User:Philosopher-Bot
 | This user account is a bot that uses AutoWikiBrowser, operated by Philosopher (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. The bot is currently inactive but retains the approval of the community. To stop this bot until restarted by the bot's owner, edit its talk page. If that page is a redirect, edit that original redirecting page, not the target of the redirect. Administrators: if this bot continues causing harm after receiving a message, please block it or remove from the approved accounts. |  |
Task 1
[edit]This is an alternate account of User:Philosopher, created to implement decisions at WP:CfD. It is approved to use AutoWikiBrowser to do so and runs when Philosopher closes a discussion or when he notices a request at WP:CFD/W. The changes are manually entered into AWB, but it will be left to auto save the changes, because manually overseeing the sometimes thousands of changes required after a CfD discussion is simply too time consuming. Since AWB is being used, the changes are nearly impossible to get wrong - AWB's category tool will the the main use of the bot, though its find and replace feature will be used in cases such as this where the category is being placed by a template. (Category tool example; Find and replace example)
Task 2
[edit]This bot performed a one-time task, adding 'communities=yes' within {{WikiProject Iowa}}'s iterations on pages belonging to the communities workgroup of WikiProject Iowa, where that parameter didn't already exist on the page.