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.

ShepBot

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Operator: §hep • ¡Talk to me!

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Manually Assisted

Programming Language(s): AWB

Function Summary: Substs templates, and tags for WikiProject Ohio

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

Edit rate requested: 10 or 11 edits per minute

Already has a bot flag (Y/N) N

Function Details: After a thorough look over the list will tag articles for WP:OH, can do template substitution i.e. Welcome7

Discussion

Comments from owner: I've been doing a lot of template work with AWB (Special:Contributions/Stepshep) and hopefully I can do things a bit quicker with AWB running with a bot account. Recently I've substituted or converted over 500 templates. I also have over 5000 Ohio articles to tag. To avoid issues that were had with another bot that was tagging Ohio articles (and other bots that tag for projects) it will only tag articles from a list I have cleaned. I will still watch its every move, but with less clicking. :) §hep • ¡Talk to me! 01:13, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm drawing a blank for some reason, but, there's a really good plugin around here somewhere for AWB, that'd help wikiproject tagging the articles. Also, I want to make sure we're clear on what you intend to do:

1. Wikiproject talkpage tagging
2. Template substitution?

For #2, where specifically would you be substing templates? Are you aware that there are some templates that should not be substed? SQL^{Query me!} 05:08, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

For number 1, I use the KingBotK Plugin for generic templates. And #2: the only templates that would be substituted can be found here: Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/User talk templates, I'll stick only to those on talk pages. An example of a job would be to substitute Template:Welcome. The job list would be Here. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 17:40, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Just a note, substituting welcome templates is not allowed to be done by a bot according to WP:BFDB. --SMS ^Talk 20:09, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

The bot will not be welcoming users. Just substituting templates that were not correctly done so. Another bot that does this is Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MBisanzBot. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 21:40, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Oh! I got it wrong. --SMS ^Talk 03:36, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Approved for trial (50 edits). --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 23:10, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

50 edits done. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 23:24, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

I would approve but I only saw substing work and nothing involving Project tagging. Think you could do a short run of that, just for completeness sake?

Approved for trial (20 edits). Q ^{T C} 12:58, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Yep, I'll get right on it. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 19:21, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

21 talk pages tagged. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 19:39, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Edits looked good to me, correctly replaced the obsolete WP template and seemed to correctly add the rest, didn't notice any comments on WP:BON or the bots talk page indicating any upset editors. Approved. Q ^{T C} 20:40, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

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