User:SuggestBot/Requests

This page explains how to try SuggestBot out by making it send you suggestions only once. We use a template for this because it is relatively easy to use, while also making us able to automate the process of sending out suggestions. As this document will explain, it also provides you with the possibility to influence what pages the suggestions are based on. SuggestBot removes the template automatically at the same time as it sends you the suggestions, thus ensuring that you only get suggestions once. If you are wondering what SuggestBot is and how it works, please see SuggestBot.

How you make SuggestBot send you suggestions depends on what you already have done:

• If you haven't already edited any pages you need to tell SuggestBot what you're interested in.
• If you have already edited pages you may:
  • get suggestions based on the pages you've edited, or
  • get suggestions based on a specific set of pages.

Should anything in this documentation be confusing or unclear, we appreciate questions and suggestions for improvements on our talk page.

Suggestions based on the pages you've edited

This is the way SuggestBot usually works: it fetches your last few hundred edits and suggests articles that are similar and in need of improvement. To get such a set of suggestions, add the following code to your user talk page:

{{User:SuggestBot/suggest}}

Normally you will add the code to your user talk page. For example, if your user name is "MyName", add the code to User talk:MyName. If you have other user pages, you can add the code there. For example, you may have created a subpage called "To Do" to save a list of things you want to do on Wikipedia. In that case, you can add the code to User:MyName/To Do. Then the suggestions will be posted to your "To Do" page instead of your talk page.

We look for users who have added the template code at regular intervals, so you should get the suggestions fairly quickly, usually within about fifteen minutes.