User talk:BOTepho

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This user account is a bot operated by Kotepho (talk).

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.

Primarily used to remove fair use images from user pages and such in line with Wikipedia's fair use policy. See User:Durin/Removal of fair use images for more information.

Only run periodically, probably limited by the release of m:database dumps, at least until the m:toolserver's replication is fixed.

If there are any problems related to the bot please leave a message here and ping my owner's talk page if it is urgent.

todo:

Some infoboxes use only the image name as a parameter for some reason, =(
It also sometimes doesn't even have Image: as a prefix!

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[edit] This is a automated to all bot operators

Please take a few moments and fill in the data for your bot on Wikipedia:Bots/Status Thank you Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 18:57, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Automated message to bot owners

As a result of discussion on the village pump and mailing list, bots are now allowed to edit up to 15 times per minute. The following is the new text regarding bot edit rates from Wikipedia:Bot Policy:

Until new bots are accepted they should wait 30-60 seconds between edits, so as to not clog the recent changes list and user watchlists. After being accepted and a bureaucrat has marked them as a bot, they can edit at a much faster pace. Bots doing non-urgent tasks should edit approximately once every ten seconds, while bots who would benefit from faster editing may edit approximately once every every four seconds.

Also, to eliminate the need to spam the bot talk pages, please add Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard to your watchlist. Future messages which affect bot owners will be posted there. Thank you. --Mets501 00:42, 22 February 2007 (UTC)


[edit] BOTepho deflagged

Your bot, BOTepho which was approved and flagged some time ago has now been deflagged due to inactivity. If you wish to run your bot again, feel free to return to the requests for bot approval page where you can reapply for your bot's task and flag. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact a member of the BAG or myself. WjBscribe 01:42, 1 December 2007 (UTC)