Wiktionary:Votes/bt-2022-11/User:ExcarnateSojournerBot for bot status

Nomination: I hereby request the Bot flag for User:ExcarnateSojournerBot, operated by myself, ExcarnateSojourner (talk • contribs), for the following purpose:

To perform the decategorization described in this Grease Pit discussion, for which motivation was given and consensus was established and in this Beer Parlour discussion. This involves two steps:

1. Remove all explicitly included multiword terms from all subcategories of Category:English words by number of syllables. This is (partially) achieved in PAWS using the command pwb.py category remove -match, giving a single, unquoted space as the regular expression and English N-syllable words (where 1 ≤ N ≤ 19) as the category. I have successfully used this command to perform a few removals under my main account (example edit). This will not remove terms that use templates like {{cln}} which are unique to Wiktionary. I might write another script later using wikitextparser to try to fix these cases.
2. For all multiword terms that are implicitly included in subcategories of Category:English words by number of syllables, add |nocount=1 to their {{IPA|en}} templates to remove them from said subcategories. This is achieved in PAWS using a script I wrote which you can see on GitHub. I have also tested this script (example edit).

Update: In doing further testing suggested by TheDaveRoss, I found a bug which I have fixed.

Schedule:

• Vote starts: 02:49, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
• Vote ends: 23:59, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
• Vote created: - excarnateSojourner (talk | contrib) 02:49, 3 November 2022 (UTC)

Acceptance:

I verify that I am excarnateSojourner. - excarnateSojournerBOT (talk | contrib) 03:11, 3 November 2022 (UTC)

Discussion:

• Wiktionary:Beer parlour/2022/October#Category:English words by number of syllables
• Wiktionary:Grease pit/2022/October#Looking for bot to recategorize terms
• Wiktionary talk:Votes/bt-2022-11/User:ExcarnateSojournerBot for bot status

1. Support as nominator. - excarnateSojourner (talk | contrib) 03:25, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
2. Support Whoop whoop pull up ^{Bitching Betty ⚧️ Averted crashes} 06:28, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
3. Support: seems useful enough. — Sgconlaw (talk) 21:52, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
4. Support. AG202 (talk) 13:29, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
5. Support sure. Please use the bot only for actions for which you have good reason to believe they would be supported by consensus, as per WT:BOT. I think this vote is a bureaucratic overhead (a mandated one, though): a trustworthy user should get a bot flag in a week or less, not in two, and it should then be equally easy to lose the flag. The user appears trustworthy and this vote page reveals care taken. --Dan Polansky (talk) 12:47, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

   Will do. - excarnateSojourner (talk | contrib) 01:48, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

6. Support. Looks like an efficient way of doing things. --Overlordnat1 (talk) 02:47, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

1. Oppose. I have an aversion to bots, and there's too many already. DonnanZ (talk) 12:38, 5 November 2022 (UTC);;

• Passes 6-1 GreyishWorm (talk) 23:51, 17 November 2022 (UTC)