JoeBot
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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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)
Thanks for "similiar"
Saved me half an hour or so :) – Gurch 10:51, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
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)
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)
- 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)
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)
- Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:GangofOne"
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)
- 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)
small-group communication
Thanx for your proofing. chazzq
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)
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)
Alpha Phi Alpha
Thanks for the spelling check on the Alpha Phi Alpha article. Ccson 01:12, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)