Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/RustyBot 4

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RustyBot 4

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

Time filed: 01:17, Monday, December 15, 2025 (UTC)

Function overview: Tag pages at User:Alex 21/sandbox/No episode table with {{convert to Episode table}}

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Python (Pywikibot)

Source code available:

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): OTR

Estimated number of pages affected: User:Alex 21/sandbox/No episode table currently has 4463 pages listed

Namespace(s): Mainspace

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: This bot uses PyWikiBot to iterate through the linked pages of User:Alex 21/sandbox/No episode table, then uses mwparserfromhell to insert the maintenance tag onto them.

This task was previously approved as RustyBot 3, but Gonnym (courtesy ping) requested a rerun.

Discussion

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. – DreamRimmer ■ 13:22, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Pinging @User:Rusty Cat in case they missed this. Gonnym (talk) 13:51, 6 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Yep, I did miss it. I'll get a trial up and running. ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 01:19, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Trial complete. ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 02:40, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
My apologies if this is not the right way to make contact, but I thought my edit https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Bokurano_episodes&oldid=1332276799 had fixed the episode table issue on that particular article. It's been re-tagged by this bot trial. ~2026-22963-2 (talk) 22:09, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@~2026-22963-2:

The bot does not check if the page was tagged in the past; as per the original request, it reads off the page User:Alex 21/sandbox/No episode table to tag pages. You can remove the link from that page and the bot will no longer tag it.

In the future, you could bring such issues to my talk page instead. Thanks! ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 22:45, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think it is a real issue if the bot tags a page that already has the template. On the macro-scale, it does more good than not. Pages have already been converted much more once the template is on the page and if it is not needed, it is just a simple edit to remove it. Gonnym (talk) 11:26, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Speaking that, I was also asked by the same user about pages that already use {{Episode table}}, since I don't currently have a check on them; I could make a change to the code, but I wonder if it's that important. ~ rusty ^meow ~ 15:00, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
A page might have that template and still be missing that template for another table. Unless your code can check if the first {{Episode list}} (of a table; not the first in the page) has {{Episode table}} right before it, or a regular wikitable, I don't think there is a way to know. Gonnym (talk) 18:20, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. ~ rusty ^meow ~ 00:14, 17 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Approved. Primefac (talk) 13:05, 18 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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