[WikiEN-l] A BADSITES RfA piling-on

Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen at shaw.ca
Wed May 30 07:15:36 UTC 2007


David Gerard wrote:
> On 30/05/07, Slim Virgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> month. [4] I'm also concerned that the bot is being used without bot
>> approval, but Gracenotes says above that it's not a bot (which is
>> either wrong, or it means that he sits mindlessly hitting a button
>> hundreds of times for hours on end),
> 
> 
> I'm doing this myself of late with {{spoiler}} tags, so I find it
> quite believable.

I've actually been called a bot before, IIRC based on some work I was
doing with categories at the time. Sometimes it can actually be quite
relaxing to sit on Wikipedia for a few hours just
edit-paste-edit-pasting my way through hundreds of articles in a massive
cleanup binge.

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