Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/John Bot II 2

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Approved.

John Bot II

Operator: CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)}

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Auto

Programming Language(s): Python (pywikipedia)

Function Summary: Creates redirects for WikiProject U.S. Roads

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

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

Function Details: Creates redirects to List of highways numbered *** (the stars are the road number) from

Route ***
Highway ***
State Route ***
State Highway ***
State Road ***
SR_***
SH_***
SR-***
SH-***
SR***
SH***
Federal Highway ***
National Highway ***
Federal Road ***
National Road ***
Federal Route ***
National Route ***

(See Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Creating_redirects )

Discussion

I have posted the source code at User:John Bot II/Code CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 21:16, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This something that has consensus beside one guy saying "Hey this would be neat" ? That's quite a lot, imo, of redirects especially when you're multiplying that by $foo articles. Q ^{T C} 14:26, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

User Dividing has been doing this by hand until recently, where BAG asked him to get a bot account to do this. I'm sure he has consensus to do this already. CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 15:51, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Since it's already being done,

Approved for trial (51 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. (51 being equal to 3 sets of 17 redirects, so you don't have to stop in the middle of one road. I'm not fussy about seeing exactly that many.) --uǝʌǝs ʎʇɹoɟ ʇs(st47) 15:32, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done It went very smoothly, one problem being a spelling mistake in the code(Which of course is fixed). The bot also made some userspace edits to change its status indicator. CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 16:14, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Approved. You are very fast! --uǝʌǝs ʎʇɹoɟ ʇs(st47) 16:16, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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