Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Android Mouse Bot req4

Android Mouse Bot

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): C

Function Summary: Replace tags at the top of articles with with Template:Articleissues.

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

Edit rate requested: 7 edits per minute

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

Function Details: This bot will scan the "what links here" pages to find transclusions for all of the templates used in the articleissues template (POV, criticisms, OR, primarysources, etc). It will then find articles which have at least 3 templates used, load the article text and see if the templates are all used at the top of the article. If so, it would replace the individual templates with the articleissues template with the proper parameters and dates.

Discussion

Bot not yet written. I'd like to hear comments or potential issues with this idea before I start. Note that this request has nothing to do with the previous uses of this account, since those tasks are all inactive. --Android Mouse 01:57, 18 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I like it. One of those obvious things for which no one's thought to write a bot now. As long as the trial's successful, I'm all for it. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 02:41, 19 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]