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  1. August 2004 – September 2005
  2. June 2005 – November 2005
  3. August 2004 – January 2006
  4. February 2006 – April 2006
  5. November 2005 – February 2006
  6. February 2006 – April 2006
  7. May 2006 – July 2006
  8. August 2006 – December 2006
  9. January 2007 (Part A)
  10. January 2007 (Part B)
  11. February 2007 – March 2007
  12. April 2007 – current

Updating Progress Templates.

We would need a bot that updates progress templates (Like this one) At least once a day, the problem is that these templates almost never get updated, and therefore it is nearly impossible to know how many articles are left. Flubeca (t) 21:11, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Each progress template would have to be done separately, of course. If you specify where this data comes from, it would be easier to create the bot. – Quadell 16:20, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
Oh, this is a count of articles in a category? (Hey gurus, how do you tell how many articles are in a category anyway?) – Quadell 16:23, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
Easiest way I know of is running AWB and getting a list from a category. It spits out the full number, regardless of paginating. ^demon 18:35, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
write up exactly what needs updated and how you need to update it, the category counting is very simple it takes me ~15 seconds to write a bot for that. But how you want it with that template..... Betacommand 19:15, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
I have been doing this manually – about once a week – for {{Notability progress}} since April. I recently started also doing it for {{Copyedit progress}}, {{Merge progress}}, and {{Wikification progress}}. I have been doing it the low-tech way ... manually clicking "next 200" for each monthly category. I know it probably sounds awful ;), but each update takes only about 10 minutes. It would be nice to have the process automated.
On a separate note, the structures of the templates are slightly different. For instance, {{Merge progress}} and {{Notability progress}} are essentially identical, but both differ from {{Copyedit progress}}. Then there's a template like {{Wikification progress history}}. Which progress templates should this request cover? If the differing formats of the templates would present a challenge to having the bot automatically update them, I could standardise the format of all except {{Dead external links status}} (not organised by month) and {{Wikification progress history}} (graphic archive). Cheers, Black Falcon 23:58, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
the template structure is not an issue, my question is how do I add data to them properly and keep the template from breaking. (I have no clue what im looking at) Betacommand 01:12, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

That I can't say for certain as I have no knowledge of how to program bots. Maybe it would help to take a look at this diff. Essentially, this is the only information that should change from one update to another. Let's assume we have a template that covers three categories, starting with March 2007. The relevant lines for the bot (listed below) are those that include a '#...#' paramater. I don't know if surrounding a value with '#'s actually does anything ... I've just done it to highlight the fields for this example. 

  bar:March2007
  from:0 till:#X# text: "]"
  bar:April2007
  from:#X+1# till:#X+Y# text: "]"
  bar:May2007
  from:#X+Y+1# till:#X+Y+Z# text: "]"
  bar:Total color:Total
  from:0 till:#X+Y+Z# text:"Total: #X+Y+Z# articles remaining"

The fields surrounded by '#' are the minimum that the bot would need to change (for purposes of simplicity, I have excluded mention of the "Unclassified" bar, which simply counts the number of pages in the main category – in this case, Category:Articles to be merged – and which can be dropped from the template altogether). So, conducting the update would require:

  1. Counting the number of articles in each category;
  2. Replacing the values X, Y, and Z with the updated numbers; and
  3. Updating the rest of the figures using the new data by erforming a few computations (addition only) in order to modify the lengths of the bars.

It would be nice if the bot could also update the date and time of the last update ... a date stamp (~~~~~) should suffice. Ideally, the bot would also add a new bar for each new month as time passes. Such an update would include two steps in addition to the 3 listed above:

  1. Adding a new bar to the "BarData = " field in the form ... bar:MonthYear just above bar:Total (see here)
  2. Displaying the bar on the template and linking to the new category by adding the below text (which continues the example above) just above the line bar:Total color:Total
  bar:MonthYear
  from:#X+Y+Z+1# till:#X+Y+Z+α# text: "]"

Does that information help at all? Cheers, Black Falcon 04:26, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

where X Y Z are what? Betacommand 04:34, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
Oops, sorry ... X, Y, and Z are the number of articles in the respective categories. In the example above, X is the number of articles in Category:Articles to be merged since March 2007, Y is the number of articles in Category:Articles to be merged since April 2007, and so on. -- Black Falcon 04:56, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
Ok I have an Idea of what im doing so im going to go be evil program some ideas. Betacommand 22:10, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
Ok code is 95% done I just have to kill a bug before Its runnable. Betacommand 05:02, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
First there was getting an inanimate entity to do things for you and now squashing bugs ... this smacks of sorcery. ;) A quick question, please: would it be easy to make the bot update progress templates (using the same structure as above) other than the ones that have been discussed so far? In particular, I'm thinking of creating progress templates for Category:Articles with large trivia sections, Category:Articles lacking sources, and Category:Articles with unsourced statements. The latter two each contain 70000+ articles, so I doubt I'll create them if I have to update them manually. Cheers, Black Falcon 18:02, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
New templates will be very easy Im just fighting a error (computer bug) with Unicode text, Im hoping to correct that tonight. So once I get this fixed we can move on to other templates. Betacommand 19:30, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
Great, thanks! Best of luck with the pesky little critter, Black Falcon 19:59, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
If you get frustrated and want to hand this off, Betacommand, I offer to take over. (I was coming here to work on this, actually, before I saw you were on top of it.) Or if you've got it, that's cool. – Quadell 15:48, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Ok I need a list of stuff:

examples taken from: {{Notability progress}}

  1. list of templates
  2. for each template I need the

{{Tnavbar-header|'''Notability Progress'''|Notability progress|bgcolor=#cccff}} line

  1. and the main category to check for each template. Betacommand 19:41, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

I am listing below 5 of the 7 progress templates in Category:Misplaced Pages progress templates; the structure of the other two is substantially different (as noted above, one is not even organised by month).

Template:Categorization progress
{{Tnavbar-header|'''Categorization Progress'''|Categorization progress|bgcolor=#ccccff}}
Category:Category needed
Template:Copyedit progress
{{Tnavbar-header|'''Copyedit Progress'''|Copyedit progress|bgcolor=#ccccff}}
Category:Misplaced Pages articles needing copy edit
Template:Merge progress
{{Tnavbar-header|'''Merge Progress'''|Merge progress|bgcolor=#cccff}}
Category:Articles to be merged
Template:Notability progress
{{Tnavbar-header|'''Notability Progress'''|Notability progress|bgcolor=#cccff}}
Category:Misplaced Pages articles with topics of unclear importance
Template:Wikification progress
{{Tnavbar-header|'''Wikification Progress'''|Wikification progress|bgcolor=#ccccff}}
Category:Articles that need to be wikified

If there is a problem with the structure of any of the templates, I'd be happy to change its format to approximate {{Notability progress}}, which I assume is the one you worked off of. It'll probably be easier to change the template format (it shouldn't take more than 1-2 minutes per template) than change the code for the bot. Cheers, Black Falcon 20:51, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Has the bug been resolved? Flubeca (t) 21:34, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

All the major bugs have been solved. ill work on getting it out within the next 36 hours. Betacommand 21:45, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
Awesome! Thank you! Flubeca (t) 13:43, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
Betacommand passed the source off to me, as he's kinda strapped for free time right now. I'm finishing up a few things, and I should be ready in the next day or so with it. ^demon 00:22, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

It has been a few days now. Is the bot having any troubles? -Flubeca (t) 17:49, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Any news? I'm posting mostly so that this section won't be automatically archived (it's seen no activity for almost 5 days). -- Black Falcon 23:21, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

As you can see, I made a successful run on Template:Notability_progress today. I'll set the rest up tomorrow, hopefully. ^demon 22:57, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Great! Thanks. By the way, the bot seems to have removed Template:Notability progress from Category:Misplaced Pages progress templates. Was that accidental or is that necessary for the bot to function? -- Black Falcon 19:40, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
Accidental, sorry. I'll fix it when I get back to the code tomorrow (it's on a server at work). ^demon 19:15, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Ok, it's running on Template:Notability progress, Template:Copyedit progress, and Template:Merge progress just fine. I'll plug the last 2 in after lunch. As I don't want to run this on my main bot account and I'm starting a second one, how often do we want to update these when I put a BRFA in? ^demon 15:48, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

It's working fine on Template:Notability progress, but there are some issues with the other two. For Template:Copyedit progress, the bot also counted Category:All articles needing copy edit, which is redundant to all of the monthly ones. For Template:Merge progress, I think you may want to work off of Category:Merge by month to avoid problems. -- Black Falcon 16:39, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
As for updating frequency ... once a day should probably be enough, but Flubeca may something different in mind. Thanks, by the way, for working on this. Cheers, Black Falcon 16:40, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
Once a day is good.-Flubeca 03:05, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
Oh and when will the other 2 be implemented. -Flubeca 03:09, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

By the way, the Template:Categorization progress is also having a double counting problem similar to the copyedit progress chart. Thanks for implementing this. --Fisherjs 10:27, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

WP:Yu-Gi-Oh!

Hi can some botuser please notify all members at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Yu-Gi-Oh! for the new reform proposal by me, thanks user:andersmusician --190.42.191.129 06:20, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

No. That's what WikiProject talk pages are for; all WikiProject members should have them watchlisted, because that's where discussion relating to the WikiProject's administration goes. A bot doesn't need to deliver this message to 31 users' talk pages just in case they're not paying attention to the WikiProject of which they are a member. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 06:30, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
You might look at User:HermesBot and User:R Delivery Bot - these will deliver "newsletters" to WikiProject members. But in general, we don't use (or allow) bots here to replace watchlists and talk pages. Otherwise user pages would be deluged with bot postings.
The standard process is to post a reform proposal on a project talk page, then see what others think. If you get consensus, then you can make changes as proposed. If you get no response whatsoever, then you should make a small, initial change, to see how others react (or if anyone cares). If you get significant disagreement from those who are actively watching the talk page, then you should take it as a sign that your reform proposal either needs modification or to be dropped altogether. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 13:21, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Combo between random article and watchlist?

Sorry if it's in the archive, but as dedicated as I am, I can't see skimming 12 archives before posting this idea. I wonder if someone could create (or has created) a bot that would work like the "random article" function, but would serve up an article from a list that the user maintains. I have a watchlist, but there are many articles in it that are only there because I'd like to remember to read through them again and see if I could come up with improvements; therefore, if no one changes them, my watchlist isn't going to remind me of them. It'd be handy if there were a bot that simply served up, on demand, one of the articles I've marked so that I remembered to go back over it again and see what I could add or improve. Lawikitejana 05:56, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

I don't understand. Why not just go to and randomly pick one yourself? --Android Mouse 06:02, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
You mean Special:Watchlist/edit? — Shinhan < talk > 06:16, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
To Android mouse: (1) Just FYI, the redirect you provided is the version of the watchlist that shows changes; as I mentioned, that's not going to remind me of ones no one changed. (2) I don't want actually to watch all of the pages that I would have on the list I'd make for the bot; I watch pages where I want to catch vandalism, etc., and I can't watch them well if there are too many. I would want to be able to make a separate list for the articles that I want to revisit and improve, then have a way to make slogging through it a little easier. (3) Even if I created a separate list as raised in point #2, I'm not a machine and can't keep track easily of which pages, out of 963, I have or haven't revisited recently (that's the current length of my watchlist, WITHOUT all the pages I'd like to go back and add to). '(4) As I mentioned in point #2, my watchlist is distinct from this list; most of my watchlist wouldn't go on this list, because most of my watchlist is about eliminating vandalism or inaccuracies quickly, on articles to which I couldn't really make much improvement or addition to existing content.
To Shinhan: No, I know that I can edit the listing itself — that's how I got it back down under 1,000. I'm talking about something to help me cycle through editing the articles. Lawikitejana 08:50, 26 June 2007 (UTC) P.S. Nonetheless, thanks for responding constructively!
My suggestion was not to edit the watchlist but to use that list and a random number generator to find a random article from that page.
Ok, second suggestion. You would first have to make a page in your userspace that would list every article you wish to random-watch. Something like User:Lawikitejana/RandomWatchList. You would use # to make a numbered list from that. Next, you use some kind or random number generator (like ) to generate a number between 1 and <number_of_article_on_your_randomwatchlist_page>. The random number that is generated would mean you should edit the article on that line.
Example: Your RandomWatchList page has 127 articles on it and random number generator gives number 73. So, you go and edit the 73rd article on your RandomWatchList page. (Since its a numbered list shouldnt be hard to find it).
Thats easy version. If you want something more complicated you could also program your own bot...— Shinhan < talk > 13:11, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
are these lists category based? Betacommand 05:53, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Netherlands

Is there a bot available to add {{WikiProject Netherlands}} to all articles in the Category:Netherlands tree that don't yet have the WikiProject tag? The only category not included in specifically excluded from this request is Category:People of Dutch descent and its 13 subcategories, as they will be processed manually. Please let me know if this request is incomplete. Aecis 19:48, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

I have some concerns regarding this task. I just went through the category tree to get a feeling of how many articles we're talking about here. Long story short, I stopped somewhere around the 11,000 article mark (obviously including subcategories of subcategories and, since I don't have a dd available right now, not accounting for articles that are already tagged). I realize the scope of your project is broad and I know we have much bigger bot tasks but 11,000+ articles just seems too much for a banner tagging task. We already have a problem with overtagging and most of these articles are likely to be within the scope of one or even a few other projects. --S 22:44, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
Perhaps the bot could skip the page if it already has so many tags at the top? --Android Mouse 23:38, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
Perhaps this is a silly question, but what if I were to split the request? Say I request that the articles in Category:Buildings and structures in the Netherlands be tagged this week, Category:Dutch people in two weeks time, etcetera, say 1,000 articles per request or per week. It doesn't address the issue of overtagging, but would it address the issue of size? Aecis 23:53, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
I'd probably be easier to request it all at once since once a bot is set to do it, there is little to no interaction needed for it to finish. As I said above, perhaps it could skip the page if there are already 2 or so tags at the top of the page? --Android Mouse 00:15, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
I don't know if the code is set to allow the bot to do it, pardon my ignorance, but is it possible to list the untagged/skipped articles somewhere? That would allow us to check the articles manually, to determine whether adding {{Wikiproject Netherlands}} would indeed be overtagging. I did see such datadumps by BetacommandBot once or twice, iirc. Aecis 00:32, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, it'd be possible to list which were skipped. --Android Mouse 00:43, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
In that case I have no objections to skipping articles that have already got n (2?) wikiproject templates. Aecis 00:48, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

I am generating lists of subcats and articles, now and will post links later. If you want a bot run i can exclude all talk pages with templates already on them, that is the most common method to avoid over tagging. Betacommand 01:38, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

I only went 5 levels into that cat but here are my results: Categories and Articles (note the article is running now give it some time to finish) Betacommand 02:31, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Please do, and if possible, as discussed above, please notify us (e.g. via a subpage of my userpage) which talk pages weren't tagged, so that we can add the WikiProject template manually if necessary. Aecis 00:30, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Rugby league

Can a bot, tag all articles within Category:Rugby league players (and subcategories) a needs-infobox=yes and autotemplate=yes on the talk page {{WikiProject Rugby league}} as a parameter, if the infobox {{Infobox rugby league biography}} does not appear on the page.

That may be a bit confusing so simply

SpecialWindler talk 21:04, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Will anyone reply? SpecialWindler talk 21:05, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
I can do it. If the {{WikiProject Rugby league}} template isn't on the talk page, should the bot add it? --Android Mouse 23:43, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
All the pages should be tagged, unless they were created after 17 June, 07. which they might. Yes it would be alright if the bot did that. SpecialWindler talk 06:16, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
Ok. I'll let this sit for one more day before I start, incase anyone else has comments/objections/anything else to add. --Android Mouse 06:32, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
OK, but I don't know why there will be a big objection. SpecialWindler talk 07:29, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Android Mouse, if there are already Category:WikiProject banners in a {{WikiProjectBannerShell}}, will the bot nest the new banner within the shell? See my talk page for a PCRE regular expression replace that will do the job. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 17:36, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing this out, I wasn't even aware of the bannershell, I'll make sure it adds it to that, if it is there. Unfourtunetly I won't be able to use the regular expression you provided though since I use C. --Android Mouse 18:06, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
Well, you can do the same thing in any language; just download the PCRE library. There's contributed source code, including C++ wrappers and sample Makefiles here, and everything else you might need is here. I've used the PCRE library successfully in plenty of C, C++, and C# applications.
Just a tip. I don't know how you can live without regular expressions; I can't.  ;) — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 18:29, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
Neat, I'll check that out. Now all I have to do is figure out how regular expression work :) --Android Mouse 18:34, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

 Done --Android Mouse 19:40, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Add references tag when none exists

If an article has inline <ref> tags, but no <references/> tag, a bot should add one. (Of course, a more fundamental change that completely changes the citation system would be better...) — Omegatron 00:25, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

A good idea (though I'm not sure if the problem is that common), but implementation is a bit tricker than looking for just one thing. Template:reflist is another way of displaying references/footnotes, and for all I know there may be others, so a bot needs to look for a variety of things. Also, I've seen the references tag with an extra space before the slash, so I suggest the bot look for the text string "<references". -- John Broughton (♫♫) 13:13, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Bot Request

Is this the place where I can ask someone to create a antivandalism bot for another wiki? Because on the Wiki I edit on, we have no knowledge on how to make a bot. So if someone can help me, our Wiki would be grateful. :) Erebus 21:12, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

talk to User:Tawker & User:Martinp23 Betacommand 21:14, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the suggestions, but both seem to be on a leave. Anyone here active to help me out? XD I would be appreciate it. :) Erebus 00:45, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
Leaving a short, polite message and waiting for a reply is really your best option. If you need the source code for one of the bots, you really need to talk the coders themselves. --S 13:05, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Template:S-cite, Template:S-pol

Unlike other succession box templates that seem to have sparked a limited controversy over at WikiProject Succession Box Standardization, these two are relatively unambiguous and have on their side what is closest to consensus (given the current state of the project). I thus request:

  1. That Template:S-cite should be replaced by Template:S-ref in all articles in the main namespace. The two templates have already been merged and the former redirects to the latter, which is in compliance with SBS's three-letter name rule (while still retaining the ability of the name to be easily interpreted) and was initially included in the s-ref anyway. The change is a simple one: change {{s-cite|...}} in all succession boxes to {{s-ref|...}}. No complications whatsoever should ensue, as both templates work in the exact same way.
  2. That Template:S-pol should be replaced by Template:S-civ (parameter |pol) in all articles in the main namespace. The two templates are headers, which makes the change even easier: all that has to be done is change {{s-pol}} to {{s-civ|pol}} in all succession boxes; the resulting headers will be identical. The change has been decided because a whole template just for police appointments is considered superfluous, given the relatively low number of offices that are to use it, while a more general header like "Civic offices" (with parameters for police, fire, and medical appointments) will prove more efficient, helping us reach the desired balance between a low number of templates and specific, useful headers.

I believe this change cannot be achieved by any means other than by bot (unless a great deal of time and effort is spend on the task), and is justifiable enough to be approved. The two templates are to be deleted after the change is done, so any help with speeding this process up would be greatly appreciated. Waltham, The Duke of 23:24, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

2. So why dont you redirect Template:S-pol to S-civ|pol :: maelgwn :: talk 23:58, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
Because that's impossible, maelgwn. As for #1, I see no need for a bot to perform this task. Don't fix links to redirects that aren't broken. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 05:00, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
Aah sorry. Was getting my sections and my seperators all confuddled. It should be easy enough for a bit to do. :: maelgwn :: talk 06:19, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
But... Wouldn't it be better to get rid of a spare template than just hide it? I thought templates placed a burden on Misplaced Pages servers.
In any case, will you at least do number two, please? Waltham, The Duke of 18:29, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
Don't worry about performance. I could create a task request, but I'd like to see some evidence of consensus. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 23:31, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
We are gathering consensus; it was not easy to discern previously. I will notify you when we gather sufficient support. Waltham, The Duke of 13:05, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Comparison articles into searchable databases

What open-source text editors that run on both Windows and Linux support both Regex search-and-replace and UTF-8 encoding? This is the sort of question the tool I'm requesting (probably on the toolserver or offsite) could answer by reading the tables in Misplaced Pages comparison articles. The tool would load all the tables from each comparison article, find the common column and merge them into one database table per article internally, and then provide an interface for search queries to these tables. NeonMerlin 19:20, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

I don't understand what you mean by "comparison articles", don't understand why you're posting on this page, and don't understand where the results of the table merges would be housed (or, if you will, how interested readers/users would find the tables). Wouldn't Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Database analysis or Misplaced Pages:Tools or Misplaced Pages:Toolserver be a better place to post this? -- John Broughton (♫♫) 17:33, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Categories bot request

We need a bot to keep a check on the articles in certain video games subcategories to make sure that all these articles are in their respective immediate parent categories too as per WP:SUBCAT#Secondary categorization rule. I've done my best over the past week or two to try to get these standardised, but there's always going to be new articles that won't be. The relevant sub-cats are: 

Category:Nintendo DS-only games
Category:GameCube-only games
Category:Wii-only games
Category:PlayStation 2-only games
Category:PlayStation 3-only games
Category:ZX Spectrum-only games
Category:Xbox 360-only games

(obviously, the relevant parents are Category:Nintendo DS games, Category:GameCube games, Category:Wii games, Category:PlayStation 2 games, Category:PlayStation 3 games, Category:ZX Spectrum games and Category:Xbox 360 games.

Cheers, Miremare 22:52, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

That sounds reasonable. How often would you need the articles to be checked? -- S 23:10, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
I don't really know how often bots usually do their work, but I don't think it would need to be that often, just a check every now and then. It's not the most urgent of tasks after all. Cheers, Miremare 23:58, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
Alright. I'll go through those articles tomorrow unless there are any concerns or objections and we'll go from there. -- S 00:14, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
Ok, thanks S. Miremare 00:20, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Seeing that this had been announced on the relevant category talk pages about half a month ago with no objections raised and considering that it is in line with the guideline, I'm going ahead and adding the parent category to those articles that aren't already in it. -- S 15:13, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Okay,  Done I think checking again every month or so should be enough. If there's an unusually high number of games coming out at some point (like right before or after E3 or something), please don't hesistate to contact me. -- S 16:31, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, that's great. Cheers! Miremare 17:18, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Link fixing

Can someone change instances of wagn to WAGN, 'one' and ‘one’ (strictly those including the single quotes) to One Railway wherever they appear? Articles have been moved, and the previous forms are counter to the MoS on two counts. I imagine uses of 'one' with the quotes not referring to the railway company to be few and far between. 81.104.175.145 20:38, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

image replacer bot

need a bot to replace all articles that link this image http://en.wikipedia.org/Image:Heinrich_Himmler%2C_Richard_Heydrich%2C_Karl_Wolf.JPG to the newer and better one http://en.wikipedia.org/Image:Vlcsnap-5522132.png

checkY Done —METS501 (talk) 04:23, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Category:Queensland Rugby League State of Origin players

I don't know if a bot can do it, and I don't think so. But can a bot tag every link on this page Queensland Maroons Players with Category:Queensland Rugby League State of Origin players.

I have removed any un-nessasary links from the page (temporarly) so that all links should be there. But it shouldn't repeat the task if a link is there twice, because there are alot there. It shouldn't also have any there that are red links, because there are quite a few, and you can't have an article with just a category. SpecialWindler talk 12:09, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

That's something a bot could definitely do. Is there a particular reason why you want to turn the list into a category and is there consensus that this should be done? --S 13:08, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
I just noticed that you want to sort by state of origin. That makes it somewhat more error-prone and a bit less trivial to do automatically. Frankly, I also don't really see the need since most player's articles already are sorted by nationality (ie. Category:Australian rugby league players, etc). Is there a specific reason why you want to do this?-- S 13:18, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
Because if you notice most players are by nationally of that 1/20th would actually be state of origin players. I want to do this so it is easy to understand from a players point of view wether they played state of origin or not, by looking at the categories. SpecialWindler talk 20:54, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
Can someone reply please. SpecialWindler talk 21:05, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
Stupid archiving, I'm re asking this as nobody replyed. I wouldn't have if someone said No but I think it should be done. SpecialWindler talk 10:43, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
Actually, I did reply on your talkpage. The question still stands: does the Rugby league Wikiproject agree that this should be done or not?-- S 10:52, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
Yeah I know you did, but this was archived when its was still active dissucussion. On Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Rugby league under the "Bot request" section, I have posted a message to fellow Rugby league members. It was posted 5 days ago (on 28 June), but has been no reply. SpecialWindler talk 11:04, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
Okay, let's give this another 24 hours. -- S 10:15, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
This is a fairly trivial request, so I don't see why the operation needs consensus, especially from a low-activity group. In any case, the operation can be reversed very quickly and easily, If needed, I've hacked together a simple script with error checking to do the tagging, in case anyone else hasn't configured a bot to do it yet, so if the bot is needed and the task gets approval let me know and I'll run the operation. (Of course, its practically an AWB job...) SpecialWindler: Bots can do practically anything these days =) --Draicone 13:12, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
Trivial, yes but I'd rather not rehash the the old lists vs. categories duplication debate that we've had a bajillion times. Hence, I was asking if there were any objections. By the way, based on your message to the list, I thought you had left the project. Have you decided to stay? -- S 13:25, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
Well, if we do a bot run but keep a record of the diff IDs of each edit it can all be reverted in about ten minutes later if needed, and judging by this the categorising is sorely needed. I've kind of left the project, turns out Mike42 couldn't think of anyone more obsessive than me when it came to clearing backlogs so I'm lightly helping out with AFC at the moment. (Lightly being a hundred edits a day.) I don't believe I'll resume active editing, and I certainly won't accept an RfA as many on IRC have suggested. --Draicone 22:19, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

NFL -> National Football League_National_Football_League-2007-07-02T22:38:00.000Z">

We could use a bot to fix links to the following pages:

Are you requesting that the redirects be replaced by the actual page? If so, you might wish to read WP:REDIRECT#Don't fix links to redirects that aren't broken. -- JLaTondre 23:06, 2 July 2007 (UTC)_National_Football_League"> _National_Football_League">

That would make sense, then. My bad. Pats1 23:10, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
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