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The IABot has the ability to set the URL to near death, while the normal user cannot.
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

  1. Add a Dead URL to the Article.
  2. Try to change the URL status. You cannot change the status of a URL to near death.
  3. Analyze the page containing the dead URL.

What happens?:

The robot sets the URL to the near death, but you can't set it to near death.

What should have happened instead?:

You can set the URL to On the near death.

Software version (skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):

Event Timeline

This is intentional. Users are expected to be able to have better judgement when assessing URLs than the bot, and thus only need to either tell the bot it's alive or dead. The near dead setting is just an internal bot tracker.