Indeed, that's right. Just remember that interwiki-bots just spread
the bad link, they don't make it: it are human users who make the bad
link.
It happened to me on several occasions: I had just spend 20 minutes to
untangle an web of interwiki-linked articles, and some user just puts
a bad link back, because he/she thinks that the link should be there.
Very annoying, and not always revertable: after all, I'm just an
interwiki-bot-operator, while it's their home wiki most of the time.
So, not all problems would be avoided when having a general bot policy.
Greetings, Tuvic
2007/9/7, White Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko(a)gmail.com>om>:
Bots aren't sentient so they can act stupidly.
There are situations where
you have a bad interwiki link. Unless that is removed from every single
instance where it forms a chain it will eventually return to the list (which
makes sense, the bots think the wrong link as a new member to the chain).
However if all interwiki bots were able to operate on all wikis such
problems could be very easily avoided.
- White Cat