User talk:StefanBot

This bot will read fish pages, parse the taxobox and find the scientific name , find a good place to put a fishbase and ITIS reference on and insert that reference.

• If fishbase link or template already exists in the article the bot will do no edit.
• If a ITIS link or template already exists in the article the bot will do no edit.
• The boot will also check that the scientific name actually leads to a existing fishbase page, therefore verifying the scientific names in the taxobaox.
• If Reference section exists it will add the reference there otherwise it will add a reference section.
• if it does a edit it will unify References, External links, See also, related articles and i..e removing additional spaces, plural s and set the upper/lower cases.

It will place the reference section before the first of the following sections

• See also
• External links
• related articles

Activities so far

• The boot have done over 700[1] edits. See StefanBot contibutions,
• All articles with taxoboxes that the bot understands in all articles tagged with the Fish category is now updated.

Improvements

• Reformat fishbase and ITIS links to use the template instead of linking directly.
• Teach the bot to add fishbase links to family and order articles also.

This is a automated to all bot operators

Please take a few moments and fill in the data for your bot on Wikipedia:Bots/Status Thank you Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 19:48, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Automated message to bot owners

As a result of discussion on the village pump and mailing list, bots are now allowed to edit up to 15 times per minute. The following is the new text regarding bot edit rates from Wikipedia:Bot Policy:

Until new bots are accepted they should wait 30-60 seconds between edits, so as to not clog the recent changes list and user watchlists. After being accepted and a bureaucrat has marked them as a bot, they can edit at a much faster pace. Bots doing non-urgent tasks should edit approximately once every ten seconds, while bots who would benefit from faster editing may edit approximately once every every four seconds.

Also, to eliminate the need to spam the bot talk pages, please add Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard to your watchlist. Future messages which affect bot owners will be posted there. Thank you. --Mets501 05:08, 22 February 2007 (UTC)