Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TheSandBot 5

{{Newbot|TheSandBot|5}}

Operator: {{botop|TheSandDoctor}}

Time filed: 05:01, Sunday, June 23, 2019 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: [https://github.com/TheSandDoctor/task-5-list-tidy 1]; User:RonBot/10/Source2 - only updated for running with TheSandBot

Function overview: Removes blank lines, duplicate entries and sorts sections of 2 defined pages

This is a 'take over' of Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/RonBot 10 per request by {{u|Headbomb}}.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Special:Diff/903044794#Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Take_over_part_of_User:RonBot

Edit period(s): Daily

Estimated number of pages affected: 2

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

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

Function details: From RonBot 10's BRFA:

{{xt|"From bot request - User:JL-Bot/Questionable.cfg and User:JL-Bot/Citations.cfg have a lot of entries. The botreq is simply to take every section and alphabetized them (case insensitive), strip linebreaks, and remove exact duplicates (case sensitive)"}}

This is a takeover using the same source code and only to be run so long as {{u|Ronhjones}} is gone, unless requested otherwise by Ron.

{{BotTrial}} (1 full run) I'm involved, but this is so trivial a task that no one would care, and I'm about the only person affected by this. Trial granted for one full run. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 05:11, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

:{{BotTrialComplete}} {{u|Headbomb}}. Special:Diff/907163331. --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 23:24, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

::{{Re|TheSandDoctor}} what about User:JL-Bot/Publishers.cfg / User:JL-Bot/Citations.cfg / User_talk:JL-Bot/Citations.cfg? Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 07:27, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

:::It wasn't in the code I picked up per your request. I will look into it asap, but it is getting far too late tonight. --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 07:31, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

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• For User:JL-Bot/Publishers.cfg, it just happened that the bot never touched that page because I asked Ron to do that after he disappeared. But for that one, just run the same code you ran on User:JL-Bot/Questionable.cfg.
• For User:JL-Bot/Citations.cfg, it's possible because the page was 'clean'. I added a test case that should get picked up.
• There also seems to be some issues with inline category sorting. It should basically be {{JCW-selected|Foobar|Category:A|Category:B|Category:C|...|Article A|Article B|Article C|...}}. This is possible a bug in the original code.

Feel free to re-run the bot on these pages. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 07:43, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

• {{BotApproved}} Primefac (talk) 22:16, 7 August 2019 (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.