Test Wiki:Bots/Requests for Bureaucrat approval

Stewards may add bureaucrat permissions to a Bot account at the request of its operator without consensus. Without steward permission, another user may not add bureaucratic permissions to a bot. Failure to heed this warning may be followed by removal of bureaucratic privileges without prior warning or consideration.

To run a bot with bureaucrat privileges on the Test Wiki, you must first get it approved. Follow the instructions below to add a request and list of archived bots approved requests are seen here.

Bot's approval request for bureaucrats

User:Bosco-bot

• User: Bosco-bot (talk · contribs · deleted · logs · rights)
• Operator:
• User: Bosco (talk · contribs · deleted · logs · rights)
• Time filled: 11:27, 24 April 2025 (UTC)
• Function:

1. To block proxies regularly according to meta:Special:log/gblblock (needs sysop flag)
2. To remove Administrators' Newsletter category from user talk pages if any publisher forgot to remove the category from the AdminNews (needs AWB)

• Automatic, Supervised, Semi-automatic, or Manual: Semi-automatic (Supervised)
• Programming languages: JavaScript for blocking proxies and AWB for remove categories.
• Source code: MassBlock.js
• Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Test_Wiki:Community_portal/Archive_3#Proxy_bot and on Discord
• Periods: At least once a month (I hope)
• Estimated number of pages/users affected: at most 30 user talk pages and 50 IPs per period.

Discussion

• Hello, thanks for the request! Something I am curious about is why the bot requires bureaucrat rights. Blocking proxies and category removing shouldn’t need this, correct? Let me know if I’m missing something! X (talk + contribs) 11:35, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

It does not need crat right. Am I posted to the wrong place? Bosco (talk) 11:43, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

I’m not sure, I thought this page was designed for bots that required bureaucrat rights, but to be completely honest, I was never in favor of it being created in the first place. You are the first one to even use it. X (talk + contribs) 11:45, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

I am also not quite sure why this page was even created. Nonetheless, the community seems to have no problem with the bot mass blocking open proxies. I guess a steward can mark this as ok, and I will add your bot to excluded user group for Justa's bot The AP (talk) 06:42, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

•  Approved. Justarandomamerican (talk) 03:29, 1 August 2025 (UTC)