User:DeadBot

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This user account is a bot operated by TheFearow (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.

This bot does various tasks relating to the dead-end pages list, as well as UAA.

For a log of what it has done, see the log file.

For the information on it's IRC control system, see User:DeadBot/irc.

For the developer log, see User:DeadBot/Dev.

Contents

[edit] Functions

  • Removes redlinks from dep list
  • Removes redirect pages from dep list
  • Commenting on dep list
  • Monitoring newusers for bad usernames, and reporting on UAA.

[edit] Emergency Shutoff

[edit] UAA

To shut off the UAA task, blank the page at User:DeadBot/UAABadwords with an edit summary of "blanking: disabling UAA bot". It will then stop reporting people.

[edit] General

Emergency robot shutoff button


Administrators: Use this button if the bot is malfunctioning. (direct link)

Non-administrators can report misbehaving bots to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.