Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MoohanBOT 4

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Withdrawn by operator.

MoohanBOT 4[edit]

Operator: Jamesmcmahon0 (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 12:43, Monday September 30, 2013 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: AWB using the regex: \[\[Category:

Function overview:Will run through Category:Uncategorized pages and untag any that now have at least one category.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s):periodically

Estimated number of pages affected:Less than 50 per run

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No):Yes

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No):Yes

Function details:Will run through the category and skip if the page does not contain \[\[Category:, i.e. skip any page that definitely doesn't have a category on it. Any pages it doesn't skip, it will perform AWB general fixes and tagging, which includes removing the {{Uncategorized}} tag (possibly replacing it with {{Improve categories}} in certain cases). It will also skip the page if there is no auto-tagging taking place, this will deal with the niche scenario that it has a category but AWB won't remove the {{Uncategorized}} tag for some reason. Example edits:[1], [2], [3], [4] and [5]

Discussion[edit]

What makes every single category suitable for article being considered categorized? Furthermore, most cases will become {{cat improve}} if anything. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 16:47, 6 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I had assumed that AWB did something clever with deciding whether to remove no cats or change it to cat improve, however after checking Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/General_fixes#Mainspace_tagger it does pretty much what my regex does... I'll withdraw the bot unless someone can correct my understanding of this? Jamesmcmahon0 (talk) 11:27, 7 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think AWB's tagger functionality has ever been discussed as acceptable for automated editing, genfixes does not equal botfixes. This works most of the time but needs human review in some cases. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 11:32, 7 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn by operator. Mark as withdrawn then since AWB is the only option and they don't support this. Feel free to reopen if you come up with a solution. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 11:32, 7 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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