Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/CSDCheckBot: Difference between revisions

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:To find out what happens to a page you tagged for speedy deletion, you first have to put every page you tag on your watchlist; this could get to be a large number of articles if you do it long enough. Then you have to remember which pages on your watchlist were the ones you tagged, and remember to check what happened if they are not deleted. And if you want to know whether or not a page was speedied for the criteria you tagged it for, you need to memorize the criteria you used for every page you tagged, and keep that in memory for the 15-20 minutes (or even longer at some times of day) it can take for a page to get deleted, so that you can go back and check to see if the criteria used by the deleting admin matches the criteria you tagged it for. It is not a surprise that people don't typically keep track of what happens to the page they tag.--[[User:Dycedarg|<span style="border:1px solid red;color:red; padding:1px;background:#000">'''Dycedarg'''</span>]] [[User talk:Dycedarg|'''<span style="color:#000000">&#x0436;</span>''']] 22:42, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

*I wouldn't object to this but would recommend opt-in only. [[User:Stifle|Stifle]] ([[User talk:Stifle/wizard|talk]]) 14:51, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

I'm unconvinced that this will be more helpful than annoying. But I'm not deeply involved in the afd process, so I could be wrong. It seems to me that the best way to find out would be to run a trial, and include (just for the trial) an addition sentence at the bottom of the message left on users' talkpages, in it's own paragraph: "Was this message helpful to you or not? We want to know. Please comment at [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/CSDCheckBot]]." I think this will help is get a sense of what people think of the bot. &ndash; [[User:Quadell|Quadell]] ^{([[User_talk:Quadell|talk]])} 15:40, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

{{trial|days=7}} under the terms above. &ndash; [[User:Quadell|Quadell]] ^{([[User_talk:Quadell|talk]])} 15:40, 10 May 2009 (UTC)