Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TolBot 10
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Approved.
Operator: Tol (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 03:43, Friday, December 17, 2021 (UTC)
Function overview: Create redirects from titles without middle initials
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Programming language(s): Python
Source code available: Not fully written
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):
- Wikipedia:Bot requests#Bot for creating name redirects (permalink)
- Wikipedia:Request a query#Biography pages redirect opportunities (permalink)
Edit period(s): One-time, with possible future runs
Estimated number of pages affected: ≤18302
Namespace(s): (Article)
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No (mostly not applicable, as it creates redirects)
Function details:
- A list of articles is input that satisfy the following conditions:
- Are a biography (talk page with Template:WikiProject Biography)
- Have a title matching "[word] [capital letter]. [word]" (first name, initial with period, last name)
- there are no other articles with the name first and last name
- It iterates over these titles, and:
- It creates a redirect to the page, "[first] [initial]. [last]", from "[first] [last]".
- The redirect will have a defaultsort of "[last], [first]".
- The redirect will have the rcat of Template:R from short name.
- It creates a redirect to the page, "[first] [initial]. [last]", from "[first] [last]".
Discussion
edit- As requester, this looks great to me; thanks for taking this up! Once you're finished coding, having source code public would be useful, as we'll likely want to run this again sometime in the future. Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}} talk 04:10, 23 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. @Tol: --TheSandDoctor Talk 22:48, 28 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Thank you, @TheSandDoctor!
Trial complete. Diffs: (). Tol (talk | contribs) @ 21:56, 4 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- I checked a few, and they all look good to me! {{u|Sdkb}} talk 22:37, 4 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Thank you, @TheSandDoctor!
- Looks fine to me but can we advertise this at a content venue before approval? eg Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 13:38, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- @ProcrastinatingReader: I've notified WikiProject Biography. Tol (talk | contribs) @ 20:27, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- (from said WikiProject) looks good to me. Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 20:29, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Notified: WT:REDIRECT. {{u|Sdkb}} talk 22:08, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- @ProcrastinatingReader: I've notified WikiProject Biography. Tol (talk | contribs) @ 20:27, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Approved. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 22:23, 10 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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