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I am afraid I currently do not see enough support. Let us try to get consensus for the bot task first.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:17, 27 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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NOTE: This RfA is paired with Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/MusikBot II. Both must pass for either to be valid.

The is the RfA counterpart to Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/MusikBot II. In response to a recent wave of template vandalism, I am proposing bringing w:User:MusikBot II/TemplateProtector to this wiki. This will require the account to have admin privileges. As for how it works, the enwiki documentation should explain everything, but the basic idea is that you set thresholds for the number of transclusions that, once exceeded, the bot would apply protection. You can run a script occasionally to find high-risk templates and protect them manually (as was recently or will soon be done), but at any time a template could jump from just a few transclusions to a many thousands. This is why automation is needed.

I am not myself an administrator on Wikidata, but I am a steward. This means I technically I have admin rights, I just never use them outside of an emergency. I hope this is enough to entrust my bot with admin rights as well. To be abundantly clear, the bot will not ever make any admin action besides protecting templates. In fact, the grant I will create at Special:BotPasswords won't even allow it to make admin actions other than page protections. Obviously I myself won't be making use of the admin tools either, with the bot account or my own. Both accounts are secured with two-factor authentication.

Thank you for your consideration, — MusikAnimal talk 03:07, 19 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  1.  Support —MisterSynergy (talk) 07:31, 19 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  2.  Support --Epìdosis 08:54, 19 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  3.  Support --Ameisenigel (talk) 09:19, 19 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  4.  Oppose it's unclear if the need exists. Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/MusikBot II should be discussed first. --- Jura 11:32, 19 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  5.  Support obviously. I do think this bot should run at Wikidata. I'm not convinced adminbots should be issued to users who aren't local admins, but considering Musik has even higher access at the wikis, I don't see an issue. --Martin Urbanec (talk) 22:04, 19 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  6.  Support The bot has been doing similar work on various projects. I don't see any problem with giving the right with a condition (for example as long as Musik has steward's right) --MdsShakil (talk) 16:48, 20 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    • I don't think bot rights should be granted for undefined and vague tasks merely because some other project has a similar bot that might work for that project. The operator hasn't even been able to demonstrate the need for the bot on Wikidata, possibly because they rarely edit Wikidata. --- Jura 16:53, 20 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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