This is the home page for BLPWatchBot, the bot used by BLPWatch. The bot is awaiting approval. It will assist users in protecting "at risk" biographies of living people from untoward editing. Full instructions and information are given below.

Automated tags and tag management capabilities are currently as at April 2008, under trial.

More information

edit

For more information see the above page. For the approval request currently in progress see Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BLPWatchBot.

BLPWatch: information on BLP monitoring The BLPWatch monitoring process itself, its use by editors, and how BLPWatch helps Wikipedians to monitor "at-risk" BLPs, are covered at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/BLPWatch (shortcut: WP:BLPWATCH).
BLPWatchBot The actual bot used by BLPWatch is managed by user:ST47, who covers the coding, operation, capabilities, and management of BLPWatchBot itself. (Discussion page: User_talk:BLPWatchBot)

Helping with BLPWatch

edit

To help watch "at-risk" BLP articles, and ensure a higher quality of articles and help our users, please consider joining #wikipedia-en-blpwatch on IRC.

Requests for access to restricted commands

edit

The bot commands !detag, !revert and !reason are restricted (and awaiting approval for operation at this time). If you are heavily involved in #wikipedia-en-blpwatch and wish to have access to these commands to speed up your BLP watching, please contact ST47 on his talk page.

(These commands must have a clear edit summary, and should be used with utmost care, if granted.)