English Wikipedia @ Freddythechick:Bots/Requests for approval/Monkbot 3
- 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.
Monkbot 3
Operator: Trappist the monk (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 14:00, Monday March 31, 2014 (UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Programming language(s): AWB
Source code available: Yes (source)
Function overview: Working in Category:Pages containing cite templates with deprecated parameters, replace deprecated CS1 parameters |coauthor= and |coauthors= with individual |authorn= parameters (n is a number 2–10). Task 3 operates on CS1 citations that have |coauthor= parameters that contain comma-separated lists of names roughly following the Vancouver system.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):
Edit period(s): Occasional
Estimated number of pages affected: At the time of this writing, Category:Pages containing cite templates with deprecated parameters has 99,310 pages.
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes
Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes
Function details: Full details are listed with the source.
Discussion
Please add |display-authors=9 when there are exactly nine authors in the citation after it is processed by the script. The existing citation (using |coauthors=) displays nine authors, and the resulting citation will display nine authors, but without |display-authors=, the citation will display an error message. Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:19, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
- Sure, I can do that. But, wait! What? Doesn't that contradict what your position when we discussed
|displayauthors=9re: Monkbot task 2?
- —Trappist the monk (talk) 17:41, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
- You are correct. I am apparently a self-contradicting sort of person.
- On reconsideration, I think I was wrong in the previous discussion. Since
|coauthors=has no limit on its size, the editor who created that citation was presumably not thinking about the nine-author limit and was choosing to display nine authors exactly. As such, I think it would be proper to introduce|display-authors=9in any nine-author citations resulting from conversion of|coauthors=to individual author parameters. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:13, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
- On reconsideration, I think I was wrong in the previous discussion. Since
- Ok. I've added it to task 4 and will add it to tasks 2 and 3 as well.
- —Trappist the monk (talk) 01:11, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
- Added to task 3.
- —Trappist the monk (talk) 11:22, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
{{BAG assistance needed}} —Trappist the monk (talk) 11:10, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
I recommend approval for test edits. I have checked edits of this operator's other bots, and they have been of high quality. The operator has been responsive to the minor changes I have recommended based on other bots' test edits. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:51, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. --slakr\ talk / 06:52, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
Trial complete.
Thank you. First half or so of the edits had the et al. un-italicize, empty and single coauthor rules enabled. I disabled them for the second half so that Monkbot would fix only multiple coauthor citations. I did not find any untoward edits.
The test edits are listed at Special:Contributions/Monkbot beginning at 10:45, 12 April 2014 (UTC) and ending at 11:07, 12 April 2014 (UTC). The test edits have this edit summary: Task 3: Fix CS1 deprecated coauthor parameter errors (bot trial) also edit summary search results.
—Trappist the monk (talk) 11:26, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
- I have checked all 50 of these test edits, and I found zero errors. I recommend approval. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:48, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
A user has requested the attention of a member of the Bot Approvals Group. Once assistance has been rendered, please deactivate this tag by replacing it with {{t|BAG assistance needed}}. —Trappist the monk (talk) 11:55, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
