The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA. The result of the discussion was  Approved.

Operator: DannyS712 (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 01:44, Tuesday, September 3, 2019 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): JavaScript

Source code available: Will be on https://github.com/DannyS712/bot

Function overview: Update various Wikipedia:Database reports

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): Daily, weekly, monthly (depends on report)

Estimated number of pages affected: A few (1 per report)

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: Rather than filing individual BRFAs for future database reports, I'd like to request standing approval for such reports. At the moment, I'd like to create a biweekly report of categories that are "hard" redirects (i.e. use #redirect rather than a category redirect template) - so that edits such as [1] and [2] can be done more easily. I currently have 3 automated database reports; see Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 28, Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 30, and Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 55

Am I reading correctly that you want blanket approval to create, update, and otherwise maintain an indefinite number of database reports? Primefac (talk) 15:35, 3 September 2019 (UTC) (please do not ping on reply)[reply]

Generally, yes. See Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FastilyBot 13 for precedent --DannyS712 (talk) 21:51, 3 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

However, if it would help to limit the number of reports, I can't envision creating more than 10 DannyS712 (talk) 00:10, 9 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Approved for trial (30 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Primefac (talk) 23:39, 10 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  Started with Wikipedia:Database reports/Polluted categories (4) DannyS712 (talk) 04:52, 13 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  Trial complete. I ended up not doing the initial idea I had. Instead, Wikipedia:Database reports/Polluted categories (4) reported disambiguation categories with pages in them DannyS712 (talk) 19:34, 13 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good.  Approved. This is a standing/blanket approval to "create, update, and otherwise maintain" database reports, within reason. When an entirely new report is created, please be sure to link to it at Wikipedia:Database reports as appropriate. As per usual, if amendments to - or clarifications regarding - this approval are needed, please start a discussion on the talk page and ping. --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 07:19, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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