User talk:SDPatrolBot/ErrorReports/Archive/2011/May

Restoring declined CSD nomination
This was an inappropriate action. The speedy deletion had been reviewed and declined by an administrator, but the bot renominated it, causing a second administrator to waste their time repeating the exercise. Skomorokh  04:07, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Simpson E. Stilwell

On the Simpson E. Stilwell page, the bot added back a speedy deletion tag after an editor other than the article's creator removed it: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Simpson_E._Stilwell&diff=prev&oldid=428695779 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Inks.LWC (talk • contribs)


 * I'm looking into it, thanks both for reporting. - Kingpin13 (talk) 11:36, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
 * It's weird... the very last check the bot does before editing is to see if the author is the most recent editor. I'm going to get the bot to purge the cache before editing and see if that fixes the issue. - Kingpin13 (talk) 11:49, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Blocked bot because of repeat warnings getting out of control
I blocked the bot because it's getting out of control with the repeat warnings and looking through the history it looks like it has a problem with that overall (sticking on a user and reverting all their speedy removals, and then warning them). This has led to issues like UserWicklypickle where the user got 38 warnings in an hour (the article in that case did get deleted) or the more recent User:Tsuchiya Hikaru where the articles were actually good and all he's getting is all these warnings. It is clear that this is somewhat intended behavior but I think the damage being done by it is incredibly large especially for new users (and especially for issues like this when the tags were bad, there is no doubt this is scaring people away). I really think before it gets unblocked we need to get a fail safe in here that limits the amount of warnings/reverts it does (and maybe just dumps it into a noticeboard or something to have a human look at it? James of UR (talk) 08:42, 30 May 2011 (UTC)