The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA. The result of the discussion was Approved.

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

Time filed: 21:32, Thursday September 6, 2012 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic, supervised

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: Yes

Function overview: Add ((WikiProject Biography)) to talk pages.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): User_talk:Magioladitis#updated_articles_without_WP_Biography

Edit period(s): Weekly

Estimated number of pages affected: 1,000 per week

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

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

Function details: Add ((WikiProject Biography)) to talk pages of articles from The database report Untagged biographies of living people is generated weekly. List contains biographies of living people that do not have ((WikiProject Biography)) template on their talk page. Bot will add the template, add living=yes and class=stub if applicable. Bgwhite (talk) 21:32, 6 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Will this create talk pages as well as add to them? Can it add the listas parameter? Ryan Vesey 21:51, 6 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Like this task. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:17, 6 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Will this add the WikiProject banner to ((WikiProjectBannerShell)) if it exists? See my comment in Ryan Vesey's request (killing two birds with one stone!). Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Ryan Vesey Bot 3#Discussion. Cheers! — madman 03:18, 7 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

1. Yes it will create talk pages and add to them.
2. No, it will not add the listas parameter. Listas can only be done in a manual first, bot after approach. BG19bot 1 does add listas parameter, however it is only run after I go thru names manually. I manually check for Arabic, Asian, Icelandic, 3+ names in Spanish name, particles (van, de) that could be listed first in listas or not at all, etc... Essentially WP:NAMESORT rules. A few of us cleaned up all the talk pages needing listas and kept it at zero, but evil Magioladitis had to go off and tag 50,000 talk pages with WP Biography. It is going to take several months to get that number down again. $*?^#! Magioladits.
3. Yes it will add WP Biography to WikiProjectBannerShell if it exists.
4. Bot will also do the "minor cleanup", see Yobot 10: Rename WPBS and WPB to their full names (WikiProjectBannerShell and WikiProject Banner), rename banners to the full name (WPMA to WikiProject Middle Ages and WPE to WikiProject England)

Bgwhite (talk) 05:30, 7 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good. Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. — madman 06:35, 8 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete. List of articles are here. Bgwhite (talk) 23:42, 8 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

 Approved. – We only got to see the bot create talk pages in the trial, not add to them, but Plugin++ is quite stable, well-tested, and does support WikiProjectBannerShell and WikiProjectBanners. — madman 20:10, 9 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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