Modus operandum in dealing with bot requests has been to contact the operator on his/her home wikipedia and request a set number (usually 50) test edits on w:mr. Once the bot fulfills this requirement, a bureaucrat shall grant the bot status and contact the bot operator again, letting him/her know that the flag has been granted. After that, bureaucrat keeps an eye on that bot for a few days to ensure no funny business is going on.
:Most of the pending bot requests fall into one of the following categories --
:* Fly-by request. Someone operating a bot blasts a bot request to all wikipedias, regardless of whether they intend to work on w:mr or not. These do not respond to the request of test edits. bureaucrat shall not grant flag without test edits.
:* No response. There is no response, positive or negative from the operator.
:* Opposition's from local users and/or failure to address concerns and answer questions.
:* There are also some other bots that have been editing here without requesting a bot flag. Unless requested, an account must not be flagged as a bot.
