User:ImageTaggingBot

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This user account is a bot operated by Carnildo (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 approved bot is run by User:Carnildo . If you have any questions about image tagging, ask them at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions.

[edit] Description and purpose

ImageTaggingBot's current task is to inspect newly-uploaded images for ones lacking source information, a license tag, or a fair-use rationale if one is needed.

ImageTaggingBot was written in Perl using OrphanBot's code for accessing Wikipedia.

Some of ImageTaggingBot tasks used to be performed by User:OrphanBot.

[edit] In simple terms:

What ImageTaggingBot does:

  1. ImageTaggingBot tags images with no description as {{no info}} and images with no copyright tag as {{untagged}}
  2. ImageTaggingBot notifies the uploader of any problems it encounters.

What ImageTaggingBot does not do:

  1. ImageTaggingBot does not delete images.
  2. ImageTaggingBot does not tag images for deletion.
  3. ImageTaggingBot does not evaluate fair-use claims.
  4. ImageTaggingBot is not responsible for every image that gets deleted.

[edit] Current task status

  • Automatic tagging of no-source, no-rationale, and untagged images is ongoing.