Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FrescoBot 5

FrescoBot 5

Operator: Basilicofresco (talk · contribs)

Automatic or Manually assisted: auto

Programming language(s): python

Source code available: ask me

Function overview: put {{db-blanked}} on pages created and blanked by a single author

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): few times per year

Estimated number of pages affected: 500?

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Y

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

Function details: checks history of zero lenght pages and insert {{db-blanked}} on pages created and blanked by a single author. It will run mainly on talk pages. Few examples:

Discussion

Reminds me of this bot request, I'd suggest you take a read through it to get some ideas. The bot should also ignore user pages and categories, and check for page moves. - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 14:32, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I read about MichaelkourlasBot, thank you for the link. User and User talk pages are escluded. Category pages should never be blank (btw I checked and I did not find any blank category). About "page moves" we have 2 scenarios: 1) user moves the page and then blank the redirect (misspelling? orphan?), 2) user creates a page, then blanks it and moves the content in a different page (history has not to be kept). Both cases seems appropriate for {{db-blanked}}. Are you talking about these scenarios? -- Basilicofresco (msg) 15:12, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]