This user account is a bot that uses AutoWikiBrowser, operated by Stepshep (talk). It is a legitimate alternate account, used to make repetitive automated or semi-automated edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually. The bot is currently inactive but retains the approval of the community. To stop this bot until restarted by the bot's owner, edit its talk page. Administrators: if this bot continues causing harm after receiving a message, please block it or remove from the approved accounts.

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§hepBot
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Workin' on it
Operator:	§hep
Approved?	See below
Flagged?	Yes
Task/s:	See below
Edit period/s:	When needed
Automatic or manual?	(Semi)-auto
Programming language/s:	AWB
Exclusion compliant?	Yes
Source code published?	See below
Emergency shutoff-compliant?	Yes

Userboxen This user has been on Wikipedia for 1 year, 7 months, and 23 days. 01010010 01001111 01000010 01001111 01010100 This user is a bot(block). It performs tasks that are too tedious for Stepshep, its owner. This user uses AutoWikiBrowser. 123,000+ This user has made over 123,000 contributions to Wikipedia.

Newsletter Delivery Request

[edit] Tasks

To request any of these tasks (or others) be done please for your project leave a note here.

• Approved Task 1 is to substitute all user talk templates that were not correctly done so and to tag article talk pages for WikiProject Ohio and other projects by request.

• Approved Task 2 is the sending out of any user talk related messages for WikiProjects. i.e. Newsletters, meet-up notices, ect. (Will deliver to any page in the Talk: namespace)

• Approved Task 3 involves automated requests for images. This is done by either adding a template such as {{reqphotoin}} or {{reqphotoin|sportspeople}} or by adding a parameter to a WikiProject banner such as image-needed=yes if no image is on the article page. This can also be done for pages that contain images such as SVG flags or Image:Cricket no pic.png.

• Approved Find articles missing coordinates and add {{coord missing|Country Name}} or if possible {{coord missing|Country Subdivision}}

[edit] Opting-Out

• If you save welcome templates in your user space for personal reference or other reasons and do not want the templates substituted please add {{bots|deny=ShepBot}} to said page.

• I will ignore any bot exclusion templates when delivering newsletters or other messages that a user has subscribed to.

[edit] Source Code

ShepBot is run on the AutoWikiBrowser; the source code is under the GNU General Public License and available at the main AWB page. In conjunction with AWB is the KingBotK Plugin. Under the GNU General Public License as well; SVN access for the plugin is at This Page. ShepBot also uses a custom module for AWB written in C#; the module was written by Richard0612 and is available at this subpage for convenience. //

[edit] Projects

ShepBot has had the privilege of working with the following projects:

• WikiProject Ohio	• WikiProject Composers
• WikiProject Opera	• The LGBT WikiProject
• WikiProject Museums	• WikiProject Warwickshire
• WikiProject Coventry	• WikiProject Canada
• The Artist Infobox team	• WikiProject Classical music
• WikiProject Contemporary music	• WikiProject Chicago
• WikiProject Football	• WikiProject Judaism
• Version 1.0 Editorial Team	• WikiProject Cricket
• WikiProject India	• WikiProject Years
• WikiProject Shakespeare	• WikiProject Films
• The Wikipedia Signpost

[edit] Logs

A log of ShepBot's first approximately couple hundred edits can be found at User:ShepBot/log. All other edits can be seen in ShepBot's contributions.