Emergency bot shutoff button
Administrators: Use this button if the bot is malfunctioning. (direct link)
Non-administrators can a malfunctioning bot to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.
![]() | This is the template sandbox page for Template:Emergency-bot-shutoff (diff). See also the companion subpage for test cases. |
Parameters
edit|icon=filename
- Replace default icon, for example with
|icon=Shutdown button red wikimedia.svg
to get, which doesn't have gradient.
- Note that this template does not generate the standard link to the file description page, which is required for attribution and/or notice of license by many common image licenses. Images with CC0 or in the public domain are safe.
|shutoff=link destination
- Adds a note indicating that the bot has custom shutoff options for its tasks, encouraging administrators to prefer shutting off an individual task to blocking the bot. Replace link destination with either an anchor in-page, or to another page, listing the shutoff options for the tasks.
|name=name of bot
- Replaces "the bot" with the name of bot parameter given.
|titlename=user type
- Replaces "bot" in "Emergency bot shutoff button" with the user parameter given.
See also
edit- {{bot}}