Yes, this was my quibble. From what I understand, AutoFormat is running 24/7, so I don't think I'll burden that bot so much. --Rising Sun10:36, 18 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
AF will eventually check the results of bot adds as well, from the XML, it just doesn't pick them from RC. It is better if the bot adds {count page} if only to save an edit. If it is appending (canalises) it adds {rfc-auto} to get the languages sorted etc, so AF will drop {count page} on the same edit. So all good. Robert Ullmann08:37, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I was having the same very strong feeling, even before this reactivation of Keenebot2. He never disabused people considering him as a French native speaker, except when somebody made obvious to everybody that he was not a native speaker. Lmaltier 07:32, 22 August 2009 (UTC) Another (?) well-known vandal, Agricoleur, used this same bot (or, in any case, a bot clearly designed for en.wikt) for adding a very large number of English verb forms to fr.wikt. This bot was accepted, because it was useful, but without the bot flag. Lmaltier09:16, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I have concerns re: willingness to conform to community standards, specifically the operator has been running the bot prior to receiving bot status. Most bot operations were after the start of this vote, with ~4k new pages when I asked the user to desist until the vote was completed - which appears to have been immediately complied with. - Amgine/talk16:03, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Just some food for thought: first off if he was WF don't you think he would know not to use it before the vote passed (Y'know, to avoid looking suspicious and all that)? AFAICS RS was told by Ivan he could do what he was doing.
Secondly, perhaps:
a) Ivan did not know that you are not supposed to use a bot before the vote passes
I thought he was doing test edits, testing the inflected forms of various French verb conjugation classes and the associated templates that generate them. I've seen several times bots doing test edits before they formally got a vote, so I thought it was OK. I added it to the autopatrollers group because it generated many unpatrolled edits, which took me 15 minutes to clean up that day. If someone had a problem on bot being heavily used, they could've simply asked the owner to refrain from all the unnecessary (non-testing) edits before getting the bot flag.. --Ivan Štambuk19:10, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
PX50 was correct, when he said I had misinterpreted Ivan. Ivan said I could "play with" my bot (so I thought, fantastic, I could use it now). When Amgine asked me to refrain, I refrained. --Rising Sun09:22, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]