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I understand your hesitation about giving a bot +sysop, but RedirectCleanupBot has proven that we won't have a SkyNet style incident. In this case I think a bot is much more accurate than a human and does a better job at protecting the templates. Also could you please explain why you don't like admin bots? The only reason you gave you dismised in the next sentence --[[User_talk:Chris G|<b><font style="color:Red;">Chris</font></b>]] 09:25, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
:::I don't really like any of the options you gave me above, so I'll go with option #4, an admin manually protects the templates before the article goes live. As for my explanation as to why I don't like admin bots, I already said it above, they can't make judgement calls. Just because I dismissed it in this case, doesn't dismiss it as my reason for not wanting admin bots. And the RedirectCleanupBot doesn't "prove" we won't have a "SkyNet style incident", one is too small of a sample size to prove anything. [[User:Useight|Useight]] ([[User talk:Useight|talk]]) 16:19, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
::::Today's TFA has 40 templates and 5 images on it. While many of the templates were probably already indef-protected, several would probably still need to be done. Twice a day (protect/unprotect), every day (actually, the bot might check 100+ times per day). Are you volunteering? To me, this objection doesn't make any sense. This follows the natural order of things. People realize this needs to be done, so they start doing it. They then realize its just mindless repetitive actions, so they make a quick user script to speed things up. The script eventually develops to the point where all they have to do is click the button. Then they realize that with a bot, they could click the button automatically. I'm not certain if the middle steps happened like that, though its likely (Twinkle has a feature that would really help with that)
::::And you're right, RedirectCleanupBot doesn't "prove" we won't have a "SkyNet style incident," the actual facts behind how simple computer programs like this work proves we won't. <font face="Broadway">[[User:Mr.Z-man|Mr.]][[User talk:Mr.Z-man|'''''Z-'''man'']]</font> 21:02, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
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