Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/IABot~usurped

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IABot~usurped

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Operator: Myhairisabird (talk · contribs)

Time filed: Sept 4, 2011

Automatic or Manual:

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: Possibly later.

Function overview: Adds Internet Archive links to dead links (citations).

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): Chunks of a few thousand articles, daily/weekly

Estimated number of pages affected: See above

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): No

Function details: For each page: Fetch page, check page's citations for links. Fetch citations' link, check error code. if 404, check if Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has the page archived. If it does, add a link (and a HTML comment indicating that this was done by a bot.)

Discussion

•  Note: This bot appears to have edited since this BRFA was filed. Bots may not edit outside their own or their operator's userspace unless approved or approved for trial. AnomieBOT⚡ 03:53, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

That was just an edit on this page, I hadn't logged out. Oops.Myhairisabird (talk) 03:58, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Denied. Not ready to be a bot operator: your only edits to the English Wikipedia, or to any SUL-enabled MediaWiki wiki under this username, are directly related to this bot request. The community expects bot operators to be familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, which is not likely to be the case for someone with no edits. If you are serious about running a bot here, please edit for a while as a normal editor and try again after you have established yourself.

Also, if you do come back with a similar request in the future, I note this task seems to be basically identical to H3llBot 2 and DASHBot 11. Are those bots no longer performing those tasks that we would need a new one? And if not, why did they stop and how would this be different to avoid whatever those issues were? Anomie⚔ 17:37, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

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