User:Jayden54Bot/AFDNotify
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When an article is nominated for deletion in the AFD process the original author is hardly ever notified with a {{AFDWarning}} or {{AFDNote}} tag even though this would help avoid biting new users and give authors a chance to fix the article.
This bot will solve this problem by automatically scanning all the new AFD discussions, and then notifying the article authors. It will do this in the following way:
- Once or twice a day scan through WP:AFD/Today to find new AFD nominations
- For each new nomination, it will check the article history to find the article author and creation date.
- If the article is older than four months it will skip the article since it's likely that the original author has completely forgotten about the article.
- If the article is younger than four months the bot will edit the author's user talk page, and add a {{AFDWarning}} or {{AFDNote}} tag (unless a warning already has been added)
- Continue with the next nomination, until all nominations have been processed.
Obviously a few things can be changed, such as the article cut-off date (i.e. six months instead of four months) but this is roughly how the process will go.
