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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Rich Farmbrough (talk | contribs) at 08:15, 9 April 2007. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.


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 Request Expired.

SmackBot

Operator: Rich Farmbrough

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Auto.

Programming Language(s): AWB/Regex

Function Summary:Replace "cleanup" tag

Edit period(s) : Occasional unless integrated with regular task.

Edit rate requested: say max 1 edit per min (expected to be much slower)

Already has a bot flag (Y):

Function Details: On disambiguation pages with a cleanup template replace "{{cleanup}}" and "{{disambig}}" with "{{Disambig-cleanup}}" template.

Discussion

Fairly trivial. Rich Farmbrough, 16:13 2 March 2007 (GMT).

Ok one question, how do you plan on getting the list of items? Do you plan on iterating through the cleanup category? If so may I suggest a faster method (should allow you to increase your edit speed). Take the intersection of the whatlinks here for both {{cleanup}} and {{disambig}}. Whatever is in both of those, run your bot on. Of course you would double check that the page really does have those templates. Just a thought as to speed up your bot. —— Eagle101 Need help? 20:28, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The intersection method is what I used. I then used a set up that checked the presence of tags and made the appropriate changes. Since there were only 40 items, I did them by hand. However approval would still be appreciated for ongoing changes. Rich Farmbrough, 13:44 13 March 2007 (GMT).
What does this actually achieve? --kingboyk 14:31, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think this is necessary, especially given the time this request has been idle, perhaps a BAG can call this expired? ST47Talk 21:02, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Request Expired.. —METS501 (talk) 02:26, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.

Discussion2

  1. "What does this actually achieve?"
    It gets the correct template on the pages concerned.
  2. See also the talk page of template in question. It is part of the dab project.
  3. The run was requested by a user, see [1].
  4. Archived request. I'm a bit peeved to find this archived, when it took over a fortnight for the first significant question about the request to appear. I kept an eye on the request for a while, but can you notify people before archiving their requests?
    Rich Farmbrough, 08:15 9 April 2007 (GMT).
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