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Operator: DannyS712 (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 06:38, Tuesday, March 5, 2019 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): Javascript

Source code available: User:DannyS712 test/PC bot.js

Function overview: Extend Task 3 to userspace drafts namesapce:2 in Polluted categories

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): As needed

Estimated number of pages affected: Not many (~10 per run?), likely more (~1000?) the first time

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

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

Function details: I'd like to extend Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 3, which allows me to remove categories from userspace and draftspace pages tagged with ((AFC submission)), to also include userspace drafts that pollute articles' categories. I would manually run it on each category, but within each category it would automatically edit all pages in userspace.

Discussion[edit]

• ((BAGAssistanceNeeded)) --DannyS712 (talk) 16:28, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. @DannyS712: Sorry for the delay/leaving you waiting here. --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 20:03, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• @TheSandDoctor: Trial complete.. See [1]. 50 edits made (search for Task 11), and 1 error made at the start because I hadn't anonymized the code properly ([2]). However, I did this trial by running it User:DannyS712 test/PC.js on each category individually. My goal is to run User:DannyS712 test/PC bot.js from the main page, which would then automatically on every category, except AfC ones which I screen for. Would that be okay? (I altered the description to fit what I had intended; if you look at the bot code now, you'll see it log in your console a list of all categories to be run on, and separately, the one-cat code in .../PC is run with an input of a category name, making it easy to link the two). Hope this makes sense. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 04:31, 14 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  @TheSandDoctor: don't know if you saw my post above --DannyS712 (talk) 06:23, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• @DannyS712: how are you identifying that some ns:2 page is a "userspace draft" vs some other sort of sandbox? — xaosflux ^Talk 20:29, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  @Xaosflux: I'm not differentiating between the two - userspace drafts, or any other userspace pages, should not be categorized with articles as far as I am aware --DannyS712 (talk) 20:33, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  OK, I updated the description above. — xaosflux ^Talk 21:48, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• @DannyS712: in this edit you removed Category:History timeline templates - please point to the version of Wikipedia:Database_reports/Polluted_categories where this was present (since the task is only about removing categories that are on that list per the description above). — xaosflux ^Talk 21:48, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  @Xaosflux: See Special:Permalink/886872073 (search for "History_timeline_templates") --DannyS712 (talk) 21:55, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

 Approved. OK, looks good. Be sure that you only run this in namespace 2 (User:) and that you only remove those 'polluted' article-based cats. — xaosflux ^Talk 21:57, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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