Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/EmptyBot

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EmptyBot

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• count
• SUL
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• rights log
• flag)

Operator: Emptywords (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 14:17, Saturday, March 3, 2018 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Manual/Automatic

Programming language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: AWB

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): From time to time

Estimated number of pages affected: circa 500/month

Namespace(s): Mainspace/Articles

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: mainly typos, also changing categories and other minor changes. I have an approved bot on pl.wikipedia (with 310k edits) and on wikidata.

Discussion

Typo bots are typically denied. As it stands, the request is too vague to be approved. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 14:23, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

Denied. Bots to randomly fix "typos" in articles do not have support of the community here. — xaosflux ^Talk 14:26, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

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