George Herbert wrote:
Take this up with the en.wp bot auth group.
There are bots with admin bit set, run by a few people, but it's a small subset of the total (and, predictably, where some of the more really heinous problems came from).
While every action is basically reversible, not all actions are practically reversible. While it's unlikely that an admin bot would be doing stuff which could accidentally lead to some of the nightmare bot vandalism attack stuff I've gamed out playing red team, I prefer caution, as do those running en.wp these days.
A properly written bot would be safer than a human. Automation is a good way to avoid common mistakes. Like when a vandal moves a large article to a suspicious title and replaces the contents with nonsense, then tags it for speedy deletion. A human deletes the page and wonders why the servers crash. A bot could check the page move log.
Yes, I know the human could check the page move log too. But computers can process data much faster than humans can, and they don't get bored or lazy. So they can run lots of complex checks every single time and never risk an error due to a moment of inattention.
-- Tim Starling