Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Redrocketbot

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.

Redrocketbot

Operator: Red rocket boy

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic.

Programming Language(s): Visual Basic

Function Summary: Get list of empty talk pages from category, and adds template to them.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): I hope to run it maybe once a week. Not too sure on this one.

Edit rate requested: I'm not too sure of this either. No more than 12 a minute probably.

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

Function Details: Gets a list of empty talk pages from articles in Category:Living people, and adds {{WPBiography|living=yes}} to them.

Discussion

12epm is too high.. Are you writing this yourself? As AWB and the Kingbotk plugin are already able to do this from standing. Steve and I used the plugin to do some mass attacks on the BIO lists, but of course, they often need retagging, new articles, living=no on newly dead people.. etc.. —Reedy Boy 21:12, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's written myself. I don't really know/care much about AWB. I can go lower epm if necessary. I'm not sure what the sort of amount is, but I was simply recommended to do this on a bot account by Tawker. Red rocket boy 21:33, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You handling redirects (to the WPBio template) and such? —Reedy Boy 21:42, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry, I'm not too sure what you mean :( Red rocket boy 21:47, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

6epm would be appropriate. I think Reedys is asking, if the the talk page is already tagged with {{WPBio (which redirects to {{WPBiography) will you detect this and not add {{WPBiography ? -- maelgwn - talk 22:49, 9 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It only gets blank pages (i.e. ones that don't exist). Red rocket boy 22:50, 9 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Please edit slowly for you trial (about 2 epm) and manually check all your edits to start with. Good luck :-) -- maelgwn - talk 23:00, 9 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just noting I'm not ignoring this. I accidentally lost my code for this, so I'm having to rewrite from scratch. It shouldn't take long, but with other commitments, I may not be able to run this for a bit. Apologies, Red rocket boy 21:34, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I did 49 edits but it was much too fast. I'll add in something to slow it down, then make 50 more. Thanks. Red rocket boy 15:52, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OK, done. Thanks. Red rocket boy 19:00, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nothing wrong with that trial that I can see.

Approved. Soxred93 has a boring sig 21:52, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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