Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/The Little Pixie's Friend

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Withdrawn by operator.

The Little Pixie's Friend edit

Operator: Pi (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 21:27, Thursday, March 29, 2018 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s):VBA

Source code available:

Function overview: To add WikiProject tags and set taskforce parameters for Reality TV Taskforce

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Wikiproject_task_force_tagging_(Reality_TV)

Edit period(s): One time run

Estimated number of pages affected: 8,493 (Subject to a final review by the requesting editor)

Namespace(s): Talk namespace

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: A request was made on Wikipedia:Bot_requests for articles in certain categories to be tagged with the WikiProject Television template (if not already added) and to set the Reality TV Taskforce flag to true. I have written by first bot in order to complete this task.

A list of the articles in the categories that I have compiled is here

I will limit edits to one every 10 seconds, or another limit that is recommended.

Discussion edit

Approved for trial (30 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. please report back here after testing. — xaosflux ^Talk 17:15, 31 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I'm away from home for Easter, so I'll do the test edits either tonight or tomorrow morning when I'm home Pi (Talk to me!) 16:19, 1 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete. I have conducted the initial test of 30 edits. I have written up the results Here. There was one defect in the script which the built-in error handling took care of. I then made an alteration and ran the three pages that were thrown as exceptions the first time -- Pi (Talk to me!) 00:12, 3 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a reason the account name doesn't comply with WP:BOTACC? Legoktm (talk) 00:20, 3 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That is a good point. SQL ^{Query me!} 01:56, 3 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Pi: Looking through the results, a few alternate names for WPTV are used, and ended up with two tags. Talk:Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce and Talk:U8TV: The Lofters both use {{TelevisionWikiProject}}, which I see both ended up on your error log on first run, I don't think it's related as the third error wasn't this case. Also Talk:Alaskan Bush People uses {{WP Television}}. In all three cases using those names that redirect, we ended up with two WikiProject Television templates on the page. Here is a list of redirects to program in to prevent further double tagging. Also even though the categories are listed under reality tv, I'm not sure if the documentaries need tagging. I removed three categories from the categories I requested. It's only about twenty pages less. WikiVirusC^(talk) 00:45, 3 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@WikiVirusC: Thank you for pointing that out. I will make corrections to the bot in order for it to take into consideration the alternative templates. And as for the bot's name, I actually created the account a while ago with the intention of learning a bit and then finding a use for it. I will review the policy on names and consider a re-name. I also need to finish manually going over the test edits and I will make corrections where necessary. Once I've got the corrections made I'll make a request for another test -- Pi (Talk to me!) 20:29, 3 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Update - I have made corrections to the script so that it will now take account of all of the redirect templates. I have also gone through all of the 30 test edits manually and have made manual corrections where necessary to remove duplicate templates. I am now going to look at a username change-- Pi (Talk to me!) 21:03, 5 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I have created a new account with a compliant username - ~~User:Pi's Bot~~ . User:Pi's Pixie Bot (to avoid conflict with similarly named User:Pi bot)- I would now like to begin a new trial with this new account. I'm unsure whether It should create a new request? -- Pi (Talk to me!) 21:14, 5 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

{{BAGAssistanceNeeded}}-- Pi (Talk to me!) 17:12, 7 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Pi: please just create a new request, link to this one in the list of the prior discussions and give me a ping when ready to approve your new trial. Thank you, — xaosflux ^Talk 18:54, 21 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn by operator. per above. — xaosflux ^Talk 18:54, 21 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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