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TokenzeroBot 5

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

Time filed: 19:25, Saturday, July 21, 2018 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): python, pywikibot

Source code available: GitHub

Function overview: Handle OMICS predatory journals by creating redirects and hatnotes.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot requests#Redirects of OMICS journals

Edit period(s): one time run

Estimated number of pages affected: 2001 created redirects and their talks pages, 24 added hatnotes.

Namespace(s): Mainspace (mostly redirects), Talk (just to tag talk pages of created redirects)

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Function details:

OMICS Publishing Group is an predatory open access publisher, which often deceptively names it journals. This bot shall create redirects or hatnotes to point from these names, from a fixed list of names at User:Headbomb/OMICS, taken from the publisher's website.

More precisely, for each title Foobar on the list:

  • If Foobar exists, consider Foobar (journal) instead (unless the title already contained journal or already was a redirect, in which case skip it)
  • Consider also variants obtained by replacing "and" with "&" (and vice versa, if the title doesn't contain Latin "Acta")
  • Consider also variants obtained by taking the the ISO 4 abbreviation (dotted and undotted, computed using the automatic tool, using multilanguage rules iff the title contains "Acta").
  • If any of the consider variants already exists, skip it, just to be safe.
  • Otherwise, create a redirect from each variant:
#REDIRECT[[OMICS Publishing Group]]
[[Category:OMICS Publishing Group academic journals]]

and create a talk page for that redirect, containing {{WPJournals}}. Then, for each title of the form Foobar: Open Access/Foobar-Open Access/Foobar: An Indian Journal/Foobar: Current Research: 

{{Confused|text=[[Foobar: Open Access]], published by the [[OMICS Publishing Group]]}}

Here's a log of all edits made by a simulated run: pastebin log. The 9 skipped titles are logged as 'Skip' should be handled by hand. Titles logged as 'Done' are existing redirects to OMICS Publishing Group, Allied Academies or Pulsus Group.

Discussion

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@Tokenzero: Approved for trial (25 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. 10 "plain" redirects, 10 "(journal)" redirects, 5 hatnotes. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 20:46, 21 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note, I've updated User:Headbomb/OMICS to catch a few typos and capitalization mistakes. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 20:57, 21 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Trial complete. See contribs and the new full simulated run log. The hatnotes have redlinks now, their redirects will be created in a full run. There are no more '(journal)' redirects to make, all those remaining cases are existing journals (which will be added hatnotes). Tokenzero (talk) 11:16, 22 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, almost forgot: there was one bug where the bot would also add hatnotes to some redirects. This is now fixed. Tokenzero (talk) 11:26, 22 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Looks all good to me.  Approved. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 11:46, 24 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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