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(a)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.
http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wikibot
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
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