Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Addbot 24

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Approved.

Addbot 24

Operator: Addshore (talk · contribs)

Time filed: 16:11, Saturday March 3, 2012 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): PHP

Source code available: If requested

Function overview: removing uncat tags from pages that cats

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): [1] [2] [3]

Edit period(s): daily

Estimated number of pages affected: depends how many people add categories to pages with the tag

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): N

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

Function details:

See previous BRFAs (linked above)

Getting a toolserver generated list of pages that should fit the criteria (http://toolserver.org/~jason/data/categorized_articles_list.txt)
Performning own checks
Removes TAG if bot thinks it should

Discussion

Bot has already been editing. I have been inactive for some time and have had 3 previous expired BRFAs for this task due to various reasons. Some examples of edits can be found below.

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·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 16:25, 3 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I assume the bot ignores hidden categories, and other non-content categories (i.e. cleanup)? Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:31, 3 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please see [8], This is a list of all articles that are tagged as uncategorized but do have at least one unhidden category. ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 16:36, 3 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Approved. Well per IRC discussions, etc..., this bot ran this task without a BRFA by mistake, but performed it well. Since the task is reasonable, and already has been trialed (unapproved run), and this is basically the complement to Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Addbot 21, I'm going to approve it. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 22:01, 3 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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