Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AngelBot


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AngelBot
Operator:

Time filed: 06:01, Thursday February 17, 2011 (UTC)

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic

Programming language(s): PHP

Source code available: No (User:SineBot)

Function overview: Add signatures to unsigned talk pages.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): As needed, run every few weeks or so

Estimated number of pages affected: Less than 100

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes

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

Function details:

Discussion
I am leaning to decline this for now on basis of Wikipedia experience. You also have fully omitted the details of bot's implementation. How is your source code linked to SineBot's source code? Why is edit period not continuous, this task mostly requires swift bot response before other users edit the posts. Why is the number of affected pages so low? Is this per some time frame? Will this be run from toolserver? Although the task is already performed, you have not mentioned this in the relevant discussions section. — HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK 09:19, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Does not seem to be needed, doesn't SineBot already perform this task? --  Admr Boltz  02:13, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Redundancy is not bad. This is evident by what happens when an important bot goes down. — HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK 09:55, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

D I have nothing wrong with redundancy, as H3llkn0wz says, but this operator only has ~15 edits under his belt (very inactive) and no details about the task have been provided. I'm inclined to decline this by the weekend if he doesn't reply. &mdash; The Earwig   (talk)  21:52, 23 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Decline per Earwig, WP:BOTNOTNOW, and expired. — HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK 13:22, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
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