Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SunCreatorBot

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Operator: SunCreator (talk · contribs)

Automatic or Manually assisted: Manually-assisted

Programming language(s): None, AWB

Source code available: If required, I can make the source code available in the form of AWB settings files.

Function overview: I am using AWB to inspect a lot of articles as part of WP:URBLP related checking. Hunting for articles that are missing/incorrect categories or WPBiography tags.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): There is a bot User:LivingBot that does similar tasks, but I've heard it's not working lately. Here I'm trying to find things that have previously been missed and thus the appropriate Category:Living people or similar is missing.

Edit period(s): Daily for a while until exhausted checked for BLP's.

Estimated number of pages affected: In some case the bot may add/remove Category:Living people, date of birth and age, birth/death year/unknown/missing category, living=yes/no. If that does result it will be manually-assisted.

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Y

Already has a bot flag (Y/N):

Function details: I am using AWB to build a list of articles, it returns a partial list of a maximum 25000 articles. The categories I wish to check are found in Category:Biography_articles_by_quality and some of those surpass the 25000 limit. To go beyond 25000 one must use a bot account, hence I find myself filling in this request!

Discussion

Hey SunCreator! Im glad you've taken an interest in operating bots! While I do not know the full details of what you want to do, this kind of bot task seems to lend itself to SQL. If that is true, it will save you loads of time to use a Database query to build your list rather then AWBs functions. What, exactly, will you be parsing for? I may be able to help. Tim1357 ^talk 03:20, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Hi Tim, yes, much of this could be done with a Database query, I am familiar with SQL. Here would be some obvious starters of conflicting data between something indicating a person is alive and something indicating they are dead.

Moved database report criteria to => Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Living_people_possibly_deceased_or_deceased_people_possibly_living

Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 04:41, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

LivingBot never really did it very efficiently anyway, best of luck to you. - Jarry1250 ^{[Humorous? Discuss.]} 19:38, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

Thank you! I think it's useful to clarify that I'm not replacing LivingBot or any other automated bot(learnt of User:Yobot recently). I'd like access to more then 25000 articles in category so that I can correct errors like 226 year old(infobox age), the now deleted Duck, marked as a BLP, this 'living' ceramic duck File:Roberto the duck.jpg - actual picture that was in the infobox and was aged 1 year old in the infobox. Numerous other BLPs that for reasons unknown aren't marked with Category:Living people even if they are on the talk page. Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 00:31, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

You should grab a database dump. Last one is 12th march, but they should be running again soon. Rich Farmbrough, 15:19, 28 May 2010 (UTC).

I like the idea as using the database scanner is fast. Unfortunately my hard disk has only 30Gb free so I can't download the zip file let alone uncompress it. Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 21:48, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

There is always WP:DDR for dump scans, if you don't mind waiting for other people to do the scan for you. Tim1357 ^talk 03:28, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

You don't need 30gb to d/l the dump it is about 4-5 G but it is 27 G uncompressed. You can scan the compressed dump but not with AWB. Rich Farmbrough, 19:34, 20 June 2010 (UTC).

What's the status of this? Josh Parris 02:29, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Really, what is the status of this? Nothing has been happening; I'm inclined to expire just because there's no activity at all. — The Earwig ^(talk) 19:39, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

What? Am I suppose to use the bot without getting approval? Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 08:47, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

• Approved for trial (25 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Let's see how it goes! –xeno^talk 16:59, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
• News? MBisanz ^talk 03:35, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
  • It's okay, got the info thank you. On a bit of a hiatus at the moment but will get back to this later. Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 00:28, 10 August 2010
• Status? Mr.Z-man 04:01, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
  • on wikibreak. Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 09:09, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

You do not seem to be on wikibreak anymore, judging by Special:Contributions/SunCreator. Do you intend to resume this request? Anomie⚔ 00:03, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

• I no longer have a sense that this checking which effectivly results in more uBLPs being tagged would be welcomed activity. See discussion at WP:Administrators'_noticeboard/Unsourced_biographies_of_living_persons#Huge_backlog_of_tagged_unsourced_biographies_of_living_persons with a sense that the number is to 'high/huge' and adding to it is not welcomed from either side. In addition over at WP:RSN I'm being falsely accused of drive by tagging, and identifying more Category:Living people and tagging uBLP's based on horizontal checking through articles seems an unwelcomed cause. At this point I'd likely resume when number of uBLPs (currently 942) is low, down to a few months backlog or less. Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 00:41, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
  • Should we consider this "withdrawn" then? Anomie⚔ 00:47, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
    • Withdrawn by operator. WP:SILENCE Anomie⚔ 03:25, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

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