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Hi, recently i came across this wiki and fixed a few hundred double redirects. So one of the admins has requested i start a discussion to see how people feel about me continuing to use a pywikipedia bot on this wiki, so i can get the account flagged as a bot. Currently the only thing I'm using it for is to fix double redirects, but Dinoguy1000 suggested there may be other tasks it could be used for. Feel free to offer your opinion or ask questions. btw i am an admin on Terraria wiki and I'm experienced in bot use. My bot is Gracey91s bot. Gracey91  ✉  06:43, August 20, 2011 (UTC)


 * Hello Gracey91, could you provide a link to your account and bot on the Terraria wiki (since there's more than one)? Thanks! 「 ダイノ ガイ 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 06:57, August 20, 2011 (UTC)


 * My main account on Terraria wikia can be found here and my bot is here. And yes there are 2 Terraria wikis. Gracey91   ✉  13:41, August 20, 2011 (UTC)


 * It looks reasonable to me, does anyone else have any thoughts or questions? 「 ダイノ ガイ 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 16:42, August 20, 2011 (UTC)


 * Looks alright. Apart from fixing double redirects, do you have any idea what types of edits you would be making? -- Deltaneos (talk) 21:44, August 21, 2011 (UTC)


 * What ever is needed. Gracey91   ✉  06:37, August 22, 2011 (UTC)


 * One immediate thought (this was at the back of my mind before, as well): do you think you could program the bot to orphan image redirects for us, Gracey? Bonus points if you can get it programmed to be able to rename images according to the image policy, in which case I'd support giving it an admin flag as well (which would, in turn, allow it to delete image redirects as it orphans them). 「 ダイノ ガイ 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 21:50, August 21, 2011 (UTC)


 * Hey i can rename the pictures, but there are too many risks involved in replacing text, a simple miscalculation on my part could mess up all the pictures on the wiki. What do you mean by orphaned? like you want all the image redirects deleted? Gracey91   ✉  06:37, August 22, 2011 (UTC)


 * Orphaning images (or, in this case, image redirects) works the same way orphaning any other page does - updating or removing links to the page in question from other pages. In the case of image redirects, it would basically be the same thing as fixing double redirects, except once all backlinks to the image redirect are updated or removed, the redirect should be tagged with Delete or just immediately deleted.
 * I'm not sure where you got the "replacing text" bit from, but I don't see how a mistake there could mess up all the images on the wiki. Could you better describe what you're talking about, so I can make sure we're on the same page?
 * One last thing, just out of curiosity (you don't have to answer this if you don't want to): what time zone are you in? You seem to stop by awfully late to live in the Americas (but then, look at me - I live in Illinois, and it's half past 2 in the morning as I write this >.> )... 「 ダイノ ガイ 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 07:32, August 22, 2011 (UTC)


 * Ok i get what you mean. For me to mass delete or mass mark for deletion, i need a list to work from. I looked around and I couldn't find a way to list them. The text replacement is what i would use to change the names of the pictures. I will say I'm not a coder or anything like that, i don't write scripts. I generally just use my bot for basic tasks, like moving/renaming/deleting categories, fixing broken and double redirects, fixing common spelling mistakes. I'm in Australia. Gracey91   ✉  14:38, August 22, 2011 (UTC)