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I notice that User:NVS(bot) was speedily approved as a clone of Mercury bot. Is there any reason why a single operator should use two identical bots for the same purpose? =Nichalp «Talk»= 06:57, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
I note that Rich Farmbrough asked a similar question about process in April. This page contains the terminology:
Lighbot completed its trial for its second request. I can't work out what the three bullets above mean. Is the status of Lightbot second request: approved, in trial or completed trial period? Lightmouse ( talk) 09:46, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
That is what I thought. However, it was recently added to a table on the page with the status In trail. Is that an error? Lightmouse ( talk) 09:52, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
Yes, I was referring to that table. The page has a a section marked Bots in a trial period and another marked Bots that have completed the trial period. The table implies that Lightbot is being treated as if the process thinks it is in the first section, not the second. Lightmouse ( talk) 10:14, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
The term 'Trial' maintains the ambiguity that caused the confusion. If a 'BotTrialComplete' template could be used, that sounds like a good solution to me. Lightmouse ( talk) 13:51, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
Heck, I just went and created it. It can always be (substed and) deleted if we decide we don't want it after all. — Ilmari Karonen ( talk) 22:25, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
Yes, this would presumably be placed by the bot operator after they've completed the trial. — Ilmari Karonen ( talk) 13:44, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
I operate J Milburn Bot ( talk · contribs) which previously replaced 'All Music Guide' with 'Allmusic' after a rebranding. Along with All Music Guide, the smaller All Game Guide and All Movie Guide were rebranded- do I need a new task request to run my bot through the respective 'what links to' lists, or can I just go for it? J Milburn ( talk) 14:59, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
I don't see it in the policy page, and there seems no way but to annotate the approval page; there's no guarantee that anyone will notice such protests. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 23:19, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
I see that the discussion concerning Whobot has already been closed. However I, being the owner, certainly have no objection to it being listed as a dead bot. If I wish to become active in the future, I will re-apply for an active bot flag.
Who ( talk) 01:47, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
because User:DOI bot now does more than just DOIs, I've changed its username to User:Citation bot. Can this new user be granted a bot flag, please? Thanks. Martin ( Smith609 – Talk) 02:37, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
I've just seen that me request was marked as expired. Well I have to object in this case. It is true that I wasn't able to let him run a lot (personal reasons), but I ran it, it just didn't found a lot to do.-- ThorJH talk 10:47, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
I have a list of redirects that I want to create using a script. I (human) produced the list and I'm feeding it to the script, which will only run once (again every once in a while when I run it). Does that count as assisted editing, or as bot editing? Note that this script will not edit any existing articles but only create some redirects where none exist, so the risk of harm is minimal to non-existent (redirects are cheap and all that).
I wouldn't be surprised if someone already has a bot that can do what I want. But even if that were the case, I'd rather do it myself as an exercise as I'm interested in creating more sophisticated bots later. -- Itub ( talk) 17:50, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
I want to run a user requested task with User:John Bot and AWB. Can I just run it? I asked on IRC but was told that IRC okay it would be a bad idea. ("Bot blocked, was approved via IRC" :P). CWii( BOO!| Eeek!) 22:38, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
The task is to tag a bunch of images as {{ NoCommons}}. That's a perfectly normal one-time AWB job, so if a BAG member gave you an informal OK and you go at a relatively slow editing rate you should be fine. Things to watch out for include images that might already be tagged NoCommons, and images that have been deleted since they were uploaded. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 23:08, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
At the moment my bots are a mixture of C# and AWB, I'm going to convert all of them to use PHP. Do I need to do a BRFA for this change or would that just be WP:BUREAUCRACY? ~ User:Ameliorate! (with the !) ( talk) 07:40, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
I notice the request queue is now stretching for a month. I'm curious about this backlog. How do we resolve this? =Nichalp «Talk»= 07:45, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
How would I go about requesting that CommonsDelinker ( talk · contribs) was deflagged? I don't want to write out my whole case here, but it is rather a menace that images get zapped on Commons and silently delinked by a bot. In lots of cases the images would be perfectly acceptable here, and could be undeleted, if only anyone was aware of the problem. So, what's the drill? Angus McLellan (Talk) 23:30, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
The various categories for completed BRFAs have
many requests not in the right place due to the final parameter of {{
BT}} being left out (and therefore being sorted under 'Wikipedia'). Do you think it would be a good idea to have a bot add the appropriate sort key (taken from the page's title) to [[Category:Wikipedia foo bot requests]]
? This will allow requests to be found much more easily, as they will all be under the correct letter. I realise that we have the archives, but they are chronological: using the categories is far easier if you know the name of a bot, but not the date it was approved/denied. Once the backlog has been reduced, this task could be run twice a month (?) or so to keep the categories in order. What do you think? I am willing to do the coding should such a task be deemed necessary.
RichardΩ612
Ɣ
ɸ 14:22, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
Returning to do some cleanup work related to {{ wikibookspar}}, my bot complained over not having a bot flag. It seems that the standard practice of granting flags to all approved bots came after its approval. I've been looking around for where I should request for bureaucrat action to take care of this, but have come up short. Anyone able to help? -- Swift ( talk) 08:28, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
Greetings. Polbot went through a lengthy approval process, with three separate trials, at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Polbot 10. It was approved this morning, and I began running the bot. Polbot was then blocked by User:Docu, who didn't approve of the bot's function of creating temporary subpages. What should I do? Thanks, – Quadell ( talk) 13:57, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Should we have another section for when a trial is concluded and awaiting BAG feedback? Rich Farmbrough, 13:19 27 April 2007 (GMT).
I'd appreciate input here. Dorftrottel ( talk) 09:04, March 28, 2008
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
I disagree that there is any community consensus for the spamming of WikiProjects by bots with repeated, outdated, and irrelevant messages. If WikiProjectBots wants to post a notice on all WikiProjects, that notice should have widescale community approval, or at least community approval through general notice Wikipedia boards such as Community portals. -- KP Botany ( talk) 04:35, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
(unindent) Plants were not contacted by Addbot. I am the only one being confused here???. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 05:47, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
In fact, it's even called "WikiProject Spammer Bot." So, I don't think I'm the only one who thinks it is spamming projects. -- KP Botany ( talk) 06:12, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
Okay, I don't know what the hell you're problem is with Addbot, but I'm outta of this non-sense and pointless discussion. Spam bots (here defined as bots that leave notices on talk pages) have been around for YEARS. Knowing about Article alerts is something which the benefits clearly outweigh the minor inconveniences of receiving a few notices in a watchlist/having your project receive a notice telling you about the newest features, reminding you to provide links, giving links to features requests and bug reports, and so on. You're flipping out for no reason, slander pretty much everyone who disagrees with you, etc... You're being very WP:POINTY here, and if you keep up you could very well be faced with an WP:RfC/U or worse (and before you flip out again, no this is not a threat). Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 06:31, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
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(unindent)Here's your original post, "Sometimes it would be incredibly useful to be contact all WikiProjects and taskforces at once. I've look for bots that can do this, and I haven't found any which is currently able to contact all projects and taskforces in one fell swoop. Anyone willing to code this? Headbomb {ταλκκοντριβς – WP Physics} 04:35, 21 February 2009 (UTC)" [1] It says nothing about a "one-time message." In fact, it it specifically says, "sometimes." -- KP Botany ( talk) 07:38, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
Enough. Find some other sucker who disagrees with a BOT for BAG to attack en masse. It's no wonder when BAG asks for community support at the community portal it gets a mouthful instead. -- KP Botany ( talk) 10:19, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
I have a list of my GA reviews, and it would be helpful if I had an automated tool to add to that list whenever I pass/fail an article. If a bot I make only edits my userpages, do I need an approval? Noble Story ( talk • contributions) 02:35, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
I would like to appeal a decision by someone to deny the use of assisted editing scripts. What is the actual procedure to go about it? Would I simple put in another identical request and then reply to it asserting the reasons why it should be reconsidered? Should I reply to the original request, overriding the bold red "Please do not modify it" request? Should I put a subsection for appeals? Where are the previous appeals anyways? Int21h ( talk) 01:58, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
References
I noticed a thread about a bot that someone wanted shutdown until it was approved (that might not me exactly the right wording, but it gets the point across). The thread is/was here. Since I know absolutely nothing about bots, I thought I'd come ask you folks. Is there a process in place to turn bots off, or block bots? - which would be the exact opposite of what you "BAG" folks do. If there was, I figured that you peeps would at least be able to point me in a good learning direction. Thanks, and Cheers. — Ched : ? 02:09, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
I have blocked a bot that was approved yesterday, MauritsBot, because it was breaking thousands of pages by putting interwikis on templates outside of noincludes. Hesperian 03:58, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
Mauritz has indicated to me that s/he will fix the problem before running the bot again. I am satisfied with this, but would prefer that the decision whether to unblock be taken by a BAG member. Hesperian 09:12, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I just whipped up a hacky tool in my toolserver folder that can easily generate the title and text for a new BRFA. This is designed for bots that have a gazillion tasks, and you always forget which number you're on. X clamation point 23:45, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
Examples:
Could someone please tell me what the process is (if indeed there is a process) for getting the approval of a bot task overturned? ListasBot's third task was approved after a discussion involving only two editors (the bot owner and one BAG member), and I feel the the decision may have to be reassessed. Thanks, — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 15:05, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
FYI, I've moved this discussion here. Thanks, Matt ( talk) 03:25, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
Unfortunately it was decided not to approve my Bot to its main purpose which is making categories out of lists. I would still need a bot flag for the task of putting Hebrew Interwikis so the bot can operate correctly in the Hebrew Wikipedia. Tomer A. 13:58, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
A number of bots rely on the {{ DEFAULTSORT}} or {{ Persondata}} parameters, or the listas parameter in biography templates. The data encoded in these templates may be reliable for individuals whose names are in the European naming style of inherited surnames.
Unfortunately, over the years, well-meaning, but ill-advised volunteers have mistakenly assumed Arabic and Chinese names should also be shoehorned into the European naming scheme. This is a problem. And bots that treat this data as reliable are compounding an already serious problem.
I suggest no bot that relies on this unreliable data should be approved. Geo Swan ( talk) 08:17, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
There sure seem to be a lot more pages in Category:Open Wikipedia bot requests for approval than are listed as still open on this page. -- Pascal 666 05:44, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
I added "Estimated number of pages affected" to Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/InputInit. It's something I've been meaning to do for ages. Let me know if there are any issues. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 22:29, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
With the completion of the date delinking arbitration case, I was just wondering what next steps, if any, needed to be taken by BAG. Lightbot ( talk · contribs) hasn't been banned directly, but that's the effective result of the remedies related to Lightmouse ( talk · contribs). Just wondering if it's appropriate for BAG to revoke any task approvals for Lightbot that still exist, and ask a 'crat to remove the account's bot flag and block the account in accordance with the remedies? I also note that Lightbot isn't listed anywhere on the status page. Mlaffs ( talk) 15:43, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
The anybot owner says it didn't change the articles this time with the same bot but with "a different bot."
[5] I don't see the bot approval discussion in Martin's edit history.
[6]
Please explain the basics of this to me in relation to this group. It seems each bot requires approval by the board on the project page, then flagging by a bureaucrat to operate. And that this must be done for each new task. If this is "a different bot" shouldn't it have a request for approval?
There are a lot of subpages for this project. This post is about "requests for approval," so I think this is the correct place to ask this. Was this bot approved? Did it require approval? Or was I mistaken in thinking that because the bot was blocked the issue could safely be discussed without additional problems arising? --
69.226.103.13 (
talk) 07:23, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 | ← | Archive 4 | Archive 5 | Archive 6 | Archive 7 | Archive 8 | → | Archive 10 |
I notice that User:NVS(bot) was speedily approved as a clone of Mercury bot. Is there any reason why a single operator should use two identical bots for the same purpose? =Nichalp «Talk»= 06:57, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
I note that Rich Farmbrough asked a similar question about process in April. This page contains the terminology:
Lighbot completed its trial for its second request. I can't work out what the three bullets above mean. Is the status of Lightbot second request: approved, in trial or completed trial period? Lightmouse ( talk) 09:46, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
That is what I thought. However, it was recently added to a table on the page with the status In trail. Is that an error? Lightmouse ( talk) 09:52, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
Yes, I was referring to that table. The page has a a section marked Bots in a trial period and another marked Bots that have completed the trial period. The table implies that Lightbot is being treated as if the process thinks it is in the first section, not the second. Lightmouse ( talk) 10:14, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
The term 'Trial' maintains the ambiguity that caused the confusion. If a 'BotTrialComplete' template could be used, that sounds like a good solution to me. Lightmouse ( talk) 13:51, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
Heck, I just went and created it. It can always be (substed and) deleted if we decide we don't want it after all. — Ilmari Karonen ( talk) 22:25, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
Yes, this would presumably be placed by the bot operator after they've completed the trial. — Ilmari Karonen ( talk) 13:44, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
I operate J Milburn Bot ( talk · contribs) which previously replaced 'All Music Guide' with 'Allmusic' after a rebranding. Along with All Music Guide, the smaller All Game Guide and All Movie Guide were rebranded- do I need a new task request to run my bot through the respective 'what links to' lists, or can I just go for it? J Milburn ( talk) 14:59, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
I don't see it in the policy page, and there seems no way but to annotate the approval page; there's no guarantee that anyone will notice such protests. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 23:19, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
I see that the discussion concerning Whobot has already been closed. However I, being the owner, certainly have no objection to it being listed as a dead bot. If I wish to become active in the future, I will re-apply for an active bot flag.
Who ( talk) 01:47, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
because User:DOI bot now does more than just DOIs, I've changed its username to User:Citation bot. Can this new user be granted a bot flag, please? Thanks. Martin ( Smith609 – Talk) 02:37, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
I've just seen that me request was marked as expired. Well I have to object in this case. It is true that I wasn't able to let him run a lot (personal reasons), but I ran it, it just didn't found a lot to do.-- ThorJH talk 10:47, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
I have a list of redirects that I want to create using a script. I (human) produced the list and I'm feeding it to the script, which will only run once (again every once in a while when I run it). Does that count as assisted editing, or as bot editing? Note that this script will not edit any existing articles but only create some redirects where none exist, so the risk of harm is minimal to non-existent (redirects are cheap and all that).
I wouldn't be surprised if someone already has a bot that can do what I want. But even if that were the case, I'd rather do it myself as an exercise as I'm interested in creating more sophisticated bots later. -- Itub ( talk) 17:50, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
I want to run a user requested task with User:John Bot and AWB. Can I just run it? I asked on IRC but was told that IRC okay it would be a bad idea. ("Bot blocked, was approved via IRC" :P). CWii( BOO!| Eeek!) 22:38, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
The task is to tag a bunch of images as {{ NoCommons}}. That's a perfectly normal one-time AWB job, so if a BAG member gave you an informal OK and you go at a relatively slow editing rate you should be fine. Things to watch out for include images that might already be tagged NoCommons, and images that have been deleted since they were uploaded. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 23:08, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
At the moment my bots are a mixture of C# and AWB, I'm going to convert all of them to use PHP. Do I need to do a BRFA for this change or would that just be WP:BUREAUCRACY? ~ User:Ameliorate! (with the !) ( talk) 07:40, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
I notice the request queue is now stretching for a month. I'm curious about this backlog. How do we resolve this? =Nichalp «Talk»= 07:45, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
How would I go about requesting that CommonsDelinker ( talk · contribs) was deflagged? I don't want to write out my whole case here, but it is rather a menace that images get zapped on Commons and silently delinked by a bot. In lots of cases the images would be perfectly acceptable here, and could be undeleted, if only anyone was aware of the problem. So, what's the drill? Angus McLellan (Talk) 23:30, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
The various categories for completed BRFAs have
many requests not in the right place due to the final parameter of {{
BT}} being left out (and therefore being sorted under 'Wikipedia'). Do you think it would be a good idea to have a bot add the appropriate sort key (taken from the page's title) to [[Category:Wikipedia foo bot requests]]
? This will allow requests to be found much more easily, as they will all be under the correct letter. I realise that we have the archives, but they are chronological: using the categories is far easier if you know the name of a bot, but not the date it was approved/denied. Once the backlog has been reduced, this task could be run twice a month (?) or so to keep the categories in order. What do you think? I am willing to do the coding should such a task be deemed necessary.
RichardΩ612
Ɣ
ɸ 14:22, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
Returning to do some cleanup work related to {{ wikibookspar}}, my bot complained over not having a bot flag. It seems that the standard practice of granting flags to all approved bots came after its approval. I've been looking around for where I should request for bureaucrat action to take care of this, but have come up short. Anyone able to help? -- Swift ( talk) 08:28, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
Greetings. Polbot went through a lengthy approval process, with three separate trials, at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Polbot 10. It was approved this morning, and I began running the bot. Polbot was then blocked by User:Docu, who didn't approve of the bot's function of creating temporary subpages. What should I do? Thanks, – Quadell ( talk) 13:57, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Should we have another section for when a trial is concluded and awaiting BAG feedback? Rich Farmbrough, 13:19 27 April 2007 (GMT).
I'd appreciate input here. Dorftrottel ( talk) 09:04, March 28, 2008
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
I disagree that there is any community consensus for the spamming of WikiProjects by bots with repeated, outdated, and irrelevant messages. If WikiProjectBots wants to post a notice on all WikiProjects, that notice should have widescale community approval, or at least community approval through general notice Wikipedia boards such as Community portals. -- KP Botany ( talk) 04:35, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
(unindent) Plants were not contacted by Addbot. I am the only one being confused here???. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 05:47, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
In fact, it's even called "WikiProject Spammer Bot." So, I don't think I'm the only one who thinks it is spamming projects. -- KP Botany ( talk) 06:12, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
Okay, I don't know what the hell you're problem is with Addbot, but I'm outta of this non-sense and pointless discussion. Spam bots (here defined as bots that leave notices on talk pages) have been around for YEARS. Knowing about Article alerts is something which the benefits clearly outweigh the minor inconveniences of receiving a few notices in a watchlist/having your project receive a notice telling you about the newest features, reminding you to provide links, giving links to features requests and bug reports, and so on. You're flipping out for no reason, slander pretty much everyone who disagrees with you, etc... You're being very WP:POINTY here, and if you keep up you could very well be faced with an WP:RfC/U or worse (and before you flip out again, no this is not a threat). Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 06:31, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
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(unindent)Here's your original post, "Sometimes it would be incredibly useful to be contact all WikiProjects and taskforces at once. I've look for bots that can do this, and I haven't found any which is currently able to contact all projects and taskforces in one fell swoop. Anyone willing to code this? Headbomb {ταλκκοντριβς – WP Physics} 04:35, 21 February 2009 (UTC)" [1] It says nothing about a "one-time message." In fact, it it specifically says, "sometimes." -- KP Botany ( talk) 07:38, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
Enough. Find some other sucker who disagrees with a BOT for BAG to attack en masse. It's no wonder when BAG asks for community support at the community portal it gets a mouthful instead. -- KP Botany ( talk) 10:19, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
I have a list of my GA reviews, and it would be helpful if I had an automated tool to add to that list whenever I pass/fail an article. If a bot I make only edits my userpages, do I need an approval? Noble Story ( talk • contributions) 02:35, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
I would like to appeal a decision by someone to deny the use of assisted editing scripts. What is the actual procedure to go about it? Would I simple put in another identical request and then reply to it asserting the reasons why it should be reconsidered? Should I reply to the original request, overriding the bold red "Please do not modify it" request? Should I put a subsection for appeals? Where are the previous appeals anyways? Int21h ( talk) 01:58, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
References
I noticed a thread about a bot that someone wanted shutdown until it was approved (that might not me exactly the right wording, but it gets the point across). The thread is/was here. Since I know absolutely nothing about bots, I thought I'd come ask you folks. Is there a process in place to turn bots off, or block bots? - which would be the exact opposite of what you "BAG" folks do. If there was, I figured that you peeps would at least be able to point me in a good learning direction. Thanks, and Cheers. — Ched : ? 02:09, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
I have blocked a bot that was approved yesterday, MauritsBot, because it was breaking thousands of pages by putting interwikis on templates outside of noincludes. Hesperian 03:58, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
Mauritz has indicated to me that s/he will fix the problem before running the bot again. I am satisfied with this, but would prefer that the decision whether to unblock be taken by a BAG member. Hesperian 09:12, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I just whipped up a hacky tool in my toolserver folder that can easily generate the title and text for a new BRFA. This is designed for bots that have a gazillion tasks, and you always forget which number you're on. X clamation point 23:45, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
Examples:
Could someone please tell me what the process is (if indeed there is a process) for getting the approval of a bot task overturned? ListasBot's third task was approved after a discussion involving only two editors (the bot owner and one BAG member), and I feel the the decision may have to be reassessed. Thanks, — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 15:05, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
FYI, I've moved this discussion here. Thanks, Matt ( talk) 03:25, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
Unfortunately it was decided not to approve my Bot to its main purpose which is making categories out of lists. I would still need a bot flag for the task of putting Hebrew Interwikis so the bot can operate correctly in the Hebrew Wikipedia. Tomer A. 13:58, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
A number of bots rely on the {{ DEFAULTSORT}} or {{ Persondata}} parameters, or the listas parameter in biography templates. The data encoded in these templates may be reliable for individuals whose names are in the European naming style of inherited surnames.
Unfortunately, over the years, well-meaning, but ill-advised volunteers have mistakenly assumed Arabic and Chinese names should also be shoehorned into the European naming scheme. This is a problem. And bots that treat this data as reliable are compounding an already serious problem.
I suggest no bot that relies on this unreliable data should be approved. Geo Swan ( talk) 08:17, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
There sure seem to be a lot more pages in Category:Open Wikipedia bot requests for approval than are listed as still open on this page. -- Pascal 666 05:44, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
I added "Estimated number of pages affected" to Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/InputInit. It's something I've been meaning to do for ages. Let me know if there are any issues. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 22:29, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
With the completion of the date delinking arbitration case, I was just wondering what next steps, if any, needed to be taken by BAG. Lightbot ( talk · contribs) hasn't been banned directly, but that's the effective result of the remedies related to Lightmouse ( talk · contribs). Just wondering if it's appropriate for BAG to revoke any task approvals for Lightbot that still exist, and ask a 'crat to remove the account's bot flag and block the account in accordance with the remedies? I also note that Lightbot isn't listed anywhere on the status page. Mlaffs ( talk) 15:43, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
The anybot owner says it didn't change the articles this time with the same bot but with "a different bot."
[5] I don't see the bot approval discussion in Martin's edit history.
[6]
Please explain the basics of this to me in relation to this group. It seems each bot requires approval by the board on the project page, then flagging by a bureaucrat to operate. And that this must be done for each new task. If this is "a different bot" shouldn't it have a request for approval?
There are a lot of subpages for this project. This post is about "requests for approval," so I think this is the correct place to ask this. Was this bot approved? Did it require approval? Or was I mistaken in thinking that because the bot was blocked the issue could safely be discussed without additional problems arising? --
69.226.103.13 (
talk) 07:23, 25 June 2009 (UTC)