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I was bored and correcting misspellings before I looked to see if there was a bot that already did. Here are some misspellings that I was correcting.
Flordia = Florida
Illlinois = Illinois
acccess = access
shoppping = shopping
efficency = efficiency
engieneer = engineer
picutre = picture
efficent = efficient
Kippson 22:18, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
Found a few more. Is there a full list of the words you look for? Sorry if I'm falsely correcting any British spellings.
practive = practice
schoool = school
recieve = receive
aclimated = acclimated
vally = valley
acknowledgement = acknowledgment
totalled = totaled
judgement = judgment
represenative = representative
membersip = membership
colloquailly = colloquially
countriy's = country's
monarchial = monarchical
unparallelled = unparalleled
governement = government
exerces = exercises
dissemantion = dissemination
controversal = controversial
predominatly = predominantly
northeeast = northeast
efficency = efficiency
I reverted two parts of your change: north-west Germany > north-West Germany and judg(e)ment > judg(e)meant. An easy way to avoid these errors would be to ignore a word if it is preceded immediately by a hyphen, right parenthesis, or right bracket. --teb728 23:33, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
One off error. Social Democrats of eastern Germany is not one long proper noun. Bot read it as such, and changed to Eastern. Not likely to occur elsewhere. Keep up the good work! Jd2718 23:47, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I just spotted a unit format change that you made. It was on List of islands in lakes where you changed 'sq km' to 'km²'. I did not know you were doing this sort of thing. Thanks for a great bot.
I make a lot of similar changes to units using my monobook script. Feel free to take ideas and copy anything from User:Lightmouse/monobook.js. Thanks. Lightmouse 12:44, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
Hello, where I'm from it should be western/eastern Germany, not Western/Eastern Germany:
"Use West Germany (West Berlin) and East Germany (East Berlin) only in historical references. They are now western Germany (western Berlin) and eastern Germany (eastern Berlin). " [1]
"If referring to the area that was East Germany, say eastern Germany or the former East Germany; similarly, western Germany or the former West Germany. " [2]
West Germany means the original Federal Republic of Germany. People from East Germany, the former German Democratic (this by itsself is ridiculus) Republic, are called Ossies. You would recognize them by their language as they have created own words during their isolation which just do not exist in the western part of Germany, and they have an odd pronounciation. So, it makes sense to talk about West Germany when referring to Non-Ossies. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.64.135.237 (talk) 20:42, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
Oxford Style Manual [3]:
Capitalize compass directions only when they denote a recognized (i.e. titular= geographical or political region: Northern Ireland (but northern England). (As modern western Germany is just the western part of Germany, and no longer a region in its own, it isn't capitalised.)
Might annoy some people if you correct it to what they see as the wrong form - or is this some agreed-upon Wikipedia policy? Maybe you could add a link to the page where the decision was made. Saint|swithin 15:26, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
Hello, CmdrObot "fixed" a spelling of "Interupt" to "Interrupt" on the Underworld (band) article. Can you please add the phrase "Lemon Interupt" to some kind of exclusion list? That is the intentional spelling of the band name and is used in a couple of other articles too. Thanks. Tabanger 19:57, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
Just letting you know that "flash an hacked BIOS" should probably have been changed to "a hacked" not "and hacked" in this diff, which I'm going to fix now. Vadmium 23:24, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
Hello, CmdrObot if you perform a search for exensive (incorrect spelling of extensive) there are lots of hits which come up, can you help fixing them? Also exquistely instead of exquisitely
Kedar 08:24, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
Please run a spell check on this article when you find time. It is an important subarticle for an upcoming FAC. Thanks for doing a check on Musicians of Mysore Kingdom.Dineshkannambadi 21:19, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
Thanks.Dineshkannambadi 21:36, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi. The Kingdom of Mysore is ready for Peer review. Please run a spell check on it if and when you have time. Thank you.Dineshkannambadi 03:26, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
I noticed your one of the people that wished there to be a list of Japanese games online for Wikipedia which I tried to make for the Nintendo 64 a few months ago, but just like when they where added to the orginal List of Nintendo 64 games they are trying to delete the new page List of Japanese Nintendo 64 games here's a link Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Japanese Nintendo 64 games to the discussion, how about giving your view. (Floppydog66 16:37, 9 October 2007 (UTC))
Hello, Cmdr,
The policy is that all variant spellings are acceptable. Your bot does useful work for most spellings but could you not please leave deciding whether to use thru or through to human editors? Dejvid 09:20, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
Howdy. We apparently have some instances of "penninsular" instead of "peninsular". [4] 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 17:47, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
Hey, ignostic isn't a misspelling of agnostic. An ignostic believes the question of gods existence is basically meaningless, as opposed to unanswerable. – ornis⚙ 22:08, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
Floorless is a type of roller coaster. The coaster being talked about is not flawless, but is relatively rough. Edit referenced. --Michael Greiner 23:19, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
A recent edit by me on the Elgin Marbles has just been changed by your bot CmdrObot. The change made is capitalising carboniferous. Carbon, being an element, is not a proper noun, and therefore should not be capitalised [5]. Can you please change this to prevent this from happening again? Cheers D666D 04:34, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi. This article is now getting ready for PR. Please give it a spell check when you have time.thanks.Dineshkannambadi 02:58, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
Hello, Cmdr, Iam facing this prob here with this user reverting again and again and deleting Brazilian singers from this category and from Braz music categ. Well, I wonder why are there categories with these name...I suppose Braz singers should be inserted there, shouldn´t they? He also deleted Meninas Cantoras de Petrópolis from Braz music? Lulu Margarida yes? 14:41, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
<!-- The category female brazilian singers is within brazilian music. No need to add [Category:Brazilian music] -->
I hope this helps. Cheers, CmdrObot 21:25, 2 November 2007 (UTC)SNePS uses intensional[ity] correctly, it would appear. Rich Farmbrough, 15:23 31 October 2007 (GMT).
Hi. Thanks for your fixes, but I fear they are making me lazy. I hardly bother to check my stubs before saving them, I just assume they will be automatically fixed. Regarding for your grammar check here: the edit was correct [an nomination→a nomination], but the edit summary was sp: an nomination→and nomination. I don't know if the info is useful to you, though I hope it is. Regards, Cygnis insignis 08:15, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
Hello Cmdr, It´s the second time I hear someone complaining abt the following paragraph: Born eight months premature. What do they want me to say? That she was born one month premature? Since she was born just one month before the ninth? Lulu Margarida yes? 12:27, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
Just a quick note. The missing apostrophes in the Criticism of Tesco article are intentional: they exemplify poor grammar on the stores' signage. Chris 42 12:59, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
Please do not "fix" spellings, etc, in quoted material as here. Thanks, jnestorius(talk) 01:44, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
I would like to move a page on the German wikipedia. to . In Spanish, the word Tiros means 'shot' and well, there are other good reasons to move this page. Can you help? I would have just moved the damn page, but there does not seem to be a way for me to do that there and me and babelfish are probably not up to the task of determining the 'right way' to get that accomplished.
If you are not German, you should probably not edit C-base pages here.
Thanks -- Carol 06:06, 8 November 2007 (UTC) (Also, the sockpuppet template broke my signature here; usually a bot follows me around and signs these things for me.) -- carol 07:14, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
Hello Cmdr, I´d like to ask you to have a look on Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira article to correct some possibles grammar/spelling erros. According to the latest edition, editor complained that it was sourced to a fansite and thi wouldn´t be a reliable source. Based on Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Madonna and Britney Spears article´s I´ve changed all sources, footnotes to AllMusic.com site, Simone´s official website, Brazilian Encyclopedia, Dictionaries, Revista Veja. Also deleted unsourced subtitles. I very surprised with a whole new reversion of all this and a block threat for vanadalism. How can I have comments on this? Do you think this is vandalism? Lulu Margarida yes? 11:06, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
I noticed that your bot made some recent changes to the Density of air article. It changed the unit "m3" to "m³". After looking up some references, I believe it should remain as a superscript "m3".
Wikipedia:Manual of Style says:
- Squared and cubic metric-symbols are always expressed with a superscript exponent (5 km2, 2 cm3)
And from Wikipedia:Manual of Style (mathematics):
Do not use special characters like ² (
²
) for squares.
In addition I believe that a negative sign (&minus
) should not be changed to a hyphen.
Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Common_mathematical_symbols:
- For a negative sign or subtraction operator, use a minus sign (−), input by clicking on it in the insert box beneath the edit window or by keying in −), or an en dash (see En dashes); do not use a hyphen, unless writing code.
In addition you may want to check the replacement of ×
.
Djd sd (talk) 08:11, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
After perusing part of the foregoing I am pleased to see you take very seriously the matter of improving your bot.
Eventually you would notice this anyway, but I prefer you hear it directly from me, the perpetrator.
I performed the following UNDO a few minutes ago:
2007-11-26 (diff) (hist) . . Cardinal direction; 11:13:17 . . (0) . . Badly Bradley (Talk | contribs) (Undid revision 173789399 by CmdrObot (talk) Wrong to correct spelling inside a direct quote + it is not even an English quote!)
It is noteworthy that you DO ignore errors inside quotation marks. Unfortunately this event was in the reference section, inside the title of a book which was written in (AFAIK) German. This particular editor opted to italicize the titles (an acceptable practice) rather than use enclosing quotes.
This causes me to wonder: 1) Is your bot blocked from editing Talk Pages, and certain other classes of pages? 2) Is your bot blocked from redoing an UNDO? (It should trigger an automated message back to you if it finds its work undone.)
By the way, I subscribe to the philosophy that editors should only perform a revert once, except for vandalism. I've NEVER had to revert a bot edit before...
I Hope This Helps,
Badly Bradley (talk) 16:56, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Cmdr,
I see what you mean: "obvious quotes" to an experienced human editor could easily elude a machine lacking the ability to fully parse the context. It certainly doesn't help that wiki markup assigns functions to the classic quote symbols. I think I'll start using the special [sic] link. In the meantime, posting comments here seems to be pretty effective at keeping a lid on the booboos.
It might be worthwhile to tweak your bot to ignore italicized text in the References section, as such text would have a very high probability of being quoted titles.
Badly Bradley (talk) 23:18, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
(sp: Avtaar→Avatar)
Avtaar Gill is the name an actor. I reverted the change. Djd sd (talk) 04:39, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
I've noticed on a couple of occassions (eg. Frensham School) that when fixing spelling, the bot has also put a space between "inline,title" in the articles coordinates thus making it a red link. I have reverted the ones i've founded..but can this be fixed? Thanks. Loopla (talk) 01:27, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
I wonder why you seem to insist on the snide comments about the Apelles's? I have tried to put in a balanced version twice and you continue to remove these. 67.142.130.11 (talk) 17:02, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi CmdrObot
On2007-11-09 at 19:10 your bot made two changes to the article Interpersonal relationship with the comment:
(sp (2): an other→another, octobre→October)
The octobre text formed part of a French-language bibliographic reference -- anyone looking it up automatedly will probably want to find the French name/form of the month, but I don't know whether we have a standard policy on such matters.
The second change poses a more subtle and potentially a much more serious problem -- the text makes an oblique implied reference to the "Other", so it should technically appear as "an other" or as "an Other". I suspect that changing the text to read "another" raises complex philosophical issues and distortions... Next time I will take more care to at least link Other in such a context.
I look forward to your comments.
-- Pedant17 (talk) 00:51, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
You edited the article Osborne Reef, replacing the word "loosing" with "losing". Do what? — pd_THOR | =/\= | 16:18, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi, fyi the BOT changed an image name at St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport from image:St.Petelogo.giftoimage:St. Petelogo.gif, rendering it blanked. I've reverted this. JGHowes talk - —Preceding comment was added at 13:32, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
FYI, in this edit, the bot changed the "Foundary" to "Foundry". However, it's the proper name for the author of the article cited. A quick check of the census suggests that Foundary is a highly unusual last name, so most of the foundary to foundry edits are probably right, but I wanted to give you a heads up so you can be aware of any patterns that might emerge.. — Alan De Smet | Talk 04:17, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
Hello - your bot corrected the spelling of 'Cemetry' in this article here, but the original spelling was correct as that is how Morrissey spelled in in his song title. No big problem, but I was just wondering if there was a way to 'tag' such spellings so they don't get corrected by your bot (or others). I've added 'sic' afterwards, which will hopefully prevent manual 'corrections'. Thanks.--Michig (talk) 10:04, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Not quite sure where you got the information from regarding Charles Wreford-Brown being the linesman in the 1920 Olympic final. Can you please state your source?
Most interested to find out. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Steve bloomer (talk • contribs) 17:16, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
This was not a mistake, see here. Cheers. --Edcolins (talk) 19:50, 8 January 2008 (UTC)