Anti-vandalism bots are automated processes that revert vandalism and warn appropriately. Programming an effective anti-vandalism bot takes a lot of time and is expected to follow the guidelines below:

Need to play nice, avoid undoing each other's work, etc.

• Must not revert an edit marked as a bot edit
• Must not revert an edit from an admin
• Must not revert an edit from editor on the ((not yet specified)) global whitelist
• Must not revert an edit from an AV bot
• Must not revert to an edit from an AV bot less than a day old
• Must respect bot opt-out tags
• Must understand "AVBot", as well as its own name, as a synonym for its name in bot opt-in/out tags.

• Must not warn if revert not completed (regardless of why)
• Must reset warning "level" to 1 if no AV bot warning in ((1 week?))
• Must not warn if last AV bot warning is less than ((120 secs?)) old
• Must use the {{uw-avb1}} template (and up)
• The edit summary must contain the warning level.

• Must only report if level 4 AV bot warning present and more than ((120 secs?)) old