Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/EBot III

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 Approved.

EBot III

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Operator: — E ^talk_BAG

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): Wikipedia:AWB; approval required

Function Summary: Recategorisation

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Weekly

Edit rate requested: 8 edits per minute, or less

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

Function Details: Moving Category:Wikipedia essays that are in userspace into Category:User essays as requested on Wikipedia:Bot requests.

Discussion

Although MaxSem was going to do this with RoboMaxCyberSem, I have offered to manage this task to save him some stress. — E ^talk_BAG 12:09, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

• Huh? Why not move the essays into Wikipedia space? Or simply leave them where they are, just because they are in userspace, doesn't mean an article can't be a Wikipedia essay. - Mgm|^(talk) 12:36, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
  • If they are not a completed Wikipedia essay, they are not in the mainspace, but some users are putting half-finished ones in the wrong category. This is why this is necessary. — E ^talk_BAG 12:43, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Will this bot simply remove Category:Wikipedia essays instead of replacing it when the page already contains {{essay}}? MaxSem^{(Han shot first!)} 12:52, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

It will simply replace Category:Wikipedia essays with Category:User essays on each userspace page that currently has Category:Wikipedia essays included on it. It will skip {{essay}} if there are compelling reasons to do so. — E ^talk_BAG 12:57, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

The category pages clearly state that User Essays is for essays in the User space and Wikipedia essays is for those in the Wikipedia Namespace, which makes sense because those in the Wikipedia space are supposed to be more of a general opinion and based more on the consensus of the 'community'. -- maelgwn - talk 22:40, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Exactly, that is the exact purpose of this request. — E ^talk_BAG 22:42, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Approved for trial (20 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. -- maelgwn - talk 23:17, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

There are plenty of existing bots that could do this, and it looks like under 600 edits, which could be done with AWB with a low edit rate in just an hour or two. Is there a reason that a new bot flag is needed here? This isn't an objection, just a question. — Carl (CBM · talk) 23:20, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

This bot will be run weekly and also used for other tasks using AWB which will be brought up on Wikipedia:BOTREQ in the future. I'll get AWB approval and start the trial. — E ^talk_BAG 00:37, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Approved for trial (1 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. <DREAMAFTER> ^<TALK> 01:43, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

I have cleaned out the category for all userspace. It will now run weekly if approved. — E ^talk_BAG 04:36, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

 Approved. -- maelgwn - talk 07:23, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

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