Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TolBot 10

{{Newbot|TolBot|10}}

Operator: {{botop|Tol}}

Time filed: 03:43, Friday, December 17, 2021 (UTC)

Function overview: Create redirects from titles without middle initials

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: Not fully written

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

• Wikipedia:Bot requests#Bot for creating name redirects (permalink)
• Wikipedia:Request a query#Biography pages redirect opportunities (permalink)

Edit period(s): One-time, with possible future runs

Estimated number of pages affected: ≤18302

Namespace(s): (Article)

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No (mostly not applicable, as it creates redirects)

Function details:

• A list of articles is input that satisfy the following conditions:
• Are a biography (talk page with Template:WikiProject Biography)
• Have a title matching "[word] [capital letter]. [word]" (first name, initial with period, last name)
• there are no other articles with the name first and last name
• It iterates over these titles, and:
• It creates a redirect to the page, "[first] [initial]. [last]", from "[first] [last]".
• The redirect will have a defaultsort of "[last], [first]".
• The redirect will have the rcat of Template:R from short name.

• As requester, this looks great to me; thanks for taking this up! Once you're finished coding, having source code public would be useful, as we'll likely want to run this again sometime in the future. Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 04:10, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
• :Thank you, @Sdkb! I've published the source code here, and licensed it under CC BY-SA 3.0/4.0 and GNU LGPL and FDL. (I know the licensing is weird; it's for ease of reuse and publishing elsewhere.) Tol (talk | contribs) @ 22:20, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
• {{BotTrial|edits=50}} {{re|Tol}} --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 22:48, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
• :Thank you, @TheSandDoctor! {{Bot trial complete}} Diffs: ({{hlist|class=inline|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15|16|17|18|19|20|21|22|23|24|25|26|27|28|29|30|31|32|33|34|35|36|37|38|39|40|41|42|43|44|45|46|47|48|49|50}}). Tol (talk | contribs) @ 21:56, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
• ::I checked a few, and they all look good to me! {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 22:37, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
• Looks fine to me but can we advertise this at a content venue before approval? eg Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 13:38, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
• :@ProcrastinatingReader: I've notified WikiProject Biography. Tol (talk | contribs) @ 20:27, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
• ::(from said WikiProject) looks good to me. Dreamy Jazz ^{talk to me | my contributions} 20:29, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
• :Notified: WT:REDIRECT. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 22:08, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
• {{BotApproved}} ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 22:23, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

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