This user account is a bot operated by Samwalton9 (talk) and mdann52 (talk). It is used to make repetitive automated or semi-automated edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually, in accordance with the bot policy. The bot is approved and currently active – the relevant request for approval can be seen here. You can read about this bot in The Signpost. Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it. |
This bot flags sources cited on Wikipedia which have been retracted, by inserting the Retracted (and associated) templates.
The code repository can be found at cookies52/RetractionBot. Contributions are welcome!
If the bot appears to be malfunctioning and needs turning off, please edit User:RetractionBot/run to contain any text other than 'yes'. If this problem is affecting multiple Wikis, please instead edit the corresponding page on Meta. If you do this, I'd appreciate it if you also leave a talk page message explaining the problem!