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Bovlb (talkcontribs)

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?

Ladsgroup (talkcontribs)

Hi, no it doesn't delete unless it's a sitelink removal by deletion. Have you seen the bot doing otherwise?

Bovlb (talkcontribs)

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

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Ladsgroup (talkcontribs)

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.

Bovlb (talkcontribs)

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.

Ladsgroup (talkcontribs)

You are absolutely right. I just updated the gist.

Bovlb (talkcontribs)

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.

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