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

Time filed: 22:52, Thursday April 18, 2013 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: github

Function overview: Apply Template:COI editnotice to talk pages of articles in certain subcategories of Category:Organizations (For now, just Category:Companies based in Idaho)

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia_talk:Bots/Requests_for_approval Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_100#COI_Template

Edit period(s): Continuous

Estimated number of pages affected: 1000+

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

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

Function details: Go through certain subcategories of Category:Organizations (For now, just Category:Companies based in Idaho) and add Template:COI editnotice to the talk pages of the articles.

The bot checks:

• the task's checkpage; User:RileyBot/Stop/11
• that Template:COI editnotice (or templates that redirect to it) are not already on the page.

Discussion[edit]

Riley suggested that I post my comment here that it was mentioned on the Proposals page that (if possible), we should exclude Category:Defunct organizations, being that those are not likely to have COI editors involved. CorporateM (Talk) 21:05, 19 April 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]

For safety reasons, I only plan on running this bot in categories I have looked over but either way, I will make sure not to run the bot on Category:Defunct organizations. -- Cheers, Riley 00:07, 20 April 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. but for now lets keep it on cats you have looked through :) ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 17:39, 20 April 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Trial complete. but I am doing some cleanup to the script and making it not add the template to pages with "list" in the name. (like the bot did here) -- Cheers, Riley 00:20, 21 April 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]

•  Done, now skips pages with "list" in the page title. -- Cheers, Riley 00:56, 21 April 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• Skip disambiguation pages also? :) ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 09:04, 21 April 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Now skips pages with "disambiguation" in the title and that have any of the major disambiguation templates. -- Cheers, Riley 16:52, 21 April 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 19:54, 21 April 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Trial complete. Trial log below;

 Approved. ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 09:24, 22 April 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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