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#	Bot request	Status	💬	👥	🙋 Last editor	🕒 (UTC)	🤖 Last botop editor	🕒 (UTC)
1	Basketball biography infobox request	Needs wider discussion.	8	3	NotAG on AWB	2025-01-04 14:52	Primefac	2024-11-17 20:44
2	Replacing FastilyBot	BRFA filed	30	11	Usernamekiran	2025-01-03 03:59	Usernamekiran	2025-01-03 03:59
3	Deletion of navboxes at Category:Basketball Olympic squad navigational boxes by competition	Working	5	5	MolecularPilot	2025-01-01 04:45	Qwerfjkl	2024-11-20 17:32
4	Bulk remove "link will display the full calendar" from articles about calendar years		6	5	Primefac	2024-12-09 16:31	Primefac	2024-12-09 16:31
5	Province over-capitalization		10	3	Dicklyon	2025-01-01 07:12	Primefac	2024-12-11 22:00
6	Tagging Category:Cinema of Israel	Done	15	2	LDW5432	2025-01-07 20:00	DreamRimmer	2025-01-07 10:27
7	Bot to simplify "ref name" content	Request withdrawn	15	8	MolecularPilot	2025-01-06 08:12	Anomie	2025-01-04 15:10

Project tagging bot

The people who have tagged articles in WP:CHIBOTCATS with {{WikiProject Chicago}} have mostly gone inactive, except for one admin who no longer tags. Are there any bots that tag by category? If not we need a new one.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 05:47, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

I just got approval for one. What are you trying to do? Do you just want to tag as WPChicago or was that just an Example? --Kumioko (talk) 14:58, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Yes we need all the new articles in the cats listed at WP:CHIBOTCATS (but not their subcats) tagged with {{WikiProject Chicago}}. Auto rating unrated pages would be good. I.e., if a majority of other tags have a class=x, then fill that class in for Chicago.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 18:06, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

I have a request sitting with DodoBot - User_talk:DodoBot/Requests#WP:UKROADS - if you'd like to steal that one away and do it, I'd be much obliged. All details there, but you could come back to me - if you feel like doing it - should you need to know more. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk) 16:04, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Ok. I am currently going through some for WPUS and Oklahoma asked for a couple hundred too so after that I'll start working with these unless someone grabs them first. IN the Chicago one may I suggest also adding WikiProject Illinois if its not there already. --Kumioko (talk) 18:59, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for UKRoads. --Tagishsimon (talk) 19:13, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Just so you know, my bot, Hazard-Bot, is approved for such tasks.  Hazard-SJ  ㋡  23:47, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

If you'd like to steal UK Roads, I'm sure no-one would object. I'd just be fascinated to see it done ;) --Tagishsimon (talk) 23:50, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Please do Hazard. Got another 65000 in the que before I can do it. --Kumioko (talk) 00:07, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

I started, but not sure if I will do them all at once. I'll finish at a later time if so.  Hazard-SJ  ㋡  00:41, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

So is Chicago in somebody's queue now?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 21:30, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

Hazard-SJ (talk · contribs), can you handle this for me?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 05:17, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

Are you watching here? I will ping your page.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 04:08, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

I should be able to help with it in the next few days. Got a couple others in the hopper at the moment. --Kumioko (talk) 04:29, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

I'm sorry about the delay. I've started the UKROADS more than once and left it to run, but it seems an error prevented it from continuing. I believe I should make a page for these kinds of requests so it is easier to follow? I will continue working on UKROADS. If Chicago isn't done when I'm done, I'll attempt it too.  Hazard-SJ  ㋡  06:12, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Any estimate on when you will be done with UKROADS?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 18:06, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Hello.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 18:26, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

Sorry for the late reply. I did some more, but I was having some problems, hence this. I'll get back to it ASAP, hopefully. As for Chicago, that would be a longer hold.  Hazard-SJ  ㋡  03:54, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

I can probably do some on Chicago but I'm not sure my bot is authorized yet to do that type of task. I can do WikiProject Banner replacement but I think I need to request a separate one for tagging new articles to a project. Its a pretty straightforward request with plenty of precadent though so it should be pretty quick. --Kumioko (talk) 04:28, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Chicago tagging task

I submitted a BRFA to allow my bot to do this type of task but before I get started I got a couple questions about this one.

1. Can I remove the red linked categories from the above page so it doesn't conflict?
   • Yes.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 17:39, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
2. Does the project support all types of content classes (i.e. Category, template redirect, etc.)? If not which ones does it support.
   • Not really sure.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 17:39, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
3. Are you just looking for me to add the Chicago banner or do you want me to do assessment as well? If you do want me to do some assessment what projects do you want me to inherit the class from? --Kumioko (talk) 17:46, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
   • In the past I believe we inherited by majority. Can you do that? Just make sure not to automatically do subcategories.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 17:39, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick reply. I have to admit I don't know how to inherit by majority. I'm afraid that programming is above my level. What do you mean by not to automatically do subcategories? --Kumioko (talk) 17:45, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

The list at WP:CHIBOTCATS includes the categories that are associated with WP:CHICAGO. Some of the subcategories of those categories include things that are far afield from the project. I will wait for Hazard-SJ (talk · contribs).--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 00:12, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

No problem. --Kumioko (talk) 04:04, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Me sees.  Hazard-SJ  ㋡  07:37, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

What is the latest?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 16:21, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Any update?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 04:52, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Deprecated {{pron-en}}

Deprecated template {{pron-en}} is no longer used in mainspace. However, there are still ca. 350 transclusions in portal space. Could you convert these to {{IPA-en}}, which is still supported? The conversion is simple: if there is only one parameter, add 'pronounced' to the beginning and a pipe at the end:

{{pron-en|ABC}} → pronounced {{IPA-en|ABC|}}

(The pipe prevents the default behaviour of IPA-en.)

If there is a 2nd parameter, double the pipe between them:

{{pron-en|ABC|En-ABC.ogg}} → pronounced {{IPA-en|ABC||En-ABC.ogg}}

If you could drop me a line if/when this is done, I'll clean up any remainders and mark the template as deprecated.

Thanks! — kwami (talk) 22:16, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Looks fairly easy and non-controversial. I'll probably do this in a semi-automated fashion very shortly. — madman 00:27, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. Yeah, these were all converted in main space months ago. I've cleaned up everything else apart from user space, talk, and archives. — kwami (talk) 02:21, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

 On hold – My apologies for taking so long to find this out, but I actually don't have access to my bot account at the moment until my toolserver account is restored, and I'm not comfortable making semi-automated edits under my primary account. Can another bot operator pick this up? (If not, I should get the account restored within a couple days.) — madman 03:01, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

It seems pretty straightforward I can probably do it with mine if its ok with everyone. --Kumioko (talk) 03:04, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Ok I did a few edits and got a couple comments so I have a followup question.

Should I be changing these templates on Archived talk pages or should I skip those? --Kumioko (talk) 14:48, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

I won't speak for the original requester, but generally changing archived talk pages is frowned upon unless it contributes to the archive's quality (e.g. changing WP:AN/I links to the relevant archive, &c.) I can't say without looking at context, but it appears the original request was only for the portal namespace and it'd probably be best to restrict it to that without more community input in a BRFA or the like. — madman 15:15, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Makes sense to me. I'll start with that and go from there. Just FYI for all there are a lot of transclusions on User and User talk pages as well. --Kumioko (talk) 16:44, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Incidentally, I now have access to my bot account, so if Kwamikagami needs anything more than that or if you need any help, I'm now available. — madman 13:04, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

That would be great. I stopped his bot because it wasn't overriding the default behavior of the new template per the above. (I didn't revert the edits he did make, however. There were 43 of them.) — kwami (talk) 03:54, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

changing mid vowels in {{IPA-sh}}

Also, I received a request some time ago to convert our IPA key for Serbocroatian to use the letters e and o instead of ɛ and ɔ, which would match our phonology article (they are also more accessible to readers). The transclusions are inconsistent; maybe half follow the key, half the phonology article. We'd need to convert all instances of ɛ and ɔ in transclusions of the {{IPA-sh}} template to e and o, and also to get rid of the up & down tacks under any of those four letters (or any other letters). (The tacks are these: in case it's easier for you to clip & paste.)

AWB at least has a hard time with diacritics, so you may need to convert e and o plus circumflex or caron to hard-coded ê ô ě ǒ.

Getting rid of the tie bars would also be nice, since they're distracting and not used in the key (they're found on t and d: t͡ d͡ ), and a lot of the articles use v (or v̞) for ʋ. — kwami (talk) 07:15, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

There are some other inconsistencies, but they're not so numerous, so I can take care of them. — kwami (talk) 06:30, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

I can fulfill the original request; it's non-controversial and an example of what's normally done when a template is deprecated. Can you link me to more consensus (the request, discussion, etc.) on changing the IPA within the template? Also, I'm not using AWB, so I don't anticipate problems with diacritics, though I will have to read up on normalization and such to run this if the changes have consensus. Thanks, — madman 16:21, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Here,Wikipedia_talk:IPA_for_Serbo-Croatian#Mid_or_open-mid.3F but there's very little comment. A remark that e and o are more accessible, and what are used in our phonology article. — kwami (talk) 07:00, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Forgive me, I don't know much about IPA, but I don't think the proposed changes would only affect Serbo-Croatian articles and thus the scope of the discussion's a little narrow... if it's all right with you, I'd like to proceed by just processing the templates according to your initial request, just changing the name and how the parameters are passed. If you actually want content changes, I think that would be something we'd have to discuss in a BRFA or at the Village Pump, because I'm not completely sure they'd be non-controversial. I can give you a list of pron-en templates with whatever characters you'd like, though, so you or the appropriate WikiProjects could review them. — madman 22:03, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, I should have opened a 2nd request. The Serbo-Croatian change has nothing to do with pron-en, and it does affect only Serbo-Croatian. — kwami (talk) 13:43, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

URGENT - Bot to remove {{Copy to Wikimedia Commons}} from files uploaded by users currently at CCI

There are a couple of users whose uploads with false own work claims have landed them at CCI. An unforseen side effect of Fbot's tagging of freely licensed files is that many of these copyvios are tagged for transfer.

What is needed is a bot that looks at all files linked to at a page in the Misplaced Pages:Contributor copyright investigations/ tree, such as Misplaced Pages:Contributor copyright investigations/Arab League, removes the {{Copy to Wikimedia Commons}} tag if there is one, and adds a template specifiably warning against transferring the file.

This is an urgent task, as I'm already seeing copyvios getting transferred over in the ongoing transfer drive. Sven Manguard Wha? 17:01, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

I can do this if it isn't done already. Give me a few minutes and I'll make another comment here. — Carl (CBM · talk) 17:06, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

There are 621 images that meet the criteria. I'll work on editing them with VeblenBot. — Carl (CBM · talk) 17:12, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

I have just created {{File at CCI}} for this task. Sven Manguard Wha? 17:21, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

The bot will make edits like this . Is that what you are looking for? — Carl (CBM · talk) 17:28, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Perfect! Sven Manguard Wha? 17:29, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

OK, it will take a little bit to edit them all. You can watch VeblenBot's contribs. — Carl (CBM · talk) 17:32, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

I was. I added the template to the first three, which were done before the template appeared. I've also updated the Fbot blacklists so that these files won't get retagged so long as the template is present. Once the initial run is done, I'd like to explore how best to create a system in which the template is added as soon as a CCI is formally opened, and removed when a CCI is closed. That's not as urgent, however, as CCI is a slow process. Thanks for this. Sven Manguard Wha? 17:45, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

There were actually only 498 of them; I had double counted some. I had the bot scan them all to make sure they were tagged with the CCI tag. Glad to help, — Carl (CBM · talk) 18:09, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Backlog queue Category:Requested edits

Paid editing has been back in the news in the past month big time, and our process to prevent it is somewhat broken or at least not sufficiently smooth and well-known, and that encourages socking. How about a way for Category:Requested edits members (from {{Request edit}}) more than a few days old to show up in the feedback request service or similar? Selery (talk) 19:01, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

How about having a noticeboard, which lists edit requests/editprotected/editsemiprotected in an ordered by date manner similar to WP:PRODSUM ? -- Page, Date, Request type (ER/EP/ESP) . 70.24.249.190 (talk) 01:01, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Great idea!  Done diff. I still think adding stale member announcements to the Feedback Request Service has merit, but this will certainly help a great deal. Selery (talk) 20:24, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

IMDb Template Use

I've on occasion "corrected" IMDb external links that don't utilize the template (usually just a simple URL of the page), but it's a tedious process that can never correct all of them, which could number in the thousands. Could there be a bot that would automatically correct every IMDb link so it uses the proper template, both in external links and references? Exceptions to this would be the links to pages such as full cast, box office, technical specs, trivia, goofs, etc., which the template cannot be directly linked to. A related bot could perhaps correct all of the many instances where the template incorrectly repeats the article title, instead of using the title or name as it appears on the IMDb. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.254.87.80 (talk) 21:55, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Bot to detect cut-and-paste page moves

Would it be possible to create a bot that would either notify a board or reverse the edits of a cut-and-paste page move? I've come across two in the last week (Clock Tower II: The Struggle Within and Serious Sam), which makes me think they are often unnoticed. Presumably, if one page goes blank and the text appears at a previous redirect or new page, it should be pretty obvious.▫ JohnnyMrNinja 06:08, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

CorenSearchBot often does detect them, but I'm likely to file a BRFA soon for a similar task and/or start semi-automated work on the list collected by Misplaced Pages:WikiProject History Merge. — madman 13:01, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Fix Computing banner assessment conflicts

If you review the last few days of Misplaced Pages:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Computing articles by quality log you'll see that a number of the "reassessed" entries repeat each day, even though the talk pages haven't been changed in months.

A number of templates such as Category:WikiProject Computer science, Category:WikiProject Microsoft Windows, Category:WikiProject Computer Security, and Category:WikiProject Software automatically include the parent WikiProject Computing. When these templates are used in combination, but do not specify the same importance level, or one provides an importance level but the other does not, the articles end up in multiple assessment categories.

I reported this at Wikipedia_talk:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Index/Archive_6#Help_with_Computing_reassessment_log but was advised that I needed to fix the categories – that this wasn't a problem with the bot. Which makes sense – the articles are indeed in Unassessed-importance computing articles and High-importance computing articles.

These are examples of the fixes I'd like the bot to make:

Wintel:

{{WikiProject Computing|class=start|importance=Top}}
{{WikiProject Technology|class=start|importance=high}}
{{WikiProject Microsoft Windows|class=start|importance=}}
to
{{WikiProject Computing|class=start|importance=Top}}
{{WikiProject Technology|class=start|importance=high}}
{{WikiProject Microsoft Windows|class=start|importance=|computing-importance=Top}}

Sun Microsystems:

{{WikiProject California|class= C  |importance=Mid |sfba=yes|sfba-importance=high}}
{{WikiProject Companies|class= C|importance=Mid }}
{{WikiProject Computing |class=C |importance=Mid }}
{{WikiProject Software}}
{{WikiProject Technology}}
{{WikiProject Electronics}}
to
{{WikiProject California|class= C  |importance=Mid |sfba=yes|sfba-importance=high}}
{{WikiProject Companies|class= C|importance=Mid }}
{{WikiProject Computing |class=C |importance=Mid }}
{{WikiProject Software|class=C|computing-importance=Mid}}
{{WikiProject Technology}}
{{WikiProject Electronics}}

A theoretical example, which would result from someone naively adding Computing/Databases to a previously categorized Windows article:

{{WikiProject Microsoft Windows|class=A|importance=High|computing-importance=mid}}
{{WikiProject Computing|databases=yes}}
to
{{WikiProject Microsoft Windows|class=A|importance=High|computing-importance=mid}}
{{WikiProject Computing|class=A|importance=mid|databases=yes}}

And finally a contrived theoretical example:

{{WikiProject Computing|class=A|importance=mid|science=yes}}
{{WikiProject Computer science|class=A|importance=mid}}
to
{{WikiProject Computing|class=A|importance=mid|science=yes|science-importance=mid}}
{{WikiProject Computer science|class=A|importance=mid|computing-importance=mid}}

These spurious entries make the assessment report much less useful. In 2010 the list was so long that a single day's report spanned 2–3 pages, and I cleared hundreds of them. I used to keep up with the subsequent errors contributors introduce when they add tags without synchronizing the parent project assessments, but it was tedious work and it's a task better suited to automation.

Banner consolidation is a simpler solution, but requires consensus about how to handle the multiple projects. In some cases I think there would be consensus to consolidate (e.g. Software, Computer Security) but in others there would be consensus to keep separate (e.g. Computer Science). So it is necessary to fix the articles which are tagged with multiple projects – on its own banner consolidation will not solve the problem.

This would need to be a recurring bot run. If it's too difficult to identify all the articles which appear in conflicting assessment categories, it could use the results of the various WP 1.0 bot's "reassessed" lists to select which articles need examination. Would someone be willing to set this up? – Pnm (talk) 17:42, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

An easier way to deal with this is to remove Cat:WP Computing from templates which aren't directly about WP Computing... --Izno (talk) 20:01, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Remove all use of < categorytree >-2012-01-26T21:19:00.000Z">

The code < categorytree > is used in categories to display all of the subcats. There has been a change to the MediaWiki software at some point and now all of the subcats are displayed on all the category pages if the limit of 200 is exceeded. this makes < categorytree > redundant. See an example at Category:Japanese musicians. I don't know how often it is used but it I have seen it quite regularly. I would like to have all instances of its use removed. It is often creates quite a clutter on a category page. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 21:19, 26 January 2012 (UTC)"> ">

I think you're absolutely right, but think this may have to be brought up at the Village Pump/Technical or something just so we're sure there's consensus for this broad a change. — madman 05:44, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

I can think of instances where <categorytree> is used on pages other than category pages. It would seem pertinent since the only problematic use is on category pages, it should only be removed on those pages. Otherwise, seems like a good idea to me. --Izno (talk) 18:51, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Extlinks request

This is not a bot request per se, so feel free to move it to a more appropriate page. StatsCan is about to release a flood of new data and we have started to talk about it. One way to tackle it is to look at all the articles linking to www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/*.

So can ayone produce a list of article with extlinks to that address prefix? It would need to be sorted or secondary-keyed by province (get article categories and look for unique use of "Ontario", "Alberta", etc.), not sure whether a wiki-formatted or tab-delimited output would be best, probably both so I could awk the raw text. If someone could do a raw list so I can look at it, that would be great. More refinement requests would likely follow, as we are just looking to update the base population (&c) data for this release. Thanks for any help! Franamax (talk) 02:33, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Sure, I can do that this afternoon or evening. — madman 22:04, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

already done at User:Δ/Sandbox 5 ΔT 22:06, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Never mind then. :P Cheers! — madman 22:13, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

A bot notification request

Given that over WP:100 editors were involved overall, I think a bot is the best method to notify all the editors mentioned in Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_comment/Fæ#Of_note. ASCIIn2Bme (talk) 05:28, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

If someone else could come up with the wording, I'm sure this could be done via AWB or something fairly quickly. — madman 05:45, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

I am involved in the RfC/U, so ideally someone else should propose the wording, but the following seems neutral enough to me:
"A request for comments has been opened on administrator User:Fæ. You are being notified because of your participation in Fæ's RfA or because you took part in other discussions requesting a review of Fæ's conduct or because you participated in a RfC/U concerning Fæ's alleged former account." ASCIIn2Bme (talk) 14:35, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Eh, that second sentence is a bit unwieldy, don't you think? What about "A request for comments has been opened on administrator User:Fæ. You are being notified due to your prior participation in ANI, RfA, or RfC discussions regarding this user." — madman 17:41, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Fine with me. ASCIIn2Bme (talk) 18:07, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Okay. I'll do this shortly. I have a list of 179 users who !voted in the RfA, endorsed a summary in the RfC, or commented in the ANI discussion. I'll probably use the text above, with a comment indicating the notification's been delivered by a neutral party, etc. Also considering the age of some of these discussions, I'm probably going to skip any talk pages that haven't been active for two weeks (probably inactive user, not going to contribute, not helpful). Cheers, — madman 18:24, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Thank you! ASCIIn2Bme (talk) 18:58, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

rem. unsupported parameters from info box

At {{Infobox language}}, we used to have a parameter that rather perversely needed to be set to "none" if another parameter was not to link to a WP article. Support for this "ll" parameter has now been removed, after I asked 6 wks ago and no-one objected. I hard-linked the articles and set the "ll" parameters to "none" before removing template support, and they no longer have a function.

There are about 400 articles with ll..=none, where the ".." may be one or two digits. Could these be removed? Pls do not rm. line breaks, unless this would mean two in a row.

If there are any which are not set to 'none', they should be left for me to clean up manually. (Removing them would have no effect on the display, but they would mean I overlooked something.) — kwami (talk) 09:47, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

URL replacement

Hi. Can a bot replace any URLs that start with http://archiv.berlinale.de to http://www.berlinale.de as the "archiv" part of the URL is now redundant. I estimate approx 150-200 articles in scope. Thanks. Lugnuts (talk) 13:51, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

I can do that with AWB. I'll start right now. Rcsprinter (Gimme a message) 15:18, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! Lugnuts (talk) 15:50, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

 Finished 200 edits, but I'll carry on. And this is how I spend my Saturday... Rcsprinter (state) 16:08, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Hehe, and thanks again! Lugnuts (talk) 18:07, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

School bot

I want a bot to complete school assignments on an online school called Laurel Springs. It has a simple sign in, And a lot of the assignments are multiple choice, And you can retake the tests once or twice. Email below <email address removed> — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.105.238.103 (talk) 17:30, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

 Declined – Even if this request weren't morally abhorrent, this page is for requesting Misplaced Pages bots. — madman 17:34, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

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