Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BaranBOT 6

BaranBOT 6

Operator: DreamRimmer (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 11:41, Sunday, September 15, 2024 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available:

Function overview: Change the priority from 'mid' and 'low' to 'NA' for redirects in Category:Redirect-Class medicine articles.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Requested at Wikipedia:Bot requests#WikiProject ratings change

Edit period(s): one-time

Estimated number of pages affected: 1258

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

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

Function details: According to Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Assessment#Quality assessment, all redirects for Template:WikiProject Medicine should be tagged with 'NA' priority. This bot will process the 1258 redirects currently tagged with 'mid' and 'low' priority and change their priority to 'NA'.

Discussion

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. – SD0001 (talk) 14:15, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hold on a second. Why isn't this being handled within the template? Not sure if it used to be handled earlier. That would be preferable to a bot editing thousands of pages. @MSGJ: perhaps you can comment on this? – SD0001 (talk) 14:24, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at Talk:Acne scarring,

I rated the article as Start/Mid in 2008.
The article was redirected in 2009. The talk page was never updated to reflect this.
Cewbot reformatted the WikiProject template in January 2024,[1] but it did not correct the error in quality rating (=Start-class).

I wonder whether the |class=Start overrides the redirect autodetection. It is possible that different groups have differing preferences for priority/importance on redirects. WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:34, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes we can easily do this automatically in the template. I don't think there are any projects rating redirects by importance, but if it was ever needed, those projects can easily use a custom importance mask. I will put a proposal on Module talk:WikiProject banner — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:28, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

On hold. Pending outcome of Module talk:WikiProject banner#Override importance to NA on non-articles. – SD0001 (talk) 12:41, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]