Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/RileyBot 15

{{Newbot|RileyBot|15}}

Operator: {{botop|Riley Huntley}}

Time filed: 19:00, Monday April 22, 2013 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: Source has not been written yet

Function overview: Run through a list (list created via db scan) that contains only section redirects and adds Template:R to section to the page if the template (and any of its redirects) is not already on the page. As a safety, the bot will ignore the section redirect if "" and "" tags are around it. -- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Riley_Huntley/You_missed! Cheers,] Riley 19:00, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Redirects_to_sections

Edit period(s): Continuous

Estimated number of pages affected: 10,000+ Possibly 500,000+

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

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

Function details: Run through a list (list created via db scan) that contains only section redirects and adds Template:R to section to the page if the template (and any of its redirects) is not already on the page. As a safety, the bot will ignore the section redirect if "" and "" tags are around it. -- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Riley_Huntley/You_missed! Cheers,] Riley 19:00, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Seems rather simple. {{BotTrial|edits=50}} ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 19:38, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

• Suggestion - You may want to exclude pages that are in :Category:Redirects to sections and its subcategories, to ensure you're not duplicating {{tlx|This is a redirect|to section}}. GoingBatty (talk) 22:57, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
• Seems bot appropriate, useful task, community requested –166.137.116.18 (talk) 23:01, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

{{BotWithdrawn}} Bot operator has retired. -- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Riley_Huntley/You_missed! Cheers,] Riley 23:14, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

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