Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Xenobot 6
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- 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.
Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic (supervised)
Programming Language(s): AWB
Function Overview: Find and replace jobs
Edit period(s): Occasionally (when consensus exists for a job)
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Y
Function Details: A recent
WP:RS (and wasn't even always an accurate statement) and consensus developed to remove the line en masse. I had started doing this with my alternate account and I just realized there are over 21,000 instances
remaining, so I would like to complete it with my bot. Note that my bot's tasks 2, 3 and 4 already involve some manner of find & replace.
Discussion
- I could run it with general fixes on to maximize the utility of the edits, if automated bots are allowed to apply general fixes. –xeno (talk) 02:25, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Any chance of false positives? Are there times when "Based on an article from the French Wikipedia" would be a valid reference to have? – Quadell (talk) 13:11, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Doubtful, as wikipedia/wikis in general are not considered reliable sources; nevertheless, the bot is looking for a very specific formatting -
''Based on the article in the French Wikipedia''
- so even if an article were to have a line such as "Jimmy Wales commented that many scholars built upon knowledge based on an article in the French Wikipedia", the find/replace logic I am using would not match it. This particular task looks for a very specific line which, to my knowledge, has only been inserted only by one user. –xeno (talk) 14:45, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Approved. You've essentially already run a trial. I checked the edits, and they look great. – Quadell (talk) 17:56, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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