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This is a page for requesting tasks to be done by bots per the bot policy. This is an appropriate place to put ideas for uncontroversial bot tasks, to get early feedback on ideas for bot tasks (controversial or not), and to seek bot operators for bot tasks. Consensus-building discussions requiring large community input (such as request for comments) should normally be held at WP:VPPROP or other relevant pages (such as a WikiProject's talk page).

You can check the "Commonly Requested Bots" box above to see if a suitable bot already exists for the task you have in mind. If you have a question about a particular bot, contact the bot operator directly via their talk page or the bot's talk page. If a bot is acting improperly, follow the guidance outlined in WP:BOTISSUE. For broader issues and general discussion about bots, see the bot noticeboard.

Before making a request, please see the list of frequently denied bots, either because they are too complicated to program, or do not have consensus from the Misplaced Pages community. If you are requesting that a template (such as a WikiProject banner) is added to all pages in a particular category, please be careful to check the category tree for any unwanted subcategories. It is best to give a complete list of categories that should be worked through individually, rather than one category to be analyzed recursively (see example difference).

Alternatives to bot requests

• WP:AWBREQ, for simple tasks that involve a handful of articles and/or only needs to be done once (e.g. adding a category to a few articles).
• WP:URLREQ, for tasks involving changing or updating URLs to prevent link rot (specialized bots deal with this).
• WP:USURPREQ, for reporting a domain be usurped eg. |url-status=usurped
• WP:SQLREQ, for tasks which might be solved with an SQL query (e.g. compiling a list of articles according to certain criteria).
• WP:TEMPREQ, to request a new template written in wiki code or Lua.
• WP:SCRIPTREQ, to request a new user script. Many useful scripts already exist, see Misplaced Pages:User scripts/List.
• WP:CITEBOTREQ, to request a new feature for WP:Citation bot, a user-initiated bot that fixes citations.

Note to bot operators: The {{BOTREQ}} template can be used to give common responses, and make it easier to keep track of the task's current status. If you complete a request, note that you did with {{BOTREQ|done}}, and archive the request after a few days (WP:1CA is useful here).

#	Bot request	Status	💬	👥	🙋 Last editor	🕒 (UTC)	🤖 Last botop editor	🕒 (UTC)
1	"Was" in TV articles		7	5	Bunnypranav	2024-11-26 13:08	Bunnypranav	2024-11-26 13:08
2	Replace standalone BLP templates	Done	7	3	MSGJ	2024-10-30 19:37	Tom.Reding	2024-10-29 16:04
3	Assess set index and WikiProject Lists based on category as lists		19	5	Mrfoogles	2024-11-06 16:17	Tom.Reding	2024-11-02 15:53
4	Request for WP:SCRIPTREQ		1	1	StefanSurrealsSummon	2024-11-08 18:27
5	LLM summary for laypersons to talk pages of overly technical articles?		10	7	Legoktm	2024-11-12 17:50	Legoktm	2024-11-12 17:50
6	Redirects with curly apostrophes		6	5	Pppery	2024-11-11 17:30	Primefac	2024-11-11 16:52
7	Bot for replacing/archiving 13,000 dead citations for New Zealand charts		3	2	Muhandes	2024-11-14 22:49	Muhandes	2024-11-14 22:49
8	Basketball biography infobox request		7	2	Dissident93	2024-11-18 21:04	Primefac	2024-11-17 20:44
9	Meanings of minor-planet names		1	1	Absolutiva	2024-11-18 16:20
10	Reference examination bot		4	3	Wiki king 100000	2024-11-25 17:00	Usernamekiran	2024-11-20 13:02
11	Replacing FastilyBot	BRFA filed	26	9	Usernamekiran	2024-12-26 23:37	Usernamekiran	2024-12-26 23:37
12	Deletion of navboxes at Category:Basketball Olympic squad navigational boxes by competition	Working	4	4	Geardona	2024-11-20 23:48	Qwerfjkl	2024-11-20 17:32
13	Tagging Category:Cinema of Belgium	BRFA filed	20	4	Bunnypranav	2024-12-21 15:58	Bunnypranav	2024-12-21 15:58
14	Bulk remove "link will display the full calendar" from articles about calendar years		6	5	Primefac	2024-12-09 16:31	Primefac	2024-12-09 16:31
15	Province over-capitalization		8	2	Dicklyon	2024-12-21 23:39	Primefac	2024-12-11 22:00
16	VPNGate	Y Done	13	6	MolecularPilot	2024-12-22 01:39	DreamRimmer	2024-12-21 13:40
17	Creation for nano bot	Not a good task for a bot.	3	3	Primefac	2024-12-09 16:30	Primefac	2024-12-09 16:30
18	Logging AfC drafts resubmitted without progress		1	1	JJPMaster	2024-12-29 15:29

List of WikiProjects

I am preparing the research within wikigroups. I need a list of WikiProjects, would it be possible to send me (you can use e-mail) a list of pages (would be nice one pagename per line) which starts at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject~ ? I will sort out subpages manually, or if you can remove them would be nice. I guess each pagename which has / is not needed.--Juandev (talk) 18:00, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

WP:STANDARDIZE (or this) is what you are looking for? -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:05, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

The problem here is that although there are several of us that can tell you what the WikiProjects are, the naming isn't standard among them. Some start with WikiProject, Some with WP, some have names like Maths project or US Roads WikiProject. Additionally there are many variations of some with a large number of redirects. What this means is that although its fairly easy to identify 99% of the projects, doing any sort of analysis on them becomes much much harder due to the lack of standardization. Kumioko (talk) 22:22, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Actually most of the projects (if not all) do start with Misplaced Pages:WikiProject, even the templates there are only about three that are non-standard, Maths Rating, US Roads WikiProject and Canada Roads WikiProject, by memory, though there are a zillion redirects, as you say. Rich Farmbrough, 01:08, 25 December 2012 (UTC).

Good to know, there are just 3 projects without "standard" name.--Juandev (talk) 13:42, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

may be what you are looking for. — Ganeshk (talk) 22:06, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Well its better than the category list, which is not complete by the means I cant get a full list on one page. This I can sort much easier. Looking on that number (2087) its much higher than the category:WikiProjects by status. Is that a real number of WikiProjects? Even those, which are abandoned? --Juandev (talk) 13:42, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

This also shows the WikiProjects and their associated redirects if applicable. Kumioko (talk) 22:24, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Looking on that, I would not know, how to sort it out and get just project names from that.--Juandev (talk) 13:42, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

For the full list you will need someone to use the API to return all non-redirect pages in Misplaced Pages space with a prefix of WikiProject and fileter out the subpages, or scan a database dump in the same manner. I had a quick go with AWB but it is limited to fetching the first 25000 pages. I don't download database dumps since I can't make much constructive use of them thanks to the certain people, or I would run a scan for you. Rich Farmbrough, 01:18, 25 December 2012 (UTC).

Thank you Richard, I think I will use that Project index to get the full list. But one small related question. Can bot read project participants even from page history?--Juandev (talk) 13:42, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

In principle, yes. However I can see little (not zero, but little) use in knowing who has left certain projects. Rich Farmbrough, 21:31, 29 December 2012 (UTC).

We're discussing adding project tagging to Twinkle, where the issue of non-standard banner templates has arisen. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:44, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

Removal of comments

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

A number of articles include the comment:

<!-- please do not add an infobox, per ]-->

Not only is this against the spirit of Misplaced Pages, but it is explicitly contrary to the outcomes of this RfC. Can someone with a bot remove all instances, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:47, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

I can't find any such articles using a regular Misplaced Pages search. Could you please give some examples? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 15:22, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

By the way, Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Classical music#Biographical infoboxes provides a link to Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Classical music/Style guidelines#Biographical infoboxes, which states "current consensus among project participants holds that the use of biographical infoboxes is often counterproductive on biographies of classical musicians, including conductors and instrumentalists and that they should not be used without first obtaining consensus on the article's talk page." Should the guidelines be updated to reflect the RfC first? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 15:26, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Also, is there consensus to remove this comment from each article? GoingBatty (talk) 16:27, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Consensus at the cited RfC is that "WikiProjects are free to publish guidelines and recommendations but do not have the authority to override a local consensus on the talk page of an article." Thus, the comments do not reflect the will of the community. From the examples I've seen, such comments pre-date that RfC. For example, the Vivaldi article mentioned below had it added on 28 April 2007‎; the RfC ran Feb-April 2010. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:32, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Almost certainly. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:32, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Regular searching doesn't find comments; that's why script assisted editing is needed. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:32, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Requested at IRC -wikipedia to add: tools:~betacommand/reports/db_scanner.log which is the results of a running dump scan . Dru of Id (talk) 15:53, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Ah, Antonio Vivaldi contains <!-- please do not add an infobox, per ]-->. GoingBatty (talk) 16:27, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Thank you. That's 363 articles, by my reckoning. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:33, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Please additionally note that the script continues to run, but the 363 fugure figure (insert- may or...) may not update. Dru of Id (talk) 17:16, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

I can take this one, under my 3rd BRFA as per above, I'll replace it with nothing and will wait until the database scan is complete to process it in one go. Thehelpfulone 17:39, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

See: Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Classical music/Guidelines#Biographical infoboxes. Hyacinth (talk) 03:39, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Given all the prior discussion about composer infoboxes, including the RfC, it ought to have been obvious to everybody from the start that the removal of these comments was not going to have consensus. This includes the requester, who definitely ought to have known better. Most of the edits made by Thehelpfulbot have in the meantime been reverted by various other editors. Fut.Perf. ☼ 07:54, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Note: The comments are now being discussed at Misplaced Pages:Village pump (policy)#Wikiproject notes in articles. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:48, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

Assessment

Hi everyone. I realize there already is a bot, DoboBot, used for this upon request, but how about a bot that will automatically assess talk pages with the banners of WikiProjects based on the article or page's subject, links, or such. This is useful because it helps WikiProject statistics maintain their accuracy, and I notice that there are a number of articles without assessments from relevant WikiProjects. This is different that the DodoBot because it will add assessments without a request, and most will not bother requesting banners be placed and it will save some time, although I am not sure how it will effect each other. I'd be more than happy to work on this type of bot myself, but would like the opinion of others as well, and, of course, am just thinking out loud. Thanks, and happy holidays! TBrandley 02:33, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

Just a note but Dodobot and I think all the other bots that did assessments are down. Dodobot hasn't edited since last year. Kumioko (talk) 02:37, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

Resolving multilanguage pages

It happened a few times that I found a wikipedia page in a language with links to others that weren't consistent. Let say the English version of the page has German, French and Polish. It happens that the French version of the page only has German and English.

My bot idea is to automatically add the link to the Polish version in the French version.

I wonder if such a bot already exists or not and if the numerous interwiki bots already do this or not. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Asimoviv (talk • contribs) 05:38, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

That sounds like exactly what all the numerous interwiki bots already do. Also note that we here cannot give you permission to run a bot on frwiki, you'd need to go to fr:Wikipédia:Bot/Statut (or get approved as a global interwiki bot) for that. Anomie⚔ 13:55, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

Pennsylvania State Routes navbox

It would be great if a bot could do this.

For every article about a state route in Pennsylvania:

Add the template Template:navbox Pennsylvania State Routes to the bottom

Jakob _C 17:03, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

That's quite a big navbox you have there. Is there consensus to add this new navbox to hundreds of articles? (If not, maybe Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject U.S. Roads and/or Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Pennsylvania would be a place to start.) Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 18:09, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

Italics for ship names

I have been doing this for a while, being a little OCD, but I realize that a bot would be much better at this job then I would do. This is definitely for the bot programmer who likes a challenge.

I am trying to italicize the titles of the various ships and ship classes titles found on this site. The titles of ships are weird. Their prefixes are not italicized, while the name of the ship/class is in italicizes. Take for example USS Enterprise. I have been making some of these changes like this one .

Here are some of the complications:

• Some ships, but not all ships, under this template will already be italicized using this template {{Infobox ship begin}}. This template will only italicize some of the ships but not others.
• Some pages like the Havmanden class submarine (1911) use the {{DISPLAYTITLE}} template italicize its title, while others like USS Enterprise use this template, {{Italic title prefixed}}.

The main ship categories that have not been italicized are the ship classes. Category:Ship classes but their are many ships within the vast number of categories of the Category:Ships category in itself is not complete. Thanks for your help. Oldag07 (talk) 15:19, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Mark a lot of pages for microformatting

Could a bot be run to apply {{Start date}} to pages using {{Infobox NRHP}}? I'm envisioning the bot editing every page whose infobox has a single year in the template's |built= parameter to envelop the year in the template, similar to what was done in this diff. According to its documentation, the purpose of the template is to improve microformatting without affecting the appearance of the article. From my experience with this template, I believe that a substantial majority of the template's 40,000 transclusions will have a single date in this parameter, although some will have multiple years or a range of years, and a few will have a blank parameter or no parameter at all. In these cases, nothing should be done. Nyttend (talk) 23:37, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

I support this whole-heartedly; and it could also apply to other templates, and to templates with a year/month date or a full date (see previous discussion); but breaking it into manageable chunks is a good way to get started. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:50, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

So basically if the value in |built= is a 4 digit number, encase it in {{start date}}? I can file a request for that in a few days. Legoktm (talk) 08:36, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

For the first stage, yes. The second would be where the value is only a month and year (e.g. "November 1901" convert to, e.g., {{Start date|1901|11}}. the third and final stage, full dates, is obviously more complex. A list of other affected templates is at User:Pigsonthewing/to-do#Date conversions. Note that Dates before the year 1583 AD (or after 9999) should not be converted. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:16, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

I don't fully understand the value of using the startdate template. I have twothree questions or possibly objections to starting with a bot run very quickly:

1. The startdate template could probably be applied within the NRHP infobox template. It does not need to be changed in any of the NRHP articles at all, does it? Assuming that the arguments which appear in NRHP infobox date fields, usually either of format YYYY or of format Month DD, YYYY, are acceptable to the startdate template, the startdate template can be applied by just one central modification of the NRHP infobox code.

If the startdate template is to be applied only to entries of format YYYY, I expect the wikimedia code for the NRHP infobox could handle that, as a conditional application. It would be better to do this in the infobox code, centrally, too, if only for reason of saving all those keystrokes in articles. And the unnecessary edits of new and old editors changing perfectly good info, manually. This comment applies to all the other infoboxes being mentioned above: change the code in their infobox templates, not in all of the articles using the infoboxes. --doncram 19:44, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

2. If it is to be applied by a bot to all the NRHP articles using the NRHP infobox (about 40,000), for some reason, why apply it to just the "built =" field? The built= field is actually not present in every NRHP infobox. The "added=" field is present in nearly 100% of the infoboxes, and is the date of NRHP listing. In most cases it will be filled in with a date like "January 1, 2000", but sometimes it may have just a year, for example in articles that editor Daniel Case created (he happens to think the month and day information is excessive). And also there "designated_nrhp_type = January 1, 2000", "designated_nrhp_type2 = ", "designated_nrhp_type3= ", and "designated_nrhp_type4=" fields that are date fields and that are sometimes present. If a bot is run, it should probably cover them all at once.

3. I also note that the "startdate" is confusing as a term, especially for use in the built= field for the NRHP infobox. In some cases the year-date given there is a start-and-end year-date for construction. In other cases it is a start date while there exists a later completion date, not provided in the infobox. In other cases it is the completion date, and not a start date at all. In other cases it is the date of some significant other event, and is not a built date at all. I wonder, before this is applied by a bot to many thousands of articles, could the term be changed to show something else? Could/should it be called "cssdate" instead? or "mfdate", rather than "startdate"? This has not been used in NRHP articles previously, and I for one do not appreciate its merit yet. Even if it does have merit, then perhaps it could be done better with a different name or changed in some other way to avoid a lot of future confusion.

Thanks, Nyttend, for giving notice about this at wt:NRHP#Recent modification to generator results. I'll comment there too. Perhaps this request should not be implemented without checking there for further discussion, too. --doncram 19:23, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

The previous discussion mentioned above may answer some of your questions; note that it comprised an RfC with overwhelming support. {{Start date}} currently has 104,374 transclusions (including NRHP articles); its name doesn't appear to be a problem. It cannot be applied within the Infobox's code, because of the variety of data formats used, as you mention. I have updated the Infobox's documentation to show examples of its use. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:23, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for replying. At the NRHP page discussion, you stated that you "answered these questions" here, which you did not, IMHO. The linked previous discussion does not address my 2nd and 3rd points above, at all. Partly addressing 3, you simply state that "its name doesn't appear to be a problem", but that does not fully respond to the situation of the NRHP built date, where editors are focused upon, or should be focused upon, whether a given date is a start of construction date or not. This is quite a sore point, actually, that the commonly used NRHP infobox generator puts the wrong information into infoboxes frequently at this field (some small fraction of the occasions, percentage-wise, but it has generated errors that stand in probably hundreds if not thousands of articles still out uncorrected in mainspace, and the generator is poised with similar incorrect information for many more future articles).

I see you mentioned in the previous discussion that sometimes dates in infoboxes get modifiers like "circa 1920" or get vague dates like "1920-23". These modifiers or date ranges SHOULD be implemented into the built= date in NRHP infoboxes. They are implemented into some good number, probably some few thousands of articles. Unfortunately the NRHP infobox generator commonly used, which works from a copy of the NRIS database, ignores the NRIS database field that indicates "circa" applies, so will show "1920" rather than "c.1920", which is wrong. For a building built during 1920-23, the NRIS infobox generator will put in built=1920, which is wrong. So new articles and many existing articles show assertions that are inaccurate, that are not faithful representations of the NRIS database. Applying the startdate template would make these incorrect assertions seem all the more official, and it will be unclear to editors whether and how they can put in the correctly vague information. I think they would tend to let the official-looking startdate information stand, and only perhaps in the article text state something more accurate.

On point 1., you suggest that the variety in dates is too complicated for mediawiki template software to handle. I don't know that there is much variety in dates, besides the circa and date range issues. I think is is otherwise pretty much just January 31, 2000 format or 2000 format (and not ever 31 January 2000 format), and that infobox code could handle that. Also, from the linked previous discussion, i browsed my way to WikiProject Microformats, where there is a question stated How can we use Microformats on Misplaced Pages? (and, more generally, in MediaWiki)? which is answered by: "It is easier to apply them to templates rather than individual pages. That also means that individual authors need not know the intricacies of microformat mark-up, only how to use the relevant template. Many of the templates on Misplaced Pages require minimal changes to use microformats to present their existing content with added meaning. While the functionality may already exist in the Misplaced Pages template, adding microformat mark-up will make that functionality available to people using the same tools they use when visiting other sites." I interpret that to mean that the Wikiproject which you founded recommends the implementation should be done in the NRHP infobox template, not in all 40,000 or so current articles.

Frankly, I think it is a bad idea to implement this microformat effort, on this particular field of the NRHP infobox. I think that waiting about a year or two would enable the NRHP wikiproject to complete articles on its 87,000 or so NRHP places, and to engage in a cleanup campaign about the accuracy of data in that built= field. I believe the provider of the NRHP infobox tool is not currently willing to make changes to prevent new bad data from being added, so the way to go is to create all the missing articles, then fix them, cutting the infobox generator out of the loop. And I see no immediate need to implement the microformatting. The disadvantages of doing mf now are that it complicates the actual development of articles and the correction of the known-to-be-frequently bad information in the built= field. It also is hardly a service to any potential users of the microformat data, to get convenient access to a field of bad data.

Could you respond to these points? About a previous RFC about the hypothetical of this bot being run having achieved a consensus, that is fine and good, but maybe the participants--none of whom were NRHPers--could not anticipate the complications coming up here. --doncram 23:14, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Over-enthusiastic Addbot

A bot has subst'ed a TfD notice onto about 3000 talk pages - example edit, list of affected pages. The TfD discussion is now closed, so the notice is no longer relevant. Is this something a bot could/should clean up? -- John of Reading (talk) 09:12, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

I believe so. Would replacing the entire substitution with {{OW}} be sufficient?  Hazard-SJ  ✈  01:39, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Yes, simplest is best. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:58, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Generate list of Ethiopia-related redlinks

We need to generate a list of common redlinks linked from Ethiopia-related articles. Is it possible for a bot to do this? The articles could be found in a number of ways:

• All articles that have talk pages with {{WikiProject Ethiopia}}. These same talk pages can be found in the Category:WikiProject Ethiopia. The bot should search the related articles for redlinks.
• All articles found listed in any category that begins with Category:Ethiopia.
• All articles found in Category:Ethiopia and all its sub categories.

There are probably even more ways of identifying the articles. But if possible we need the bot to dump the list of redlinks into a page: allredlinks. If the list is too long, perhaps break it down by alphabet like: A-G redlinks or A redlinks, B redlinks, C redlinks. Then also we would like a list of the top 100 most common redlinks.

I don't know if this is possible or feasible. However, it would greatly improve our project's goal of expanding Misplaced Pages's coverage of Ethiopia. Thanks from (WP:ETH) አቤል ዳዊት (Janweh) (talk) 06:49, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

I believe tools:~magnus/missingtopics.php can help you out, though depending on the length of the list, it might be easier/faster just to have a toolserver user run a query for you manually. Legoktm (talk) 06:53, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

{{Rayment}}

Template:Rayment should have the parameter external links=1 when used as an external link. I have often seen people forget that parameter, and that causes two error messages appear that should only appear when used as a source. Werieth (talk) 21:48, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

• Coding...--Makecat 06:19, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

previous comments where archived, I am un-archiving as this is not resolved. Werieth (talk) 19:08, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

• Misplaced Pages:Bots/Requests for approval/Makecat-bot 4 was withdrawn by Makecat, however this request is fairly trivial, if the template is below a section called External Links then add the parameter otherwise ignore it. Werieth (talk) 19:08, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject tagging request: WP:JAZZ

Hello, WP:JAZZ would like to have a 'bot add the {{WikiProject Jazz}} banner to jazz-related pages that aren't already tagged. We had already left a request at User talk:DodoBot/Requests#WP:JAZZ (with more details concerning inheritance; auto-tagging stubs etc.). However, that account does not seem to be very active (which I did not notice at the time I filed the request). (I later left a request for User:MuZebot, before I noticed an older message indicating that MuZemike would be on administrative hiatus.)

The list of relevant categories is located at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Jazz/Categories, but please note that there are actually three lists of categories at that page; they each need to be tagged slightly differently:

1. We need the bot to add {{WikiProject Jazz|album=yes}} to the articles (or rather, the talk pages) within the /Albums sub-listing
2. We need the bot to add {{WikiProject Jazz|song=yes}} to the articles (or rather, the talk pages) within the /Songs sub-listing
3. We need the bot to add {{WikiProject Jazz}} to the articles (or rather, the talk pages) within the /General sub-listing

To the best of my knowledge, /Categories represents all applicable categories and sub-categories (I deliberately omitted those that are outside the project's scope), so you should not need to worry about sub-category depth or "false positives".

FYI in 2010, we had Xenobot Mk V perform (essentially) the same request. (See Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Jazz/Archives/2010 1#Adding WikiProject banner). It also added {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} if and when it was able to do so.

I think we do not want to inherit importance=, only inherit class=.

I have an additional request, but I am not sure whether it's technically possible, and furthermore I'm not sure whether we have consensus (see unanswered comments). I'd be interested in having the 'bot add needs-infobox=yes if the article does not have an {{Infobox foo}} template; or if {{WikiProject Jazz}} can inherit this setting from another WikiProject banner, or it can inherit this setting if the talk page already has {{Infobox requested}}.

Let me know if I can clarify anything, either leave me a message here or at WT:JAZZ.

Thanks and Happy New Year, Gyrofrog (talk) 15:27, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

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