User:Speedy Deletion Bot

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Speedy Deletion Bot is run by Chris G (talk ยท contribs). It goes through the recent changes and checks for articles that where candidates for speedy deletion by had the tag removed by the creator of the article, it then adds a diff of the edit to a report page and newpage patrolers then take appropriate action. The bot has a request for approval here and is approved for a trial run.

[edit] How this bot works

For the non-programers (and the programers who don't want to read through the source code(even though it's got lots of comments)) below is the steps that this bot goes through to perform its daily tasks :

  1. Start
  2. Login
  3. Monitor Recent Changes
  4. Check for a diff removing a speedy tag
  5. If the creator of the Article removed the Speedy Deletion Tag add the user to report page and goto 3 else goto 3.

[edit] Source Code

This bot uses perlwikipedia code is available on this page.