User talk:John Broughton/Op-Ed - Enhancing Wikipedia for Better Editing

Automated notices and bots
Re: Bits and pieces of this exist - warnings about editing semi-protected articles [...] - I believe you're referencing these tools:
 * MediaWiki:Semiprotectedpagewarning and MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext (Others listed in Template:MediaWiki_messages)
 * Template:Editnotice (Common ones listed in Template:Editnotice templates, and some users have custom editnotices on their talkpages)

Regarding bots, the users you want are [User:BracketBot] and [User:DPL bot]

HTH. :) 02:15, 5 June 2013 (UTC) –Quiddity (talk) 18:11, 8 June 2013 (UTC)