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I don't remember a time where it got to a BRFA, or at least a successful BRFA. I can certainly recall plenty coming over to
WP:BOTN and ask how they would go about it (like
Wikipedia:Bot_requests/Archive_79#Civil parish bot from a user under a page creation ban), and invariably they were asked 'do you have consensus for this?', and pointed to WikiProjects or
WP:VPT. And there's certainly blocks that have been issues over it. Headbomb {
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I recall there have been a few requests for doing semi-automated edits. And there was at least one thread on
WP:BOTN where someone was asking about creations but wound up not going to BRFA.
Anomie⚔23:37, 20 July 2023 (UTC)reply
Bots without wikidata account might disconnect interwiki links after (mass) moving articles to a different name
Hello, if a bot does not have a wikidata account it might disconnect all the interwiki links (i.e. wikidata item sitelink) if it is (mass) moving articles to a different name. For details please see: