User:RedirectCleanupBot

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19:45, Wednesday 11 June 2008


RedirectCleanupBot (talk • deletions)


This is an automated account operated by WJBscribe which has sysop access, allowing it to perform a fairly simple maintenance task - deleting redirects to deleted and non-existent pages per CSD R1. To ensure that it only deletes those redirects without useful histories, it only deletes such redirects provided that they have only one revision in their page history.


If an article you created was deleted by the Bot, it will be because it was previously moved to a new title and deleted at that title. In order to find out why the article was deleted, you will need to consult the deletion log entry for the article itself (not the redirect to it).


For example, in the following deletion summary:

07:51, October 19, 2007 RedirectCleanupBot (Talk | contribs) deleted "Sundry" ‎ (BOT: Deleting broken redirect to Miscellaneous and sundry per CSD R1)

To discover the reason why the article was deleted, check the deletion log entry for Miscellaneous and sundry.


The source code can be found here, and the Bot's approval can be reviewed on the following pages:


Emergency robot shutoff button


Administrators: Use this button if the bot is malfunctioning. (direct link)

Non-administrators can report misbehaving bots to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.
Alternatively, in an emergency a non-administrator can stop the Bot by editing this page and changing the word "allow" to "disallow".