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This user account is a bot that uses AutoWikiBrowser, operated by Lostintherush (talk). It is used to make repetitive automated or semi-automated edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually, in accordance with the bot policy. This bot does not yet have the approval of the community, or approval has been withdrawn or expired, and therefore shouldn't be making edits that appear to be unassisted except in the operator's or its own user and user talk space.
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This account is for bot activity by User:Ramitmahajan

I will be using this account for some semi-automated talk page tagging, to assist with Wikipedia 1.0. Please message my owner if there is a problem, or block the account if anything is seriously amiss. -- LostBot 17:56, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Please let my owner know if I can be of any help in any other tasks.

FAQ

Please read these before leaving me a message.

Why are you tagging talk pages with {{WP India}}
So that the article will appear in Category:Unassessed India articles. This will make it easier for Wikipedia 1.0 reviewers to locate unassessed articles. Eventually all articles should have an assessment so all I'm doing is hastening the inevitable
What's this class/importance thing all about anyway?
Please see the WikiProject Council's Assessment FAQ.
Why have you tagged stubs with class=Stub? Isn't Stub-Class different from a stub article?
They serve very different purposes, yes, and we need to categorize them seperately for a variety of reasons, but in most cases a stub article is Stub-Class in Wikipedia 1.0 parlance. We'll get a few false positives (less than 10% I would imagine) but it's a small price to pay for the huge benefit of automation. Also, a false positive is likely to result in the article being destubbed and properly assessed, which might not otherwise happen.
An India related article has been automatically tagged as "Stub class" and has a message which looks like this: {{stubclass}}. The article is better than a Stub. What do I do?
Remove {{stubclass}} or the auto=yes parameter, and change the class= parameter to one of Start, B, A, GA or FA. A-class articles are rare, FA and GA is indicated by a template on the talk page. So, for a recently-former stub you're probably looking at a Start-class, maybe a B. The official meanings of these grades are at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment.
Why do you get some false positives?
Almost invariably because of errors or inconsistencies in categorization, although there are other causes which I'll detail in a moment.
- Categorization errors - Some articles are incorrectly categorized. If an article is in the India category or subcategories they will get flagged as being part of the India project
If you find any false positives please just remove them; in minor cases (article is categorized incorrectly etc etc) I don't need to know, so if you can please just fix it (and if you can't/won't I'm always happy to help). If I'm tagging any complete categories incorrectly, or something is seriously amiss, let me know or ask an admin to block the bot if it's really terrible.