Commons:Bots/Requests/Ruthven

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Operator: Ruthven (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information)

Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought:

Sorry in advance if I am posting in the wrong place.

Often I categorise a huge amount of files, sometimes with hidden categories, typically starting from Category:XXXX_books (where XXXX is a year), cf. User:Fæ/Project_list/Internet_Archive.

When I do so, I use the Cat-a-lot tool, meaning that I flood the RC with my edits (up to 200 at the same time), but these edits can be seen basically as maintenance. I was wondering if requesting a bot flag, to be activated when I do this kind of activity, shouldn't be better than flooding the RC.

There were previous discussions on assigning the flag to a human; as I see it, it's to make RC patrollers' life easier.

Automatic or manually assisted: manually

Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): daily to weekly

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): 1000

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Y

Programming language(s): -

Cheers, Ruthven (msg) 14:11, 16 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Withdrawn by operator. Thank you all for the advices (on this page and on discussion pages), but if it's not a common practice yet to grant the bot flag for humans on Commons, I shouldn't insist. Cheers, Ruthven (msg) 19:46, 25 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]