Commons:Bots/Requests/YiFeiBot (11)

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Operator: Zhuyifei1999 (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information)

Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought: Get rid of a invisible character (Unicode 200e) in files description pages (mainly category links) as requested in Commons:Bots/Work_requests#Unvisible_controll_characters_in_category_tags.

Automatic or manually assisted: automatic unsupervised

Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): one time run or monthly

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): 6 edit per minute

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): N

Programming language(s): pywikipedia

Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 13:22, 6 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

I'm happy with the task. @User:Odder do you have an opinion on tab characters in template parameters? --99of9 (talk) 00:06, 3 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@99of9: I had a look at the examples given by ŠJů, and I think we should remove the tab characters. Other than that, I didn't review the task, but I trust your and Eugene's judgment. odder (talk) 08:45, 3 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@Zhuyifei1999: I'd like to move this request forward. Can you implement the removal of tab characters? Once this is done, I believe we can approve the task, given that the bot is already flagged. odder (talk) 14:07, 9 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@Odder: There is tab characters being useful (as in script sources). Furthermore, the script is old and I likely can no longer find it. The removal of U+200E is also being done by another bot if I remember correctly. I'd rather withdraw this than to implement the removal of tab characters. --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 14:22, 9 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@Zhuyifei1999: Can you remember which bot takes care of U+200E? If it is indeed the case, then I agree there's no need for a second bot with the same functionality. I'm sorry it's taken so long to move this forward :-( odder (talk) 14:37, 9 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@Odder: User:FrescoBot seem to be one. Bot stopped in 13 March 2014 --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 14:47, 9 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@Zhuyifei1999: Well, I'd really like the bot to remove unnecessary tab characters while removing U+200E, but if that is impossible, then I guess we can move forward anyway. odder (talk) 17:04, 9 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

 I withdraw my nomination See reasons above --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 10:03, 10 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]