Hi! I recently discovered Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/Dexbot 13 and I had a question: How does it handle the case of an item where a user deletes the claims and sitelinks from an item, but the former sitelinks still exist on the client project?
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Hi, no it doesn't delete unless it's a sitelink removal by deletion. Have you seen the bot doing otherwise?
No. I just learnt about this bot as part of processing a request for undeletion, and I couldn't see any test for that specific condition in the code, just:
if item.sitelinks:
continue
That code is extremely old. I just double checked and the new one checks for existence of the page and if it exists, it skips deletion.
OK, thanks. Good to know.
I don't know how to find the current code for your bot, so I was relying on the link in the RFP.
You are absolutely right. I just updated the gist.
Thanks. One case that especially concerns me is where an editor finds a duplicate item and, instead of merging, blanks it, transferring the sitelinks to another item. I'm happy to know that such items aren't quietly deleted by a bot, but instead have some change of being found and fixed.