Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Grammabot

The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA. The result of the discussion was Denied.

Grammabot

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Operator: Infogeek244 (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 18:33, Saturday, April 27, 2019 (UTC)

Function overview: Add missing ref tag

'Automatic, Supervised, or Manual:Manual

Programming language(s):Python

Source code available: No

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): /

Edit period(s): Daily

Estimated number of pages affected:50 per day

Namespace(s): Articles

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No):No the bot works on every article with a wrong ref tag

Function details:search for articles with missing ref tag. If the bot has found an article, he changes it. I've made some tests. (See contributions)

Discussion

•  Note: This bot appears to have edited since this BRFA was filed. Bots may not edit outside their own or their operator's userspace unless approved or approved for trial. AnomieBOT⚡ 19:12, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
  • Oh…sorry, I didn't know that. --Infogeek244 (talk) 20:07, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
• Without commenting on the task itself, looking over the 4 contributions already made, one put the tag in the wrong place. Also, the use of {{reflist}} may be advisable rather than <references /> --DannyS712 (talk) 19:30, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
• Denied. There is already at least one bot performing what seems to be proposed here, that being User:PkbwcgsBot (task 4), which recently did a run on April 12. If you're concerned it's not running often enough, you might contact the operator.

  Also, while I see you do have a few thousand edits on the German Wikipedia, you have few here on the English Wikipedia. The English Wikipedia community expects bot operators to be familiar with our policies and guidelines here. You should consider spending some more time as a normal editor before seeking to become a bot operator. Anomie⚔ 21:56, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

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