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.

RoboMaxCyberSem 4[edit]

Operator: MaxSem(Han shot first!)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: first automatic run, then possibly manual with more risky regexes if the first run wasn't 100% successful.

Programming Language(s): AWB

Function Summary: Removal of links to blacklisted sites AMENDED: and sites which should be delinked per consensus at AN, ANI or Wikipedia talk:WPSPAM

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): whenever needed

Edit rate requested: 6-8 EPM

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

Function Details:

Sample edit that demonstrates which kinds of links will be removed: [1]

Discussion[edit]

Sounds really useful :) Questions:

  1. What happens when a page has two or more different blacklisted links? You can't remove one, and still save the page.
  2. What about when a site that's linked to a lot is mistakenly blacklisted, then reversed? Do you have a plan, to revert what could be a lot of links?
  3. What about a broad, regex messup, at the spam blacklist?
  4. Would it be possible, for the bot to refuse to perform this task for a given link, when say 50 (arbitrary number picked out of thin air) or more pages are flagged to be "cleaned"? SQLQuery me! 20:10, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  1. The page will be skipped to be processed later, during a semi-automatic run.
  2. No problems with reverting, though I can't recall a single occurence of blacklisting "by mistake" while working with global blacklist - blacklisted, then removed is a completely different situation that does not require blind readding of links.
  3. Every task will be started manually by me, so broken regexes at blacklist are not a concern.
  4. Once again, machine doesn't need to decide anything like that, it's me. MaxSem(Han shot first!)
Ahh, I thought this was going to run on it's own (like, crontabbed or something), not started manually, thanks :) SQLQuery me! 23:55, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
What about spam in references, especially in ((cite web|...)) tags? (It's happened before, and it's a sign of hardcore spamming). MER-C 10:33, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
See diff above, they will be removed. MaxSem(Han shot first!) 16:44, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sounds pretty good to me. Approved for trial (100 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. SQLQuery me! 05:20, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I want to try something new, as well... Absolutely not required, but, would you mind specifying that the task it's performing is a trial, and linking to this BRFA in the edit summary? If it's a problem, or not doable, no big deal. SQLQuery me! 05:22, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Trial complete. I linked to this page in edit summary, but didn't mention it was a trial. MaxSem(Han shot first!) 06:18, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'd like to extend scope of this request and be able to delink not only if the sitе is blacklisted, but also when there is strong consensus at AN, ANI or Wikipedia talk:WPSPAM to remove such links. MaxSem(Han shot first!) 06:18, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fine, so long as it's very very strong consensus. We don't need to see an extra trial to see that. — Werdna talk 01:02, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
((BAGAssistanceNeeded))There were no further comments, shall we proceed? MaxSem(Han shot first!) 07:12, 29 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Yup -  Approved. —Reedy Boy 14:11, 29 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]


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