Ladsgroup
Removing Link FA, Link FL, and Link GA templates
changeHello, @Ladsgroup:. Can we take you up on your offer to have Dexbot remove these Link templates for us? Our deletion request has been approved, so the templates can be removed at any time. Please let me know when you would be able to do this, and thanks! --Auntof6 (talk) 22:00, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
- @Auntof6: I'm ready to do the job, Do your wiki accepts the global bots? Ladsgroup (talk) 22:03, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
- I don't really know. Can you try a few edits and see? If not, I'll need to get one of our 'crats to give you the bot flag, at least temporarily. I'm just an admin, so I can't do it myself. --Auntof6 (talk) 22:05, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
- I Just checked out bot page and it says we do allow them. [[1]] -- Enfcer (talk) 22:07, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks, @Enfcer:. Do you know if we should give the bot the flood flag, or are bot edits all suppressed from recent changes? --Auntof6 (talk) 22:10, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
- They would be suppressed. I just started the bot.Ladsgroup (talk) 22:13, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
- Ladsgroup beat me to it @Auntof6: :) . -- Enfcer (talk) 22:15, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
- Cool, thanks! If you leave a message either her or on my talk page when it's done, that would be great! --Auntof6 (talk) 22:16, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
- They would be suppressed. I just started the bot.Ladsgroup (talk) 22:13, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks, @Enfcer:. Do you know if we should give the bot the flood flag, or are bot edits all suppressed from recent changes? --Auntof6 (talk) 22:10, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
- I Just checked out bot page and it says we do allow them. [[1]] -- Enfcer (talk) 22:07, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
- I don't really know. Can you try a few edits and see? If not, I'll need to get one of our 'crats to give you the bot flag, at least temporarily. I'm just an admin, so I can't do it myself. --Auntof6 (talk) 22:05, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
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I see you're making excellent progress! I remember seeing that Dexbot would leave the templates on pages under some circumstances, and I see that it did leave Link FA on some (for example, Plastic). It looks like the badges are in place on Wikidata on at least that article, so I'm wondering why they weren't removed. (I'm assuming you're finished processing the FA template, since the bot is now working on GA.) I just want to understand what I need to consider when I do the manual removals after Dexbot is finished. Thanks again! --Auntof6 (talk) 16:50, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
- Sometimes it's because of technical difficulties, sometime it's because of issues in target wiki. Check if the badge exists in Wikidata remove the template, and check if the badge doesn't exist and the target article is not featured, remove Ladsgroup (talk) 18:05, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
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Ladsgroup, thanks very, very much for all your help with this! I saw that the bot had finished, so I removed the remaining uses of the templates in mainspace and userspace and deleted the templates. --Auntof6 (talk) 05:44, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
- Thank you very much Ladsgroup (talk) 10:12, 10 March 2015 (UTC)