The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA. The result of the discussion was Approved.

Operator: Anomie⚔

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic, unsupervised

Programming language(s): Perl

Source code available: User:AnomieBOT/source/tasks/CHUUClerk.pm

Function overview: Clerking at Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): User talk:Anomie#WP:USURP clerkbot

Edit period(s): Periodic

Estimated number of pages affected: WP:CHU/U, its archives, and possibly notifications on user talk pages.

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Yes

Function details: The bot will perform clerking duties at Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations, as determined by requests from the 'crats and clerks at that page. At this time, that involves:

• Archiving completed and rejected requests.
• Moving new discussions into the correct dated section and otherwise correcting page formatting.
• Noting when the request templates are incorrectly filled out.
• Noting when the requesting or target usernames are invalid or unregistered.
• Notifying target users on their talk pages when the request seems straightforward, if the requester neglected to do so.
• Posting ((CUU)), with comments on total edit counts and SUL account information.

Discussion[edit]

User:ClueBot VI formerly performed this task, but has not been reliable lately. I was approached about having AnomieBOT take over the bot-clerk position. Anomie⚔ 16:43, 13 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Approved for trial (1 week). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Thanks! –xeno^talk 16:56, 13 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'm satisfied with the bot's operations thus far and recommend approval. Approved for trial (Interim approval - until formally approved). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. –xeno^talk 14:48, 20 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete. (the first one anyway): [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] There were a few minor issues, but nothing too bad. In this edit the logic for "notified" was wrong, in this edit it used the wrong count for unattached SUL edits, and in these edits it didn't realize that an attempt to usurp "TARGET NAME" should be handled specially. Anomie⚔ 22:56, 20 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

 Approved. MBisanz ^talk 01:41, 26 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA.