Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PartyBOT

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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 The result of the discussion was Withdrawn by operator.

[edit] PartyBOT

tasks • contribs • count • sul • logs • page moves • block user • block log • flag log • flag bot

Operator: Party (talk)

Automatic or Manually Assisted:Manually Assisted

Programming Language(s):.NET 2.0 framework

Function Summary:Allows me to trace & rollback serial vandalism and to trace unconfirmed vandalism patterns.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run):Daily or whenever i want to

Edit rate requested: 6 edits per Minute Already has a bot flag (Y/N):

Trace, mass rollback, analysis, tag, warn

[edit] Discussion

Can you give us any insight as to how the bot does what it'll do?

  • How would the bot identify vandalism?
  • How would the bot decide when to / when not to rollback?
  • What is your definition of "serial vandalism"?
  • What do you mean by "trace unconfirmed vandalism patterns"? How would the bot do this?

Thanks! SQLQuery me! 06:39, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Actually, it'll look into the IRC feed from rc bot and it will show me suspicious vandalism. About the rollback, it can stalk a user or a IP and present to me the evidence of necessary rollback. For serial vandalism, let's say a user or a IP is adding a TON or modifying a TON of articles and they didn't get reverted, it can do all that. About the trace unconfirmed vandalism patterns, it may be a single date change, a exaggerated date, a town change, tiny tiny tiny changes. --Party (talk) 15:36, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
You haven't answered any of the key questions above. Can you provide some examples of the regexen you will be using to detect "suspicious vandalism" or "serial vandalism"? Will it be the rollbacker or will you? If it will, what are the sanity checks you're using? How does it detect a "tiny tiny tiny" change and determine that that change is incorrect? How does this behavior differ from ClueBot's warning that vandalism may have gone unreverted? Without answering these kinds of questions, this bot will never be approved. — madman bum and angel 18:03, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

The bot request was withdrawn per this MFD. --Coredesat 11:14, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

  • Withdrawn by operator. --slakr\ talk / 16:12, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.