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:I believe that should do it. Also, could whoever runs the bot automatically GAs and FAs as well as Stubs? Thanks so much! [[User:Cool3|Cool3]] ([[User talk:Cool3|talk]]) 23:05, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
:I believe that should do it. Also, could whoever runs the bot automatically GAs and FAs as well as Stubs? Thanks so much! [[User:Cool3|Cool3]] ([[User talk:Cool3|talk]]) 23:05, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
:: {{BOTREQ|doing}} (in a few minutes) [[User:Anomie|Anomie]][[User talk:Anomie|⚔]] 01:09, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
:: {{BOTREQ|doing}} (in a few minutes) [[User:Anomie|Anomie]][[User talk:Anomie|⚔]] 01:09, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

== New bot ==

Could you pretty please make a bot that fixes typing errors and reverts vandalism? Name it after my [[User:Thebigfan|user page?]] Call it "Big Fan Bot." --[[User:Thebigfan|Thebigfan]] ([[User talk:Thebigfan|talk]]) 04:03, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

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# Bot request Status 💬 👥 🙋 Last editor 🕒 (UTC) 🤖 Last botop editor 🕒 (UTC)
1 "Was" in TV articles 7 5 Bunnypranav 2024-11-26 13:08 Bunnypranav 2024-11-26 13:08
2 Replace standalone BLP templates  Done 7 3 MSGJ 2024-10-30 19:37 Tom.Reding 2024-10-29 16:04
3 Assess set index and WikiProject Lists based on category as lists 19 5 Mrfoogles 2024-11-06 16:17 Tom.Reding 2024-11-02 15:53
4 Request for WP:SCRIPTREQ 1 1 StefanSurrealsSummon 2024-11-08 18:27
5 LLM summary for laypersons to talk pages of overly technical articles? 10 7 Legoktm 2024-11-12 17:50 Legoktm 2024-11-12 17:50
6 Redirects with curly apostrophes 6 5 Pppery 2024-11-11 17:30 Primefac 2024-11-11 16:52
7 Bot for replacing/archiving 13,000 dead citations for New Zealand charts 3 2 Muhandes 2024-11-14 22:49 Muhandes 2024-11-14 22:49
8 Basketball biography infobox request 7 2 Dissident93 2024-11-18 21:04 Primefac 2024-11-17 20:44
9 Meanings of minor-planet names 1 1 Absolutiva 2024-11-18 16:20
10 Reference examination bot 4 3 Wiki king 100000 2024-11-25 17:00 Usernamekiran 2024-11-20 13:02
11 Replacing FastilyBot BRFA filed 25 9 DreamRimmer 2024-12-17 03:32 DreamRimmer 2024-12-17 03:32
12 Deletion of navboxes at Category:Basketball Olympic squad navigational boxes by competition  Working 4 4 Geardona 2024-11-20 23:48 Qwerfjkl 2024-11-20 17:32
13 Tagging Category:Cinema of Belgium BRFA filed 20 4 Bunnypranav 2024-12-21 15:58 Bunnypranav 2024-12-21 15:58
14 Bulk remove "link will display the full calendar" from articles about calendar years 6 5 Primefac 2024-12-09 16:31 Primefac 2024-12-09 16:31
15 Province over-capitalization 8 2 Dicklyon 2024-12-21 23:39 Primefac 2024-12-11 22:00
16 VPNGate Y Done 13 6 MolecularPilot 2024-12-22 01:39 DreamRimmer 2024-12-21 13:40
17 Creation for nano bot Declined Not a good task for a bot. 3 3 Primefac 2024-12-09 16:30 Primefac 2024-12-09 16:30
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Replacing project banners

I need a bot to do the following:

  1. Find all talk pages using {{WP Shinto}} and {{Shinto}} and replace them with {{WikiProject Japan|shinto=yes}} while still keeping any |class= and |importance= parameters.
  2. Find all talk pages using {{Jmyth}} and replace them with {{WikiProject Japan|myth=yes}} while still keeping any |class= and |importance= parameters.
  3. Find all talk pages using {{Gaijin tarento}} and replace them with {{WikiProject Japan|gaijin=yes}} while still keeping any |class= and |importance= parameters.
  4. Find all talk pages using {{Project Owarai}} and replace them with {{WikiProject Japan|owarai=yes}} while still keeping any |class= and |importance= parameters.
  5. Find all talk pages using {{WikiProject Japan}} which are using the |tf=, |tf2=, or |tf3= parameters, determine which of the following are listed there, and replace them as appropriate:
    • If the |tf=, |tf2=, or |tf3= is Baseball or baseball (or any capitalization mix), replace with |baseball=yes
    • If the |tf=, |tf2=, or |tf3= is Car or car (or any capitalization mix), replace with |car=yes
    • If the |tf=, |tf2=, or |tf3= is CJKV or cjkv (or any capitalization mix), replace with |CJKV=yes
    • If the |tf=, |tf2=, or |tf3= is Districts and municipalities or districts and municipalities (or any capitalization mix), replace with |dist-muni=yes
    • If the |tf=, |tf2=, or |tf3= is Gaijin tarento or gaijin tarento (or any capitalization mix), replace with |gaijin=yes
    • If the |tf=, |tf2=, or |tf3= is Military history or Military history (or any capitalization mix), replace with |milhist=yes
    • If the |tf=, |tf2=, or |tf3= is Music or music (or any capitalization mix), replace with |music=yes
    • If the |tf=, |tf2=, or |tf3= is Mythology or mythology (or any capitalization mix), replace with |myth=yes
    • If the |tf=, |tf2=, or |tf3= is Owarai or owarai (or any capitalization mix), replace with |owarai=yes
    • If the |tf=, |tf2=, or |tf3= is Photo or photo (or any capitalization mix), replace with |phototf=yes
    • If the |tf=, |tf2=, or |tf3= is Prefectures or prefectures (or any capitalization mix), replace with |prefectures=yes
    • If the |tf=, |tf2=, or |tf3= is Royalty and nobility or royalty and nobility (or any capitalization mix), replace with |royalty=yes
    • If the |tf=, |tf2=, or |tf3= is Shinto or shinto (or any capitalization mix), replace with |shinto=yes
    • If the |tf=, |tf2=, or |tf3= is Tokyo or tokyo (or any capitalization mix), replace with |tokyo=yes
    • If the |tf=, |tf2=, or |tf3= is Update or update (or any capitalization mix), replace with |update=yes

I hope all that makes sense. Thanks! ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 19:25, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I can easily enough have AnomieBOT do all this. Would you like redirects to Template:WikiProject Japan replaced with {{WikiProject Japan}} on the pages the bot edits? Also, how would you like it handled if a page has more than one of the above templates with different class/importance ratings? I can also have the bot automatically assess articles it processes as stub (based on the presence of a stub category on the article, if no other assessment is present), disambig, or redirect; and non-articles as na, image, category, portal, template, or project, as appropriate. And for non-articles, I can also have it automatically set importance=na if you'd like. Anomie 02:42, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Answering your questions in order:
  1. Yes, replacing redirect templates with the main template is fine.
  2. If a page has more than one of the above templates on it with different assessments, please create a list of them on Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Assessment/Tag cleanup and we'll go through them by hand.
  3. Automatically assessing them as stubs is fine based on the stub category or template on the article if there is not already an assessment. Same goes for disambig and redirect. Category, portal, template, and project are all assessed automatically, so nothing needs to be done there. If you can have the bot make a list of articles with a class of "na", that would be good, as those need to be gone through to make sure of what they are (there were some assessed that way previously which no longer would be assessed that way). If you can add them to a separate section on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Assessment/Tag cleanup page, that would be useful.
Please ask for more clarification if something doesn't make sense. Thanks! ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 07:18, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Just noting that this request is still being worked on, so should not be archived. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 20:07, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Still being processed. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 22:04, 21 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Still being processed. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 21:12, 23 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Still being processed. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 18:08, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

BRFA filed Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AnomieBOT 28. Sorry it took so long. Anomie 16:06, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. I know very well how life can get in the way of things. I appreciate your help on this. :) ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe
One thing I failed to mention was the various redirect templates pointing to {{WikiProject Japan}}: {{Wikiproject Japan}}, {{WPJ}}, {{Wikiproject japan}}, {{WPJAPAN}}, and {{WikiProjectJapan}}. It's fine to leave them as redirects, or replace them with {{WikiProject Japan}}. It all works the same. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 19:35, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I thought that was question #1 above? Anomie 22:01, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry for the confusion. This in reference to #5 at the top. The bot will need to make sure it knows to look for not only {{WikiProject Japan}}, but also pages using {{Wikiproject Japan}}, {{WPJ}}, {{Wikiproject japan}}, {{WPJAPAN}}, and {{WikiProjectJapan}} (all of which redirect to {{WikiProject Japan}}. Hope that makes sense. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 00:14, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, ok. There are actually two parts to that: fetching the pages, and detecting the banner in the pages. The first is easy, as the API "embeddedin" query automatically does this (in fact, there's no way to make it not do it). AnomieBOT handles the second by querying the list of redirects from the API. Part of the reason it took so long to code this was that I decided to finally abstract the code that does that so I wouldn't have to keep copying it from task to task. Anomie 02:35, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Works for me. Thanks for your help on this. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 18:57, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Just waiting on the BAG to get around to approving the request. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 17:57, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Looks like this is mostly completed. Is there anything else which needs to be done on it, Anomie? ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 20:01, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I was just coming here to post Y Done; the replacing of the first four templates was actually done a good while ago, the rest of the time was going through the remaining WikiProject Japan transclusions to take care of the tf parameters, which finished a few hours ago. It would have been done sooner were it not for database locking issues... Anomie 20:17, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Not a problem. I appreciate your help on this issue. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 22:58, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Film articles needing an infobox

Is it possible for a bot to go through Category:Film articles needing an infobox and draw up a list (to be checked manually) of any articles which transclude an infobox template? I can provide a list of specific infoboxes if need be, but a general check will be sufficient. Cheers! PC78 (talk) 22:23, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bump. Anyone? PC78 (talk) 09:44, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
 Doing..., I think. Well, letting AWB pre-parse the entire list of 6200 articles (skip if does not contain "{{Infobox"), which should give you a decent list. - Jarry1250 (t, c) 10:17, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
 Done This should be it (a fairly hefty list). - Jarry1250 (t, c) 14:17, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Blimey. Cheers! PC78 (talk) 14:46, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

User page design center

All of the links to Wikipedia:User Page Design Center need to be re-targeted to Wikipedia:User page design center (notice the difference in the capitalization), as the page was moved due to a capitalization mistake. See Wikipedia:User Page Design Center (redirect suppressed) and Pages that link to "Wikipedia:User Page Design Center". After the links are re-targeted, Wikipedia:User Page Design Center (the one with the incorrect capitalization) can be deleted per CSD G6. -- IRP 21:51, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Just turn it into a redirect. It should work fine without a bot needed. – Quadell (talk) 22:25, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
We don't need an unnecessary page just because there are a bunch of old links that point to the wrong location. We can just fix the links and delete the redirect. -- IRP 22:43, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I think you should see WP:R2D. FunPika 22:46, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
That's the purpose of redirects, so we don't have to update a bunch of links when a page is moved. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr.Z-man (talkcontribs) 19:42, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
At most the non-archival links to it (i.e. in Wikipedia & Template space - but not talk pages) should be fixed, but we shouldn't go over talk pages archives to repair this. Just leave the redir in place. –xeno (talk) 19:50, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Files used from Commons

Is there any easy way to get a (partial) list of images used in en.Wikipedia that are hosted on Commons? I can't think of a way. There's certainly no way via the API, is there? – Quadell (talk) 01:20, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed there is. Check out wp_locate_files in User:DustyBot/dustylib.php. Wronkiew (talk) 01:45, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
That doesn't quite seem to answer the question; the question seem to be about locating images, not determining where a known image is located. This API query will give you the necessary information, but you'll have to filter on imagerepository on the client side. Anomie 01:59, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, yours is the more complete answer. I assumed he was starting with a known set of images. Wronkiew (talk) 02:25, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Swimming banner tagging

Could a bot tag all talk pages for Category:Aquatics and all sub-categories with Template:WikiProject Swimming.

Exceptions:

If also possible, could an automatic Stub assessment be made for any articles carrying a stub template.

Thanks in advance, Yboy83 (talk) 09:09, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

These categories, then? (Just to confirm!) Do you want class= copied from other templates on the page? [[Sam Korn]] (smoddy) 15:15, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
For articles that are currently untagged, or tagged but unassessed, I guess this would be a good idea if easily done. Yboy83 (talk) 15:28, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
And yes, all those categories!! Regards, Yboy83 (talk) 15:32, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Do you want categories and templates to be tagged too? [[Sam Korn]] (smoddy) 15:32, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Crazy that I was just about to post a reply at the same time you ask this! In response, yes please, and can I add Category:Swimming templates (and sub-cats) for tagging, and a further exception of Category:Surf lifesaving (and sub-cats). Yboy83 (talk) 15:36, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
BRFA filed Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Sambot 7. [[Sam Korn]] (smoddy) 16:13, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Vague idea for a bot/technical request

This might be too much to do, and might require a bug request. Essentially, a way for anyone get notified of an MfD/AfD of something on their Watchlist, even if they miss it via Watchlist, as an opt-in method. E.g., you tag a page for xfd on my 'list', I get a notification, even if I'm not the creator of the article. Exposing part of the watchlist may be impossible, but what about someone makes a basic bot that reads each new xfd, checks What Links Here on the article or page in question, and if it sees something like User:Rootology/xfdalert (predefined location, same for everyone) and then notifies the users in question? rootology (C)(T) 16:14, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Is there an easy way to generate some sort of list from templates?

This is mainly to help me with maintenance (essentially ensuring that nobody is including false values), and it isn't a big deal if it doesn't get done. I'd like a list of articles that have a reporting mark in {{infobox rail}} or use {{reporting mark}}, along with the value of the parameter (or both if they differ). (See CSX Transportation for an example of both, with reporting mark CSXT.) --NE2 01:07, 12 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Process all articles in four categories

I'd like to see about getting a bot to process all the articles in four categories: Category:Lists of ship commissionings, Category:Lists of ship decommissionings, Category:Lists of shipwrecks by year, and Category:Lists of ship launches. The number of articles in each category ranges from about 85 up to 125. The processing would be as follows:

Bellhalla (talk) 05:42, 12 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

BRFA filed [[Sam Korn]] (smoddy) 19:49, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, slight clarification needed -- what do you want the bot to do when there are, say, both {{shipevents1870}} and {{shipevents|1880}}? [[Sam Korn]] (smoddy) 20:33, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Get rid of any of the hard-coded year templates, so in that case, remove {{shipevents1870}} but leave {{shipevents|1880}}. Hope this helps. — Bellhalla (talk) 20:38, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Modifying {{val}} parameters: header/footer → prefix/suffix

Per the discussion at Template talk:Val#Header/footer vs. prefix/suffix, we're populating Category:Pages using val header or footer parameters with articles that need revising to use the new (more intuitive) parameter titles. The h and f parameters are being deprecated in favour of p and s. Can we have a bot make a one-time run (or optionally, monitor the category perpetually—we can discuss that) and do the following for each article in that category (i.e. not on pages in User:, Template: or the talk namespaces):

  1. If the parameter h is defined and p is not defined, then relabel h as p (e.g. {{val|123|h=$}} → {{val|123|p=$}}).
  2. If the parameter f is defined and s is not defined, then relabel f as s.
  3. If the parameter h is defined and p is also defined, then leave alone for now (unlikely that many instances will use both h and p, because p is only being introduced now).
  4. If the parameter f is defined and s is also defined, then leave alone for now.
  5. For all capitalization variants of the above (e.g. H instead of h, S instead of s, etc.), convert to the (preferred) lowercase version.

This and related modifications have been tested in userspace at User:TheFeds/template/sandbox1, and result in the expected behaviour. {{Val}} has been modified, so we should be seeing the category grow now. TheFeds 21:13, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Interestingly enough, it looks like there's virtually nothing for a bot to do here...unless the category is going to take longer than a few hours to populate itself. The folks at Template talk:Val felt that we should arrange a bot in advance, but unless this category grows suddenly, it may not be necessary. Stand by: I'll advise if this category grows as expected. TheFeds 14:38, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Copy to Commons

Would it be possible to get a list of Files in Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons that:

A) Are lacking a {{Information}} template.
B) That have both {{Copy to Wikimedia Commons}} and {{Should be SVG}}.

Thanks in adavcen, Peachey88 (Talk Page · Contribs) 00:49, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Doing... Mr.Z-man 02:39, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
 Done, the first list is here, the second is here. (Make sure to set your browser encoding to utf-8, some browsers tend to pick a wrong default for text files). If you want them in a different format, let me know, though the first list might be too big for a wiki page. Mr.Z-man 03:20, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Need to add a template to Coca-Cola brands

Could someone please add the template {{Coca-Cola brands}} to all articles in category:Coca-Cola brands? Thank you for your time, --Jeremy (blah blah) 01:59, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

 Doing... with AWB fahadsadah (talk,contribs) 08:39, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
 Done fahadsadah (talk,contribs) 08:53, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

 Deferred AWB

Request to tag Selected Articles with {{OnThisDay}}

I'm not really sure of how one would go at this, so I'm not going to make any suggestions for how to do it. But what needs to be done is to go through the history of pages like Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 31, and find which version existed on October 31 2008/2007/2006/... (if there are multiple version on the same day, use the latest) and then check which articles were bolded (the "Selected anniversaries").

For example, the final revision of Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 31 for the year 2008 was this. The selected anniversaries are Halloween, Samhain, Reformation Day, Martin Luther, Leiden University Library, Mount Rushmore, Indira Gandhi, and Singapore Airlines Flight 006. The bot would need to go on the talk page of these articles and tag them with {{OnThisDay|October|31|2008|oldid=248747244}} to produce:

Headbomb {ταλκκοντριβς – WP Physics} 04:41, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There would obviously a need to run this daily (on the relevant day) after the initial run.Headbomb {ταλκκοντριβς – WP Physics} 04:42, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Request to tag articles for WP:NATO

The NATO Wikiproject has just been established (today), and we're looking for someone who would be so kind as to run a bot to tag NATO articles. We have a template Template:WikiProject NATO, and I believe it's properly set up to allow automatic stub tagging. It would be extremely helpful if all of the articles in Category:NATO and its subcategories could be tagged. Thanks so much! Cool3 (talk) 21:30, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You'll need to provide a specific list of categories. I doubt The Dreamers (film) is in the scope of your project, but Category:NATO contains Category:Military operations involving NATO which contains Category:Wars involving NATO which contains Category:Cold War which contains Category:Cold War rebellions which contains Category:May 1968 in France which contains that article. This sort of thing happens all the time with "and all subcategories". Anomie 22:37, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, unfortunate. I will do my best to specify:
I believe that should do it. Also, could whoever runs the bot automatically GAs and FAs as well as Stubs? Thanks so much! Cool3 (talk) 23:05, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Doing... (in a few minutes) Anomie 01:09, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

New bot

Could you pretty please make a bot that fixes typing errors and reverts vandalism? Name it after my user page? Call it "Big Fan Bot." --Thebigfan (talk) 04:03, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]