User:NedBot

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This user account is a bot operated by Ned Scott. It is not a sock puppet, but rather an automated or semi-automated account for making repetitive edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually. Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it.

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Wikibot owned by Ned Scott

[edit] Bot description

Description of the bot (per Wikipedia:Bots):

• The bot is run manually
• You can expect it to be run 1 or 2 times a week for about 3 to 4 hours. (usually less)
• The bot is written in Python, using pywikipedia
• Ned Scott maintains this bot.
• Full description of what this bot does is listed below.

[edit] Bot tasks

The main tasks for this bot is to assist in redundant edits for WikiProject Digimon Systems Update and WikiProject List of Television Episodes. Such tasks may include:

• Basic text replacement

For example, going through articles in Category:Digimon and finding common mistakes specific to digimon articles, such as proper placement of English and Japanese terms and names

• Updating links
• Category maintenance
• Template maintenance, such as going through articles and renaming a template parameter or adding one

I try to avoid these changes in the first place, as it sort of defeats the purpose of a template to have to re-edit all the articles using the template