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Sources and Appearances
There's already special pages that keep track of stuff like uncategorized pages. But I was thinking that a bot may help us identify pages that have neither sources nor appearances. It could flag these pages with the template. I think we would need to have an exception list, because for some pages this isn't appropriate (e.g. OOU pages). Thoughts? WhiteBoy 16:02, 28 Oct 2005 (UTC)


 * There are a lot of pages which do not need sources or appearances because they appear so many times. Lightsaber styles, Orders, years, lists. . It will be rather annoying to have a bot which keeps adding requests for sources or appearances.TopAce
 * I agree. That's why I said that about the exception list.  WhiteBoy 22:39, 28 Oct 2005 (UTC)
 * I have a bad feeling about this. -- Riffsyphon1024 20:02, 28 Oct 2005 (UTC)

Image Sourcing
Would it be possible for a bot to go through all images, find the ones that are not in any categories (i.e., they lack a copyright tag), and stick the unverified template on them? I've been doing this pretty randomly as a project, but the problem is widespread enough that it needs to be done in a systemic fashion if unsourced images are to be identified so people can go through them. Generally, all images that are already copyright tagged are either sourced or already in the 'unverified' bin (very few exceptions). Some sourced images do not have a copyright tag - this would help identify both those images and the many images that actually lack sources entirely. Unfortunately, I imagine it would be very spammy, due to the size of the problem. Yrfeloran 18:03, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Personal Bot
Can I have one that just follows me around and makes encouraging noises? Defends my position in edit wars, perhaps? CooperTFN 18:57, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Nav Template adding
I whipped up a nav template for the Republic comics, Republic comics, and if it's acceptable it would be a lot easier for a bot to add it to all 84 issue pages. - Lord Hydronium 01:16, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Done. Well, actually it's going right now :P 22:58, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Clone Wars link change
Could some bot please change all the links from Star Wars: The Clone Wars to Star Wars: The Clone Wars (video game)? -- Ozzel 03:50, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Whistler's changing them for all of the main namespace articles. —Xwing328 (Talk) 18:12, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Request
I would like to request a bot designed for sourcing articles (e.g. changing 'ref' to 'ref name', but also as a personal bot. As a personal bot, I mean something that helps me out with my articles, maybe vote for my GA and FA noms, that kind of thing? I'd call him TC-14. Jediknight19bby 19:23, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
 * You want a bot to vote for your nominations? I think what you're looking for is a sockpuppet. -- AckbarSig.jpg dmirableAckbar  ( It's A Trap! ) 23:10, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Could someone help me get a personal bot too? I'm not good at sourcing.(OOM-9, maybe?)ruusan 05:52, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Sapient to Sentient
A while back, a user changed a load of articles with the word "sentient" and replaced it with "sapient". Since the word sentient is what is used in the Star Wars universe, and also that the Sapient article redirects to Sentient, can a bot be created, or an existing bot be altered, to automatically change all instances of the word sapient to sentient? I'm willing to slowly and steadily keep working on it, but the thought of manually correcting the 575 articles left to fix is rather daunting. Thanks. - JMAS 21:04, 14 August 2007 (UTC) I just went through the CT and CT Archive and not one is about ==Sapient species== vs ==Sentient species==. - JMAS 07:04, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
 * All instances? Aren't there some that are ok? Also, if there's a page that expains the difference, that one would have to be excluded. —Xwing328 (Talk) 04:36, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
 * There is only one single source that uses the term "sapient" and that's University of Comparative Sapient Species found in only a single source, which is supposedly Star Wars Gamer 5 (though I would like someone who has that issue to verify this). All other novels, sources, reference books use the term "sentient". JSarek and Riffsyphon can corroborate this. - JMAS 04:41, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately I don't have Gamer 5. jSarek is the better source. --  Riffsyphon  1024 04:44, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Anyone that can verify that source would be great. By corroboration, I more meant to your comments here: Forum:Sentient_v.s._Sapient. - JMAS 04:52, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Sapient is used in: Adumar: Pilots Wanted, Dark Empire Sourcebook, Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded, The Thrawn Trilogy Sourcebook, Velmor: Royalty and Rebellion, Or Die Trying, and about 25 novels. —Xwing328 (Talk) 05:37, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Those novels must be the Junior Jedi Knights, Last of the Jedi, and one or two of the Clone Wars era novels, because I've read and own virtually every other novel written. But even so, that small handful is far outnumbered by the rest of the source material and novels that use the term sentient, which should be the precedent. If the selected sources you have listed use the word sapient, then fine, that's about 30-35 works compared to 500+ others that use the word sentient, so I think it would still be good for a bot to change all the instances of sapient to sentient, then those 30-35 source articles can be changed back manually if you'd like. - JMAS 05:59, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Actually, no. They're LotF, NJO, X-wing, Han Solo, MedStar, Lando, Shatterpoint, and I, Jedi. But you're right, sentient is far more popular, though that doesn't negate the validity of the word sapient. —Xwing328 (Talk) 06:12, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, what started this whole thing, is someone went through and changed all these instances of the word sentient, to sapient, based on the OOU, real world definition, when the established term IU for Star Wars, and for most SciFi out there for that matter, is sentient. And as sentient is by far the more established term, it seems to me, sentient should be the term used in articles (unless quoting from a specific source), particularly when used in making a heading ( ==Sentient species== and not ==Sapient species== ). - JMAS 06:25, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
 * OK, I know the ==Sapient species== heading was decided in a CT along with the other "Appearances" headers, so this might need to be brought up in a new CT (as much as I hate voting). The bot would probably have to go through every single page in the wiki, too, looking for the word to change. That takes a long time. Either way, I'm out for the night. —Xwing328 (Talk) 06:31, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
 * That seems wrong - I could've sworn we've had this debate before. At any rate, the aforementioned University of Comparative Sapient Species is in fact in Star Wars Gamer 5, specifically in "A Campaign Guide to the Centrality"; it's where the Ottdefas come from. jSarek 07:50, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
 * You're right, not a CT: Forum:Appearances for very common items. —Xwing328 (Talk) 16:17, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

OK, re-opening this request. Since the CT thread agreed that Sentient only would be used in headings, can a bot be created or an existing bot altered to change all the instances of Sapient back to Sentient, but be limited to doing so in headings only? - JMAS 02:34, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Marvel Ewoks to Ewoks
Recently the individual issues of the Marvel Ewoks series have been moved to just Ewoks (ie here). Can a bot change the links to the former Marvel pages to the new title? --Eyrezer 08:35, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * It should be done. If there's anything else, hopefully those can be done by hand. —Xwing328 (Talk) 04:41, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Great. Thanks for that. --Eyrezer 08:14, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
 * How about changing the Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy links to Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy as well? --Eyrezer 10:27, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Okeeday. —Xwing328 (Talk) 18:10, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks again --Eyrezer 22:14, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Star Wars Empire to Star Wars: Empire
All issues of the comic series Star Wars: Empire are currently at Star Wars Empire: Blah without the colon. Would it be possible to move the all issues and TBPs to the correct, colonized titles, and then correct all links? --Imperialles 18:22, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
 * This should be done now. —Xwing328 (Talk) 17:39, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Awesome, thanks. --Imperialles 15:54, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

proceded to preceded
Due to a typo in a template example, a number of pages have this error in an infobox field. Can one of our helpful droids please correct this? -- Darth Culator  (Talk) 18:24, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Done. —Xwing328 (Talk) 16:20, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

CCG citation template
For a while now, I've been hand-coding citation information for the SWCCG into a number of article images, before realizing it would be much cleaner to have a citation template like we do for magazines. I was wondering if we could get all instances of the format I've been using turned into the new template, replacing
 * SET NAME, Star Wars Customizable Card Game

with

Thanks. jSarek 20:41, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
 * To match the naming convention of the magazine templates, shouldn't this be at CCGCite? -- Darth Culator  (Talk) 20:52, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, we've only been partly consistent in that, given Template:Journal, Template:Galaxy, Template:Hyperspace, and the like. Think I ought to change it anyway? jSarek 20:59, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
 * No, please keep it at CCG. It's so much easier to site and remember the name of. —Xwing328 (Talk) 23:36, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
 * In that case, I'll leave it where it is, and the bots may act as they see fit. jSarek 00:54, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
 * So is this template intended for use in references, like on Home One? The bot's replacing a lot right now. Let me know if you see any that haven't been done. —Xwing328 (Talk) 01:39, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, sources, references and image sources. I've been using this particlar format for a long time, so there's probably quite a bit to replace (hence the bot request). jSarek 01:46, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Information template
I'd like to request that the variable "filespecs=" be added to all pages with the Information template. In the appropriate spot (above licensing=, under author=), if possible. --Imperialles 00:16, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Should be possible if I have more free time. I'll let you know. —Xwing328 (Talk) 00:37, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Is it really worth it to add it? I mean, the script's easy - I already coded it - but it will spam RC and watchlists with such a trivial edit. (I know how ironic that sounds when my bot often makes pointless edits.) —Xwing328 (Talk) 21:52, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
 * RC sure, but I don't imagine too many images are on ppls watch lists. I think it probably is worth it. --Eyrezer 05:46, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for fixing this. --Imperialles 14:32, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

CCG citation template, redux
It seems I'm not the only one with a favorite hand-cranked way to source articles from the Star Wars CCG. I've been running across these two formats for a while:
 * Star Wars Customizable Card Game: SET NAME 
 * Star Wars Customizable Card Game: SET NAME 

I wonder if we could get a bot to switch these to

as well? Thanks. jSarek 09:09, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
 * It's a lot harder to do it this way, since Star Wars Customizable Card Game isn't actually getting linked. I'd have to include a reference to every CCG set that might be linked.  —Xwing328 (Talk) 22:46, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Ick. Well, if it's problematic, don't worry about it.  jSarek 01:07, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Pirates & Privateers
Can all links to Pirates and Privateers be changed to Pirates & Privateers please? --Eyrezer 02:08, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Done! -- Darth Culator  (Talk) 02:40, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Image replacement
Replacing all instances of File:Sithempire2.jpg with File:Sithempire2.png would be most excellent, thanks. -- Darth Culator  (Talk) 06:25, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Never mind! I now have a working bot. -- Darth Culator  (Talk) 02:23, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Sectors --> sectors

 * I don't know how easy or hard this will be to program, but we could really use some way to implement this CT without having to do it all by hand. If nothing else, something that renamed the sector articles would be helpful. jSarek 21:01, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Galaxy
can i make a botVex drev my bot is done
 * Could a bot take care of the 1000+ remaining instances of "the Galaxy" and change them to "the galaxy"? Since we have to be careful about simply changing all instances of the upper case to the lower case, because the uppercase version is correct in a number of instances. PS: Could this automated wonder also replace the galaxy to the galaxy ? - TopAce (Talk) 11:42, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I should be able to get around to this within an hour. —Xwing328 (Talk) 19:40, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Credit
Can a bot change all links to credit to Galactic Credit Standard instead? 06:49, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I know this is an old request, but having a bot replace redirects supposedly puts more strain on the servers than just leaving them. —Xwing328 (Talk) 17:11, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Ah, I was unaware of that. SoresuMakashi ( Everything I tell you is a lie  the truth  ) 10:35, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Subcategorising
Also, is there a way to change subcategorisation from the currently standard [[Category:]] to what Ataru said was the more correct ? Not sure whether it's entirely doable, since there's text in the middle of the brackets. There's probably thousands of these things all over category pages on the site. 00:02, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Never mind, that might be changing soon and will be done anyway. SoresuMakashi ( Everything I tell you is a lie  the truth  ) 07:59, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
All the issues of this comic series are a colon short of having correct titles. Would it be possible to move the issues, and change any and all links around to include the colon? --Imperialles 11:15, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I think it would be a bad idea. Not only does a title with two colons in it look goofy, but none of the other series follows that format. The only exception is Star Wars: Empire, all issues of which were moved from Star Wars Empire: Something to Star Wars: Empire: Something by a bot sometine ago. I've been trying to get someone to move them all back ever since.  Mauser  Comlink 11:21, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Goofy or not, that is the correct title. Or do you propose we remove the colons from the titles of all Star Wars products? This is simply bringing comics in line with the rest of the site. --Imperialles 11:23, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
 * All right, who said that is the only correct title? Dark Horse website has the colon in the title, but it also has a # symbol before the issue number (something which the wiki engine would not allow us to do) and a dash before the actual issue title (where we have colon instead). There are many ways to write the colon issue number and Wookieepedia has followed this unwritten standard for years. If you try to perform the move, it will not only affect most of the comic series, issues, story arcs and TPBs and all pages that link to any of them. It will also require to re-categorize all images from all of those comics. Even if a bot could do that without messing up enything, should we really do that just because you think that would look better?  Mauser  Comlink 11:41, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
 * This has nothing to do with what I think looks better. It's about what is correct. Your link confirms that even the publisher uses the colon; why should we differ? You argue that moving the articles is a lot of work, so what? Until we can get a firm policy in place regarding this issue, we should at least attempt to comply with the publisher's format, regardless of the work required. You mention that the current format is an "unwritten standard" on the site. Well, that standard traces its origin to when the wiki namespace was "Star Wars". To avoid confusion between wiki pages and articles with "Star Wars" in the title, no colon was used. The namespace was changed years ago. It is time to mop up this artifact. --Imperialles 11:58, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
 * We still cannot fully comply to Dark Horse standard, because we can't use # symbol in pagenames. Also, if you want to insert the colon between the Star Wars and the series title, you also have to replace the colon between the series name and the issue name with a dash. That way, it might work.  Mauser  Comlink 12:02, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
 * You're right, we can't fully comply with Dark Horse's format. But we can get fairly close. This involves adopting the colon. We could do the dash, sure, or we could simply sit down and make a CT on the issue of titles. Is it truly necessary to include "Star Wars" in titles, anyway? It seems redundant. In the meantime, Dark Horse practice aside, adding colons would at the very least mean that comics are uniform with our other Star Wars product articles. --Imperialles 12:14, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
 * That way, I suggest you start a CT about the whole issue before actually starting moving pages by the dozens.  Mauser  Comlink 12:16, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, we cannot operate based on assumed future policy. Right now, this is the correct action to take. Your point is probably something along the lines of "we should avoid extra work" and I can respect that. I will cede this request until after a consensus track discussion has concluded. --Imperialles 12:25, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

How would i request a bot?

-jurn77

Category
Could a bot move all files from the category Category:Images of Argyus to a new category, Category:Images of Faro Argyus? -- Xd1358  Talk 18:28, November 17, 2009 (UTC)
 * Nevermind, I took care of it. -- Xd1358  Talk 18:56, November 17, 2009 (UTC)