User:Nythar/InternetArchiveBot talk page posts

User:InternetArchiveBot is a bot that adds archives from Internet Archive to Wikipedia articles. In the past, after adding archive links to articles, it would then add posts to their talk pages describing the changes it made and requesting that human users review its edits to ensure their quality (see this example). InternetArchiveBot's talk page post functionality was discontinued in February 2018. An RfC in July 2018 showed there was a consensus that "the wording of the post is modified to give users permission to delete posts if they want to. Since talk page posts normally can't be deleted by other users, it would remove that restriction." This created an exception to the WP:ARCHIVENOTDELETE guideline, which states that "[a]part from the exception described in WP:OWNTALK, discussions should be archived, not blanked." Deleting InternetArchiveBot's posts do not violate WP:ARCHIVENOTDELETE, and they are legitimate edits that should not be reverted.

Watchlist flooding

The RfC from July 2018 allows users to remove InternetArchiveBot's posts so long as such removals do not "lead to any mass-flooding of watch-list(s)".