Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Infobox Bot

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Denied.

Infobox Bot

Operator: FinalRapture (talk · contribs)

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic

Programming language(s): PHP

Source code available: Paste of source here

Function overview: Updates the needs-infobox parameter of {{WPSchools}} depending on whether or not the article has a infobox

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Small discussion and was previously handled by BoxCrawler

Edit period(s): (bi-)weekly

Estimated number of pages affected: Possibly up to 1,000 first run, with later runs only a few dozen

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): No

Function details:

Pulls articles transcluding {{WPSchools}} and articles in category Category:School articles without infoboxes.
Loops through each article transcluding looking for '{{Infobox'
- If it can't find the infobox but the article is in the category, or vice versa, it's skipped.
- Otherwise, Makes the appropriate change to the template on the talk page

Discussion

Why are you limiting this to only articles tagged by {{WPSCHOOLS}}? Couldn't you do this with other wiki projects? Additionally, I made a list of pages that are marked as having no info box, but transclude {{Infobox}}. See that list here. Tim 1357 ^talk 04:12, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Right now I'm only using WPSchools' article list, but I can always expand it. FinalRapture - † ☪ 10:21, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, my list shows you will only be affecting about 110 talk pages. Tim 1357 ^talk 01:26, 29 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I admit the 1,000 was a very exaggerated estimate, but your list doesn't include pages that aren't marked as not having an infobox. FinalRapture - † ☪ 02:27, 29 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In light of the admittance on your user page of you being a sockpupet, I feel obliged to deny this BRFA. Additionally, the "small conversation" you had on Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Schools was between 2 people, (yourself and tedder). Tim 1357 ^talk 03:23, 29 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Denied. Tim 1357 ^talk 03:23, 29 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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