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-- Deep fried okra 08:57, 19 January 2020 (UTC) reply

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Thank you. ClueBot NG ( talk) 07:18, 19 January 2020 (UTC) reply

There’s no reason to have undone this edit. You didn’t even provide me with a response. Simult2018 ( talk) 07:22, 19 January 2020 (UTC) reply

It's an automated tool, see WP:BOTS. Why would you expect a tool to talk to you? It's not intelligent and your comments at WP:ANI are way off the marks. You owe a couple of editors an apology. Doug Weller talk 08:49, 19 January 2020 (UTC) reply

I don’t owe any editors an apology. If my edits were wrong, then you need to correct the page covering the 2009 security breach at the White House. That page (thanks to others, not me) has these facts. And there has been no explanation as to why the bot claims to do routine/tedious edits, but has delved I to things that would require judgement as to if it is “loaded” or “negative” — things requiring human judgement.

Are there bots operated by PR companies? Can’t imagine they wouldn’t try such a thing. Simult2018 ( talk) 09:06, 19 January 2020 (UTC) reply

And also, on the question “why would you expect a tool to talk to you” the answer is that if it did talk to me by sending me a message saying it undid my edit, and if it put the accusation in the edit line that the edit was vandalism, then it is reasonable for me to think it could explain itself to me when it posts to my page. Simult2018 ( talk) 09:08, 19 January 2020 (UTC) reply

I wouldn't know about PR companies, but ClueBot NG functions to revert and report vandalism. It's proving invaluable in literally keeinpg "poo" out of the 'pedia. You can see its edits at Special:Contributions/ClueBot_NG. Far more comprehensive than protecting some promo piece that we'd do better off without.-- Deep fried okra 09:13, 19 January 2020 (UTC) reply

Just click an individual "dif" to see what it changed.-- Deep fried okra 09:16, 19 January 2020 (UTC) reply

I have closed your discussion at WP:ANI, it is pointless keeping it open as the bot is not malfunctioning and that's what the post is about. To your question above about the bot talking to you, ClueBot NG is a computer program (as the bot itself has explained above) which can leave you messages on your talk page, however it does not have the ability to respond to them. If you want to know more information about editors/bots, their user page is a good place to start and ClueBot NG's userpage could have quite easily avoided the post to ANI as it explains a lot about the bot. Also, for future reference, if you report a bot to ANI, I would have placed a note on the talk page of the operator just to make them aware as they may not log in everyday to check ANI etc. There is a template for doing this at ANI.-- 5 albert square ( talk) 18:02, 19 January 2020 (UTC) reply

Thank you for your contributions. Please mark your edits as "minor" only if they are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thank you. Doug Weller talk 09:28, 19 January 2020 (UTC) reply