Board Thread:Tales from the Tardis/@comment-188432-20130130173255/@comment-188432-20130201043458

Bear with me on the answer to this one. :)

You can kinda do what you want with your user profile. So there's no intention to have the bot enforce this rule in the user namespace.

And since I think the bot has actually completed it's run, I feel pretty confident in telling you that your profile page won't be gettin' any visits by the section header enforcer.

However, if later I discover a peculiar pattern of headers that the bot somehow missed, I may run the bot in another way which does impact user talk pages. If this happens, you can feel free to revert the bot on your page, though you may want to look at the notes left behind in your revision history. They may help you understand why the bot found your page, so that you don't simply revert, but revert and slightly change so as to fend off the bot in future.

Lemme now move away from the issue of linked section heads to speak more generally about bots and your user page. Though you can generally do what you want on your user page and consider most bot interactions on your page as accidents to be reverted, please always check the edit summaries before you blindly revert. I always — and I mean without any exception whatsoever — give some kind of edit summary when using the bot.

There are some bot interactions with user pages which should stand.

The most common of these is when a page name is being moved. Often, users will have listed their favorite story as being The Five Doctors. Well, since The Five Doctors leads to an in-universe video game, but The Five Doctors (TV story) leads to a story page, you'll want to accept the bot's help in this case.

Another common case is when a page has been outright deleted and the bot comes by to delink a phrase on your page. If we've decided that we actively don't want a page about a certain topic, having a redlink on a user page messes up the accuracy of Special:WantedPages.

To help you understand whether a bot change should stand, follow this simple test. If you revert and a redlink results, then you shouldn't have reverted. If you revert and there's no redlink, then you need to more closely examine the edit summary to understand what the bot did. (The Five Doctors example, above, won't produce a redlink if you revert it, but the bot change is nevertheless correct.)