Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MonoBot 7

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 The result of the discussion was Withdrawn by operator.

MonoBot

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Operator: Mønobi

Automatic or Manually Assisted: auto - unsupervised

Programming Language(s): python

Function Summary: replaces fair use images outside the main namespace with a holder image

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

Edit rate requested: maxlag = 5

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

Function Details: Bot to remove fairuse images outside of the namespace. The bot will not notify the user if it's in the User: space, purely because the image (Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg) explains it well enough and I don't feel like spamming user's talk pages.

Discussion

Sounds pretty good to me. I like the idea of not hitting people's talkpages unnecessarily. SQL^{Query me!} 14:13, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Some conditions. If you edit templates, it is preferred that you remove the image rather than using a placeholder. Same with portals. It is preferred that you change images on any talk page from an inclusion to a link, to preserve discussion. It is also recommended for your own sanity that you completely ignore links from the Image namespace. Is it possible to implement these? (I have some rather weak regexes and in fact a complete perl bot for this task, if you'd like to see the replacements.) --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 22:06, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Only concerns would be political re potential backlash from people if it's nuked -- Tawker (talk) 19:46, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

{{OperatorAssistanceNeeded}} --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 12:56, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

{{OperatorAssistanceNeeded}}. I propose to close this request as expired if we don't hear anything for the next three days. Notifying operator on his talk page. — Werdna talk 01:25, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Operator asked for this request to be withdrawn on IRC. — Werdna talk 23:01, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

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