Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TechBot 2

The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was Denied.

TechBot 2

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Operator: Techman224^Talk

Automatic or Manually Assisted:Manually Assisted

Programming Language(s):AutoWikiBrowser

Function Overview:It will clean up articles by putting (and removing) tags on pages.

Edit period(s):daily

Already has a bot flag (Y/N):Y

Function Details:Using AutoWikiBroswer to tag articles and remove them if necessary.

Discussion

The bot isn't on the checkpage, so for a trial to happen, you will have to add it to the page. Techman224^Talk 18:39, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

And if you are wondering why it is a second task, the bot was renamed from Techman224 Interwiki Bot here. Techman224^Talk 18:49, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

• What tags will you add to what pages under what conditions? Will the bot be exclusion-compliant? – Quadell ^(talk) 13:43, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

It will work just like users and myself would use it to add tags or remove them from articles. Techman224^Talk 19:22, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

I'm using the latest version of AWB (4.5.2.0), so it's exclusion-compliant. Techman224^Talk 19:25, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

• Denied. Tag adding and removing should be done manually, not en masse by a bot. If you want to do automated tag adding or removing, you should define a specific set of criteria for that tag and you should have the bot check history to make sure the tag hasn't recently been removed. This approval request is too broad and is not an appropriate task for a bot. ST47 (talk) 19:46, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

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