This user account is a bot operated by JamesR (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. The bot is approved and currently active – the relevant request for approval can be seen here.
Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it.

This bot runs on Wikimedia Toolforge.
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Administrators, please use this button if HBC AIV helperbot5 is malfunctioning.

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This is a redundant version of HBC AIV helperbot.

Please leave all urgent messages, inquiries, complaints, bot block notices, etc. on JamesR's talk page. Suggestions can be posted to the feature request page for the main bot, as linked below.

This bot has been officially approved. It is run by JamesR and the code was started by Chillum, but has been significantly improved by others (see the source code history).

This bot is running version 2.0.33.

Confirmed, I am run/operated by JamesR. HBC AIV helperbot5 ^(Contribs)

Source code.
Feature requests.
Legend for types of blocks detected when clearing.
Special IP ranges that I should make comments to when I see them.
Instructions for WP:AIV that I replace if modified.

Other HBC AIV helperbot instances:

HBC AIV helperbot (inactive, operated by Chillum)
HBC AIV helperbot2 (inactive, operated by Alphachimp)
HBC AIV helperbot3 (inactive, operated by Krellis)
HBC AIV helperbot4 (inactive, operated by ST47)
HBC AIV helperbot7 (inactive, operated by Wimt)
HBC AIV helperbot 8 (inactive, operated by Monobi)
HBC AIV helperbot11 (inactive, operated by Darkwind)

Purpose

The purpose of this bot is to monitor WP:AIV and check if reported users are blocked. If the user is blocked the bot will remove the entry with an edit summary explaining why, for how long, what type of block, and how many remaining reports are left. The bot also has several other, related tasks:

Combine multiple entries for the same user/IP address
Add and remove the ((adminbacklog)) template as needed
Mark IP addresses in special IP ranges with descriptive comments
Reset the instruction block as necessary when it is changed

Multiple redundant bots are used to ensure that WP:AIV is always properly serviced. The bots are designed such that they will not duplicate work, and can all run simultaneously without problems or significant added load to the Wikipedia servers.