The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA. The result of the discussion was  Approved.

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

Time filed: 22:32, Wednesday, August 21, 2019 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: User:PearBOT/Infobox request/source

Function overview: Removing infobox requests for articles having an infobox.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot requests#Bot to clear Category:Journal articles needing infoboxes

Edit period(s): Between once a week and once a month

Estimated number of pages affected: Variable depending how many WikiProjects use it. For WikiProject Academic Journals about 300

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

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

Function details: Will remove infobox requests for WikiProjects that have signed up at User:PearBOT/Infobox request config. It can look for specific infoboxes or for all templates in the infobox pseudo-namespace.

Discussion[edit]

~300 for now. More in the future as Category:Journal articles needing infoboxes gets cleared out. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 00:55, 22 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Trialpears: Approved for trial (25 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Going to grant a trial for 25 edits, but I'll recuse from final approval since this is my bot request. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 00:55, 22 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Headbomb: Trial complete. 25 edits no issues found. I messed up the BRFA link in the first two edits, sorry for that. --Trialpears (talk) 08:28, 22 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Looks all good to me, but like I said, I'll let someone else do the final approval. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 21:06, 27 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

((BAGAssistanceNeeded)) --Trialpears (talk) 19:16, 29 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• I'm confused about the scope of this task. Are you looking to clear out this category entirely (and then check it once/twice a month), or are you only wanting to do this for ((WikiProject Academic Journals))? If it's the latter, are you planning on eventually clearing the rest of the category? Primefac (talk) 23:45, 31 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  I was planning on starting with only ((WikiProject Academic Journals)), but advertise on WT:WikiProject Council and maybe talkpages for individual WikiProjects with large infobox request categories. I'm not sure if running it on the entire Category:Wikipedia articles with an infobox request is a good idea since different WikiProject may have different preferences, such as WP Journals only looking for ((Infobox journal)) and some projects looking for "infoboxes" not in the infobox pseudo-namespace, such as ((Starbox begin)). If you think running it on the whole category would be a better idea that could be done instead. --Trialpears (talk) 00:03, 1 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  Primefac pinging. --Trialpears (talk) 20:16, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  ((BAGAssistanceNeeded)) I will start by running it only on WikiProjects that opt-in for now. It is possible this changes in the fututre, but then that scope change can be discussed at WT:Bots/Requests for approval/PearBOT 2. --Trialpears (talk) 15:21, 19 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• The source code says "standard Pywikibot". Apologies for my ignorance, but does that mean you're running a standard Pywikibot module/script? If so, which one? Or are you running a Python script that you wrote yourself that happens to call a bunch of Pywikibot functions? If that's the case, can you post the code here? Enterprisey (talk!) 03:42, 6 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  Enterprisey, sorry complete source is at User:PearBOT/Infobox request/source. --Trialpears (talk) 08:10, 6 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

 Approved. As per usual, if amendments to - or clarifications regarding - this approval are needed, please start a discussion on the talk page and ping. As you have already said, a change in scope from opt-in to "all" (or whatever else/other model) will require at minimum an amendment to this BRFA. --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 01:06, 12 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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