Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Deadendmarker

This Bot has since been renamed to JamietwBot. Jamietw (talk) 06:44, 4 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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.

Deadendmarker

Operator: Jamietw (talk · contribs)

Time filed: 18:48, Friday April 8, 2011 (UTC)

Automatic or Manual:Automatic supervised

Programming language(s):AutoWikiBrowser

Source code available:User:Deadendmarker/Source

Function overview:Marks articles that do not link to other articles with Template:Dead end at the top of article. I used to do this on my own account, but AWB guidelines say if I am making more than a few edits a minute I should use Bot account.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):None

Edit period(s):Daily

Estimated number of pages affected:First Run could clear backlog of 1000 articles

Exclusion compliant (Y/N):Yes

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

Function details:Give text file of Deadend pages from http://toolserver.org/~jason/deadend_pages.php?limit=50 and Bot will add Template:Dead end to the top of each article on the list.

Discussion

Are you going to create a separate account to run the bot on? The bot policy states that any bot needs it's own account. Otherwise it looks okay to me. Regards, MacMed^talk _stalk 22:33, 8 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, this Bot has its own account: Deadendmarker. Hope this helps, Jamietw (talk) 06:06, 9 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

{{BAGAssistanceNeeded}} Well that was silly of me. Looks alright to me, just need a BAG member to take a look. Regards, MacMed^talk _stalk 20:01, 9 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't tag 1 day old BRFA with BAGAssistanceNeeded. Per guidelines: "If you feel that your request is being overlooked (no BAG attention for ~1 week) you can add {{BAG assistance needed}} to the page." — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 20:29, 9 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

To clarify, you will review every edit the bot makes? Will this task be applicable to very short articles as well? Are you certain there will be no false positives? — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 20:29, 9 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have ran the code without making edits and so far I have not seen any false positives, will certainly review the first few thousand edits and after that if I am sure it seems reliable I might downgrade that to most articles. Nevertheless, all of the bot's runs will be manually started. The bot is also programmed to leave stubs untouched.Jamietw (talk) 03:07, 10 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Speedily Approved. Previously approved task and the user has done this already. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 07:04, 10 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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