Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MnidBot


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MnidBot
Operator:

Time filed: 02:30, Sunday November 13, 2011 (UTC)

Automatic or Manual: Automatic supervised, semi-automatic

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: N/A

Function overview: This bot is to: fix double redirects, add suspected sockpuppets to WP:SPI, add pages containing "((insert artist here) song)" to Category:Songs by (insert artist here)

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): Continuous

Estimated number of pages affected: All double redirects and WP:SPI pages, and song pages, so about 50-200 per 5 hours?

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes

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

Function details: This bot is to: fix double redirects, add suspected sockpuppets to WP:SPI

Discussion
Eta-theta 02:30, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Do we still have a problem with double redirects? I though they added some code to fix that. Also, how will you determine who is a sockpuppet and needs to be added to WP:SPI? -- Chris 02:46, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
 * No, somehow some redirects still exist. Also, I will use the same IP adress and if there have been reverted accidental contributions to the sockmaster's talk page. Why, should I add some more criteria? Eta-theta</b> 02:49, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I have also added something to it's tasks --<b style="font-family: lucida console, serif"><b style="color:#2080c0">Eta</b><b style="color:#000000" title="Go to this page and edit it, contribute to the fastest-growing online encyclopedia.">-</b><b style="color:#D33">theta</b></b> 03:04, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Not ready to be a bot operator. The community expects bot operators to be familiar with our policies, guidelines, and unwritten norms. In your very short time here, the vast majority of your edits appear to be to your own userspace. The few actual article edits made under your already-"abandoned" old account seem to be quite minor and of rather low quality—there is nothing necessarily wrong with this, we all have to learn somehow, but it doesn't bode well for a prospective bot operator. Spend some time as a normal editor, make some constructive edits instead of playing around with your userspace, and come back in a few months if you're serious about running a bot here. Anomie⚔ 04:45, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
 * P.S. If you do come back, try requesting one single task at a time, instead of trying to combine 3 vaguely-specified tasks into one request. Anomie⚔ 04:45, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
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