Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Thehelpfulbot

Note: This bot was renamed from ThehelpfuloneBot to Thehelpfulbot shortly after approval. --Deskana (talk) 21:08, 5 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Approved.

Thehelpfulbot edit

Operator: The Helpful One

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Fully automatic

Programming Language(s): pywikipedia noreferences.py -cat:"Wikipedia pages with broken references"

Function Overview: Adding to pages that use refs but don't have <references/> and generic code cleanup.

Edit period(s): Long term maintenance bot, so will be run repeatedly.

Already has a bot flag (N):

Function Details: Adding to pages that use refs but don't have <references/> and generic code cleanup.

Discussion edit

Simple task that seems ideal for bot attention.

Approved for trial (25 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Richard ⁰⁶¹² 18:51, 5 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Approved. Based on successful trial and the fact that this script/configuration has been well-tested in the past. Richard ⁰⁶¹² 19:42, 5 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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