Board Thread:Bot requests/@comment-1043212-20140814151952/@comment-188432-20140814161446

I think maybe somehow I've miscommunicated the point of these templates. They re meant to help you manually review the pages that have just come to this site.

They are not an obstacle, or a mistake.

The idea is that you run Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Import, and you then have a list of all the new pages that don't conflict with those that already exist here. You should not assume, Dean, that every page that comes from the old site is worth keeping here.

What's supposed to be happening is that the guys here will look at this list and then manually remove the template once they determine to their satisfaction that it's a reasonable page to permanently include here. If they run into a page whose value they question, they would then ideally consult you and then get you to comment on why you think it's worth keeping. Obviously, though, if they encounter a blank page or a page that's not in English, they could just switch the tag for a  tag, since such removal would be uncontroversial.

So, a bot will not be helping with the removal of either or. We quite literally spent days on a second merge attempt just to make sure this system was in place as best as we could make it.