Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SoxrockBot

The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was Denied.

SoxrockBot

• (BRFA
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Operator: Crazy Canadian

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s):Perl

Function Summary: Finds improperly licensed images and blatant vandalism.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Continuous, any edits under the account are solely done by the bot.

Edit rate requested: 3 edits per minute

Already has a bot flag (Y/N):No

Function Details: The bot looks at pages that have numerous sports logos on them and deems them to see if they are properly licensed (i.e. A logo of the 1974-1996 Dolphins logo is licensed under "Logo"). Any vandalism that can be found will be notified to the owner Crazy Canadian and/or fixed.

Discussion

Oppose. The account of the bot operator, Crazy Canadian, is currently less than a day old.[1] I would like to see more experience from a new user before giving a bot flag.Zzyzx11 (Talk) 22:55, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Please note that this is not a vote. It is a discussion. You should also note that Crazy Canadian is a sock of Soxrock, who has over 1000 edits. —Mets501 (talk) 23:59, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

What does this bot do when it finds an "improperly licensed image"? What do you consider improperly licensed? —Mets501 (talk) 00:02, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

By means of improper license, you see a logo on a sports or business page, you check the license, and it says something like "Author died 100 years ago" when it is clearly a logo (I am excluding the "found image somewhere" and "do not know license" categories, that's obvious to tell it's improper). Anything that is a logo that is not classified as a logo although I will let user-created logos that have the proper license ("GFDL self-made" I believe) or the logo license attached to it. Crazy Canadian Crazy Canadian 00:08 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Denied. Upon looking through your history, I'm not convinced you have enough knowledge of Wikipedia image policy to run this type of bot. —Mets501 (talk) 00:27, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

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