User:ShepBot

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22:41, Monday, June 9, 2008

This user account is a bot using AutoWikiBrowser operated by Stepshep (talk).

It is not a sock puppet, but rather an automated or semi-automated account for making repetitive edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually.
To stop this bot from making fully automated edits until restarted by bot owner, please write to its talk page. Administrators: if this bot continues causing harm after receiving a message, please block it or remove it from the list of approved accounts.

ShepBot
ShepBot (Talk · Contribs)
Workin' on it
Operator:	§tepshep
Approved?	Yes.
Flagged?	Yes
Task/s:	See below
Edit period/s:	Daily, most active weekends
Automatic or manual?	Semi-auto
Programming language/s:	AWB
Exclusion compliant?	Yes
Source code published?	See below
Emergency shutoff-compliant?	Yes

Userboxen

This user has been on Wikipedia for
1 month and 14 days.

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This user is a bot^(block). It performs tasks that are too tedious for Stepshep, its owner.

This user uses AutoWikiBrowser.

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.

Non-administrators can stop ShepBot by adding any text or making a change to User talk:ShepBot. Which can be done via this link.

[edit] Tasks

Approved. Task 1 is to substitute all user talk templates that were not correctly done so and to tag article talk pages for WikiProject Ohio and other projects by request.

Approved. Task 2 is the sending out of any user talk related messages for WikiProjects. i.e. Newsletters, meet-up notices, ect.

[edit] Opting-Out

If you save welcome templates in your user space for personal reference or other reasons and do not want the templates substituted please add one of the following codes to that page.

{{nobots}} or {{bots}} Check documentation on template pages for how they work.

 This message will not be visible on the page and ShepBot will know to skip your page.

[edit] Source Code

ShepBot is ran on the AutoWikiBrowser; the source code is under the GNU General Public License and available at the main AWB page. In conjunction with AWB is the KingBotK Plugin. Under the GNU General Public License as well; SVN access for the plugin is at This Page. ShepBot also uses a custom module for AWB written in C#; the module was written by Richard0612 and is available at this subpage for convenience.