User talk:Syrcatbot

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This user account facilitates a bot operated by Wikipedia administrator Syrthiss. 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.

Syrcatbot is an account maintained by User:Syrthiss. It operates only on the english wikipedia, using AutoWikiBrowser to do recategorizations in support of Categories for Deletion. Syrcatbot is entirely supervised, as I am the one hitting the button to do the cut and paste for the categories.

I wanted to begin using Syrcatbot for several reasons:

1. I've been doing a ton of recategorizations with my Syrthiss account, and I feel that clutters up my contributions list.
2. I can set my preferences with Syrcatbot so that I don't load images (to reduce server resources)
3. With a bot flag, all my recategorizations won't show up in Special:Recentchanges
4. I don't run the risk of my main account being blocked for editing at bot-like speeds. While Syrthiss is an admin account and I could unblock myself, I'd rather avoid having to unblock myself or ask another admin to do so.

NOTE - Please leave me messages at User talk:Syrthiss. Leaving me a message here crashes my bot, tho that may be useful if you can't get my attention as Syrthiss and the bot is going insane. Thanks! Syrcatbot 17:10, 28 April 2006 (UTC)