User:Bot523

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This user account is a bot operated by ais523. It is not a sock puppet, but rather an automated or semi-automated account for making repetitive edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually. Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it.

Bot523's approval -- ais523

Bot523 helps implement AfD categories by removing categories from AfD debates that have been closed. It is written in JavaScript; in fact, some of its code is in its /monobook.js page. It works by harvesting AfD debates that have been categorized for more than a week from query.php, and then checking them to see if they have been closed. If they have been, the {{REMOVE THIS TEMPLATE WHEN CLOSING THIS AfD}} tag is replaced with {{ns:0}}, which is the null string and therefore won't come up. -- ais523