PearBOT

PearBOT
This user is a bot
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	PearBOT maintaining the Encylopedia
Operator	Trialpears
Approved?	Yes
Flagged?	Yes
Task(s)	Various (see below)
Automatic or manual?	Automatic
Programming language(s)	Python and AWB
Exclusion compliant?	Yes
Source code published?	Yes

This user account is a bot operated by Trialpears (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.
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PearBOT II edit

PearBOT runs scheduled tasks using the main account PearBOT. One time runs and on demand tasks are run using PearBOT II. This is due to manually initiated tasks using PAWS interrupting tool forge tasks. If you are curious which bot runs a specific task check the table below.

PearBOT's tasks
#	Account	Status	Activity	Description	Code base
1	PearBOT II	Approved	Complete	Replace {{aircraft specifications}} with {{aircraft specs}}	Pywikibot
2	PearBOT	Approved	Active	Remove infobox requests from pages with an infobox	Pywikibot
3	PearBOT	Approved	Active	Cache large template calls mainly for use in automated portals	Pywikibot
4	PearBOT II	Approved	Active	Merge WikiProject banners, unlikely to be done again	AWB
5	PearBOT II	Approved	Complete	Add automatically generated short descriptions to biographies	Pywikibot
6	PearBOT II	Approved	Complete	Remove date parameter from certain taxapad citations.	AWB
7	PearBOT	Withdrawn	Inactive	Remove red links to sister projects using {{Sister project}}	Pywikibot
8	PearBOT	Denied	Inactive	Substitute or remove templates after consensus at TfD	AWB
9	PearBOT II	Approved	Active	Add or modify XfD tags	AWB
10	PearBOT II	Withdrawn	Inactive	Replaces the short descriptions "Wikimedia list article" and "Wikipedia list article" with none	AWB
11	PearBOT II	Approved	Active	General TfD implementation	AWB
12	PearBOT II	Approved	Complete	Move book and education program talk pages before deletion of the namespaces	AWB