Wikipedia talk:Bots/Requests for approval/SDPatrolBot II

Template bombing

If someone creates a dozen bios, one for each member of their pubs football team I would not suggest twelve tags one for each article A7'd. Can we throttle the bot back so that it doesn't tag any user who has received more than a certain number of times per day, or alternatively combines them in some way? ϢereSpielChequers 19:34, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

I would think that maybe three a day would be sufficient, five at the most. If the person has exceeded that number of Speedily deletable articles and hasn't asked for help or explanations, I don't think more warnings would be helpful. Sodam Yat (talk) 02:57, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Hmmm, I'll take a look at programing in such a way so as to avoid this :) - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 08:57, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

I think we are discussing two different scenarios here. User:Suddenly Swamped has blithely spent the afternoon adding bios for every player in his football team before getting a note from a tagger explaining how many promotions his team need before its players meet our inclusion criteria, that he has tagged one of them for speedy deletion and is about to tag the rest. User:Suddenly Swamped then stops editing and starts reading policy. Whilst User:Ploughs on regardless responds to his first article being tagged by adding the phrase important and significant to his biographies of former headboys of his school. I think the latter scenario merits a continued flow of templates, but the former doesn't. Would it be practical for the Bot to only inform authors of the speedy deletion tagging of articles they have created since they were last templated by the bot? (I have no objection to also having a throttle such as three or five per day). ϢereSpielChequers 09:59, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Yes, should be fairly practical, actually that's a great way of preventing the bot from swamping users with templates. I'll add in a check for this soon. - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 10:38, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

G7

I'm sure you've already thought of this, but if someone blanks an article they wrote and someother person or bot tags it {{G7}} then a tag to the author is not needed. Though just occasionally a tag to the tagger - "did you mean to tag xxxxx as G7 since the person who blanked it was not the author" might be useful. ϢereSpielChequers 19:34, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Yup, I've thought of that, and made sure that if it's a CSD G7 then the bot ignores it (along with CSD U1 ). But I could make it leave a message if wanted - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 08:55, 18 November 2009 (UTC)