Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/CSD R1 Deletion Bot

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CSD R1 Deletion Bot edit

Operator: Chris

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Fully Auto

Programming Language(s): PHP using my classes

Function Summary: Clone of RedirectCleanupBot since WJBscribe has retired

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

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

Function Details: Gets broken redirects from the database, removes those with over one revision. Deletes the others and then posts those that weren't deleted to a subpage in it's userspace.

Discussion edit

Source code can be seen here --Chris 07:42, 24 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Task is a clone of the only bot to ever pass RfA...

Approved for trial (14 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. To be ran on your main account, please clearly identify the deletions as being from a bot. BJ^Talk 15:23, 24 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Already running this... --MZMcBride (talk) 09:31, 28 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well it would be nice to run it under a separate bot account. Chris, will this bot be as timely as existing ad-hoc practice? MBisanz ^talk 13:49, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I believe there is a serious problem with this bot's deletion of redirects to foreign language Wikipedia articles. See the discussions here and here. Tennis expert (talk) 01:36, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Both of those discussions seem to indicate that:

Interwiki redirects should use {{softredirect}}
The redirects that you created where unnecessary --Chris 01:41, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Chris. Tennis expert is essentially complaining that the bot flagged the broken redirect pages he created. Interwiki redirects do not work. They MUST be done as soft redirects, or preferably not at all (i.e. a new Eng Wiki article created instead) per policy. --ThaddeusB (talk) 13:32, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Today, the bot deleted Command & Conquer: Uprising, which is a redirect page to Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Uprising despite the fact that the page was already in existence (albeit very recent, history shows it came into existence about a minute before the redirect page was deleted). Just wanted to let you know that the bot deleted a page in error so that it can be fixed. -Thunderforge (talk) 00:14, 11 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn by operator. --Chris 00:50, 18 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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