Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license.
Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat.
We can research this topic together.
If you are here to register a complaint regarding this bot's edits, before doing so please note:
Questions and complaints can be directed to the Image Copyright Help Desk where a team of volunteers will endeavor to offer useful advice in a convivial atmosphere. If you are using this service, remember that help desk volunteers are not responsible for BetacommandBot and do not decide which images get tagged. Please try and remain calm when using the help desk.
Read this talk page and its archives before registering your complaint. It is likely someone has already registered a similar complaint, and that complaint will have been given an answer.
Read the policy
Check and make sure the image has a valid source
Make sure that the image has a valid Fair use Rationale (A guide can be found here)
I will not add rationales for you. As the uploader it is your responsibility NOT mine.
I do not want to see images deleted
All images must comply with policy
A generic template tag is NOT a valid fair use rationale.
If you're here to whine and complain that But <place image name here> is just like my image and isn't tagged for deletion I will tag that image too, I just haven't gotten around to it yet.
For quite some time, we have attempted to encourage people to provide rationales. The results of this effort have been dismal at best.
The creator of this bot has come under fire for performing this work manually. One of the main complaints is that the effort to tag images could just as readily be spent providing rationales. This is not the case; the uploader and/or user of each fair use image is the person who should provide the rationale. A non-involved editor can not know under what principles the user of an image intended such use as fair use.
The use of fair use, copyrighted images on the Wikimedia servers is covered by United States law. Our policies with respect to this bot's actions are based on that law. Please see Fair use#Purpose and character.
Bug reports are very welcome; tagging images as this bot is doing per policy is not a bug. If you find a bug please file a report here
Bot signature
This isn't a question about image policy, but rather about how this bot posts notifications on article talk pages. I was wondering, couldn't the sig be on the same line as the last line of the warning, instead of return'd to a new line? It just takes up extra space and is kinda annoying especially since in a lot of cases pages get several of these warnings. Tyciol (talk) 19:56, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
Need this BOT!!!
Hey, this thing was GREAT at keeping pages correct, when there are multiple Project banners...Please restart it soon? -- Mjquin_id (talk) 06:43, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
I don't know what happened but in 27 August 2007 produced loads of errors like this one. There was the "|" and it seems none went back to fix the problem and nobody blocked the bot at that day. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:10, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
they can't run it because Betacommand has been banned. I don't know if he distributed the source code of his bot or not. That may be what's stopping it's running by someone else. It does run on commons though. --DFS454 (talk) 20:35, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
Terrible bot
Deleted my screenshot unfairly. I probably mislabeled it, but any human could have seen that it was a screenshot of a software product with critical commentary, as per Misplaced Pages media guidelines. Good programming. -- Bubbachuck (talk) 16:50, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
