football players located at here. These players have played at least one game for the Green Bay Packers, thus meeting WP:ATHLETE. One of WP:PACKERS goals is to create a page for every player who has played for the Packers. As there are 676 articles needed, this is a daunting challenge, as WP:PACKERS wants to create well-sourced and properly written stubs. I have a basic template I use to make these pages, found here. I get the information about each player from the following 3 reliable sources, [1], [2], and [3]. Now here in lies the request. I was wondering if a bot could be coded to read the html(?) in these 3 sources for each player, create a page for the player using the template, and fill in as much information into the page as possible. Then the bot would create the page into my user space, such as User:Gonzo fan2007/"PLAYERS NAME". The bot could create like 20 pages a day for about a month, and each day I could review the articles created by the bot in my user space, fix any mistakes or add any needed info, and then move the article into the main space. So I was wondering if this is possible. If it is, it is of course not an urgent request, and I would of course be willing to help out in any non-technical way or even run the bot if needed. If this is possible, would anyone be willing to code such a bot? Thanks, « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 00:24, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Does anyone want to address my questions? « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 20:18, 25 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It is very much possible. A quick analysis of the sites that you provided show that few simple POSTs and GETs can retrieve the HTML of the page required. With some analysis of the HTML, the required information can be extracted.
It should also be noted that I am only providing the response to your question, and my expertise, whether it is possible or not. I have never developed a bot before and I am fairly new to Wikipedia itself. Aly89 (talk) 04:42, 28 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Naw its, cool. I am just glad that it is possible. Thanks for the response. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 05:10, 28 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Doing... Indepth talks with User talk:Gonzo_fan2007 currently going on. My first bot. Please be patient while I write all the code to parse the different sites and also write the code to create new pages on Wikipedia. Given this is my first bot, there exists the probability that I might not be able to do this. Aly89 (talk) 02:07, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Chiming in here. I do not think that a bot should be creating 676 articles that do not meet Wikipedia:Notability at the time of the bot posting. Merely playing in at least one game for the Green Bay Packers does not necessarily mean that there is sufficient reliable source material to maintain a stand-alone biography article in the encyclopedia. Wikipedia:Notability specifically requires significant coverage (more than trivial but may be less than exclusive), a judgement call that should not and, as far as I am aware, cannot be made by a bot. Also, a biography article is not merely a listing of football statistics that also has a few sentences. A biography is a narrative text study unique to each person that focuses on the recording and relating of all the events another person's life. Further, per Wikipedia:NOT#STATS, articles should contain sufficient explanatory text to put statistics within the article in their proper context for a general reader. I do not see how a bot can do this. As issues to consider: (1) there should be evidence that the three web sites are reliable sources such as may be had at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard before the bot gets going, and (2) Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons#Sources states "Self-published books, zines, websites, webforums, and blogs should never be used as a source for material about a living person, unless written or published by the subject of the article (see below)." -- Suntag 15:58, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That sounds like an argument that should be had at WT:Notability (people) and/or Wikipedia:Notability/RFC:compromise, not here. Anomie 20:46, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
While I agree with Suntag that creating these stubs in mainspace would be unacceptable, I endorse the proposal to create them in userspace and move them to the mainspace if and when they become viable articles. Happymelon 20:56, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
@Suntag No offense, but did you actually read the request? This is not rhetorical, I would actually like an answer. The bot is going to "create" the articles in my user space with a basic template of the basic information needed for these players. I would then add the necessary info and expand them to suitable stubs (which have 3 sources, which is a hell of a lot better than about 1000000 articles here). User:Aly89 has even built in a feature where I can control how many are placed in my user space each day, which will allow me to keep up on it. You keep on citing notability, yet WP:ATHLETE clearly states any player who has played in a top-level professional sport (especially the frickin NFL) is notable. There is no judgment call needed, because they all played. If pro-football-reference.com, databasefootball.com, and packers.com aren't reliable sources, then I have no clue what is. Wikipedia:NOT#STATS also clearly states that an article should not be an indiscriminate list of stats (to cite "Long and sprawling lists of statistics", which this is clearly not). Also, WP:BLP only applies if there is controversial material. Merely stating the teams the players has played for, the years, etc. is not controversial. Lastly, articles are created as stubs, biographies are not required to be a certain level of depth before being created. And I would like to point out, that the quality of these stubs will be much higher than most, will be properly categorized, and will be tagged with the proper WikiProjects. I seriously don't know what more you want. I can assure you these articles will be created, it is just a question of whether it will take me 6 months to by hand, or 1 month with some basic help from a bot. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 21:04, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
@Anomie I really don't see where there needs to be an argument or debate on anything. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 21:04, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Ask Suntag, I was just pointing out that there are better places for arguing whether WP:ATHLETE is "acceptable" or not. I personally don't care. Anomie 23:21, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, I misinterpreted your comment. Yes, if one were to discuss that there are much better forums. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 07:24, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
@Happy-melon Yes, of course they will all be placed in my user space. As I have pointed out in many places, for this request, the bot will only edit my user space, its own user space, or the user space of its owner. It will never touch the mainspace while doing edits for this request. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 21:04, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Again, it will never edit the main space for this request. We are not creating articles, we are creating templates for me to create an article. For the few articles I have created using this method by hand, I have found that it is very repetitive to get the basic information from these websites and have to do all the work of creating the page. It will be much easier by going to an already created page with the basic info, and then expand the article into a proper stub. If anyone has any ideas to improve the technique used, I am all ears! « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 21:04, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Gonzo_fan2007, I appologize for missing the "Then the bot would create the page into my user space," portion of your post. Had I read more carefully, I would have not posted my comment. Sorry for the confusion. -- Suntag 04:01, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It's all good. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 04:10, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WP:CUBS tagging

I request that all articles in these categories have their talk pages tagged with this banner, {{WikiProject Baseball|cubs=yes}}, retaining existing assessments if any.

Please note, some pages might contain the banner {{Baseball-WikiProject}} which is a redirect to {{WikiProject Baseball}}.

Thanks. —Borgardetalk 08:30, 29 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

{{BOTREQ}} : TinucherianBot working on this task for you -- Tinu Cherian - 11:28, 29 September 2008 (UTC) I will be out of station for more than a week. If somebody wants to pick up this task before I am back, kindly do. Thanks -- Tinu Cherian - 08:38, 30 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I am afraid, this task request was archived before it was completed. I am ready to task up this task if not done already. -- Tinu Cherian - 08:54, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I think you started it but never completed it. No-one took it up while you were away. If you could still do it I'd appreciate it. —Borgardetalk 12:17, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Doing... : TinucherianBot -- Tinu Cherian - 06:10, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deprecated coordinates templates redux

Further to the above request, the templates:

have been deprecated for some time. Please can someone replace all remaining instances with {{coord}}. Thank you.

BRFA filed Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Legobot 5 LegoKontribsTalkM 03:36, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

RFA notice post

Hi, as discussed at WP:BN I am restarting my RfA and need to notify all the participants that a new one is opening. So basically, could a bot please post {{subst:User:Foxy Loxy/RfA notice|~~~~~}} to the talk pages of all the users who commented/votes/etc at my RfA (Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Foxy Loxy)? Thanks. Foxy Loxy Pounce! 02:01, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This is being done by GlassCobra manually. Giggy (talk) 09:54, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Has been done by GlassCobra manually. Caulde 15:35, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Transcluded templates into AfDs

While categorizing AfD templates in Category:Articles for deletion templates, I came across Template:Rebecca (or User:Undream) AfDs, a user template being used to transclude information into three AfD. A problem with using a template for this purpose is that changing the template modifies an archived AfD debate without any change to the AfD debate history. There may be others and I am hoping that a bot can help find them. Also, I am looking for all AfD templates so that I can tag them with Category:Articles for deletion templates. I think a bot can do both of these thing. If you look at the bottom of Log, you will see that the transclusions are broken down into those that begin with "Wikipedia:Articles for deletion" and those that don't. Could you have a bot go through each subpage of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log and post a list to User:Suntag/AfD transclusions of all transclusions into Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log that do not begin with "Wikipedia:Articles for deletion". I should be able to manually take it from there. Thanks. -- Suntag 15:34, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding Template:Rebecca (or User:Undream) AfDs, I'd suggest nominating it on TfD for substing and deletion. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 20:55, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I subst-and-deleted it - there's really no need for such bureaucracy. Happymelon 21:07, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Anyway, I just ran a toolserver query for you. Results at User:Suntag/AfD transclusions as requested. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 22:58, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
…and a more refined version of the query at User:Suntag/AfD transclusions#Pages transcluded only to AfD subpages. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 23:32, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks so much, Ilmari! -- Suntag 13:44, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Per this request, please have a bot change each {{Prod-tip}} and {{PRODcomment}} to read {{subst:Prod-tip}} and {{subst:PRODcomment}} for each transclusion in an AfD discussion page. Use an edit summary such as "Substituted a transcluded template meant to have its text fixed." Thanks. -- Suntag 21:32, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Birmingham, England

There are over 300 links to Birmingham, England, which is a redirect to Birmingham. Could someone please change them to

[[Birmingham]], [[England]]

unless they are followed by the sting "England" in, say, the next 20 characters, in which case change to

[[Birmingham]]

Thank you. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 21:01, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A better set of replacement rules might be
  • "[[Birmingham, England]]" → "[[Birmingham]], [[England]]"
  • "[[Birmingham, England|Birmingham]]" → "[[Birmingham]]"
  • "[[Birmingham, England|" → "[[Birmingham|"
That is, simply bypass the redirect if the link is piped (and simplify where appropriate), otherwise append a link to England to preserve the rendering. And of course this should be done with AWB or some other semiautomated tool, not as a fully automated bot run. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 23:14, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Doing... semi-auto LegoKontribsTalkM 04:01, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Potential MfD archive pages

I'm looking to provide a complete archive for Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Archived debates that began in 2005 or before 2005. The names of the MfD debates varied some what. Please have a bot generated a list of pages created in or before 2005 having "Wikipedia:Non-main namespace pages" and "Wikipedia:Miscell" in them and post the list to User:Suntag/Potential MfD archive pages. If you are aware of any other MfD names, feel free to add those to the list. I'll then manually go through the list. Thanks. -- Suntag 17:30, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image clean up idea

I've been looking through Category:User-created public domain images (and a bit in Category:Public domain images) and was wondering how viable a request for a bot run through especially the user-created category, to check for which are unused, would be. I nominated a bunch of orphaned unused personal photos for deletion today, and that was just the tip of the iceberg. I was thinking extra categories like Category:Unused User-created public domain images uploaded in May 2007 could be added to speed up cleaning and general queue reduction there, and to make finding the relative trash easier. How feasible could this be? Carnildo suggested I post here, as it would be better with a database query from Toolserver. rootology (C)(T) 06:24, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Query output. Have fun with that. ;) BJTalk 07:03, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
~$ wc -l orphaned_pd.txt
58355 orphaned_pd.txt
Thanks, I got myself a big project... rootology (C)(T) 07:07, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
...and so will the inclusionists if you start nominating these en masse. I just went through your "bunch" and found half a dozen potentially encyclopedic images among them. A dull and thankless job, either way. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 03:39, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
And I've saved a bunch already, myself, in the past couple days, and moved just as many to Commons that weren't in use but were still good. The list had to get cleaned, though, if its that big and has been neglected so much. :( I'll bang them into IFD as I find them, and the end result will hopefully be reasonable length backlogs and "found" images. rootology (C)(T) 05:18, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

mass move request

Could we move the subpages of List of asteroids and Meanings of asteroid names, which are listed at Category:Lists of asteroids by number and "Category:Meanings of asteroid names", to List of minor planets and Meanings of minor-planet names? This would also involve redirecting the cross-linking at the bottom of each list.

The reason for the move is that these are not asteroids, but all bodies assigned a minor-planet number, a mixture of asteroids and tens of thousands of other minor planets—Pluto, for example. "Minor planet" is the technical term used by the International Astronomical Union. There is no accepted definition of "asteroid". kwami (talk) 07:59, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

genre remover bot

somone needs to create a genre remover bot that will go through musical group articles and either remove or place in between <!-- -->tags the genre, as the feild is no longer used. - -The Spooky One (talk to me) 01:05, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This is generally considered a Bad Idea. BJTalk 01:07, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Why? The Genre field is no longer in use after the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Music#Time_to_remove_genre_section_on_info_box.3F. So there's genres that are not being used in the article that are just wasting there taking up space in the article. - -The Spooky One (talk to me) 01:15, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Coding..., unless BJ gives a good reason why not to do it. Anomie 01:41, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Um... a bot to remove hidden content? Surely there's a very good reason to do this? I'm not seeing one. --MZMcBride (talk) 02:29, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
If done at all, this should first go to WP:BRFA. There are a number of questions that I have (and I imagine others have as well). For example, what is the scope of this (how many pages)? Is the decision to remove the parameter final (or definitive)? [I ask because editing thousands of pages only to have consensus change in a week is a very, very bad situation.] Is there going to be replacement parameter? If so, has that been decided on (so that the bot can edit once instead of twice)? [I ask because I see discussion of replacing the {{{genre}}} parameter with a {{{style}}} parameter.] --MZMcBride (talk) 02:44, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It's the same situation as Template:Female adult bio's "orientation" parameter, as far as it goes. No idea about any discussion to replace it with a "style" parameter, I don't see mention of it on the page linked from the request. Anomie 03:00, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(unindent) Admittedly, I only skimmed. But I see it mentioned several times here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music#Less stringent proposal by Rodhullandemu. Regardless, if there are any other major changes that need to be made (massive date-delinking or parameter renaming, etc.), it would be much, much better to do it in one pass rather than in several. And I'm still unclear on the scope, etc. (I should also note that simply because we've done this sort of thing previously doesn't necessarily mean we should do it again. Templates exist so that we don't have to update every page when changes are made.) Though, of course, all of this can be discussed at a WP:BRFA. --MZMcBride (talk) 05:51, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I see there discussion of style sections in the article, justified because a section can go into greater detail than a line in an infobox, but nothing about a style parameter. I do agree that there is no need for it to run immediately, I'm not planning on even filing the BRFA until the discussion at WikiProject Music settles back down.
The justification for the removal is to avoid confusing new editors with a field that doesn't show up. The scope is removing one parameter from all uses of whichever templates are affected (looks like {{Infobox Musical artist}} and {{Infobox Album}}; I don't know what fraction of those templates actually uses the parameter). In the original proposal, there seems to be no replacement or renaming of parameters; we'll see what comes out of the new discussion, although my guess is either "keep" or "revert" rather than any (botable) middle ground. I'm not interested in date delinking, BTW: for one, I don't particularly agree with the pointiness of the situation (although I really don't care that much about the actual removal), and for two it probably needs human judgment to regularize date formats at the same time. Anomie 11:23, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
You may want to tell User:Lightbot about that human judgment thing. Its been working with date formats for a few months. Mr.Z-man 16:25, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
According to Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Lightbot 3, Lightbot only delinks solitary years and linked dates that will not autoformat. Also, I see Lightbot has not made any edits for the past 3 days, without any actual explanation but following a few complaints about delinking solitary years. Anomie 17:34, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deferred I've been watching Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music#Time to remove genre section on info box?; a number of users have shown up to challenge the consensus to remove the parameter (and not in a nice way in some cases), and it doesn't look like it's going to settle down any time soon. If a new consensus is reached in that discussion that still wants this done, feel free to re-request it then. Anomie 21:16, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

SSP bot

I've noticed recently, some cases where the users listed don't exist or there aren't any user listed anyway. Could it be possible that a bot could archive these or possibly notify the reporting user of the problem? It'd help a lot. Thanks. Caulde 16:36, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

E runs the bot that archives the page, I'll ask him if it possible to add this functionality to the bot --Chris 01:03, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]