Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ethen12bot 2

The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA. The result of the discussion was Denied.

ethen12bot 2

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Operator: Ethen12 (talk · contribs)

Time filed: 03:30, Sunday January 29, 2012 (UTC)

Automatic or Manual:automatic supervised

Programming language(s):Java

Source code available:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:ethen12/How_to_install_windows_7

Function overview:deletes vandalism

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s):continuous

Estimated number of pages affected:500

Exclusion compliant (Y/N):

Already has a bot flag (Y/N):

Function details:deletes vandalism,warns users

Discussion

Denied. You are clearly not ready to be a bot operator. The task you propose is an extremely tricky one to do right, but you give no indication that you have even considered how to do it. You also show zero familiarity with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines; this familiarity is required of a bot operator. You didn't even manage to get the wikitext formatting of this BRFA correct.

I suggest you give up on the idea of running a bot for now. Spend at least several months as a normal editor, make useful edits to a number of articles, and if you still want to run a bot then come back once you've gained a lot more experience. Anomie⚔ 04:05, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

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