User:XLinkBot

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This user account is a bot operated by Versageek (talk) and Beetstra (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. The bot is currently inactive but retains the approval of the community.
Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it.

:: History & Ownership

This bot started its wiki-life as User:SquelchBot.
This bot has taken up the work of User:AntiSpamBot. It is written in perl and uses perlwikipedia.pm. The code is a copy of the most recent code used by User:Shadow1 for User:AntiSpamBot, with some major enhancements made by User:Beetstra. We started with a minimal revert list.
This bot's functions are primarily automatic & it runs 24/7/365 (or as close to that as hardware & network conditions allow) .
The bot is hosted by User:Versageek, and the code is maintained by User:Beetstra. Versageek is responsible for day-to-day operations of the bot, including dealing with user queries and bot errors.

Approvals:

Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/SquelchBot - the basic operation
Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/XLinkBot_2 - addition of a task to revert addition of email addresses in mainspace.

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