Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/EnsureBot
- 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
Denied.
Operator: SkyBon
Automatic or Manually Assisted: Supervised
Programming Language(s): Python
Function Overview: Citation reformatting
Edit period(s): daily
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N
Function Details: Reformats references using WP:CITE templates
Discussion
editCould you give us an example? - Jarry1250 (t, c) 18:20, 30 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- See m:Standardize notes.py. Create template. If URL is only known the go to site and get title. For certain URLs {{Cite news}}. If not, {{Cite web}}. SkyBonTalk\Contributions 19:03, 30 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Pywikipedia's standardize_notes.py does not seem to do what you say, and is inappropriate for use on this Wikipedia as it does not use <ref> and <references/>. Also, note that the difference in formatting between {{citation}} and {{cite web}} is a matter of contention (see Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Citation bot 4 for one recent example) and seems to be essentially the same thing as Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/CiteFixBot (also at WP:BRFA at this time). Anomie⚔ 22:29, 30 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Denied. 14:15, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
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