Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1251315-20150419120615

Hi there

As the wiki is well aware, we have a few inactive bots on the wiki. While having inactive bots is not really a major issues, the issue is that said bots also have the sysop flag applied to their account, which means the operators of the bots can use the accounts like a regular user would (such as me and you) and continue to perform such tasks, despite the operator's no longer being sysops of the wiki.

This presents an issue, because bot edits do not show up on any of the feeds, without actually clicking a link to make them show up. If the account were to end up falling into the wrong hands, the account could be abused to perform mass destructive edits without anyone knowing why it's happening.

So this consensus is to discuss removing the bot flag from the following accounts: Note that, while crats can remove the sysop flag from the accounts, a bug prevents crats from removing the bot flag (which is supposed to be default behaviour).
 * User:Veetor-Bot III: This bot has never been used in years and there are scripts available to perform the same function it was made for.
 * User:URL: Already has a bot-global flag, doesn't require a separate bot flag.
 * User:DwemerBot: The operator has said they won't be granting access to this bot and they don't seem to be returning so this bot is no longer available.
 * User:Gurbot: No idea who this belongs to, hasn't been used on this wiki for a while. So I guess this one is abandoned too.

Discuss below, thanks! :D 