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Operator: Nyuszika7H (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 17:32, Monday, February 22, 2016 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Manual

Programming language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: Moving articles to the appropriate subcategory of Category:Lists of television series episodes, removing redundant parent categories

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Television/Archive_22#Category_clean_up_recruitment_-_Category:Lists_of_television_series_episodes

Edit period(s): Continuous

Estimated number of pages affected: Probably around 1,000–2,000 at most

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

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

Function details:

1. Remove Category:Lists of television series episodes from articles that already contain one of its subcategories
2. Replace Category:Lists of children's television series episodes with Category:Lists of Disney shows' episodes‎ where applicable
3. Move pages containing both Category:Lists of American television series episodes and Category:Lists of comedy television series episodes to Category:Lists of American comedy television series episodes
4. Add pages to country-specific subcategories of Category:Lists of television series episodes

Discussion[edit]

I think it does not need to be exclusion compliant as all edits are manually checked before saving. But it can be if that's preferred. nyuszika7h (talk) 17:32, 22 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

On #4 I have a feeling that the country-specific versions are likely non-diffusing (i.e., it's fine for the pages to be both in a genre / the parent and be categorized by country). It'd be a pain to try to navigate the category tree by country+genre instead of country and/or genre. #2 might be non-diffusing, as well, as a "Disney show" isn't inherently only for kids (e.g., take a peek at List of channels owned by Disney). --slakr^\ talk / 04:27, 25 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Slakr: I wasn't suggesting removing country-specific ones from genre categories (it's only about adding a country category where none exists), but I don't think they need to be in the main category. As for Disney, I realized that most of them are actually in both the children's and Disney categories. The latter is currently a subcategory of a former, which is okay for most cases as the target audience tends to be kids (doesn't mean it's only for kids), but I guess that subcategorization could be removed if there are shows with a different target audience. nyuszika7h (talk) 09:47, 25 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

How would you do it by bot, though? (1) should be fine, but I agree that (2) is going to be tricky; let's keep the genre and company subcats separate. — Earwig ^talk 04:03, 28 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

((OperatorAssistanceNeeded)) @Nyuszika7H: ^ --slakr^\ talk / 03:25, 24 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I'll just do #2 manually (at least add the Disney category if it's missing somewhere). For #4, I'm not sure yet, it was one of the requested things. I might have some ways to infer that, but it might end up having to be more manual checking and adding with HotCat – in the latter case, can I still use the bot account for that? Though #2 is kinda the same kind of inferring too, so I don't know. But if preferred, I can just use main account for those, I won't edit a lot at once like that anyway. nyuszika7h (talk) 10:25, 24 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial (25 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. You can use whatever account you'd like for hotcat so long as you're making supervised edits (i.e., you're clearly reviewing each one for accuracy before commiting the change). We're mainly concerned about ensuring the bot doesn't screw up. Humans hate having to clean up after bots, and humans who make bots hate having to make their own bots to undo the changes of a bad bot. --slakr^\ talk / 02:16, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Nyuszika7H: ^ --slakr^\ talk / 03:31, 16 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Slakr: Sorry for the delay, I'll do the trial later today. nyuszika7h (talk) 08:13, 16 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Nyuszika7H: did you finish the trial? -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:47, 27 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

((OperatorAssistanceNeeded)) -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:37, 28 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for the delay, again. I have time to do it now, but I am unable to log in because the bot is not on AWB's CheckPage. nyuszika7h (talk) 13:59, 28 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind, I realized I should request access there. Done that now, waiting to be approved. nyuszika7h (talk) 14:05, 28 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Slakr and Magioladitis: Moving forward feel free to add bots to the AWB check page as needed. No need to go to WP:PERM, where we've officially chosen to defer to you folks :) Cheers — MusikAnimal ^talk 01:10, 29 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

nyuszika7h you can now use the bot in bot mode. MusikAnimal added it for you (and for us). -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:03, 29 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

nyuszika7h since there are less than 100 items in the main category I wonder if this could be done just by using HotCat and/or AWB without a bot. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:13, 29 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I do not know how was the situation some days ago but now I was able to fix most of them manually. Moreover, in many cases the country-specific category does not exist. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:28, 29 April 2016 (UTC) -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:13, 29 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) @Magioladitis: Maybe, I don't really know. And for the task to add them when they are not in a country-specific category at all would either need to be manual with HotCat or guessing based on article text, which probably needs more careful supervision. I was going to do the trial but I'm not really feeling well now, I got a throat infection and also considering what you said I think I'm just going to withdraw this. Not all cases are so simple and it can be helped over time with HotCat and AWB. nyuszika7h (talk) 16:36, 29 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

nyuszika7h I agree. Please add the withdrawn template so I can close this. I will help doing more pages manually. I hope your health gets better! -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:42, 29 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn by operator. nyuszika7h (talk) 16:44, 29 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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