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Editing Bot-reported usernames?
The bots are pretty good, but you do occasionally see false-positives sneak in. Is it appropriate for non-admin editors to edit the list and remove the ones they feel are not problematic? Or do admins need to do that (such as adding the username to a whitelist or something of the sort). For example, User:CharaIOnlyMadeThisToFixOneError was reported by a bot. Their one edit was non-controversial and there's nothing really problematic about the username (it was triggered by having a long number of characters without a space). As an uninvolved non-admin, could I just wipe that out? Matt Deres (talk) 20:15, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
- Point #7 in the UAA instructions says
Patrollers are asked to remove reports that [...] are bot-reported false positives
, so feel free to remove bot reports if you're confident that they're false positives (like the one you mentioned). DanCherek (talk) 20:20, 31 May 2024 (UTC) - Since I have over 300 edits at UAA/Bot I can say from personal experience that non-admins are welcome. But be sure to check the accounts for other issues as well. Block evasion, LTA, vandalism-only, spam-only are common issues with the accounts that show up there. Nobody (talk) 07:18, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard § HBC AIV helperbot5 and AdminStatsBot. This is related to the bot that clerks WP:UAA. –Novem Linguae (talk) 14:26, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
Issue at WP:UAA/BOT
The bot reports section no longer has a link for direct editing. I can't seem to pinpoint when this happened. Just Step Sideways from this world ..... today 16:01, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
Fixed, someone moved the header onto a previous line. Primefac (talk) 16:19, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
- Courtesy ping to Mdann52, as it looks like the bot did it in Special:Diff/1235461185. Primefac (talk) 16:21, 22 July 2024 (UTC)