This user account is a bot that uses AutoWikiBrowser, operated by Robert Skyhawk (talk). It is used to make repetitive automated or semi-automated edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually, in accordance with the bot policy. This bot has been approved for a limited trial run by a member of the Bot Approvals Group.
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Good Article Patrol Bot
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Operator	Robert Skyhawk ^{(T C B)}
Approved?	Trial
Flagged?	No
Task(s)	Checks usage of ((Good article)), adding it to Good articles that lack it, and removing it from former Good articles that have it.
Edit rate	6 edits per minute
Edit period(s)	Weekly, unless a special run is needed; see the green box above for the next scheduled run.
Exclusion compliant?	Yes
Emergency shutoff-compliant?	Yes

There are currently 38985 Good articles, of which 38979 are tagged with ((Good article)). This means that there are 6 pages needing modification. A complete scan of all actual Good articles would take a minimum of about 117.3 minutes, and a complete scan of ((Good article)) transcluders would take a minimum of about 117.3 minutes, assuming .1805 seconds per non-edited page. The bot's next run has not been scheduled. (Update these numbers)

Information

This is the user page for Good Article Patrol Bot, a robot that periodically checks and modifies usage of ((Good article)), a template that displays at the top of Good articles. If the bot encounters a Good article that does not use the template, it adds it; and if the bot encounters a non-Good article that has the template, it removes it. The bot uses Category:Wikipedia good articles to find actual Good articles; this is the true Master list of Good articles since it is populated by transclusions of ((GA)), which is always added to the talk pages of Good articles.

A detailed description of how the bot does this is available at this page.

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