Wikibooks:Requests for permissions/Herbys bot

+Bot
The penny dropped! I have run AWB on stuff for a while. However running it now effectively gives it admin status which might be a cause for concern to the community. As such I request approval of this account for running AWB on (& would not then run it on mine again, tho I have some work to complete which I said I would do) to enable cleanups, cats & recats, typos etc on. While I am not planning to run it in auto mode (it is not strictly a bot) it can be run like that and if approved I might use it like that. However it would only have basic user right not admin rights. As another benefit it would mean RC could have these edits excluded. Thanks -- Herby talk thyme 12:23, 9 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Discussion
 * Could you show some examples (edits) of its use? -within focus 20:22, 9 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Any of my contribs with AWB in the edit summary (it auto fills it anyway) - the most recent are on the Adventist pages at Jim's request. As to what it may be doing it does depend on which options are checked.  As it stands it requires an explicit "save" or "ignore" and I still don't think I would run it in auto mode.  The only possible exception I would see would be in putting a category in a group of pages and no other changes selected.  Happy to let you have any other info -- Herby  talk thyme 09:51, 10 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Votes
 * Support -- If it helps keep the RC logs useful, then it's fine with me. -- SB_Johnny | talk 16:01, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Support Xania 18:46, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Support - Well-developed tool. -within focus 20:19, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. I don't think an admin using a bot is necessarily a cause for alarm, as I have a bot that I run from this account and my User:Wknight81111 account (mostly for larger jobs). However, I think the real concern is for a bot that is run under an admin account, and performs admin operations (blocks, deletions, page protections, rollbacks, etc). If your AWB software doesnt perform any of these admin tasks, especially if it does not perform these tasks without your express consent, there is no problem that I can see with it. I also can't see a problem with running your program in "automatic mode", except perhaps that you might flood the RC list (which would be mostly a problem for you to deal with). --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 18:08, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. This is an appropriate precedent to set. --Iamunknown 05:43, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Support: bloody good idea to run automated tools under non-admin accounts, just in case. Webaware 13:33, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Support --Az1568(Talk) 09:10, 22 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Bot flag set. -within focus 16:19, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

-Bot
Bot is actually blocked and marked as inactive by the operator on its user page. Should no longer have the flag. -- Adrignola talk contribs 17:10, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Unusual? Quite TalkQu 18:19, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ &mdash; Mike.lifeguard &#124; talk 15:51, 8 December 2009 (UTC)