Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/KaldariBot

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Approved.

KaldariBot

Operator: Kaldari (talk · contribs)

Time filed: 03:35, Monday May 30, 2011 (UTC)

Automatic or Manual: Automatic supervised

Programming language(s): PHP

Source code available: botclasses.php

Function overview: Remove deprecated tribe taxons from salticidae article infoboxes

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): User talk:Sarefo#Tribes under Dendryphantinae; Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spiders#Removing deprecated taxons from salticidae articles

Edit period(s): one time

Estimated number of pages affected: ~500

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): No, there are no currently recognized tribe taxons under the family Salticidae, thus they should all be removed.

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

Function details: Runs the following regex on the articles in Category:Salticidae: preg_replace('/\|(\s*)tribus(\s*)=(\s*)\[\[(.*)\]\](\\n)/m', '', $data)

Discussion

Most of our current articles on salticid species and genera include taxon levels that haven't been used in salticid taxonomy since the 1950s. The modern practice is to use cladistic systematics rather than Linnaean taxonomy (i.e. unranked clades) for pretty much everything between subfamily and genus. Our use of tribe taxons in these articles is especially archaic. As a conservative first pass, I would like to remove the tribe taxons from the infoboxes of these articles. At least then they won't appear embarrassingly out of date. I already removed the taxon from a subset of these articles by hand a couple years ago and there were no objections (see User talk:Sarefo#Tribes under Dendryphantinae). Kaldari (talk) 03:35, 30 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial (10 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Let's see what the edits look like and then the bot can be quickly approved. Meanwhile, you could drop a note at a relevant project talk page, so there are no immediate objections. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 11:08, 30 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Crap, I seem to have somehow locked myself out of my CountryBot account. Since I never registered an email address for it, I'm afraid I'll just have to retire it. I've gone ahead and blocked the account indefinitely and created a new account called KaldariBot. Is it OK if I proceed with the trial under the new bot account instead? Sorry for the hassle. Kaldari (talk) 19:39, 30 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to run it under new name, no problems I can foresee. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 19:48, 30 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Went ahead and left a note at WikiProject Spiders. Kaldari (talk) 19:44, 30 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A perfect example of where the {{automatic taxobox}} (had it existed at the time) could have helped us avoid bot runs.

I support this run. Bob the WikipediaN ^{(talk • contribs)} 21:31, 30 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete. Run of 10 complete. All edits look good so far. Kaldari (talk) 02:16, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Approved. Seems good. Simple task, trusted operator. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 06:20, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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