Operator: Blake305 ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 23:00, Friday August 9, 2013 ( UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Programming language(s): Java
Source code available: No
Function overview: The bot will search through all templates on wikipedia, and looks for templates with the following subpages: /doc, /sandbox, and /testcase. If the talk page for these subpages does not exist, and the talk page for the main template does exist, a redirect will be created.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): This conversation
Edit period(s): One time run
Estimated number of pages affected: 15422, a list of the redirects created can be found here and here
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No
Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): No
Function details: This bot doesn't need to be exclusion compliant because there are no bot-exclusion tags on pages that haven't been created yet. This task was requested by Andy Mabbett. If source code is requested, it can be provided. Look at the relevant discussion for more details.
I would be willing to trial this if a notice/discussion about this is posted somewhere first. Otherwise, I share Addshore's sentiment. No one having opposed doesn't imply there is wide consensus (especially this being poorly watched area). How often do users actually post on doc/sandbox/test talk pages by accident? By the way, those lists have tons of redirected templates and a bunch of double redirects. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 21:33, 25 August 2013 (UTC) reply
I saw the note at VPM, and I think this is a good idea. It'll be briefly irritating on my watchlist, but it will solve this problem for many, many templates in the long-run. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 21:58, 25 August 2013 (UTC) reply
Approved for trial (100 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. No opposition to the task, largely silent consensus and some support, so I'm fine to go ahead with a trial. Also, as I mentioned, those lists have tons of redirected templates and a bunch of double redirects. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 11:36, 3 September 2013 (UTC) reply
A user has requested the attention of the operator. Once the operator has seen this message and replied, please deactivate this tag. (user notified) Any idea when the trial will run? Hasteur ( talk) 01:18, 21 September 2013 (UTC) reply
Request Expired. Operator seems to have disappeared. Anomie ⚔ 12:51, 21 October 2013 (UTC) reply