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Saved me half an hour or so :) – Gurch 10:51, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
When I first saw this...
typo fix: "sponsor/sponsored" to "sponser/sponsered" using AWB
...I nearly had a heart attack. Fortunately you were correcting it the other way around, so I guess it's OK, but... try not to confuse people – Gurch 14:19, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
(Oh BTW, this isn't serious enough to necessitate arm-hair pulling. Just thought I'd mention that -- Gurch 14:20, 30 March 2006 (UTC))
m | 18:38 | Dream Saga (diff; hist) . . JoeBot (Talk | contribs) (typo fix: "feburary" to "february" using AWB) |
m | 16:50 | Yoshiki Takaya (diff; hist) . . JoeBot (Talk | contribs) (typo fix: "feburary" to "february" using AWB) |
m | 16:42 | Megumi Tachikawa (diff; hist) . . JoeBot (Talk | contribs) (typo fix: "febuary" to "february" using AWB) |
Please use AWB to fix more typos per edit. Everytime you change 1 character, the database saves the entire file again, resulting in a large waste of space for how little you're changing. AWB's creator is also opposed to such minor changes, and plans to fix this in later versions. — 0918 BRIAN • 2006-04-5 22:16
Whoa, watch out for changes like this one. It looks like you refrained from changing the spelling inside the filename, but you still broke the link by changing the case. — Keenan Pepper 11:56, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi again! I just had a look through your edit history, and I have to say I'm impressed. Almost 10,000 corrections already, and the bot has only been running for a month. You're catching me up, and I've been doing it for much longer. The last week or so has been particularly impressive, I guess you've found more time to have the bot running. Keep up the good work, I'm sure an award isn't far away – Gurch 17:47, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi. "You" made an edit to Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War with an edit summary of "(typo fix: "agressive/aggresive/agresive" to "exercise" using AWB)", which doesn't seem quite like the right thing to me. (The actual spelling correction was fine; I was just slightly worried when I saw the edit summary). Cheers -- Pak21 19:19, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
You're doing a brilliant job with this. I had been trying to do it by hand - I can't run Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser for technical reasons. I would just like to mention one thing to look out for - I found one occurrence of "sucession" which was a misspelling of "secession" rather than "succession". CarolGray 09:02, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
In Rosemary Kennedy you corrected the spelling of 'disapoint' in a direct quotation. The quotation is to illustrate just how mentally retarded or not she might have been. It was marked with '[sic]'. Clearly it is wrong for direct quotes to be corrected. If you can write a bot that can correctly distinguish these cases, your AI fame will be great. Until then, watch it. (Maybe make an exceptions list, listing particular articles like this one, so it doesn't come back and do it again?) -- GangofOne 21:58, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
While it is useful to correct trivial typos like switched letters etc., I wonder if it is a good idea to correct actual misspellings like existance and grammer etc. by a bot (and its vs. it's or there vs. their etc. if it could catch them): such misspellings usually indicate that the passage in question has been written by a kid, a person with sub-standard English, or generally by somebody with no idea what they are talking about, meaning they are big pointers saying "this paragraph should be reviewed by a human". More often than not, it is more beneficial to remove the entire sentence than just the typo. Just a thought. dab (ᛏ) 17:40, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanx for your proofing. chazzq
The devil's in the details, as they always say. You only caught me once (accomodate -> accommodate) but I thank you nonetheless! Cheers! -- Miwa * talk * contribs ^_^ 08:15, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
I saw that you've worked on the Bill Ritter (politician) article, and would like to encourage you to support it in the USCOTW elections. Thank you, Editor19841 22:45, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the spelling check on the Alpha Phi Alpha article. Ccson 01:12, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
You also could use Google Toolbar for Firefox SpellCheck (Check your spelling whenever you type in web forms). I am using it for all posts i make now because my spelling is so bad. It even lets you add words to dictionary so it wont come up red anymore.-- E-Bod 05:38, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
You've been changing process to processs. JonHarder 13:59, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
You've changed embarrassing to embarrasssing. Fred Bradstadt 16:00, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
Sorry — I assumed that U.S. English was consistent (hah!) and didn't double the consonant; checking, I see that you're right. -- Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης) 19:58, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
When changing Ottawa Rapid Transit, you fixed one typo, but changed 'successfully' to 'successfuly'. 50% success rate. -- cmh 21:46, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
[2] I believe it was probably changing "ocured --> occurred", but that's incorrect when preceded by the letters 'pr', as in "procured", for which "proccurred" is certainly incorrect. - GTBacchus( talk) 20:43, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi, over at Linux kernel oops you and your bot corrected the spelling of two direct quotes - should we really be "correcting" what other people have said, or just quoting it verbatim? I think the latter personally... is there any way to inform AWB or other bots that they shouldn't spellcheck inside certain fields? Thanks. GeorgeBills 05:44, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
There are about 300 Google hits for 'refered' instead of referred in the main articles section of wikipedia. Could the bot run through them and correct the misspelling? Thanks. Rjwilmsi 17:13, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
Your bot changed a mispelling in this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO-Linux_controversies
He was right in a way, "existance" is false, but since the word was in a citation, it cannot be changed. I didn't make the changes because I didn't want your bot to change this again.
Greetings from Switzerland and sorry for my poor english.
I am just about to put Libya on the list of featured article candidates. Looking at the history of the page, I see you've done a little 'house cleaning', as you call it, using AutoWikiBrowser before. Could you please do it again, checking typo errors, and doing anything which does not have a detremental effect on the page, before I submit it. Thanks very much. -- Jaw101ie 18:34, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
In Oklahoma Sooners on line 14, college football is not one word. Please fix this in your lists. Z4ns4tsu 13:42, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
For fixing my embarrassing recieve/receive typo in Salem, Oregon. :) Katr67 16:40, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
The latest version of AWB shows what you fixed in the edit summary. -- mboverload @ 20:28, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
Changed an image filename: see http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=1890s_in_fashion&diff=65499860&oldid=62942945 William Avery 12:35, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Howdy. We apparently have a number of pages mentioning "copright" or "coprighted". I've also xposted this to User talk:CmdrObot, however you guys divvy things up. Thanks. -- Writtenonsand 22:30, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
Would you run a fix of 'commerical' --> commercial (and maybe the derivatives) please? Rjwilmsi 14:51, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
Joe, we know a person that has been know as "hot box" for several years at Michigan Tech. She fits the exact definitiion as you have it stated and we would like to add her picture
Hi Justin, I'm new to Wikipedia and I don't really understand why you are not allowing my contribution to the B'nai Mitzvah article - my book and a link to my site, as I am a legitimate author/expert on this subject with a great deal to offer and I don't charge anyone to give them guidance, access to tons of resources, etc. I routinely work with synagogues, educators; I give them free books. I'm happy to phrase it however you want. I see my competitors already listed - commercial enterprises. Why are they allowed and I'm not? This is not a challenge - I just really don't understand what the rules are. Thank you. JuliaGirl 02:48, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello, I love and use this site everyday. I recently added a link of AdvisorsDirectory.com to the term Financial Advisors and was told not to do this by yourself.
Trust me... I am not trying to be a pain, however in the "rules" it states "Adding external links can be a service to our readers, but they should be kept to a minimum of those that are meritable, accessible and appropriate to the article."
I would think that a link of a service that allows readers to go find licensed financial advisors for free with no strings attatched would be appropriate? Am I wrong?
Thanks, MileHighHarris
P.S. Keep up the great work!
I responded to your revert on the underarm bowling incident's discussion page.
Baccala@freesoft.org 05:37, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
I just noticed a screw-up of my own making in a bunch of articles in the "Indy 500 drivers" category. I wrote "accumlated" when I meant "accumulated" (see Mauri Rose). Can you add this typo to the lists driving JoeBot and save me from further humiliation? Thanks in advance! -- Mycroft.Holmes 02:47, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
Please take a few moments and fill in the data for your bot on Wikipedia:Bots/Status Thank you Betacommand ( talk • contribs • Bot) 19:35, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
As a result of discussion on the village pump and mailing list, bots are now allowed to edit up to 15 times per minute. The following is the new text regarding bot edit rates from Wikipedia:Bot Policy:
Until new bots are accepted they should wait 30-60 seconds between edits, so as to not clog the recent changes list and user watchlists. After being accepted and a bureaucrat has marked them as a bot, they can edit at a much faster pace. Bots doing non-urgent tasks should edit approximately once every ten seconds, while bots who would benefit from faster editing may edit approximately once every every four seconds.
Also, to eliminate the need to spam the bot talk pages, please add Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard to your watchlist. Future messages which affect bot owners will be posted there. Thank you. -- Mets501 03:08, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
I comend you JoeBot (I misspelled comend (twice) on purpose (teehee))! Julian Maestas 05:16, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
Howdy. We apparently have some instances of "penninsular" instead of "peninsular". [3] It appears in some proper names, in which for all I know the "misspelling" is actually correct, but also in some usages where it probably should be corrected. (Ditto for "penninsula", I see.) Thanks. -- 201.19.77.39 17:48, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
I love joe bot and i also like nick bot but i cant find the website i had before so i cant talkt o fake nick and fake joe which really sucks so i need my moms password or something to be able to talk to nick and joe the bots —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.112.213.173 ( talk) 19:20, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether if Stu Klitenic should be deleted or not. The conversation will be held at the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stu Klitenic until a consensus is held and everyone is welcome to join the conversation. However, do not remove the AfD message on the top of the page. Ashbeckjonathan 03:09, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
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Welcome!
Hello, JoeBot, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
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The Minor Barnstar | ||
For your minor, but essential, contributions to Wikipedia. -- Orthologist 12:32, 3 February 2007 (UTC) |
Saved me half an hour or so :) – Gurch 10:51, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
When I first saw this...
typo fix: "sponsor/sponsored" to "sponser/sponsered" using AWB
...I nearly had a heart attack. Fortunately you were correcting it the other way around, so I guess it's OK, but... try not to confuse people – Gurch 14:19, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
(Oh BTW, this isn't serious enough to necessitate arm-hair pulling. Just thought I'd mention that -- Gurch 14:20, 30 March 2006 (UTC))
m | 18:38 | Dream Saga (diff; hist) . . JoeBot (Talk | contribs) (typo fix: "feburary" to "february" using AWB) |
m | 16:50 | Yoshiki Takaya (diff; hist) . . JoeBot (Talk | contribs) (typo fix: "feburary" to "february" using AWB) |
m | 16:42 | Megumi Tachikawa (diff; hist) . . JoeBot (Talk | contribs) (typo fix: "febuary" to "february" using AWB) |
Please use AWB to fix more typos per edit. Everytime you change 1 character, the database saves the entire file again, resulting in a large waste of space for how little you're changing. AWB's creator is also opposed to such minor changes, and plans to fix this in later versions. — 0918 BRIAN • 2006-04-5 22:16
Whoa, watch out for changes like this one. It looks like you refrained from changing the spelling inside the filename, but you still broke the link by changing the case. — Keenan Pepper 11:56, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi again! I just had a look through your edit history, and I have to say I'm impressed. Almost 10,000 corrections already, and the bot has only been running for a month. You're catching me up, and I've been doing it for much longer. The last week or so has been particularly impressive, I guess you've found more time to have the bot running. Keep up the good work, I'm sure an award isn't far away – Gurch 17:47, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi. "You" made an edit to Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War with an edit summary of "(typo fix: "agressive/aggresive/agresive" to "exercise" using AWB)", which doesn't seem quite like the right thing to me. (The actual spelling correction was fine; I was just slightly worried when I saw the edit summary). Cheers -- Pak21 19:19, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
You're doing a brilliant job with this. I had been trying to do it by hand - I can't run Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser for technical reasons. I would just like to mention one thing to look out for - I found one occurrence of "sucession" which was a misspelling of "secession" rather than "succession". CarolGray 09:02, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
In Rosemary Kennedy you corrected the spelling of 'disapoint' in a direct quotation. The quotation is to illustrate just how mentally retarded or not she might have been. It was marked with '[sic]'. Clearly it is wrong for direct quotes to be corrected. If you can write a bot that can correctly distinguish these cases, your AI fame will be great. Until then, watch it. (Maybe make an exceptions list, listing particular articles like this one, so it doesn't come back and do it again?) -- GangofOne 21:58, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
While it is useful to correct trivial typos like switched letters etc., I wonder if it is a good idea to correct actual misspellings like existance and grammer etc. by a bot (and its vs. it's or there vs. their etc. if it could catch them): such misspellings usually indicate that the passage in question has been written by a kid, a person with sub-standard English, or generally by somebody with no idea what they are talking about, meaning they are big pointers saying "this paragraph should be reviewed by a human". More often than not, it is more beneficial to remove the entire sentence than just the typo. Just a thought. dab (ᛏ) 17:40, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanx for your proofing. chazzq
The devil's in the details, as they always say. You only caught me once (accomodate -> accommodate) but I thank you nonetheless! Cheers! -- Miwa * talk * contribs ^_^ 08:15, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
I saw that you've worked on the Bill Ritter (politician) article, and would like to encourage you to support it in the USCOTW elections. Thank you, Editor19841 22:45, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the spelling check on the Alpha Phi Alpha article. Ccson 01:12, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
You also could use Google Toolbar for Firefox SpellCheck (Check your spelling whenever you type in web forms). I am using it for all posts i make now because my spelling is so bad. It even lets you add words to dictionary so it wont come up red anymore.-- E-Bod 05:38, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
You've been changing process to processs. JonHarder 13:59, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
You've changed embarrassing to embarrasssing. Fred Bradstadt 16:00, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
Sorry — I assumed that U.S. English was consistent (hah!) and didn't double the consonant; checking, I see that you're right. -- Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης) 19:58, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
When changing Ottawa Rapid Transit, you fixed one typo, but changed 'successfully' to 'successfuly'. 50% success rate. -- cmh 21:46, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
[2] I believe it was probably changing "ocured --> occurred", but that's incorrect when preceded by the letters 'pr', as in "procured", for which "proccurred" is certainly incorrect. - GTBacchus( talk) 20:43, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi, over at Linux kernel oops you and your bot corrected the spelling of two direct quotes - should we really be "correcting" what other people have said, or just quoting it verbatim? I think the latter personally... is there any way to inform AWB or other bots that they shouldn't spellcheck inside certain fields? Thanks. GeorgeBills 05:44, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
There are about 300 Google hits for 'refered' instead of referred in the main articles section of wikipedia. Could the bot run through them and correct the misspelling? Thanks. Rjwilmsi 17:13, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
Your bot changed a mispelling in this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO-Linux_controversies
He was right in a way, "existance" is false, but since the word was in a citation, it cannot be changed. I didn't make the changes because I didn't want your bot to change this again.
Greetings from Switzerland and sorry for my poor english.
I am just about to put Libya on the list of featured article candidates. Looking at the history of the page, I see you've done a little 'house cleaning', as you call it, using AutoWikiBrowser before. Could you please do it again, checking typo errors, and doing anything which does not have a detremental effect on the page, before I submit it. Thanks very much. -- Jaw101ie 18:34, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
In Oklahoma Sooners on line 14, college football is not one word. Please fix this in your lists. Z4ns4tsu 13:42, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
For fixing my embarrassing recieve/receive typo in Salem, Oregon. :) Katr67 16:40, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
The latest version of AWB shows what you fixed in the edit summary. -- mboverload @ 20:28, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
Changed an image filename: see http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=1890s_in_fashion&diff=65499860&oldid=62942945 William Avery 12:35, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Howdy. We apparently have a number of pages mentioning "copright" or "coprighted". I've also xposted this to User talk:CmdrObot, however you guys divvy things up. Thanks. -- Writtenonsand 22:30, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
Would you run a fix of 'commerical' --> commercial (and maybe the derivatives) please? Rjwilmsi 14:51, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
Joe, we know a person that has been know as "hot box" for several years at Michigan Tech. She fits the exact definitiion as you have it stated and we would like to add her picture
Hi Justin, I'm new to Wikipedia and I don't really understand why you are not allowing my contribution to the B'nai Mitzvah article - my book and a link to my site, as I am a legitimate author/expert on this subject with a great deal to offer and I don't charge anyone to give them guidance, access to tons of resources, etc. I routinely work with synagogues, educators; I give them free books. I'm happy to phrase it however you want. I see my competitors already listed - commercial enterprises. Why are they allowed and I'm not? This is not a challenge - I just really don't understand what the rules are. Thank you. JuliaGirl 02:48, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello, I love and use this site everyday. I recently added a link of AdvisorsDirectory.com to the term Financial Advisors and was told not to do this by yourself.
Trust me... I am not trying to be a pain, however in the "rules" it states "Adding external links can be a service to our readers, but they should be kept to a minimum of those that are meritable, accessible and appropriate to the article."
I would think that a link of a service that allows readers to go find licensed financial advisors for free with no strings attatched would be appropriate? Am I wrong?
Thanks, MileHighHarris
P.S. Keep up the great work!
I responded to your revert on the underarm bowling incident's discussion page.
Baccala@freesoft.org 05:37, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
I just noticed a screw-up of my own making in a bunch of articles in the "Indy 500 drivers" category. I wrote "accumlated" when I meant "accumulated" (see Mauri Rose). Can you add this typo to the lists driving JoeBot and save me from further humiliation? Thanks in advance! -- Mycroft.Holmes 02:47, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
Please take a few moments and fill in the data for your bot on Wikipedia:Bots/Status Thank you Betacommand ( talk • contribs • Bot) 19:35, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
As a result of discussion on the village pump and mailing list, bots are now allowed to edit up to 15 times per minute. The following is the new text regarding bot edit rates from Wikipedia:Bot Policy:
Until new bots are accepted they should wait 30-60 seconds between edits, so as to not clog the recent changes list and user watchlists. After being accepted and a bureaucrat has marked them as a bot, they can edit at a much faster pace. Bots doing non-urgent tasks should edit approximately once every ten seconds, while bots who would benefit from faster editing may edit approximately once every every four seconds.
Also, to eliminate the need to spam the bot talk pages, please add Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard to your watchlist. Future messages which affect bot owners will be posted there. Thank you. -- Mets501 03:08, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
I comend you JoeBot (I misspelled comend (twice) on purpose (teehee))! Julian Maestas 05:16, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
Howdy. We apparently have some instances of "penninsular" instead of "peninsular". [3] It appears in some proper names, in which for all I know the "misspelling" is actually correct, but also in some usages where it probably should be corrected. (Ditto for "penninsula", I see.) Thanks. -- 201.19.77.39 17:48, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
I love joe bot and i also like nick bot but i cant find the website i had before so i cant talkt o fake nick and fake joe which really sucks so i need my moms password or something to be able to talk to nick and joe the bots —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.112.213.173 ( talk) 19:20, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether if Stu Klitenic should be deleted or not. The conversation will be held at the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stu Klitenic until a consensus is held and everyone is welcome to join the conversation. However, do not remove the AfD message on the top of the page. Ashbeckjonathan 03:09, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
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