Board Thread:Wiki News/@comment-3125844-20140710011706

Hello everyone, I'm starting this discussion because I plan on setting up a bot using the account BlutBot and I am required to get a consensus from the members of the wiki about using a bot before it can be used.

The bot will be used for tedious tasks such as quickly adding/removing categories, templates, etc to multiple articles. It will also be used to clean up spelling mistakes on articles.

So all I need from you is for you to either say you approve of a bot being used or if you don't. If you don't, an explanation of why not would be nice.

If the bot is approved, I will then also get a bot flag. The description of a bot flag is "As bots can make many edits during their run, their edits can overwhelm the recent changes list, making it difficult to see and respond to edits by human users. For this reason, bots that have been tested and approved by a wikia community can be given a bot flag."  