User:Good Article Patrol Bot
 | This user account is a bot that uses AutoWikiBrowser, operated by Robert Skyhawk (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. This bot has been approved for a limited trial run by a member of the Bot Approvals Group. To stop this bot until restarted by the bot's owner, edit its talk page. If that page is a redirect, edit that original redirecting page, not the target of the redirect. Administrators: if this bot continues causing harm after receiving a message, please block it or remove from the approved accounts. |  |
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| Operator | Robert Skyhawk (T C B) |
| Approved? | Trial |
| Flagged? | No |
| Task(s) | Checks usage of {{Good article}}, adding it to Good articles that lack it, and removing it from former Good articles that have it. |
| Edit rate | 6 edits per minute |
| Edit period(s) | Weekly, unless a special run is needed; see the green box above for the next scheduled run. |
| Exclusion compliant? | Yes |
| Emergency shutoff-compliant? | Yes |
 | There are currently 40654 Good articles, of which 40646 are tagged with {{Good article}}. This means that there are 8 pages needing modification. A complete scan of all actual Good articles would take a minimum of about 122.3 minutes, and a complete scan of {{Good article}} transcluders would take a minimum of about 122.3 minutes, assuming .1805 seconds per non-edited page. The bot's next run has not been scheduled. ( these numbers) |  |
Information
[edit]This is the user page for Good Article Patrol Bot, a robot that periodically checks and modifies usage of {{Good article}}, a template that displays at the top of Good articles. If the bot encounters a Good article that does not use the template, it adds it; and if the bot encounters a non-Good article that has the template, it removes it. The bot uses Category:Wikipedia good articles to find actual Good articles; this is the true Master list of Good articles since it is populated by transclusions of {{GA}}, which is always added to the talk pages of Good articles.
A detailed description of how the bot does this is available at this page.
Shutoff
[edit]Emergency bot shutoff button
Administrators: Use this button if the bot is malfunctioning. (direct link)
Non-administrators can a malfunctioning bot to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.
Emergency bot shutoff button for Non-Administrators
Non-Administrators: Use this button if the bot is malfunctioning. Follow the instructions above the edit box. (direct link)