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✓ Done Consensus on most of these requests. Some of the mentioned accounts have seperate explanation. Lymantria (talk) 06:42, 9 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Inactive bot accounts

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I propose to remove bot flags from these accounts. There is no point keeping the bot-flag infinitely.

Both the bot and its operator are inactive for two years:

The bot is inactive for two years, and have no active tasks:

Other bots inactive for two years (this may be controversial)

--GZWDer (talk) 20:16, 25 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

 Support for those with no tasks and with operators absent, the rest  Neutral except for SDrewthbot, MedalBot, InfoRobBot, and Chembot the revocation of whose bot-flags I  Oppose since their operators have been active on the site fairly recently (@Billinghurst, John Vandenberg, TomT0m, Snipre:. Mahir256 (talk) 21:53, 25 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment I had forgotten that I had asked for it (RL!) as I had been mostly operating with real edits with merges and repair work. I definitely should be doing any widar work with the account, rather than my main account.  — billinghurst sDrewth 22:32, 25 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
For the first group of listed accounts I will probably agree with removal of rights, since both the bot and its operator are inactive for two years.
For the rest, probably it's necessary to notify also each bot operator, and after waiting several days (a week?) there can be proceeded to removal of bot rights if there are no objections from bot-ops. XXN, 11:15, 26 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I have post a message to all operators' talk pages. Right of ZaBOTka can be removed per User_talk:Zanka#ZaBOTka.--GZWDer (talk) 12:48, 26 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Feel free to remove my Nicolas bot's permission, thanks! Syced (talk) 14:30, 26 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
HaxpettBot's flag can be removed also, thanks. /Haxpett (talk) 08:09, 27 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
You can remove the botflag from my bot : Botapyb. Thx Pyb (talk) 08:27, 27 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose removing botflags from bots where the operator is active on Wikidata. Let's define active as having done at least one edit in 2017. All the others: Sure, do the house keeping. Multichill (talk) 19:56, 26 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment The DBpedia-mapper-bot goal is to map ontology terms between Wikidata and DBpedia. Since the DBpedia ontology is quite consolidated, it has no big variations over time. As such, the bot is expected to run a few times, but should not be considered as inactive. Please do not remove its bot flag, thanks. --Hjfocs (talk) 08:32, 27 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Right of CalakBot can be removed. See User_talk:Calak#CalakBot.--GZWDer (talk) 18:33, 30 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
As a simple housekeeping measure, it is quite reasonable. However, the removal of the flag might discourage some operators from doing casual bot work just to avoid going through the process of requesting the flag back. --Ricordisamoa 01:29, 1 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • I have removed bot flags from the first and second groups of bots as there is consensus to remove it and operators did not respond in over 10 days. I think for the the third group, where an operator is active or bots have active tasks, at least a longer waiting and response period is needed. Besides some people have expressed thoughts about (parts of) this group. Lymantria (talk) 06:19, 8 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    • Bot holders have had another two months of reaction time. I removed the bot flags when bot holders did not respond to the notification by GZWDer. Responses are included in the list above. Lymantria (talk) 06:42, 9 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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