User:BracketBot

This user account is a bot operated by A930913 (talk). It is used to make repetitive automated or semi-automated edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually, in accordance with the bot policy. This bot does not yet have the approval of the community, or approval has been withdrawn or expired, and therefore shouldn't be making edits that appear to be unassisted except in the operator's or its own user and user talk space. Administrators: if this bot is making edits that appear to be unassisted to pages not in the operator's or its own userspace, please block it.

This bot runs on Wikimedia Toolforge. Administrators: If this bot needs to be blocked due to a malfunction, please remember to disable autoblocks so that other Toolforge bots are not affected.

BracketBot checks all edits to see if all open brackets ({[< have matching close brackets >]}), and informs the editor that their edit may have broken some markup if there is a mismatch. In order to reduce false positives, it will not message the editor if one of these conditions is met:

• It is not in the main namespace.
• It is fixed within ten minutes.
• There are no unmatched brackets for the whole article.
• It finds the unorthodox numbering system of 1), 2), … or a), b), …
• The edit summary contains "rv", "revert" or "!nobot!".
• The edit hash matches a hash in the previous 50 edits (the edit was a revert).
• The user has opted out of BracketBot messages.

If it has to create a talk page for the user, it will {{welcome}} them.

• Opt out – the bot will ignore your edits.
  • Add [[Category:Wikipedians who opt out of BracketBot messages]] to your talk page or your user page.
  • OR Add {{NoBracketBot}} to your user page or your user talk page.

• Opt in – the bot will resume watching your edits.
  • Remove [[Category:Wikipedians who opt out of BracketBot messages]] from your user page.
  • OR Remove {{NoBracketBot}} from your user page or your user talk page.

• Show opt out list – view a list of user pages of users whom the bot will ignore.
  • List those who opted out by category.
  • List those who opted out by template.

To explicitly disable notification on a single specific edit, place "!nobot!" anywhere in the edit summary.

Add {{NoBracketBot}} <!-- This page contains deliberate unpaired brackets. BracketBot should ignore. --> to the page.

• Opt in - the bot will notify you under a daily header.

  Add {{DailyBracketBot}} to your user page or your talk page.

• Opt out - the bot will notify you under a monthly header.

  Remove {{DailyBracketBot}} from your user page or your talk page.

• Show opt out list – view a list of user pages of users whom the bot will notify under a daily header.
  • List those who opted in.

The current template used is {{User:BracketBot/inform}}.

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