User:HiDrNickBot
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This user account is a bot operated by HiDrNick (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. |
This bot monitors recent changes to report possible violations of the three-revert rule, and issues warnings to users as appropriate. No script can differentiate edit warring and constructive editing accurately all of the time, but most edit wars exhibit patterns that can be easily detected. These edits will be reported to administrators to determine if a violation occurred.
Three-revert rule reports are very time-consuming for even veteran editors to prepare; there are many requirements, and many users just don’t bother. The bot will produce easy-to-read reports showing the article history from the first revert in question to the last.
All warnings issued will be non-bitey, with an aim toward informing a possibility clueless user of the rule and preventing a violation. Reports will not be filed until the bot has evidence of further editing to a page after a warning; however, warnings will not be required for administrators, IP editors, those who have been blocked for edit warring previously, and editors with more than 2000 edits.
The bot is written in php; it runs automatically every five minutes, and makes only a few edits at a time.
Please see Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/HiDrNickBot. Cheers, ➪HiDrNick! 11:53, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
