Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ConvenantTebot

The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was Withdrawn by operator.

ConvenantTebot

• (BRFA
• Approved BRFAs
• talk
• contribs
• count
• SUL
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• page moves
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• rights log
• flag)

Operator: ConvenantTebot (talk)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Manually Assisted

Programming Language(s): Python

Function Overview: Experimental bot to detect link spamming, POV and article notability.

Edit period(s): Does not make any edits

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N

Function Details: Detect link spam by checking if a link or domain has been added multiple times by the same user. Automatically detects if an article is notable or not (experimental and no modifications will be done on the articles found to be non-notable). Check the overall tone of an article to detect POV (experimental and no modifications will be done on the articles).

Discussion

How will you define if an article is 'notable' or has a neutral point of view? Furthermore, the BRFA page should be edited with your main (operator) account, not the bot account (every bot owner must have two separate accounts, one for the bot and one for their own edits). Richard⁰⁶¹² 17:55, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Sorry about that - I'll use my main account from now on. Do I need to give the details of the implementation to get the bot approved? If possible, I would prefer not to share my ideas right now, or at least wait until the bot is ready. Technically, there will be some text analysis to find out the tone of the article, but I won't make any edits on the articles as any results won't be accurate enough. I'd be developing the bot half for fun, half because it could help detecting certain POV or lack of notability. I'm just curious to see how it would work. Laurent (talk) 18:08, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

You don't need permission to run a bot in log-only mode (writes to a local file on your hard drive). My suggestion would be to make that work, and then file a request. - Jarry1250 ^{(t, c)} 20:22, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Withdraw. Thanks Jarry, I wasn't aware of that - I withdraw my request for now. Laurent (talk) 13:07, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Withdrawn by operator. - Jarry1250 ^{(t, c)} 15:40, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

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