Operator: Anomie ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 01:55, Thursday October 10, 2013 ( UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Programming language(s): Perl
Source code available: User:AnomieBOT/source/tasks/TemplateTalkRedirectCreator.pm
Function overview: Create redirects for talk pages of certain pages, such as template /doc subpages, where discussion should be centralized on a corresponding "main" talk page.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/BlakesBot
Edit period(s): Periodic
Estimated number of pages affected: There are currently 26690 pages meeting criteria #1 and #2 (some of these may be excluded by #3 or #4). After that, it depends on the rate of creation of new pages resulting in matches for the bot's criteria.
Exclusion compliant (Y/N): N/A, as a nonexistent page cannot have an exclusion template (but yes)
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Yes
Function details: The bot will query the replicated database on Tool Labs and the API to find pages matching certain patterns where the following conditions hold:
When these conditions are satisfied, the talk page in #2 will be created as a redirect to the corresponding "main" talk page (or to its target if that page is a redirect).
Note this task was previously approved for trial for BlakesBot, but the operator seems to have disappeared since August. It was then approved for trial for Gabrielchihonglee-Bot, but after running into issues that request was withdrawn.
The current list of patterns and the corresponding "main" talk pages is:
I've worded the task to be open to additions to this list. At the moment the redirects will be created "bare"; if someone wants to create an appropriate redirect template I'd be happy to start using it. Anomie ⚔ 01:55, 10 October 2013 (UTC) reply
{{ BAGAssistanceNeeded}} Well? Anomie ⚔ 21:09, 20 October 2013 (UTC) reply
Approved for trial (100 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 18:58, 26 October 2013 (UTC) reply
Approved. Don't see any double redirects or misnames, random sample looks good. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 22:18, 5 November 2013 (UTC) reply