Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard/2008-3-21/Bot owner s essay

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the discussion was Merge and Delete. — xaosflux ^Talk 02:32, 30 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard subpages created by CorenANIBot[edit]

Seems like this page may have been created erroneously, but I'm not sure if should be deleted. It looks like a talk page, and may need to be moved somewhere while retaining its info. Steel1943 (talk) 20:02, 21 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

(Nomimator "official" vote) Merge all into Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard/Archive 4 per Ricky81682's finds. Turns out that a few of these are not listed on that page, but the timeline matches up, so this seems to make the most sense. Merge the pages, and use section redirects on each individual nomimated page to refer them to where they were merged into the page. Steel1943 (talk) 12:25, 22 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: This seems to have been a one-day thing for that bot. Is the noticeboard aware of these copies and if the comments remained on the board itself, I'd suggest listing all of them together to have a consensus on how to deal with these. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 20:09, 21 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- @Ricky81682: Done as shown here. However, it is worth noting that these page creations happened over the course of more than just one day. Steel1943 (talk) 20:50, 21 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  - @Steel1943: Well, that could actually be a problem. Some pages are just pure copies with no edits while other pages were edited. The copies one I'd be fine with deleting but the others, I'd perhaps suggest redirecting so as not to delete those editor's edits. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 21:35, 21 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    - @Ricky81682: Now, I'm a bit curious. It looks as though these pages may have had a specific purpose in the past, such as approving bots. Steel1943 (talk) 21:39, 21 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Surely this question should have been asked at the Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard. Come back to MfD when there is a considered request to delete. MfD is not for posing open questions.

These are signed (therefore talk) pages. It is very unlikely that they should be deleted. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 23:29, 21 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect all to Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard/Archive 4. The discussions here seem to match up in part with that 2008-2009 archive and I don't care to spend any more time on this puzzle. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 01:31, 22 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Merge and Delete as a Left-field supervote, baring any specific objections, and putting on my WP:BAG hat: These edits were made by an unapproved bot and should have been reversed a long time ago; these are copies of posts not originals so there is no attribution concern; these bot actions will be reversed (pages deleted and content restored to original location, except the original location is also wrong because they are so old now-so instead they will be put in the 2008 archive). Anyone who is researching this content will be either using the noticeboard history (where it is still present) or searching the archives - where it will now be. Redirects and section links are not required. Also added Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard/active — xaosflux ^Talk 15:31, 28 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Ping to botop in case thee is anything else that is being overlooked. @Coren: — xaosflux ^Talk 15:31, 28 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nope. That bot was an experiment; those pages are forgotten remnants of that experiment and can safely be deleted. — Coren ^(talk) 02:23, 29 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Coren Except some subpages were edited directly so deleting them would be deleting those edits as well. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 06:55, 29 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.