User talk:JoeBot

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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:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!  - UtherSRG (talk) 18:27, 18 March 2006 (UTC)


Hmm, this bot welcoming phenomenon is more popular than ever. Perhaps it's time to create {{welcome-bot}} just like {{welcome-ip}}. - Eagletalk 19:32, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
I hereby award thee the Barnstar of Homer Humor - Eagletalk 19:54, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
I hereby award thee the Barnstar of Homer Humor - Eagletalk 19:54, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
The Minor Barnstar
For your minor, but essential, contributions to Wikipedia. --Orthologist 12:32, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Contents

[edit] Thanks for "similiar"

Saved me half an hour or so :) – Gurch 10:51, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Careful with your edit summaries

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))

Seconding Gurch. I just so that same "sponsor v. sponser" summary. My first thought was "oh, my". Second thought, "Maybe that's British spelling" (it was an article about a Brit). Third Thought, "no, they'd do something like 'sponsour'". 171.159.64.10 01:42, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My watchlist

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)
Okay, okay, I can't spel ;_; --zippedmartin 18:59, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Single character changes

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. — 0918BRIAN • 2006-04-5 22:16

  • He's opposed to numerous minor edits. It would be better if you could catch multiple spelling errors in each article. After all, the articles are likely to have more than 1 typo. I used to put featured articles into MS Word to catch all the spelling errors, although that takes longer. — 0918BRIAN • 2006-04-5 22:23

[edit] Changes in filenames

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)

Ouch! Definitely pulled an arm hair for that one! I remember saving the spelling too, but you're obviously right about the capitolization. Thanks for keeping an eye on my bot! :D JoeBot 15:09, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spelling corrections

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)

[edit] Aggressive is not spelt "exercise"!

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)

thanks for catching that in the edit summary. i have corrected the mistake in my tools - im glad it wasn't really like that in the article! phew! :) JoeBot 20:03, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fixing "Sucess" with AWB

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)

WOW! I never knew those were 2 different words.--E-Bod 05:19, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
PS Keep up the good work JoeBot I also have been noticing a lot of your edits.--E-Bod 05:19, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
PPS the "Emergency bot shutoff button" seems very tempting to press.--E-Bod 05:19, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Careful with power tools

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)

thank you for catching that. i will dutifully pull an arm hard for my mistake (ouch! it's my policy ;). i have encountered these kinds of quotes before, and usually catch them (and ignore the instance), and so this is the first to slip by me. i shall take measures so as this doesn't happen again (i will have JoeBot ignore any article with the word "[sic]" in it). thanks again. JoeBot 22:03, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] existance and friends

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)

you know, usually the ones that are real, REAL bad you can tell even using these kind of tools. often i'll take the time to stop and bring up the article, correct a little more, and if need be, put in a cleanup template (and sometimes a delete one). my human eyes see every correction i make, but as Linus Torvalds has famously said, "with enough eyes, all bugs are shallow". i wish i had a team of helpers. :/ JoeBot 17:47, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
I see -- and apologize, I didn't read your user page and thought that this was some fully automatic bot churning away at Wikipedia. Seeing that it is supervised by a human after all, I withdraw my criticism of course :) dab (ᛏ) 17:53, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
no worries, critisism is always welcome. and you make a good point too. soon i'm going to contruct a method to do all of my 100+ common spelling errors at once, and if i get multiples per article, i think i might set it aside for more personal and manual human combing. JoeBot 17:58, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] small-group communication

Thanx for your proofing. chazzq


[edit] Thanks for keeping an eye on the small stuff!

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)

[edit] USCOTW

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)

[edit] Alpha Phi Alpha

Thanks for the spelling check on the Alpha Phi Alpha article. Ccson 01:12, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Google Toolbar for Firefox

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)

[edit] Process typo

You've been changing process to processs. JonHarder 13:59, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

yow! one arm hair, officially pulled. my mistake - i've changed my settings so as not to make that mistake anymore. it must have seen the misspelled word process and replaced it with processs. it will now only look for the word proces_ (with a space). thanks for the catch, i appreciate you keepin' an eye out. :) JoeBot 14:57, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Typo mistake

You've changed embarrassing to embarrasssing. Fred Bradstadt 16:00, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

irk! pulled an arm hair for letting that one slip by me! those words ending double 'ss' are gonna be the death of me. hardest for my poor human eye to catch i guess. there is a little quirk in my bot settings that catch the regular word even though it has a morpheme at the end, and make inappropriate changes. seems specifically with words ending in double 'ss'. like process. i should have fixed embarrassing from ever happening again. thanks for keeping me on my toes, good catch. :) JoeBot 16:09, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
You've also changed the non-existent (but correctly spelt) "referings" to the non-existent (and incorrectly spelt) "referrings". [1] --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 17:33, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
you know, i kinda thought about that one and decided to go along with it. referring does have two r's, but now in retrospect the word 'reference' is what it should be. not sure if i should pull an arm hair for that one, but i'll do if anyways ;) good catch. JoeBot 19:06, 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)

[edit] you changed a good word into a typo

When changing Ottawa Rapid Transit, you fixed one typo, but changed 'successfully' to 'successfuly'. 50% success rate. -- cmh 21:46, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

whoop! good catch, i'm changing my regex sos that won't happen again. i'm definitely pulling an arm hair for penance! thanks! JoeBot 00:03, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
Still happening -- same thing today on College of William and Mary. Cka3n 15:43, 24 June 2006 (UTC)


*sigh*, another arm hair gone...found the same problem but in a different part of the regex. i just checked through the entire thing, if it happens again i'm going to revert back to an older regex - these are all relatively new complaints. thanks for looking out for my bot. JoeBot 15:58, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] This bot made a spelling error

[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)

Correct amondo! My mistake, i'll put a space in front of the word in the settings so it will skip all forms of "procured" for the future :) JoeSmack Talk 21:38, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spellchecking direct quotes

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)

unfortunately it is often difficult to tell if the editor mistakenly misspelled a quote or the author did and it should be preserved. if the later is the case, then a [sic] tage should be added either in commenting or directly in the article. i've inserted one so this won't happen with me or others again. really this is a misdoing on my end though, and so i do appologize. one arm hair pulled as punishment, as is my policy. yowzah! JoeSmack Talk 09:00, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Could the bot please correct 'refered'?

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)

sure I can get that. i'll make it my next run. 'refered' is one of the top most common ones, along with 'prefered', 'occured' and 'offical'. those double r's get people. i haven't run it for refered though in about a month so it must be piling up! JoeBot 14:44, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
'succeded' too please. Rjwilmsi 16:29, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
'succeded' and 'precceded' shall be next! :) JoeBot 17:06, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Bot wasn't right

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.

Hi! Good catch, don't know why that slipped by me, but because it has a [sic] i shouldn't have changed it. As penance, as is my custom, i shall pull an armhair and will fix my mistake. Thanks for letting me know! :) JoeBot 15:52, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
and your english sounds great by the way. JoeBot 15:54, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Libya

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)

I was browsing and saw this request, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to try out my new bot. I found these (there may be others) – Gurch 21:06, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
looks to me like GurchBot got most of the spelling mistakes. keep in mind: stick it in MS Word and do a spellcheck gets stuff even our lists miss. cheers. JoeBot 16:18, 17 July 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Incorrect Edit

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)

Ouch! Armhair pulled as punishment for me; my files have been changed accordingly. Good catch, it never popped up because thats a rather rare misspelling. Thanks for letting me know. JoeBot 14:11, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
np, keep up the good work. Z4ns4tsu 15:01, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

For fixing my embarrassing recieve/receive typo in Salem, Oregon. :) Katr67 16:40, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Update

The latest version of AWB shows what you fixed in the edit summary. --mboverload@ 20:28, 23 July 2006 (UTC)


[edit] AWB Breakage

Changed an image filename: see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1890s_in_fashion&diff=65499860&oldid=62942945 William Avery 12:35, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Yowzah, thats a long image name! My mistake, i'll keep an eye out for them ones more closely. Thanks for letting me know! JoeBot 14:13, 2 August 2006 (UTC)


[edit] copright / coprighted

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)

[edit] 'Commerical' run please

Would you run a fix of 'commerical' --> commercial (and maybe the derivatives) please? Rjwilmsi 14:51, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Done! There is a bank and a couple other industries in Mexico/South America it appears that use the spanish spelled 'Comericial'; thus there may be hits via a Google inquery. Cheers! JoeBot 18:17, 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

[edit] What am I doing wrong?

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!

[edit] youtube revert of underarm bowling incident

I responded to your revert on the underarm bowling incident's discussion page.

Baccala@freesoft.org 05:37, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Can You Change "Accumlated" to "Accumulated"

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)

[edit] This is a automated to all bot operators

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)

[edit] Automated message to bot owners

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I comend you JoeBot (I misspelled comend (twice) on purpose (teehee))! Julian Maestas 05:16, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "penninsular" -> "peninsular"

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)