Familypedia talk:Bot policy


 * (If we have no trouble with bots we may avoid building up the complex procedures needed by Wikipedia!) 

This is precisely the cool thing about bots. You don't have to get creepy with folks discussing wierd librarian rules. While they are crucial to manage the complexity of millions of articles, I'm the first to admit they sound pretty anal retentive to novices. The majority of folks blow through wikis like sagebrush and so the noise can be kept to a minimum. Then you run the bot and make everything tidy.

The main thing is to understand that some stuff is really really hard to fix with bots. So we need to lean on folks about those. Like putting in info on images. I went through a dozen uncat'd images and some had zero text. But bots can be run to post friendly reminders on the contributor's accounts. -Phlox- (formerly Mak) 16:39, 7 September 2007 (UTC)