Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Gnome (Bot) 2


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Gnome (Bot)
The bot operator is me of course. The new task will be to run through our fair use images and find images that are on user pages. When it detects an image on a userpage, it will drop a talk page message to them alerting them to the fact that they cannot use fair use images in userspace, and provide the proper links to the various policy pages. The bot will log the image location, (what page the image was found on, and the image name) in 7-14 days the bot will run again, but instead will remove the image from the user page if the user has not already done so. I think providing the user a chance to remove the image themselves (and format their pages the way they want) is much better then just yanking these images out. Both the notification and the removal of images will be done automatically using a perl script that I wrote. Editing rate should be about 10-15 edits a minute. The bot already has a flag. This task is a one time run (counting both the notification and the actual image removal of those that did not do so themselves), though I might request approval to do it again in 2-3 months or so. I would request approx 20-40 user trial run. I will be doing dry runs before doing any sort of trial anyway. —— Eagle  101 Need help? 23:48, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Discussion
OK, I noticed a few of these this morning when looking at betacommand's bot, do a dry run if you haven't already and for 20-40 users as requested, let us know how it goes. :) ST47 Talk 01:28, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Ok no trial has been run as of yet, but there is a mofication to how this bot is going to operate. It will remove the image from the user's page, replacing it with example.jpg, and then tell the user on their talk page that the image has been removed. —— Eagle  101 Need help? 18:37, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
 * That sounds fine - trial still approved. Martinp23 18:39, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Will the bot tag the removed images with {{subst:orfud}} if they are orphaned after removal? That'd be very handy, so they're tracked on CAT:ORFU. Миша 13 18:41, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I believe there is a second bot (User:BetacommandBot that will be doing that. —— Eagle  101 Need help? 19:33, 6 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Ok, I've had a few problems with the trial, namely images with spaces replaced by _'s, but those have been fixed. Some diffs include    In short its doing what it is supposed to do. ——  Eagle  101 Need help? 20:25, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

ST47 Talk 20:35, 6 May 2007 (UTC)


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