User:Ganeshbot/doc

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Ganeshbot, (a bot run by User:Ganeshk) created city/town articles based on data provided by Census India 2001. It created thousands of Indian town articles, all of which are listed on the User:Ganeshbot/Created page.

The bot does not over-write articles that already exist. Instead, it created articles in the sandbox and listed them at User:Ganeshbot/Not created page. These have be merged into the article namespace.

As of November 5, 2006, there are 1058 articles waiting to be merged.

[edit] Instructions

1. Please DO NOT MOVE the sandbox article to the article space. Use Copy and Paste.
2. After merging the information with the actual article, please strike out the city/town from User:Ganeshbot/Not created page by adding <s> and </s> tags.
3. Uncat the sandbox article by adding {{tl| before the state-stub template name and a colon, [[:Category before the category. See example.
4. Remove {{Mergefromganeshbot}} from talk page (if you find it)

[edit] State-wise

If you wish to work on the list state-wise, use the respective category of the states. State category are listed as [[Category: Cities and towns in <state name>]].

1. The towns that need to be worked on would be listed as User:Ganeshbot/sandbox/<townname>.
2. Add the parameter from=U like in [1]
3. After the merge and uncat is done per instructions above, the town on the sandbox would disappear from the category.
4. See talk page.

[edit] Towns with same name

When the bot created sandbox articles for towns with same name, it padded a random number to the town name. Examples: Gudalur, Wadi. If these towns have a map, then it would most probably be incorrect. All the town articles will have same geo-coords. Need to check and fix the coords for each town in this case. Example: Gudalur