User:VFD Bot

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As of, 08:38, 1 September 2005 (UTC), VFD Bot has been disabled. User:AFD Bot is the replacement. --AllyUnion (talk) 08:38, 1 September 2005 (UTC)


Hi. My name is VFD Bot, short for: Votes for Deletion Bot. I perform various Votes for deletion tasks. --VFD Bot 12:20, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)


This bot is owned, maintained and operated by User:AllyUnion. A list of tasks are below.




Bot Work[edit]

This bot is currently using the pyWikipedia robot framework: [1]

The bot has been assigned the following tasks:

  1. Update a VFD list of discussions hourly, 15 and 45 minutes on the hour at User:AllyUnion/VFD List
    This bot has been supported by fvw and anthony. The bot request was made at 04:26, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC), with no objections to the bot since 08:20, 2005 Feb 2 (UTC). This feature will be approved on 04:26, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    Version Upgrade Today. In the comment field, it will indicate what sections it has added, for the max comment length. -- AllyUnion (talk) 11:28, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    Will need to completely rewrite this script. --AllyUnion (talk) 04:08, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
  2. Add the section on the new UTC VFD subpage day, 13 minutes one hour before the new UTC day.
    Not working at this time. -- AllyUnion (talk) 05:35, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    Currently working as of 9 Feb 2005. -- AllyUnion (talk) 21:11, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  3. Add the six days ago link on WP:VFD/Old
  4. Close the VFD discussion, 5 minutes after a new UTC day. -- AllyUnion (talk) 14:41, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  5. Update Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Log/Yesterday every new UTC day. -- AllyUnion (talk) 09:27, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  6. Update Wikipedia:Votes for deletion according to the new shorten format. -- AllyUnion (talk) 04:59, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
  7. Remove {{Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Policy consensus}} and <!-- New votes to the bottom, please. --> after 6 days. Replace <!-- New votes to the bottom, please. --> with <!-- This VFD day has concluded. Please do not add new VFD transinclude pages here. Put any new VFD transinclude pages on the appropriate day's page instead. Thank you for your cooperation. -->. Requested by User:Rossami -- AllyUnion (talk) 22:02, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Depreciated tasks:

  1. Ensure that it is {{subst:vfd top}} and {{subst:vfd bottom}} for performance reasons.
    I haven't quite figured out to how to do this one exactly either... at least for all the pages. It can check new pages, but not on the old pages unfortunately. I could use a category temporary, but I don't want to screw anything up. For the time being, it will only check on the recent VFD pages. -- AllyUnion (talk) 21:09, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    I haven't exactly been running this feature. -- AllyUnion (talk) 22:16, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  2. Add the Template:Vfd top and Template:Vfd bottom to all old VFD subpages as a HTML comment, once moved to VFD old.
    This task is not implemented, and there are questions and objections to this feature at this time. -- AllyUnion (talk) 12:17, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  3. Post a new edited WP:VFDL page
    1. Add the new UTC day section link on WP:VFDL (in the Jump to specific days box)
    2. Remove the six days ago section link on WP:VFDL (in the Jump to specific days box)
    3. Add a new six days ago /Old section link on WP:VFDL (in the Jump to specific days box)
    4. Add the new UTC day transinclude on WP:VFDL
    5. Remove the six days ago transinclude on WP:VFDL
  4. VFD Daily Update on WP:NAC, requested by User:Hydnjo -- AllyUnion (talk) 22:02, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
    1. Not updating --AllyUnion (talk) 04:05, 20 August 2005 (UTC)