Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Jogersbot 3

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.

Jogersbot

Operator: Jogers

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): AWB

Function Summary: Removing links to debut album

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

Edit rate requested: 1 edits per 10 seconds

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

Function Details: There are almost 1500 pages which link to debut album. See this discussion.

Discussion

As I suggested at the albums page, I think it could be done a bit more cleverly than that:
Remove all links to debut album
Remove all running links to debut, album (see AWB's Filter\Intersection feature)
Ensure that there's one link to an article about album types, if removing the debut album links.

What do you think? --kingboyk 12:19, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

So it would be "[[debut album]] → debut album" and "[[debut]] [[album]] → debut album" for all pages that contain album infobox, right? Jogers (talk) 12:25, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, except I don't know that it needs to be restricted to album infobox?

I haven't worked out yet how point 3 would be implemented, but I think there are various ways. I have a bit of a headache at the moment so hopefully will feel less cloudy later (or perhaps Martinp23 will come up with something).

I'm not trying to force you, btw; if you think my idea is crap, say so. --kingboyk 12:34, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think that your idea is crap but I'm still not fully convinced that there should always be a link to album left. Isn't it just a plain English word? Jogers (talk) 13:20, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If it is, it shouldn't be an article?... It doesn't have to be album either, provided there's a link to something about the format... (compact disc, compilation album, whatever). I was just thinking that if you don't leave some sort of link behind folks are likely to complain? --kingboyk 13:25, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A lot of common English words have articles, I guess, but the point about possible complaints finally convinces me :-) So, I'll remove links to debut album entirely from articles that already have a link to "album", "studio album" etc. and change "[[debut]] [[album]]" to "debut album" in articles that have links to any type of album except of "album" itself. Anything else I will leave alone. How about that? Jogers (talk) 19:11, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think this does make sense - a link to album (or similar) should almost certainly remain, as it is significantly more relevant to the context than me wikilinking every word in a sentence :) Mart inp23 19:56, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial. Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. up to 75 edits. Mart inp23 20:11, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I made 75 edits without any problems. Jogers (talk) 20:57, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Checked a few at random and looked fine.

If you're going to do debut album (2 links) too, can you do 75 on that as well please?

Also, I think you ought to have a link in your edit summary explaining why you're doing, probably to the WP:ALBUMS talk page would suffice. --kingboyk 21:00, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

But there are only 22 pages linking both to debut and to album :-) Let me take care of them manually :-) Good idea, I'll add the link to the relevant discussion at WP:ALBUMS to the edit summary. Jogers (talk) 21:12, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You're kidding me, only 22?! --kingboyk 21:18, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No, I'm not kidding but "[[debut album|debut]] [[album]]" seems to be indeed pretty common. I removed few of them in the trial pass. Jogers (talk) 21:21, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Okie dokie. All seems good and you know what you're doing. --kingboyk 21:27, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Jogers (talk) 21:29, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Approved. --kingboyk 21:27, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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