English Wikipedia @ Freddythechick:Bots/Requests for approval/BattyBot 30

The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA. The result of the discussion was

Approved.

BattyBot 30

Operator: GoingBatty (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 00:49, Sunday June 1, 2014 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: Add |living=yes or |living=no to {{WikiProject Biography}}

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Template:WikiProject Biography#Parameters, Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Yobot 3

Edit period(s): Occasional runs

Estimated number of pages affected: Approximately 2,000 initially to clear the category as much as possible, less in future runs

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: For article talk pages in Category:Biography articles without living parameter, update {{WikiProject Biography}} for living people with |living=yes and dead people with |living=no. This would be determined as follows:

If the corresponding article contains [[Category:Living people]] or [[Category:Possibly living people]], add |living=yes. (e.g. this edit)
If the corresponding article contains [[Category:#### deaths]], [[Category:####s deaths]], [[Category:### deaths]], [[Category:###s deaths]], [[Category:Year of death missing]], [[Category:Year of death unclear]], or [[Category:Year of death unknown]], add |living=no. (e.g. this edit)

WikiProject template substitution and other talk page general fixes will be done at the same time.

Discussion

I support this BRFA since I ama doing this task since 2008 and I would like to find more supporters. - Magioladitis (talk) 12:19, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

I'm rusty in my BAG role but the request looks good, how about we trial it a bit and then take it from there?

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 17:45, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

Trial complete. - see diffs.

Well, I wasn't expecting talk pages to have both {{WPBiography}} and {{WikiProject Biography}}. After the first time the bot changed |living=yes to |living=yesyes in this edit, I stopped the bot and fixed it, but didn't catch that it was adding an extra pipe in several edits such as this edit until the first 22 edits were done. I combined the duplicate templates and removed any extra pipe in each page the bot edited, and asked the user who was adding the duplicate template to stop doing so.

I'm happy to do another trial, if you would like to see a clean result before approving. GoingBatty (talk) 23:13, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

How would you feel about a quick 30 edits trial to ensure everything is ironed out and ready?

Approved for trial (30 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 01:08, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

@Snowolf:

Trial complete. - see diffs. GoingBatty (talk) 03:05, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

Will review either later today or tomorrow and comment here :) Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 03:37, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

I don't see mistakes, and such type of editing is absolutely productive. OccultZone (Talk) 07:38, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

GoingBatty a couple of questions:

A. Do you use the same method as I to determine whether a page is about a dead or alive person? Do you check compare the list of pages without parameter with the xxxx deaths and Living people categories?

B. Do you add the missing parameter using custom module? -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:52, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

@Magioladitis: Not sure exactly how your bot task works, but here's what mine does:

A. First I load Category:Biography articles without living parameter and convert the list from talk pages to article pages. I then preparse the list of articles to skip those articles without one of the living categories above. (No changes are made to article pages.) I then convert the list back to talk pages and add the |living=yes parameter. Then I do the same steps for the deaths categories and add |living=no.

B. I load User:Magioladitis/WikiProjects as the custom module to convert WikiProject redirects to the real template, which makes it easier to find {{WikiProject Biography}} and possibly add {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} using AWB's general fixes (per another approved bot task). I then use advanced find and replace rules to add "yes" or "no" if the empty |living= parameter exists, or add |living=yes or |living=no if the parameter doesn't exist.

I updated the list of deaths categories above. Once I run the bot tasks for all appropriate articles, I will then review the articles left in Category:Biography articles without living parameter to add categories to articles as needed, update the list of categories the bot uses as needed, and manually update |living= for edge cases as needed. GoingBatty (talk) 17:20, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

(BAG) @Magioladitis:, are you happy with GoingBatty's reply? You're obviously knowledgeable in this area. - Jarry1250 ^{[Vacation needed]} 21:02, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

@Jarry1250: Yes! this is exactly the way I work on this task too. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:09, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

In which case,

Approved. (hope you don't mind, Snowolf). But do edit with care, please. - Jarry1250 ^{[Vacation needed]} 21:14, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

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