Wiktionary:Votes/bt-2013-02/User:RileyBot

User:RileyBot for bot status

 * Nomination: I hereby request the Bot flag for User:RileyBot for the following purposes:
 * Cleaning Sandbox and Template:Sandbox every hour.
 * -Riley Huntley (SWMT) 23:24, 17 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Vote ends: 23:59 24 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Vote started: 23:24, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Support

 * 1) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] Support. The bot has been doing a great and, in my opinion, important job. — Ungoliant (Falai) 15:46, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
 * 2) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] Support. every 6 hours. —Stephen (Talk) 17:45, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

Oppose

 * 1) [[Image:Symbol oppose vote.svg|20px]] I don't see the point. Neither is edited very often. Moreover, even if they are at some point in the future (and we can write a bot then if we wish so certainly don't need one now), we can let them be unemptied: why would we need to empty them periodically? &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 07:16, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Well there are several reasons but the main point is; if you were a new user: would you like to be directed to a blank page or a page full of junk? Or: Would you like to be told to go edit at a sandbox but since the header is missing which includes the link to "How to edit a page", you don't know how to edit? Either way, this is a simple task that doesn't require a lot of edits. No harm in my mind. :) -Riley Huntley (SWMT) 06:45, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
 * 1) Every hour is much too frequent. I would support it running once per day. SemperBlotto (talk) 15:47, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Once per day is not frequent enough, it almost ruins the purpose. How about every 2 hours or 3? Maybe even 6? -Riley Huntley (SWMT) 19:26, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

Abstain

 * 1) [[Image:Symbol abstain vote.svg|20px]] Abstain  It can run as often as you want, but only clean up if the page has been left idle for at least a couple of hours. I can see someone leaving a tab open and coming back to it after being distracted by real life for much of an afternoon. —Michael Z. 2013-02-28 16:46 z 
 * 2) [[Image:Symbol abstain vote.svg|20px]] Abstain Same reason as what Michael has stated. I can see how this can be vexing for newbies testing stuff out in the sandbox. Jamesjiao → T ◊ C 23:46, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
 * 1) [[Image:Symbol abstain vote.svg|20px]] Abstain Same reason as what Michael has stated. I can see how this can be vexing for newbies testing stuff out in the sandbox. Jamesjiao → T ◊ C 23:46, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Decision
It looks like there's ample support for a bot of this nature, but no agreement on its parameters. This vote fails (technically 1–3 for hourly, which was the proposal, and there's no clear alternative frequency favored by the voters, so I can't pass any one such), but I do think that a later vote that takes into account this vote's voters' views will pass. Perhaps the bot owner should straw-poll us in the Beer parlour first. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 06:26, 3 March 2013 (UTC)