Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Grim Reaper Bot

Grim Reaper Bot

• (BRFA
• Approved BRFAs
• talk
• contribs
• count
• SUL
• logs
• page moves
• block log
• rights log
• flag)

Operator: Android Mouse

Automatic or Manually Assisted:Automatic

Programming Language(s): C

Function Summary: Notify article creators if their article has been tagged with the prod tag or an XfD tag (note, also applies to images, categories, templates, etc).

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Hourly/semi-hourly

Edit rate requested: 5 edits per minute

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

Function Details: It will scan the categories Category:Proposed deletion, Category:AfD debates, Category:Wikipedia templates for deletion, Category:Images and media for deletion, etc. and check if each page's creator has been notified. It will use custom templates that explain what is going on and that the notification is comming from a bot. It won't issue a notification if there is any occurance of the page's name on the creator's talk page.

Discussion

Sounds good to me. Just one question: is there any safeguard against abuse? I guess it's not really necessary, but I'll let you or someone else give their opinion on that. What if a banned/blocked user is nominating many pages in bad faith? I guess it's rare enough that it's nothing really to worry about. —METS501 (talk) 04:41, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

I didn't think about any such safeguard. It would be possible to have it not issue notifications if the nominator is currently blocked. But I think this would be a rare problem, as I've never had issues with anyone abusing Android Mouse Bot 2, which issues notifications for speedy deletion. --Android Mouse 05:33, 13 August 2007 (UTC)