Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Jager Bot

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Withdrawn by operator.Matthew Yeager 20:33, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Jager_Bot

Operator: --Matthew_Yeager (talk)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic, Unsupervised

Programming Language(s): C# - with dotnetwikibot framework

Function Summary: Correct mislinked [[city, country]] links.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Continuous (as work exists, on a low edit rate (1/15seconds?))

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

Function Details: Correct mislinked [[city, country]] links. To qualify links, [[city]] and [[country]] must be articles and [[city, country]] redirects to [[city]]. The correction would be to change
[[city, country]] -> [[city]], [[country]]
[[city, country|city]] -> [[city]]
[[city, country|XYZ]] -> [[city|XYZ]]
Initially I would work on the links as requested, listed throughout I'm_Not_Dead_Tour#Tour_dates. Later, determine a way to find the most mislinked city, country and queue them up to be fixed. I originally ran this request for correcting Birmingham, England links without a flag because it was about 300 edits and I was supervising them. Now we are talking about many more corrections that may have more pages linked to them. This is the previous run at about 6 edits a minute.

Discussion

The latest MoS states that popular country and city names such as the United States, India, Canada etc. should not be wikified. Have you taken this into consideration? Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-09-08/Dispatches 2 =Nichalp «Talk»= 07:19, 27 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for bringing that to my attention. I could very easily create a blacklist of popular countries not to link. MatthewYeager 19:37, 27 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What's the point? Does the MoS even say to do this? This sounds a lot like Wikipedia:R#NOTBROKEN. Mr.Z-man 04:19, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

{{OperatorAssistanceNeeded|D}} Mr.Z-man 18:05, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I believe the intent was for the first example, where the articles are enhanced with having the link to the country as well. I see what you are saying and will withdraw. Thank you for your time, MatthewYeager 20:33, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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