Subsequent comments

What it does "in practice" is causes havoc over at RfD that other editors are wiping up behind it. Si Trew (talk) 12:41, 21 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I presume you don't realise how much this approval has caused havoc at WP:RFD, for the nonsense that User:Eubot created? It created everything assuming that any diacritic was a german umlaut. It back-formed places that were already redirected. There are about thirty thousand on User:Champions list. As far as I can tell, this did not have discussion, it was a trigger-happy approval. Si Trew (talk) 12:35, 21 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I see. It was approved for a trial of ten edits, that is what I see from above. It made about a hundred thousand and we have to clear up that mess. Others have suggested a WP:X1 Neelix concession, but having done that this is also a mess, but we are all getting thhrough it in WP:AGF. I hate the bot, I am allowed to hate the bot, becasue that is not a real person. stupid approval. Did no admin think to check what happened with User:Neelix? Again, I have no gripe against him, he was acting in good faith, but made a mess. He as Eubot was trying to make the enyclopaeida better, which is wahat we are all here for. Just cocked it up. Si Trew (talk) 12:39, 21 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@SimonTrew: I just came across this, not really sure how your comments fell through the cracks, but this concerns a bot that was approved way back in 2007, way before the Neelix stuff, or that much of the modern WP:BOTPOL came into place. Either way, the bot didn't edit since 2008. But as far as I can tell, no one approved Eubot to make those redirect (see BRFA for Eubot/Eubot2/Eubot 3/Eubot 4/Eubot 5). Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 23:32, 31 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Headbomb:. I have a hell of a time with these whenever I try to list them. I try to explain briefly, we can go from there. Obviously I know deeeper but to put you in the picture:

• Eubot was approved for several runs, as you say. I tried but could not find that Eubot was approved to run for creating thirty thousand redirects by changing "Gód" a town in Hungary into Goed. That is why Goed does not exist. It is WP:RFD#D5 nonsense.
• Some other editors say about 90 percent of the time my listings for Eubot's nonsense are patent nonsense.
• I have an indefinite, apparently, ban from editing RfD. I take WP:IAR on that, because I want to make the encyclopaedia better. I seem not to be banned technically, I have stayed away for three months, I have only come back today and started again on the 19 lists that I chopped into manageable Internet portions of a thousand a time, so that others could take them.

Nobody else has taken them. So the encylopaedia has such rubbish as "Hercegprimas, not mentioned at target, not a Hungarian word, could not possibly be a Hungarian word in the modern orthography (I live in Hungary but am native English). It is not possinle in Hungarian. It is a back-formation from a bot. A BOT. THAT WAS ALLOWED TO RUN WITHOUT PERMISSION, AS FAR AS I CAN SEE IT. But it is I that gets all the flak from it, because as a linguist, I don't speak too many languages well, only five or six, but I can spot patterns in languages, and I am about teh only editor you have here who speaks Hungarian. You have driven most of the others away, and I only speak it as a second language. Even I can notice that is bollox. If you want your encyclopaedia to be full up with bollox, carry on. I was trying to make it better. I thought that is what we were trying to do. Yes, I am angry. But not very angry. If you can sort it out, that would be good.

It was suggested and refuted that we has a WP:X1 concession on the User:Eubot redirects. Not by me. User:Neelix had ten thosand, and after a trend most of thenm went speedily deleted by admins (see greenisholives as the classic example. I have another classic about Alfred Candidus of Wnidischgraetz, or was it Windishgratz or Windischgratz or was he the third Furst or the first Furst). I am totally fed up with this. I am a lexicographer. I index things. I don't care what thy say, I index them. The index is a mess cos it is cluttered up with nonsense. Let me do my job and clear it up. 00:23, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

First, see WP:CALM. Your anger is understandable, but misdirected. There is absolutely nothing anyone can do about Eubot on this page. If this were an active bot, I'd tell you to follow WP:BOTISSUE, but the bot is dead and its owner hasn't edited in 4+ years. If you haven't done so already, the proper venue to discuss Eubot's damage and how to undo it is at WP:VP. Believe me, no one wants an Encyclopedia that is "full up with bollox". Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 00:42, 1 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]