Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/CiteHelperBot

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CiteHelperBot

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Operator: NAUser0001 (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 07:27, Wednesday, January 8, 2025 (UTC)

Function overview: Fix citation issues

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: https://replit.com/@NamanChaudhary2/CiteHelperBot

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): continuous

Estimated number of pages affected:

Namespace(s): Articles

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

Function details: CiteHelperBot helps improve Wikipedia by automatically fixing citation issues. It logs in with a bot account and checks pages for problems like missing sources or broken links. When it finds these issues, it adds the necessary sources or adds template.

Discussion

We have multiple bots that fix citation issues. What makes this bot different? Why do we need another one? Primefac (talk) 10:23, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Denied. Thank you for posting your bot's code. If you think that code would be in any way a useful bot, you're clearly not ready to be a bot operator. Anomie⚔ 12:36, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

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