User talk:Thegeneralbot/spambotflagging

Questions

Will this be bot driven? If so, how often will bot be ran? If once or twice a day, I could see it as being very useful. If less frequently, it would likely be only marginally helpful. ~ _{23:16, 22 March 2012 (UTC)}

Ideally, it would be run as an extension but I doubt that we'd be able to persuade Kevan to do that. So I reckon it would have to be done with a bot, which could be set up to run at intervals throughout the day.--The General ^{T Sys U! P! F!} 19:04, 8 May 2012 (BST)

Suggestions

Use bot to replace spam content with {{BP}}. Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Spam Page could be helpful. Place {{bot}} nextto flagged spambots. I guess the main goal would be to make spambot removal and blocking take fewer clicks for everyone. ~ _{23:16, 22 March 2012 (UTC)}

This is doable. I'm thinking of having it check each page Special:Newpages for external links, replacing pages that do with {{BP}} and then reporting them.--The General ^{T Sys U! P! F!} 19:04, 8 May 2012 (BST)

I'm not sure if I should post here or talk (just move if I picked wrong, k thx), but I've noticed bots tend to make a page with their username in the mainspace and make an identical page in their userspace. Perhaps, picking up duplicate previews from either newbies or newpages? Also, flagging non-English pages and new pages with large text size by new users would help cut the list. --Kirsty _{Org XIII} ^Alts 23:10, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

Doesn't particularly matter, but I've moved it to talk anyway. hmmm, checking for pages with an identical name to the user who created it could probably work and wouldn't be particularly difficult.--The General ^{T Sys U! P! F!} 19:04, 8 May 2012 (BST)