Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Addbot 24

{{Newbot|Addbot 24}}

Operator: {{User|Addshore}}

Time filed: 16:11, Saturday March 3, 2012 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): PHP

Source code available: If requested

Function overview: removing uncat tags from pages that cats

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/Addbot_21]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/Addbot_22]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/Addbot_23]

Edit period(s): daily

Estimated number of pages affected: depends how many people add categories to pages with the tag

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): N

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

Function details:

See previous BRFAs (linked above)

• Getting a toolserver generated list of pages that should fit the criteria (http://toolserver.org/~jason/data/categorized_articles_list.txt)
• Performning own checks
• Removes TAG if bot thinks it should

Bot has already been editing. I have been inactive for some time and have had 3 previous expired BRFAs for this task due to various reasons. Some examples of edits can be found below.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dice_tray&oldid=479673022][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dr._Michael_Werner&oldid=479673027][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nostalgia_(producer)&oldid=479673075][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=YuuWaa&oldid=479673095]

·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 16:25, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

:I assume the bot ignores hidden categories, and other non-content categories (i.e. cleanup)? Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:31, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

::Please see [http://toolserver.org/~jason/categorized_articles.php], This is a list of all articles that are tagged as uncategorized but do have at least one unhidden category. ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 16:36, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

{{BotApproved}} Well per IRC discussions, etc..., this bot ran this task without a BRFA by mistake, but performed it well. Since the task is reasonable, and already has been trialed (unapproved run), and this is basically the complement to Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Addbot 21, I'm going to approve it. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 22:01, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

:The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA.