Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/John of Reading Bot 3

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Denied.

John of Reading Bot 3

Operator: John of Reading (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 16:44, Saturday, May 27, 2017 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Source code available: No; using AWB "Prepend"

Function overview: Add CFD notices to 2000 categories

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks#CfD template

Edit period(s): One time run

Estimated number of pages affected: 2000

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: Use AWB "Prepend" to add a CFD notice to 2000 categories. This is too many to do manually. The downside of doing it from a bot account is that someone might be watching the categories but have "Hide bot edits" ticked, and miss the notification. Still, this will get the job done.

Discussion

Support. I've had to do this a few times for WP:TFD and it ticks all the deletion criteria but makes it a lot easier to do. Primefac (talk) 16:50, 27 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Tim!: I see you are the creator of many of these - the real question is: Is this actually really needed? Will the CfD actually not be discussed and processed if these thousands of tags are skipped? — xaosflux ^Talk 01:59, 28 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Personally I am not concerned but what might be a more useful exercise would be to leave a talk page notice on creators of the more recent years and some of the later subcategories eg Category:January 2017 sports events. I did not create any of those and they appear to have a diverse number of creators. Also see User:KConWiki/Events by month which has a list of the categories after 1800 mostly created by others. Tim! (talk) 10:29, 28 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@John of Reading: I don't do a lot of CfD maintenance, but isn't the standard practice to notify the creators as well? Is there a very large number of creators? — xaosflux ^Talk 14:27, 28 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Xaosflux: Yes, it is, though User:Marcocapelle didn't ask for help with that. I've just spot-checked about 50 of the histories in the list to be tagged; most of those were created by User:Tim!, a few by User:IgnorantArmies (now blocked), and a few by User:J 1982. I don't have an easy way to check the 2000 categories systematically to find any other creators. -- John of Reading (talk) 14:46, 28 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Denied. @John of Reading:, @Marcocapelle:: While there are no technical issues with this request it does not appear to be necessary. I placed an administrator note on Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2017_May_26#Category:February_1010_events waiving the individual tagging requirement. Notices to related parent categories and a WikiProject were sent in lieu. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:15, 28 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Okay thanks! Marcocapelle (talk) 15:59, 28 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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