Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TomNVandBot


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TomNVandBot
Operator:

Time filed: 18:35, Wednesday October 12, 2011 (UTC)

Automatic or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): PHP

Source code available: User:TomNVandBot/Source

Function overview: To remove vandalism by replacing it with the previous version.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): Continuous, 5 hours a day.

Estimated number of pages affected: As many as possible in time period.

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): N

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): (Not applicible)

Function details: To remove vandalism over the wiki.

Discussion
I can't imagine how this could be approved without a clear description of how vandalism will be detected automatically. I also have noticed that User:ClueBot NG seems to be doing the same thing, so an explanation of why this new bot is also needed is in order. Jc3s5h (talk) 16:27, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Not ready to be a bot operator. You have very few edits, and of those edits very few are to articles, and of those to articles the ones I checked were all extremely minor. If you really want to run a bot, spend some time as a normal editor first to become familiar with our policies, guidelines, and unwritten community norms. Also, the source code you link doesn't seem to have anything to do with a bot, rather it seems to be some sort of interpretor for simple scripts. That does not bode well. And if you really want to run an anti-vandal bot, spend some time on recent changes patrol and WP:AIV to prove you can even reliably recognized what vandalism is (e.g. [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Laurene_Powell_Jobs&diff=prev&oldid=455229235 not this]), and then come back with specific details. Anomie⚔ 16:45, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
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