Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic, unsupervised
Programming Language(s): Perl
Function Overview: Provide helpful information when someone reverts the OrphanReferenceFixer.
Edit period(s): continuous
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Y
Function Details: This is a request to add functionality to a previously approved task. Every once in a while, someone will misunderstand what the bot is doing and revert its fixed because they think it is "adding bad references back to the article". Then they come to the bot's talk page, and I have to point out to them that they just forgot to delete all the orphans. It would be nice if the bot would leave them a note on their talk page.
See User talk:AnomieBOT/Archive 1#Victoria Falls for the most recent instance of this issue. Details of the notice:
Since this is something that would be difficult to trial without disrupting Wikipedia just to test it, I've run through a series of edits in my userspace with a copy of the bot code modified to check my one userspace page instead of all mainspace pages in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting.
The new code can be seen here. Anomie⚔ 13:28, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
((BotTrial|7 days))
Let's keep trying. - Jarry1250 (t, c) 17:55, 21 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]