All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXVII

[robkelk]

Bad news, folks... Bot runs do something bad to the database, and generate false-positive results in DPL lists.

Evidence: Both this list and this list were down to a couple-dozen pages before somebody did a bot run. Now they're so long that they overflow the DPL lists.

I propose that we not allow bot runs at all unless there's an emergency that needs to be fixed immediately (as in "the wiki has been served with a court order" immediately)... and, even then, somebody needs to go in afterwards and manually edit every page touched by the bot run so that the database is updated correctly.