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: Magioladitis (talk)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Semi-Auto/Automatic

Programming Language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Function Summary:

• To replace unlinked fictional character with [[fictional character]] to all fictional characters, starting with the soap opera ones. (Semi-Auto)
• To run though articles in [[Category:Year of birth missing]] and if [[Category:Living people]] exists replace the first category with [[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]]. (Automatic)

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): The first operation will run once and the second can be scheduled to operate once per month or per two months.

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

Function Details: I already did at about 150 edits for the first operation (check here) without any problems.

And more than 1000 edits for the second operation (check here).

Discussion[edit]

Is there a guideline that says "fictional character" is supposed to be linked? Mr.Z-man 17:09, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It seems to be a consensus for that in Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (writing about fiction). It's an important key-word when dealing with fictional characters. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:14, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Are you going to link EVERY time for Fictional Character, or just the first time in the article? The second task looks good but I am not sure about the first. -- maelgwn - talk 02:30, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

100% of the articles I checked have the fictional character only once. But I can withdraw from the first task or given access to do it manually. No problem, I have only 800 articles left and I realised that doing it manually is better because I can handle multiple issues. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:21, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you're going to do the task semi-automated on this account, that would be perfectly fine. Will give AWB bot access in a few minutes. Approved for trial (15 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. x2 (one for each task), just to complete formalities. —Reedy 22:12, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I did 20 test edits for task 1 and 15 for task 2. Task 2 has to be automated, for the first one I have no problem to do it semi-automated on this account. Thanks. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:15, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

 Approved. BJ^Talk 05:02, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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