Poor, Edmund W wrote:
Is someone's bot out of control?
Developers, please investigate this ASAP. --Ed Poor
-----Original Message----- From: Robert [mailto:rkscience100@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 11:59 AM To: wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] Wikibot, murder and Black Panther redirects
Why is the Wikibot replacing all instances of the phrase "Black Panther" with a redirect to the article on [[murder]]? This seems very unjustified.
I didn't see this particular instance of wiki-violation, but I can say that Alexandros as far as I know is the only active user of pywikipediabot that, even though I asked him at least twice, is not a member of the mailing list for the robot code. I also think he did not discuss the use of the robot on en:. I am in favor of using robots (especially the ones I help to code), but I am an advocate of only using them after proper discussion of their merits. Alexandros does not seem to be listening to reason.
Rob