User talk:TedderBot/R uncategorized removal BRFA

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Operator: Tedder

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic, supervised

Programming language(s): perl

Source code available: yes, git

Function overview: Remove Template:R uncategorized from all transcluded pages.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 33#Orphaning a template, Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2009 December 1#Template:R uncategorized, Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2009 November 15#Category:Uncategorized redirects, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Redirect#Notification: The category Category:Uncategorized redirects has been nominated for discussion

Edit period(s): One-time run.

Estimated number of pages affected: Up to 4614 pages

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes, looks for basic case (skips page if {{bots}} exists)

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): No

Function details: Performs a simple regex page edit. Will run at whatever rate is recommended- perhaps two per minute? That would take about 40 hours to run, giving time for feedback.

Discussion

A dry run showed this can process all ~4600 pages, none have the bot exclusion tag. Also, User:Rettetast has started removing these templates with AWB, but doesn't have plans to remove all of them. tedder (talk) 05:20, 19 December 2009 (UTC)