Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Fz29bot 2
Operator: User:Fz-29 with User:Doc James being the project manager.
Time filed: 10:01, Saturday, March 2, 2019 (UTC)
Function overview: A while back links to https://web.archive.org/web/20160513151127/https://books.google.com were added to many pages as we can see here. The archives of Google books simple do not work and never have. This proposal is to remove these blocks of text from references.
|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160501163529/https://books.google.com/books?id=HBdxESrTkHsC&pg=PA212|archivedate=2016-05-01|df=
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic after initial testing
Programming language(s): Python
Source code available: Still need to be written
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): User_talk:Level_C#Removing_archives_of_Google_books
Edit period(s): One time run
Estimated number of pages affected: No entirely sure
Namespace(s): Mainspace
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes can do if people want.
Function details:
Discussion edit
Will get User:Fz-29 involved once approval is granted. Plan will be to run 10 than run 100 before running all of them if no issues are found. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 10:04, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
- Actually some of the Google book archives do work :-) See here https://web.archive.org/web/20170908191457/https://books.google.com/books?id=6oHRBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA692#v=onepage&q&f=false So will need to see if we can figure out how to identify the working versus non working ones. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 16:14, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
- Hey. well I think an editor has to look at each one. So, manual intervention will be needed. The "Fix Dead Links" button has been a function, found in the article's history, for as long as I can remember. Many editors use it to add archives (books.google and others) and to fix dead links so the issue of the reference "not always working" is all over Wikipedia, not just on Medical articles.--The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 20:26, 5 April 2019 (UTC)