User:OrphanBot

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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.

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[edit] Description and purpose

OrphanBot's current task is to remove images that are in Category:Images with unknown source and Category:Images with unknown copyright status from articles, so that administrators can delete them.

Images in the article, category, and portal namespaces will be removed. Images in the wikipedia, mediawiki, mediawiki talk, template, help, and help talk namespaces will be left alone, but a message will be logged on the bot's talk page. Images in all other namespaces will be completely ignored.

OrphanBot used to inspect newly-uploaded images; that task is now handled by User:ImageTaggingBot.

OrphanBot was written in Perl using the Pearle code for accessing Wikipedia.

[edit] In simple terms:

What OrphanBot does:

  1. OrphanBot removes images with certain impending-deletion tags from articles using them.
  2. OrphanBot notifies the presumed uploader of the impending deletion.

What OrphanBot does not do:

  1. OrphanBot does not delete images.
  2. OrphanBot does not tag images for deletion.
  3. OrphanBot does not evaluate fair-use claims.
  4. OrphanBot does not edit templates.
  5. OrphanBot does not edit user pages.
  6. OrphanBot does not tag unused fair-use images. That's Roomba and Fritzbot.
  7. OrphanBot can not check for copyright so please put in a description.
  8. OrphanBot is not responsible for every image that gets deleted.

[edit] Current development status

Working on improved bot. New behaviors:

  1. Better Wiki-access code for increased reliability.

[edit] Current task status

[edit] Bot statistics

As of June 1, 2006, OrphanBot has inspected 63,976 images, removing images from 33,698 articles, 1,266 portals, and 64 categories. The bot has handed out 36,988 warnings to 23,925 users.

As of September 1, 2006, OrphanBot has inspected 102,366 images, removing images from 50,683 articles. The bot has handed out 72,910 warnings to 47,627 users.

[edit] Limitations

The bot can't read. It trusts humans to know what they're talking about, so if it sees a {{no source}} or {{no license}} tag on an image, it assumes that the image does not have a source or a license tag.