On Saturday 22 February 2003 10:40 am, Takuya Murata wrote:

I understand some people dislike bots, some including me don't care. But the problem is this is not fair at all. I posted in Village Pump that I am going to use bots, and I waited and see for about one hour then because no one shows any complain, I started to use bots. Then my ip address is blocked. Since that I can't edit any page in wikipedia, I posted this mail to here.

One hour was not long enough. A few days to a week for something like this is warrented so that most people can respond. I responded right away and in fact only had one minor complaint about the format. But other people may have had other issues to express - if only they had the time.

Am I frustrated? Yes, I am little because I think I am being treaded a kind of unfair.

How about considering what is fair for everybody else that is using Recent Changes? What about what is fair for people who really don't like microarticles polluting the article database? Perhaps somebody who was asleep could have helped you find a database you could use to add more data to the generated articles? Considering what is fair to other Wikipedians is also important. One hour just doesn't cut it.

Have you read our policy on bots yet? Please do - it explains the pros, cons and procedures.

--Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

WikiKarma Added a bunch of events to [[February 18]]; updated all the year pages and many of the other articles linked from that page.