User:EarwigBot

This user account is a bot operated by The Earwig (talk). It is used to make repetitive automated or semi-automated edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually, in accordance with the bot policy. The bot is approved and currently active – the relevant request for approval can be seen here.
Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it.

This bot runs on Wikimedia Toolforge.
Administrators: If this bot needs to be blocked due to a malfunction, please remember to disable autoblocks so that other Toolforge bots are not affected.

How to stop the bot:
To stop an individual task (requires autoconfirmed), go to User:EarwigBot/Tasks, find the task, and click "Stop". If you need to stop all tasks, admins can use this link to block the bot. I would appreciate it if you notify me on my talk page after doing either of these.

EarwigBot is a bot operated by The Earwig, written in Python. The bot handles a wide variety of tasks, many for WikiProject Articles for creation. A full list can be found below. Its source code is published (with separate plugins). Please direct any questions about this bot or its operation to my talk page.

The bot's userspace contains some content related to my copyvio detector tool, which formerly ran as a part of the bot. See User:EarwigBot/Copyvios.

Tasks

Task	Name	Status	Source?	Shutoff	Description
1	AfC copyvio bot	BRFA (Done)	Yes	Done (Start)	Reported possible copyright violations in Articles for creation submissions (formerly to User:EarwigBot/AfC copyvios, later with {{AfC suspected copyvio}}). Replaced by a web tool.
2	AfC statistics bot	BRFA (Ongoing)	Yes	Running (Stop)	Updates Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Statistics hourly, featuring pending and recently declined or accepted submissions.
3	AfC category maintenance bot	BRFA (Ongoing)	Yes	Running (Stop)	Creates daily, monthly, and yearly categories at Category:AfC submissions by date. Runs daily at midnight UTC, creating categories three days in advance.
4	{{WikiProject Russian History}} removal	BRFA (Done)	No	Done (Start)	Removed duplicate instances of {{WikiProject Russian History}}, per this BOTREQ.
5	Category:Undated AfC submissions cleanup	BRFA (Ongoing)	Yes	Running (Stop)	Timestamps pages in Category:Undated AfC submissions to clear the category. Runs weekly on Sundays. (Task 7 has been merged into this task.)
6	WP:USPE WikiProject Tagging	BRFA (Done)	No	Done (Start)	Tagged articles that were within the scope of WikiProject Presidential Elections with {{WikiProject United States presidential elections}}.
8	AfC category delinking	BRFA (Ongoing)	Yes	Running (Stop)	Delinks mainspace categories (and templates transcluding categories) from pages in Category:Declined AfC submissions. Runs weekly on Mondays.
9	Wrong MIME type tagging	BRFA (Done)	No	Done (Start)	Tagged files whose extensions did not agree with their MIME types with {{rename media}}. Made unnecessary as MediaWiki now requires file extensions to match their MIME types.
10	{{DYK talk}} deprecation	BRFA (Done)	No	Done (Start)	Merged {{DYK talk}} into {{ArticleHistory}}.
11	`{{catmore}}` replacement	BRFA (Withdrawn)	No	Stopped (Start)	Would have replaced transclusions of {{main}} in the category namespace with `{{catmore}}`.
12	BLP tagging	BRFA (Ongoing)	Yes	Running (Stop)	Adds `\|blp=yes` to {{WPBS}} on talk pages of living people when necessary. It runs weekly on Tuesdays.
13	Image display resizing	BRFA (Done)	Yes	Done (Start)	Corrected upscaled portraits in {{Infobox person}}. Made unnecessary by improved image handling in infoboxes and MediaWiki.
14	WikiProject tagging	BRFA (Ongoing)	Yes	Running (Stop)	Tags talk pages of articles with WikiProject banners by request. All tagging runs are started manually, and require consensus from the WikiProject. Both lists of pages and list of categories (subcategories included or not included) can be tagged. The bot also has the option of auto-assessing the banner it is adding based on other banners on the talk page. Request at User talk:The Earwig.
15	{{Infobox criminal}} parameter renaming	BRFA (Done)	No	Done (Start)	Replaced deprecated parameters in {{Infobox criminal}}.
16	Book-related WikiProject notification	BRFA (Done)	No	Done (Start)	Notified WikiProjects with Wikipedia Books about recent book modifications.
17	{{Infobox ship image}} cleanup	BRFA (Done)	No	Done (Start)	Removed File:No Photo Available.svg from {{Infobox ship image}}.
18	FEED daily page creation	BRFA (Done)	No	Done (Start)	Created daily pages for WP:FEED, like Wikipedia:Requests for feedback/2010 July 2, before the project was shut down.
19	DRN clerk bot	BRFA (Done)	Yes	Done (Start)	Carried out clerking tasks for the dispute resolution noticeboard (managing the {{DR case status}} template, leaving notices (with {{DRN-notice}} and {{DRN stale notice}}) as cases develop, and updating {{DRN case status}}).
20	{{Infobox station}} merging	BRFA (Done)	Yes	Done (Start)	Replaced {{Infobox China station}} and {{Infobox Japan station}} with {{Infobox station}} following two template discussions (China, Japan) and a previous BRFA.
21	Synonym authorities	BRFA (BRFA)	Yes	Running (Stop)	Correct mismatched synonym authorities in taxon articles created by Qbugbot

Key

Conception means that the bot hasn't been fully designed yet, and I am currently unsure of how the end product will function.
Coding means that the bot is already past the concept phase, and the code is being written.
BRFA means that the bot has been coded, and is pending approval before it begins its task.
Withdrawn means that the bot was never approved, because I withdrew it due to specific reasons (see the bot's BRFA).
Done means that the bot is approved, and has completed its task.
Ongoing means that the bot has an ongoing task and has been coded/approved, but will never be technically 'done'.