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Please leave all urgent messages, inquiries, complaints, bot block notices, etc. on Krellis's talk page. Suggestions can be posted to the feature request page for the main bot, as linked below.
This bot has been officially approved. It is run by Krellis and the code was started by Chillum, but has been significantly improved by others (see the source code history).
This bot is running version 2.0.23.
The purpose of this bot is to monitor WP:AIV and check if reported users are blocked. If the user is blocked the bot will remove the entry with an edit summary explaining why, for how long, what type of block, and how many remaining reports are left. The bot also has several other, related tasks:
Multiple redundant bots are used to ensure that WP:AIV is always properly serviced. The bots are designed such that they will not duplicate work, and can all run simultaneously without problems or significant added load to the Wikipedia servers.