Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Erwin85Bot 7

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User:Erwin85Bot

Operator: Erwin85 (talk)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Unsupervised from Toolserver

Programming Language(s): Python

Function Summary: Change {{KeepLocal}} to {{NoCommons}} and remove {{NowCommons}} for images tagged with both KeepLocal and NowCommons. Possibly remove NowCommons if the target image doesn't exist.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Continuous

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

Function Details: See summary.

Source code: None yet

Discussion

This only adds a task to the current script used for Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Erwin85Bot 4. However, if this new task will be approved it will also edit the image pages. I therefore guessed a new BRFA could be necessary. The reason for this new task is a comment on my talk page about the KeepLocal tag. If this task would be added I could also add a task to remove {{NowCommons}} if the target image doesn't exist. Note that I haven't coded anything yet. I just want input to see if this new task is indeed an improvement or that it should just ignore those tags. --Erwin85 (talk) 13:26, 20 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds fine to me, since that's what the template says you should do. (I could argue that the name of the template is misleading, since "{{NoCommons}}" really sounds like it should mean "{{Do not move to Commons}}", but that's not really an issue with the proposed bot feature.) Regarding misapplied {{NowCommons}}, it might be interesting to compile a list of cases where it's used but the Commons image doesn't exist and try to find out the cause in each case: I'd guess the two main reasons are typos (including missing "Image:" prefix) and the image being deleted on Commons. At least the lack of "Image:" in the parameter is something the bot could check for and automatically correct. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 15:13, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial (25 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. BJ^Talk 06:28, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for allowing me to trial, but I don't have much time for Wikipedia now and this has a low priority. I'll put this on hold for now. Could someone close this request as I don't know how to formally do so? Thanks, --Erwin85 (talk) 17:46, 6 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn by operator. Lego K^ontribs T^alk M 05:24, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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