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::::{{ping|BU Rob13}} No, the page you linked to does not allow him to remove links to deleted categories from userpages and archives in userspace (or elsewhere). He is allowed to remove categories though. ((([[User:The Quixotic Potato|The Quixotic Potato]]))) ([[User talk:The Quixotic Potato|talk]]) 03:18, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
:::::How so? His bot is approved to handle category deletions listed at [[WP:CFD/W]]. This involves orphaning. The bot has run for about a decade doing this. You'll need to point to exactly where this exception for userpages is stated. {{ec}} "He's allowed to remove categories though" ... that's what those diffs show the bot doing? ~ [[User:BU Rob13|<b>Rob</b><small><sub>13</sub></small>]]<sup style="margin-left:-1.0ex;">[[User talk:BU Rob13|Talk]]</sup> 03:20, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
::::::{{ping|BU Rob13}} [[WP:BURDEN|Burden of proof]] is on you. [[Straw man|I am not saying there is an exception for userpages]]. "Automatic implementation of category deletions" is allowed. Removing references to deleted categories is outside of that scope. The diffs show that the bot has been removing wikimarkup that puts a page in a category, which is different from deleting the category itself. We have, for example, a [[:Category:Wikipedia_bots]]. Any admin can delete that category, but deleting that category is not the same as editing every page that is listed in that category and removing the wikimarkup that places that page in that category. Another example of a category that has been deleted: [[:Category:Wikipedian_sex_workers]]. ((([[User:The Quixotic Potato|The Quixotic Potato]]))) ([[User talk:The Quixotic Potato|talk]]) 03:23, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
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