The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was Approved.

Operator: Erwin85 (talk)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Unsupervised

Programming Language(s): Python

Function Summary: Keeping Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Living people up-to-date.

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

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

Function Details: It gets a list of articles in both Category:Living people and Category:Articles for deletion from the Toolserver's database. It checks each page to get the corresponding AfD page. It checks those pages to see if the AfD is still active. (I might use a query for that in the future.) For active AfD's it leaves a comment that it will be listed on the deletion sorting page if that hasn't been done yet. Finally, it updates the list.

Source code: tools:~erwin85/deletionsorting.py (temporarily available, didn't want to add it to SVN)

Discussion[edit]

This is in response to a bot request: Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Deletion_sorting. --Erwin85 (talk) 13:10, 20 August 2008 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Approved for trial (25 edits or 3 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. BJ^Talk 19:22, 26 August 2008 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Done. All current discussions were added to the project, but only a third of them were tagged to limit the number of edits. --Erwin85 (talk) 14:18, 27 August 2008 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Looks good to me,  Approved. SQL^{Query me!} 04:35, 4 September 2008 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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