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: Kumioko (talk · contribs)

Time filed: 22:01, Wednesday December 14, 2011 (UTC)

Automatic or Manual: Automatic/Semi-automatic depending on the edit

Programming language(s): AWB, C#, Regex

Source code available: Yes

Function overview: Tag and assessment of articles relating to WikiProject United States or supported projects

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): sporadically as needed, daily at first

Estimated number of pages affected: about 90, 000 (not going to do them all at once, probably about 250-500 at a time so I can review)

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Y

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

Function details: Eventually I would like to do many things with this bot but I am going to start off with some simple WikiProject template replacements.

Now that WikiProject United States is supporting some of the other US related WikiProjects there are currently 0 articles with deprecated banners here. I want to start replacing these with the WikiProject United States banner and the appropriate parameter.

I am going to start by going one project at a time and starting with the easy ones such as non article namespaces (category, template, project, etc). This will help to cut down some of this category.

Since there are several bots that do this type of replacement the precedent is already there.

Just to be clear, this BRFA will be restricted to WikiProject templates only (if you want to extend this in the future, you'll need to file another brfa) Approved for trial. Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Come back when you have a reasonable sample of the bots edits. --Chris 12:44, 16 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely no problem at all. I will start by doing a test run of some Category-Class articles transculded from WikiProject New Hampshire. There are currently 597 articles in this category that need the banner replaced and I will do the first 25 as a test. --Kumioko (talk) 14:32, 16 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ok I ran a test of 45 Category-Class New Hampshire articles and everything seems to be working fine. Please let me know if you see anything that I missed or have any advice on how to make it better or what to do next. --Kumioko (talk) 17:21, 16 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good  Approved. --Chris 03:17, 18 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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