Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BotCompuGeek

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Approved.

BotCompuGeek

Operator: NDCompuGeek

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Manually Assisted

Programming Language(s): AWB

Function Summary: AWB editing

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): daily (mostly)

Edit rate requested: 5 edits per minute (at max speed, probably significantly less)

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

Function Details: used for editing articles of interest with AWB. For now, they will mostly keep to WPMILHIST and WPMusInst articles, although I am still learning AWB.... I will be requesting approval from AWB to operate on this bot account when/if the bot request is approved.

Discussion

We need to know exactly what you intend to do with this account, an example would be nice. ST47Talk 15:50, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OK - thanks. Please forgive me, I'm new at doing this bot stuff. Anyway, an example would be what I did with my account 16 April 2007: I used AWB to tag and assess musical instruments that were not assessed. This is the kind of work I see this account performing - repetitive, usually relatively simple things like an initial assessment or tagging unassessed or uncategorized articles that belong in WPMILHIST or WPMusInst. The reason I would like a bot account to do it is because I was purposely going slower to keep the edits under ~2/minute, and with a bot account I could go a bit faster. Another reason I would like a bot account is because I personally believe that this kind of easy editing (using AWB to put {WPMusInst} on unassessed musical instrument articles) is a form of "padding" my edit count, a kind of editcountitis.... Again, my personal belief, "your mileage may vary".... - NDCompuGeek 00:13, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial. Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. approved for wikiproject tagging or assessment for WPMILHIST or WPMusInst, talk to the AWB guys for approval and come back once you have 50 edits or so. ST47Talk 12:25, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot approved for AWB. alphachimp 05:13, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. ST47Talk 10:24, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Trial run complete, see here for contribs. Did a few articles for WPMusInst, and a few for WPMILHIST. No issues, no problems, everything acted and performed as it should! - NDCompuGeek 12:47, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Great. Approved.. ST47Talk 22:58, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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