Wikipedia talk:Administrator intervention against vandalism

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AIV helperbot information

HBC AIV helperbot14 assists with the management of vandalism reports. Edit the following parameters in the page header to control the bot's behavior:

RemoveBlocked: On to enable automatic removal of blocked users from the list. Any other value will disable this functionality (only in cases of bot malfunctions, please).
MergeDuplicates: On to enable automatic merging of multiple reports of the same person. Any other value will disable this functionality.
AutoMark: On to enable automatic marking of users with special IPs or membership in categories as defined at User:HBC AIV helperbot/Special IPs. Any other value will disable this functionality.
FixInstructions: On to enable automatic repair of the reporting instruction HTML comments in the User-reported section of the page, as defined at Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism/instructions. Any other value will disable this functionality.
AutoBacklog: On to enable the automatic switching on or off of the {{adminbacklog}} message. Any other value will disable this functionality. Associated parameters are:
- AddLimit: The number of vandalism reports at which the {{adminbacklog}} message will be made visible.
- RemoveLimit: The number of vandalism reports at which the backlog message will be disabled ({{noadminbacklog}}).

Could the bot section be collapsed?

It's taking too long to scroll past it to go to the user section, and it's usually the larger of the two due to DatBot's reports, so wouldn't it be useful if, say, {{hidden}} was used? Not sure if bots could go through it and still leave posts, though, as sometimes there's conflicts... ~Lofty abyss 12:53, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This would be cool. I'll ping @DatGuy here since they maintain DatBot and may know whether it would break if we wrapped the content of the bot section in {{hidden begin}} {{hidden end}}. —tony 14:48, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I just realized the bot section is transcluded from WP:AIV/TB2, so hiding the whole section with {{hidden}} or {{hidden begin}} {{hidden end}} would not affect the bot's ability to leave reports since it doesn't do it directly on that page (unless I'm missing something). —tony 15:15, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think it should be. If a report is already there someone should be able to see it and not make a redundant report. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:19, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
They'd presumably be able to see it by expanding the section. Currently, it's not easy to spot one line out of many, still, and sometimes people seem to report again even if it's the same as the last line, as it's done through TW, and, I think, although not sure about, that it doesn't seem to automatically check for duplicates. ~Lofty abyss 22:39, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Was pinged here but I'd also like to note my opposition on the same lines as xaosflux and that administrators go to WP:AIV and scroll through both user and bot reports. Twinkle also checks for TB2 reports. DatGuy^Talk_Contribs 08:27, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]