Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PearBOT II 10: Difference between revisions

*:*:My read on that discussion is that is that first there's broad agreement that Wikimedia/Wikipedia list article doesn't contribute anything as a short description. I propose that we edit {{tl|Short description}} to ignore the descriptions and threat them like none. When I implement this after waiting a reasonable time for objections or counter proposals to be raised some editors say that they would rather see a bot replace the descriptions. MichaelMaggs starts a subsection about how the description should be removed whether by bot or template edits is preferred. A few people, me included are neutral on how it's implemented since there are pros and cons with both and the rest prefer a bot. A week after the discussion started I decide to file this BRFA to move the project forward and since noone actually objected to a bot that was the favored outcome by the participants. Given that the talk page is quite highly trafficked for an implementation discussion (many template edits get no input at all) I considered that suitable and since the trial was approved the [[WP:bot approval group|bot approval group]] agreed. It is however great to hear your opinions at this stage and not when we've had a bot doing thousands of edits, but rather just 10. We will just have to wait and see where the consensus takes us. Could also put an RfC tag on the [[WT:SHORTDESC]] discussion if you want to get a 30 day discussion and a proper close at the end. --[[User:Trialpears|Trialpears]] ([[User talk:Trialpears|talk]]) 09:03, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

*:*:: Yeah... messy discussion... no consensus... anyone can read in it what they want... no actual conclusion. As a minimum (even if no formal RfC had been initiated) it should have been listed at [[WP:ANRFC]], so that someone uninvolved could have assessed the discussion for what, if anything, could be concluded from it. Note also the new subsection which I initiated in that discussion: I think you all started more or less from the deluded assumption that meaningful short descriptions for list articles are out of reach. --[[User:Francis Schonken|Francis Schonken]] ([[User talk:Francis Schonken|talk]]) 09:34, 15 April 2021 (UTC)