Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Android Mouse Bot 2

The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was Approved.

Android Mouse Bot 2

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Operator: Android Mouse

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic, unsupervised but edits will be monitored

Programming Language(s): C

Function Summary: This bot will notify article creators when their article is nominated for speedy deletion.

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

Edit rate requested: 5 edits per minute

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

Function Details: This bot queries articles in the Candidates for speedy deletion category. It then goes through the individual article names and finds the creator of the article. Once the creator is found it loads the creator's talk page and scans for any occurance of the article name that is nominated for speedy deletion. If there are no occurances it will add the nn-warn template to the bottom of the talk page.

Discussion

And what if it's nominated for deletion not under A7? Will your bot use proper template? MaxSem 20:34, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

It is currently written to use the generic nn-warn template as suggested on the bot request page. Although I could easily have it load each article and find which tag it is using and place the corresponding notification template on the user's talk page. --Android Mouse 20:45, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Please do so. Once that's working, Approved for trial. Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. for 50 edits. ST47Talk 22:29, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

This bot has been blocked for spamming the article name space with {infobox needed} on hundreds of articles.--Doc^g 02:40, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Slow down mate. You are refering to User:Android Mouse Bot, which has nothing to do with this bot besides it sharing a similar name and being written by me. If you take a look at the account you are refering to, you will find it had no edits at all. Plus, I find it an insult that use the term 'spamming' when the bot had been previously approved. I was only following through with a bot request. I'd kindly appreciate if you would unblock/undelete the Android Mouse Bot 2 account so I can get along with testing it. If you would have read the function details you would have known the two are unrelated. --Android Mouse 03:31, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

OK, but I didn't block it anyway. Just posting a not and did it in the wrong place.--Doc^g 03:47, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Somebody else must have deleted it then, since I just had to reregister it. --Android Mouse 03:59, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

I've run 50 test edits. There was a problem with the bot notifying the an author when they nominated the article for deletion themselves and an issue with the bot accidently using a wrong article name when notifying. These problems are fixed now. --Android Mouse 16:14, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Great,  Approved. ST47Talk 16:36, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

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