This
user account is a
bot operated by
A930913 (
talk). It is used to make repetitive
automated or
semi-automated edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually, in accordance with the
bot policy. This bot was previously approved but has since been retired, and therefore shouldn't be making edits that appear to be unassisted except in the operator's or its own user and user talk space. Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it. |
This user is a bot | |
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( talk · contribs) | |
Operator | A930913 |
Author | A930913 |
Approved? | RETIRED Yes |
Flagged? | No |
Task(s) | Inform editors that they may have broken the references on a page |
Edit rate | ?/day |
Edit period(s) | Daily |
Automatic or manual? | Automatic |
Programming language(s) | Python |
Exclusion compliant? | Yes |
Source code published? | If someone wants it, bug me to release it. |
Emergency shutoff-compliant? | Yes |
Other information | ReferenceBot is run from the Wikimedia Laboratories. |
ReferenceBot finds edits from the previous day that cause referencing errors, and notifies the editors requesting that they fix them. ReferenceBot does not fix any errors.
If it has to create a talk page for the user, it will {{ welcome}} them.
ReferenceBot notifies editors about edits that add articles to the following categories:
The current templates used are {{User:ReferenceBot/inform/top}}
, {{User:ReferenceBot/inform/middle}}
and {{User:ReferenceBot/inform/bottom}}
.
Emergency bot shutoff button
Administrators: Use this button if the bot is malfunctioning. (
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Non-administrators can a malfunctioning bot to
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.