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[[Category:Approved Wikipedia bot requests for approval|TaeBot]]
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:''The following discussion is an archived debate. <span style="color:red">'''Please do not modify it.'''</span> Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.'' The result of the discussion was [[File:Symbol keep vote.svg|20px]] '''Approved'''.<!-- from Template:Bot Top-->
== [[User:TaeBot|TaeBot]] ==
{{Newbot|TaeBot}}

'''Operator:''' [[User:Taestell|Taestell]]

'''Automatic or Manually Assisted:''' Manually assisted.

'''Programming Language(s):''' Using only [[Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser|AWB]] at this time.

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'''Function Summary:''' Performing various automatable tasks.  Current tasks in mind: updating infoboxes, simple recategorization, etc.

'''Edit period(s)''' ''(e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run)''''':''' Individual one-time runs for various individual tasks.

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'''Edit rate requested:''' Expecting an average of 2-4 edits/min for most tasks; expect about 4 edits/minute maximum.

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'''Already has a bot flag''' ''(Y/N)''''':''' No

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'''Function Details:'''
*Simple infobox updating for [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums|WP Albums]] (such as Extra album cover -> Extra album cover 2) [manual/without autosave].
*Recategorization per community consensus [with autosave].
*Apply general fixes using AWB:
** Fixes common mistakes in "see also" and "external links" sections, removes excess white space.
** Sorts interwiki links alphabetically (individually selectable in menu), and puts them at the bottom of the page with stubs.
** Unicodifies interwiki links.
** Removes duplicate interwikis and categories.
** Puts categories after article body, followed by interwiki links and stub templates. Recognises some comments as cat and interwiki headers.
** Adds bullet points to external links after the ==External links==.
** Replaces italic and bold html markup with wiki markup.
** Repairs bad links.
** Simplifies links like <nowiki>[[Dog|Dog]] to [[Dog]]</nowiki>.
** Simplifies links like <nowiki>[[Dog|Dogs]] to [[Dog]]s</nowiki>.
** Adds bold text to the first occurrence of the title of the article (if there is no other bold text).
** De-links self referencing wiki-links.
*Fix typos with RegExTypoFix [manual/without autosave].

=== Discussion ===
Please define every task as each task needs approved. [[User:Betacommand|Betacommand]] <sup>([[User talk:Betacommand|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Betacommand|contribs]] • [[User:BetacommandBot|Bot]])</sup> 06:04, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
:If you just want to use [[Wikipedia:AWB]] to update some articles, but not in BULK you don't need a bot account (although you are welcome to have one).  Having a bot account has many benefits, including increased edit rate, but bot approvals can not be open-ended. — [[User:Xaosflux|<b><span style="color:#FF9933;font-family:monotype;"><big>xaosflux</big></span></b>]] <sup>[[User talk:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#00FF00;">Talk</span>]]</sup> 13:32, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
::I was making edits using AWB under my username, but found that the edit rate was getting rather high.  Additionally, having the bot will allow me to save some changes automatically.  I have updated the function details above.  —[[User:Taestell|taestell]] 14:34, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

:As per my bot request above, those edits without the typo fixing, would be classable as 'insignificant', and you CANNOT do the typo fixing using the bot automatic mode [[User:Reedy Boy|Reedy Boy]] 09:26, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
::Yes, I only plan on turning on typo fixing when I am doing a manual review of all changes.  For automatic tasks, typo fixing and "general edits" will be turned off.  I should also say that I will not run this bot ''just'' to fix typos and general problems.  This bot will not be yet another "typo fixing"/"general cleanup" bot--the edits will be focused on more significant issues. —[[User:Taestell|taestell]] 17:21, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
:::Where does it get the list of pages to edit? Cat:cleanup?'''[[User talk:Voice of All|<span style="color:blue;">Voice</span><span style="color:darkblue;">-of-</span><span style="color:black;">All</span>]]''' 16:54, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
::::The list of pages to be edited will be generated from "what links here" (transclusion) for the templates that will be updated.  One conversion will be updating [[Template:Extra album cover]] to [[Template:Extra album cover 2]] by fairly simple search-and-replace functions, generated from the list of what pages link to [[Template:Extra album cover]].  —[[User:Taestell|taestell]] 20:42, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

{{BotTrial}} All of the manual tasks really don't need approval except for a faster edit rate.  The automatic tasks however do.  In any case, I'd like to see a trial run of this bot ''for all tasks'' before granting the bot flag.  Please do a trial bot run of up to 100 edits at no faster than 1 per minute and post the results here within 1 week. -- [[User:Ram-Man|RM]] 13:35, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
:<strike>I am currently unable to use AWB with TaeBot because "Taebot" (with a lower-case "b") was added to the approval list.  I will not be able to make any edits with the bot until this is fixed.  —[[User:Taestell|taestell]] 17:06, 3 December 2006 (UTC)</strike>
:So far, TaeBot has performed 60 edits, doing the following tasks to maintain album infoboxes: converting "extra chronology" and "extra album cover" templates into "extra chronology 2" and "extra album cover 2" (respectively);  removing "extra album cover" templates when the image itself has been deleted from Wikipedia; and manually disambiguating <code>"type=album"</code> when more specific type is known (i.e., <code>"type=studio album"</code>).  AWB has also identified and performed several "general fixes" (all manually-approved by me).  RegexTypoFix was also enabled but no typos were identified in these first 60 edits.  The only other task for TaeBot that I have not demonstrated yet would be converting album ratings into the new standard form (<code>(3/5)</code> into {{Rating|3|5}}).  —[[User:Taestell|taestell]] 03:18, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
::Are you planning on testing the remaining feature(s) or are you just seeking approval for the stuff so far? -- [[User:Ram-Man|RM]] 14:58, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
:::Hmm, well I think this demonstrates what the bot will be used for.  Is there anything specific that someone wants me to illustrate? —[[User:Taestell|taestell]] 04:33, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

:Are there any other comments about the bot?  —[[User:Taestell|taestell]] 18:21, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

::You mentioned above that you have not demonstrated converting album ratings into the new standard format.  So my question was this: Are you seeking approval for that task or just the ones that you have demonstrated?  We need to see examples of each task before we can approve it. -- [[User:Ram-Man|RM]] 19:16, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
{{BotApproved}} This bot shall run with a flag. (By the way, RM, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Here_Comes_the_Zoo&diff=prev&oldid=103431789] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=In_This_Skin&diff=prev&oldid=103428618] for examples of the album rating converting). —<span style="font: small-caps 14px times; color: red;">[[User:Mets501|Mets501]] ([[User talk:Mets501|talk]])</span> 19:22, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

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