Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PseudoBot 3

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.

PseudoBot 3

Operator: Pseudomonas_(talk)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): Perl

Function Summary: I'd like to expand the range of date pages slightly - from years like 1985 to subject/years like 1985 in music. Still only looking at the Births and Deaths sections.

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

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

Discussion

I see no problem with this, if nobody has objections I'll approve. BJ^Talk 05:27, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ohh! It took me a while to figure out what this was requesting. Now I understand -- Pseudomonas wants to run this bot task on "year in music" articles and such. Yes, this sounds great. Thumbs up. – Quadell ^{(talk) (random)} 13:40, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial (3 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. BJ^Talk 20:59, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've started it with the broader scope, but so far none of the extra pages have had any inappropriate additions by new users that it's found. I guess this is basically a good thing, even if it makes it slower to test the bot ;) Pseudomonas_(talk) 22:17, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Would it be appropriate for me to test it by playing the part of a newbie? – Quadell ^{(talk) (random)} 00:34, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to switch it to

Approved for trial (25 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete., because the time it may take may be a Long Time. Soxred 93 00:48, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well, you can if you like but a) it'll ignore you if you're using an account registered more than 3 days ago, and b) don't blame me if some Huggle-user gets to you first. I guess you could add a notable birth/death but with a deliberate typo. Pseudomonas_(talk) 10:21, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This link (a mispelling of Yeung) was reverted, and the bot left this note on the IP's talk page. Everything looks in order. – Quadell ^{(talk) (random)} 11:00, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, that's good. It should behave like that for all pages of the form "19## in .*" or "20## in .*", in that case. While I'm at it, I may as well plug my tentative proposals for further expansion, since you guys might be interested. Pseudomonas_(talk) 12:08, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Approved. BJ^Talk 21:25, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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