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• What: orphaning (by linking in most cases) fair use images outside of ns:0
• How: Based off lists generated by sql queries and reviewed to exclude some potentially ok pages (Portals there is some debate over, Wikipedia:Today's featured article and its subpages, Wikipedia:Recent additions, etc) using replace.py
• How often: Probably in batches of ~500 pages based on the type of image (such as ((albumcover))) list of images to remove list of pages to edit. With 10747 images and 19947 pages it may take a while still. Once this group is done, updates will depend on frequency of database dumps and/or whenever the toolserver works again and I can wrangle someone into running a report/get an account.

Kotepho 09:19, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This one looks like it's going to be a magnet for complaints with people who don't understand image use policy but it does sound necessary. I'd start with a very well written our FAQ page and leave a talk page message on their page saying what the bot did and why it did it before I would run/approve it -- Tawker 21:36, 15 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Durin's page is quite good. Kotepho 21:49, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Isn't this similar in at least some ways to what OrphanBot does? I'd like to hear Carnildo's comments on this, given that he runs OrphanBot and is on the approvals group. Essjay (Talk) 14:52, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It is basically the same role, the main reason I brought it up is looking at OrphanBot's talk over time it does have a lot of complaints, (I suspect its people not familiar with policy mostly howerver) - it's just something FRAC, I have no problems with the bot personally and I'll give it the green light for a trial run, I just wanted to make sure Kotepho knew what deep water (complaints wise) this is :) -- Tawker 18:52, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, someone has to do it, and I'd likely do at least some of them by hand so the complaints will come either way. Kotepho 21:49, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ahh, what the heck, run it in trial mode and lets see what happens -- Tawker 07:24, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I did a run on the album covers, but skipped User: as they probably deserve a human touch (too many userboxes, page drafts, etc). Only had a few complaints, one was a typo in a regexp (since fixed)[1] that screwed up an infobox on a talk page and generally thinking archives should not be edited[2][3] and the other[4] was that removing the entire line of a gallery killed the caption[5], so I changed the behavior to just use a dummy image and prepend the imagelink to the caption[6] (caption was part of a discussion). Kotepho 21:19, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm inclined to approve this request, having looked over all of the example diffs. I'll close this if I get a second from another bot approvals group member (unless they want to close it themselves). So long as you handle the complaints from other users, this is a very useful bot. -- RM 17:11, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Approved Just did not have time to close earlier Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 18:51, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bot flag has been set. Redux 19:56, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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