Deactivated
This bot is no longer active on Wikipedia.
This user account is a bot operated by Carnildo (talk). It is used to make repetitive automatedorsemi-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. Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it. |
OrphanBot has been inactive since 2009. Its tasks are currently handled by User:ImageRemovalBot, User:ImageTaggingBot, and improved upload procedures.
This approved bot is run by User:Carnildo. If you have any questions about image tagging, ask them at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions.
OrphanBot's current task is to remove images that are in Category:Wikipedia files with unknown source and Category:Wikipedia files with unknown copyright status from articles, so that administrators can delete them.
Images in the article, category, and portal namespaces will be removed. Images in the wikipedia, mediawiki, mediawiki talk, template, help, and help talk namespaces will be left alone, but a message will be logged on the bot's talk page. Images in all other namespaces will be completely ignored.
OrphanBot used to inspect newly-uploaded images; that task is now handled by User:ImageTaggingBot.
OrphanBot was written in Perl using the Pearle code for accessing Wikipedia.
What OrphanBot does:
What OrphanBot does not do:
OrphanBot understands the {{nobots}} template: if you place it on your talkpage, the bot won't give you any notifications. OrphanBot will ignore nobots on images and articles: if you want the bot to ignore an image, you'll have to talk to me (User:Carnildo) and convince me it's a good idea.
Working on improved bot. New behaviors:
As of June 1, 2006, OrphanBot has inspected 63,976 images, removing images from 33,698 articles, 1,266 portals, and 64 categories. The bot has handed out 36,988 warnings to 23,925 users.
As of September 1, 2006, OrphanBot has inspected 102,366 images, removing images from 50,683 articles. The bot has handed out 72,910 warnings to 47,627 users.
The bot can't read. It trusts humans to know what they're talking about, so if it sees a {{no source}}or{{no license}} tag on an image, it assumes that the image does not have a source or a license tag.
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message Pedro thy master (talk) 21:26, 29 April 2009 (UTC) |