SmashWiki:Bots

This page documents an official SmashWiki policy, a widely accepted standard that all users should follow. When editing this page, please ensure that your revision reflects consensus. If in doubt, consider discussing changes on the talk page.

A bot is an account that is capable of doing edits on a large, rapid-fire scale. Typically, a bot account is run by a particular user, who uses scripts to log in as the bot account and make edits.

To ease their main task of making lots of edits quickly, bot accounts have the following powers:

• They are always treated as autoconfirmed users.
• They can move pages without leaving redirects behind.
• They are allowed to skip human-confirmation processes.
• They can use the API, and have higher rate limits than regular users do.
• They can make minor edits to a user's talk page without triggering the "You have new messages" notice.

If you wish to create a bot, it is highly recommended you run your idea by the community and/or staff first.

A bot's actions are the responsibility of the user who runs it. Should a bot do something wrong, it is the user's job to halt it and undo what it's done.

List of bots on SmashWiki

• NotAnOuendan: Run by Fugudev. Originally a main account, but forgotten and repurposed into a bot account. Has only been used to edit pages to both undeprecate them and remove unnecessary categories from them, so could conceviably accomplish any wide-scale search-and-replace task.