User:Jyavoc/Bots/UpgradeComponentIcons/Status

no

How to use

Changing the value within the <onlyinclude>...</onlyinclude> and saving the page will cause the UpgradeComponentIcons bot to cease immediately. The preferred running values are "yes" (for enabled and running) or "no" (for canceled, stopped, or disabled). These correspond to the templates {{yes}} and {{no}}, to allow a graphical and uniform display on User:Jyavoc/Bots. However, the bot will only run if the value within <onlyinclude>...</onlyinclude> is yes; anything else means that someone tried to stop the bot, and might have done it hastily/without reading this. Bots live to serve the wiki users.

A request

If you have disabled this bot, for any reason, it would be very beneficial to me if you would post on User talk:Jyavoc, in a new section, the following information:

• The name bot that you disabled (UpgradeComponentIcons).
• When you disabled the bot (a timestamp will do. Signing your posts will also suffice, if you make the talk post within the same, I dunno, reasonable timespan?).
• The reason you disabled the bot (a description of the actions that the bot was making that were incorrect).
• A list (or even a single example) of the articles/pages that the bot made a mistake on, so that I can determine where the bot went wrong.

Feel free to revert or fix any mistakes that the bot has made, even if you're using that page in the report you've made on my talk page. I will check the history of these pages anyways, so I would prefer that mistakes made be fixed as soon as they are made anyways.

A final request

If the bot has only made one mistake during the current run, it's a matter of personal judgment whether you want to disable its current run. Personally, unless the mistake made appears to be an egregious error that could transpose to other changes it will make, I would tend to let the bot finish running, then disable the bot and report the single change.

However, because of the power of bots (and the power of a malfunctioning bot) across a wiki, I will never begrudge the disabling of a bot that has made a valid mistake.

How this page works

The UpgradeComponentIcons bot is designed to check this page before every edit it makes. If the value within the <onlyinclude>...</onlyinclude> is yes, the bot is allowed to make its change; if the value is anything other than yes, someone has disabled it, and the bot immediately aborts, writing to the history that it was disabled during execution. When a bot is begun from then on, the bot will automatically cease and report that its running was prevented, until the status of this bot is returned to yes.

I would rather have extra time and program/resource complexity for my bots to run than to not provide the wiki a method by which to disable a bot.