Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/NoomBot 4

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Approved.

NoomBot 4

Operator: Noommos (talk · contribs)

Time filed: 01:25, Saturday April 2, 2011 (UTC)

Automatic or Manually assisted: Auto

Programming language(s): PHP

Source code available: On request

Function overview: Moves stock ticker templates from fields within {{Infobox company}} to the new | traded_as field.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Bot request and field implementation

Edit period(s): One time run, perhaps a few rare runs afterwards

Estimated number of pages affected: Not sure on amount of pages using stock ticker templates, but the bot is set to cycle through approximately 35k articles using the infobox template.

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): N

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

Function details: The bot will scan the pages using {{Infobox company}} for any usages of a stock ticker template. If the bot finds one or more (not in the traded_as field already), then it will create a new field (traded_as), remove it from the old field and update the infobox.

Discussion

See for an example of the bots function. Noom _talk ^contribs 11:39, 3 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. MBisanz ^talk 01:03, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete. A couple of stock ticker templates weren't being tracked, but are now. Also improved the bots ability to remove unnecessary formatting that was wrapped around the stock ticker templates. Noom _talk ^contribs 12:48, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Approved. MBisanz ^talk 14:22, 14 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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