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==Block==
==[[Primitive Radio Gods]]==
When this bot was editing an alarming proportion of its edits were harmful. Not only were the problems pointed out, but the account was blocked because of them, and it was then unblocked on the basis of assurances from the bot operator. Nevertheless, exactly the same problems were still occurring MANY YEARS after the block was lifted. It is true that the bot has now not edited for almost a year, and the bot operator has edited never for many months and rarely for many years, so that a block may be irrelevant, but if so then a block cannot possibly do any harm, and if the editor ever does return to editing it may do some good, so I have indefinitely blocked the bot account from editing. If the editor does return to editing and is willing to undertake that the same problems will not recur, AND THIS TIME TO STICK TO THAT UNDERTAKING, then an unblock request may be made. [[User:JBW|JBW]] ([[User talk:JBW|talk]]) 21:27, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi - this bot auto-spellchecked the above site and corrected an intentional misspelling. Is there some sort of marker that should be placed in the text that will keep bots from making spelling edits there? [[User:Chubbles1212|Chubbles]] 21:06, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
== Nomination of [[:The Daily Campus]] for deletion ==
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The article will be discussed at '''[[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Daily Campus]]''' until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
: Hi Chubbles, sorry about that. Putting a HTML comment beside the spellings in question, like you've done is a pretty good bet, given all spellchecking bots are supposed to be supervised. I'll make a note of the page so I don't try to edit it again. Thanks, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 02:39, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.
==Éire==
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== [[Wikipedia:Proposed deletion|Proposed deletion]] of [[:2003 Norfolk County municipal election]] ==
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The article [[:2003 Norfolk County municipal election]] has been [[Wikipedia:Proposed deletion|proposed for deletion]] because of the following concern:
Hi...I know this might be a tricky one to write the right exceptions for, but could you note that if "Eire" is encountered in an article pertaining primarily to [[Canada]] (such as [[Endorsements for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada leadership convention, 1993]]), then it's more likely to be a misspelling for Erie as in [[Lake Erie]] than for Éire as in [[Ireland]]? Thanks. [[User:Bearcat|Bearcat]] 09:29, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
<blockquote>'''Non-notable local election.'''</blockquote>
While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be [[WP:DEL#REASON|deleted for any of several reasons]].
: Hey Bearcat. D'oh! that was rather stupid of me. I should have spotted straight away that it was Canada related. Your idea is a good one, but unfortunately as my bot stands it's not really possible right now. This might mean it's about time I took another look over the code and add a bit more functionality. I think I'd have to make it do two passes over the page: the first one, say, looking for "Canada" anywhere and if it finds it disabling certain substitution rules for that page, then it can go on and apply any remaining substitutions. Actually... hmm, now that I say it, it'd be quite easy to implement that. Thanks for prodding me to do this. Cheers, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 02:42, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{Tlc|proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your [[Help:edit summary|edit summary]] or on [[Talk:2003 Norfolk County municipal election|the article's talk page]].
== Your edit to [[2000 Pacific hurricane season]] ==
Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{Tlc|proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the [[Wikipedia:Proposed deletion|proposed deletion process]], but other [[Wikipedia:deletion process|deletion process]]es exist. In particular, the [[Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion|speedy deletion]] process can result in deletion without discussion, and [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion|articles for deletion]] allows discussion to reach [[Wikipedia:Consensus|consensus]] for deletion.<!-- Template:Proposed deletion notify --> [[User:Elli|Elli]] ([[User_talk:Elli|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Elli|contribs]]) 04:10, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
Many of the image names here and in other tropical cyclone articles contain the months which they are taken. Please don't let your bot change the capitalization of them because that turns them all into red links. [[User:Good kitty|Good kitty]] 05:55, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
: Oh dear, sorry about that. I do keep an eye out for image etc filenames, but sometimes one slips through unnoticed. I've made an explicit note of this page though, so it won't happen again there. Again, my apologies. [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 21:28, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
== aggression, agression ==
The French word "''non-agression''" that appears in [[Liaison (French)]] is spelled correctly, and should not be changed to (English) "non-aggression". If this is a problem, I can just replace it with another example or delete it (it's actually commented out at the moment, so it wouldn't make much difference). [[User:CapnPrep|CapnPrep]] 21:08, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
: Sorry for that. I didn't look closely enough at the context and assumed it was meant to be English. I've made a note of it so I won't miscorrect it again. Cheers, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 22:07, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
== [[Way of the Tiger]] ==
This edit [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Way_of_the_Tiger&diff=103937539&oldid=102512533] is an error. "Honoric" is a proper name of a character in these books and it should not be changed to "honorific". Edit reverted. [[User:Djbrianuk|exolon]] 01:22, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
: Thanks. I've made note of it so it won't happen again. Cheers, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 01:25, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
== Oops! ==
The spelling correction from entends to intends is not always accurate. In [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karakuwa%2C_Miyagi&curid=898240&diff=106981962&oldid=83408534 this case], it should have been "extends". I don't know how often it occurs, but, it's something to watch out for. [[User:Neier|Neier]] 03:38, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
: Oops indeed! Sorry about that, and thanks for letting me know. Cheers, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 15:21, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
==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 [[User:Betacommand|Betacommand]] <sup>([[User talk:Betacommand|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Betacommand|contribs]] • [[User:BetacommandBot|Bot]])</sup> 18:59, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
== Another mis-hit ==
On October 17, 2006, the bot corrected [[Song of the 144,000]], "enflamed" --> "inflamed" - apparently the former is actually the right spelling, in that piece. I've put it back. Poets, makin' up words, go figure. :) — [[User:Wwagner|Wwagner]] 18:30, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
: Tsk, bloody poets! :) Thanks for the heads up, I've made a note of it. Cheers, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 19:41, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
==Prepositioned==
In [[Effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans]], "prepositioned" was changed to "propositioned". I believe the former was meant, so I changed it back.-- [[User:Infrogmation|Infrogmation]] 03:26, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
: Thanks for that. I keep making mistakes with this word, for some reason, although usually I manage to catch most of them. I reckon it's time to remove it from my correction list! Cheers, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 14:55, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
== Latest edit to "Evil" ==
"Judgment" is not an incorrect spelling. "Judgement" is an alternative, but it is not more correct. [[User:AngryStan|AngryStan]] 06:43, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
:Indeed, 'judgement' is always incorrect in a legal context. [[User:Bastin8/Signature|Bastin]] 13:47, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
:: Thanks for pointing that out guys. It's actually a word I added to my corrections list just yesterday without checking it properly, so hopefully no major harm done. I've removed it from the list and made sure it won't be added again. Cheers, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 15:02, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
==Stockton, New Jersey==
You changed "...the town is presided over by an old inn. The Stockton Inn (formally known as Colligan's Stockton Inn)," to "formerly known". Actually, I meant formally. The correct name is/was the full name. People there actually call it just Colligan's. However since I am not in a position to verify if you may indeed be correct in that it has changed ownership in the last few years or not, I will not revert it. I just wanted to make you aware that not every oddity like that comes from ignorance of the English language, but may indeed be subtlety of usage. Formally is not a corruption of formerly. <small>—The preceding [[Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages|unsigned]] comment was added by [[User:Luxomni|Luxomni]] ([[User talk:Luxomni|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Luxomni|contribs]]) 02:54, 18 February 2007 (UTC).</small><!-- HagermanBot Auto-Unsigned -->
: Hi Lux, thanks for the note. I agree 'formally known' has quite legitimate uses, but it's also a not altogether uncommon [[Eggcorn]]. Don't worry, I don't blindly replace every occurrence I find, but it's entirely possible that I'll get it wrong on occasion. Thanks again, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 15:31, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
== thanx ==
Thnx for catchin my goof on the Mali Empire page. It took me two weeks to compile everything and I knew i'd miss something. Keep up the good work
[[User:4shizzal|Scott Free]] 03:42, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
==Ph.D.==
See [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doctor_of_Philosophy&diff=108846154&oldid=108784799 this edit]. This robot said in its edit summary that it was correcting the spelling of "committe" to "committee", but it also (and quite incorrectly) inserted a space into almost every occurrence of "Ph.D.". --[[User:Trovatore|Trovatore]] 16:44, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
: Fudge fudge fudge! You're completely right. The intent of this particular part of the script ws to fix the cases where users didn't put a space after the period at the end of a sentence. Clearly Ph.D. is an exceptional case I should make note of. I'll fix up my script to handle this. Thanks so much for pointing it out. Cheers, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 21:47, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
==Automated message to bot owners==
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]]:
<blockquote>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 [[Wikipedia:Bureaucrats|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.</blockquote>
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. --[[User:Mets501|Mets501]] 00:46, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
== Enumerated lists ==
CmdrObot's change to [[National Registry of Identification and Civil Status]] has replaced some hard-coded numbered lists with enumerated lists. Is it just me, or do all the numbers appear as '1' now? <small>—The preceding [[Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages|unsigned]] comment was added by [[User:Philip Trueman|Philip Trueman]] ([[User talk:Philip Trueman|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Philip Trueman|contribs]]) 12:51, 28 February 2007 (UTC).</small><!-- HagermanBot Auto-Unsigned -->
: Sorry, forgot to sign. Not having a good day. [[User:Philip Trueman|Philip Trueman]] 12:53, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
: Phil, yes, you're completely right, and I should have noticed it when I made the edit in the first place. My apologies. I've fixed up the numbering by removing the empty lines between each item. Cheers, [[User:Cmdrjameson|Cmdrjameson]] 13:33, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
== Outmanoeuvred ==
The bot changed the spelling of outmanoeuvred to outmanoeuvered, whch is the US spelling. It's not a problem but I thought I'd let you know. [[User:Raymond Palmer|Raymond Palmer]] 01:36, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
: Hi Ray, thanks for that. There's no point in doing UK->US spelling changes without good reason, so I'll remove that one from the list. Cheers, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 20:54, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
== Brig o' Balgownie ==
Hi there. The bot is quite right in identifying the word "renouned" as a misspelling of "renowned" but this one was an intentional misspelling because it is quoted from a historical record. All the best. [[User:Belhelvie|Belhelvie]] 11:49, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
: Thanks for that. I've added it to my exception list. Cheers, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 21:25, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
== ALGAO ==
Hi, The link to the ALGAO website on the ALGAO page was corrected as being broken, but it appears that it still is after your correction - being new to this is there something in the way the link was originally written which made it appear broken that I can avoid in future? Thanks in advance.[[User:V-Bede|V-Bede]] 16:24, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
: Hi there, yeah, the URL had '<nowiki>http://http://</nowiki>' at the start, rather than the intended '<nowiki>http://</nowiki>'.
: I took a look at it just there and the reason that the corrected URL wasn't working is because there was an extra '/' at the end of the URL that shouldn't have been there. Web servers make a distinction between URLs ending with slashes and ones that don't. The ones with slashes represent directories, whereas the ones without represent files.
: NB This can be further shortened to '<nowiki>http://www.algao.org.uk/</nowiki>', which I've done. Cheers, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 17:56, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
: Oh dear, schoolboy error! Thanks for the explanation. [[User:V-Bede|V-Bede]] 09:06, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
== Implented ==
In [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Puerto_Rican_Parrot&diff=112903123&oldid=110426824 this] edit "implented" was changed to "implanted" when it was supposed to be "implemented". [[User:Guettarda|Guettarda]] 21:46, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
== Incorrect altering of [[Brand New]] ==
The bot altered the album name "[[Deja Entendu]]" to the incorrect Déjà Entendu. It should check for capitalisation/real names before doing such alterations. -[[User:Halo|Halo]] 20:12, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
: Thanks for that, I've added it to my exception list. Cheers, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 20:54, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
== [[Ragnarok Online]] ==
Hi, I reverted your edit as while it was obviously made in [[WP:AGF|good faith]], the cited poll is actually titled that, regardless of whether or not it is grammatically correct. Just letting you know. [[User:Karimarie|<span style="color: #002BB8; font-weight: bold;">Kari Hazzard</span>]] ([[User_talk:Karimarie|<span style="color: #002BB8;">T</span>]] | [[Special:Contributions/Karimarie|<span style="color: #002BB8;">C</span>]]) 01:12, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
: Hi Kari, my apologies for that. I've added that miscorrection to my bot's exception list so it won't happen again. Cheers, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 01:18, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
== Loaction needs to be converted to Location ==
There seem to be many articles having spelling error of word location. Can this bot fix them?
[[User:Kedar Borhade|Kedar]] 07:34, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
: Hi there. As it turns out, my bot already checks for this particular misspelling. However as far as I can see, it isn't very common. In the last database dump (from February), I only found 7 articles with 'loaction' in them.
: Cheers, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 10:25, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
== disproven→disproved ==
Why is the bot changing this? And why is it changing words within quotes? [[User:Guettarda|Guettarda]] 19:47, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
: Because it didn't show up in my dictionary, and I must not have noticed the quotes in the article you've seen. I've checked the Oxford English Dictionary, and it appears disproven is in fact a valid variant of disproved, so I've removed it from my bot's list. My apologies, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 19:56, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
== Hudson Taylor ==
Hello,
An honest mistake, but this bot capitalized "catholic" in the [[Hudson Taylor]] article. The quote was referring to him being a universal Christian as opposed to a "Catholic" in the Roman Catholic sense. This could be a problem if the bot is always capitalizing this word that is not a proper noun in itself.[[User:Brian0324|Brian0324]] 14:59, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
: Ah, thank you for that. I'm aware of the distinction between Catholic (the religion) and catholic (as in 'of the people'), but I guess I've misidentified its use once too many times. I think I'll take it off my bot's list of rules. Cheers, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 20:02, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
== spelling ==
Hello. I notice you're doing lots of spelling corrections. Are you following a policy of always preferring American spelling to British spelling (as when you changed ''rigourous'' to ''rigorous'')? [[User:Michael Hardy|Michael Hardy]] 23:13, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
:Hi Michael, no I'm definitely not (intentionally) changing British English to American English or vice versa. I did check this one when adding the rule to my bot, and my dictionary doesn't have an entry for 'rigourous'. Just there, I checked the OED to be sure, and it had rigourous as a variant spelling, but AFAIK it's not the standard in either the UK or US. Since there's this uncertainty, I'll remove the rule. Cheers, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 23:19, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
::You're right, ''rigourous'' is basically a misspelling in British English. There's a little-known rule of British spelling that ''-our'' words lose the ''u'' before the ''-ous'' suffix (another example is ''humorous'', often misspelled ''humourous''). —[[User:Angr|'''An''']][[User talk:Angr|''gr'']] 09:56, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Oh. I hadn't realized that rule existed. (The American spelling results (I think?) from the early 19th-century American lexicogrpher [[Noah Webster]]'s preference for spellings faithful to Latin and Greek etymologies.) [[User:Michael Hardy|Michael Hardy]] 03:03, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
== invasibility→invisibility ==
No, invasibility is a valid term (related to likelihood of invasion of a habitat). [[User:Guettarda|Guettarda]] 02:50, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
: Thanks. I've updated my bot with this. Cheers, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 02:51, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
== Berkely→Berkley ==
Regarding [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Religion_and_homosexuality&diff=113966459&oldid=111394715]: the city in California, at least, is actually spelled [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]]. —[[User:Angr|'''An''']][[User talk:Angr|''gr'']] 09:54, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
: Indeed it is! D'oh! I've fixed up the mistake in my bot. Thanks for that, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 15:50, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
==outmanoeuvring==
Hello.
Your bot reverted my spelling of outmanoeuvring again. Outmanoeuvring is the correct English spelling. Again, it's no real problem, but I think a few tweaks might be required. [[User:Raymond Palmer|Raymond Palmer]] 19:20, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
: Curses. The last time it was 'outmanoeuvred', which I removed, but I didn't realise there was also a 'outmanoeuvring' in there. I've got rid of that now, sorry for the inconvenience. Cheers, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 19:23, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
:: Hey, no problem :) [[User:Raymond Palmer|Raymond Palmer]] 19:26, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
:::Yeah my fault its was outmaneeuvred not outmanoevring. 19:29, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
== Non-breaking spaces ==
Hey. I noticed that in this [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Metal_Gear_Solid&diff=114137869&oldid=113536247 edit], you put a non-breaking space between "233" and "MHz". At first I was totally confused at what you had changed because Firefox was changing the non-breaking space back to a regular whitespace character EVERYWHERE (normal page display, view source, the form on the edit page). I've thought about this for a while, and I've come to the conclusion that you should probably be using instead of using the unicode form of the non-breaking space. It seems that if anyone were to edit that page using Firefox, Firefox would automatically convert the non-breaking space to a normal space character (I assume this is a bug/feature in Firefox). --- [[User:RockMFR|RockMFR]] 22:04, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
: Hi Rock, that's interesting, and yeah, I'd regard that as a bug in Firefox, damn them. I agree, the best workaround for this is probably to use the HTML entity instead, ugly as it is. I'll change I bot to do this. Thanks for the feedback. [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 22:09, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
== re: Mayonaise -> Mayonnaise ==
[[The Smashing Pumpkins]] song is intentionally spelled as "[[Mayonaise (song)|Mayonaise]]" as opposed to [[Mayonnaise]]. I noticed this was changed on [[The Smashing Pumpkins discography]]. I'm not sure it it was changed on any other pages. [[User:Cjosefy|Cjosefy]] 14:42, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
: Hi, thanks for that. I've added that article to my exception list. Cheers, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 15:36, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
== French spelling in italics in [[Cults and governments]] ==
Hi:
Your bot appears to have changed ''constitue'' to ''constitute'' in the [[Cults and governments]] article. Good English but bad French: the quote appeared encased in two sets of two single quotes as a a sign of its Frenchness. Not enough to protect it? -- [[User:Pedant17|Pedant17]] 04:00, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
: Hi there. Sorry about that, I'll add the article to my exception list so it doesn't happen again. I'm afraid that correctly recognising stuff that is and isn't in quotes is very tricky to get right given the freeform nature of wiki markup, and the fact that single quotes are actually used as wiki syntax. As the human supervisor, I should have recognised the French and left it alone, but I guess the occasional article slips through. Again, my apologies. Cheers, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 02:00, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
== Proposition about prepositioning ==
Yo! Thanks for the great work! However, on the [[Civil defense]] page, "prepositioning" was not a misspelling of proposition. It did in fact refer to the pre-positioning of materials in planning a civil defensive response. I corrected the page as "pre-positioning"... we'll see how long that lasts. --[[User:Parradoxx|Parradoxx]] 14:57, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
: Argh! Thanks for catching that. I've seen quite a few prepositionings (usually of ships) in the past, and have prevented my bot from making a rather silly correction of it. I guess it was just a matter of time before one slipped through the net. I'll make a note of it anyway. Cheers, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 02:03, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
== [[Ancient (Stargate)]] ==
Hi, you found 3 spelling mistakes in this article. Two of them were real mistakes (thanks for fixing), but the other one (ahve->have) was supposed to say "ahve" (i.e. misspelled) and has been changed back to the wrong spelling. I'm just letting you know in case you want to fix this word again. :-) – [[User:Sgeureka|sgeureka]] <sup>[[User_talk:Sgeureka|t]]•[[Special:Contributions/Sgeureka|c]]</sup> 09:01, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
: Thanks, sgeureka. I've made a note of it. Cheers, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 20:58, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
== Thank You ==
Dear CmdrObot,
Thanks for the edit and spelling correction in [[William of Baskerville]] page. Much appreciated.
--[[User:Cyrillic|Cyril Thomas]] 01:13, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
== [[Dear Boss letter]] ==
Last year you copied edited the writing in the quotation listing what the writer of the Dear Boss letter said. This was a direct quote. The spelling errors have to stay that way, because that's how the letter was written. You can;t change the text of historical documents. [[User:216.165.158.7|216.165.158.7]] 05:44, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
==Phycology==
Re your edit [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Algaculture&diff=108758440&oldid=108179765], phycology, phycological etc... the study of algae, you must be learning a lot with this bot project of yours, good luck :) [[user:sbandrews|sbandrews]] ([[user_talk:sbandrews|t]]) 11:08, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
: Indeed! Although I suppose that's no bad thing :) By the way, I like the interactive map of Mars you have on your user page. Nice job. Cheers, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 00:50, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
==Imposter==
Rastafari movement is a UK spelling article so you shouldnt have changed the correct imposter to the incorrect impostor. Thanks, [[User:SqueakBox|SqueakBox]] 22:52, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
: Ah, my apologies. I didn't realise this was one of those cases where British and American English differ. I've removed that rule from my bot, thanks for pointing it out. Cheers, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 22:58, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
::No problem I thought that might be the case. I didnt know it was spelled like that in American myself, [[User:SqueakBox|SqueakBox]] 23:01, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
== [[Conversion of units]] ==
Hi - on this page the bot 'corrected' cental to central. Ordinarily no problem, but in this case the unit of measure really is a cental. -- [[User:Bpmullins|BPMullins]] | [[User talk:BPmullins|Talk]] 01:18, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
: Thanks for that. Another user, Rhialto already pointed it out to me, and I've made a note of it so it won't happen again. Cheers, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 17:53, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
== Baton Rouge, LA ==
How's it going. The bot changed 'Comite' Drive to 'Committee' Drive, which is incorrect. Just letting you know. --[[User:Boznia|Boznia]] 01:44, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
: Oops. Sorry about that. I've made a note of that exception so my bot won't make the same mistake again. Cheers, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 17:55, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
== Litteral Township ==
Hi, in [[List of Arkansas townships]], the bot changed "Litteral" (which is the name of the township, see http://www.city-data.com/township/Litteral-Washington-AR.html ), to "Literal". I guess it's, ahem, a literal-minded bot :-) --[[User:Bonadea|Bonadea]] 14:18, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
: Ba-dum, tish! :) Thanks for the note (and the terrible pun), and sorry for making the mistake. I've updated my bot's exception list so it won't happen again. Cheers, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 17:57, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
==[[Skolt Sami]] articles==
Hello! You're bot has been changing the proper Skolt symbol (´) to ', so we end up with changes like Puõ´ttem→Puõ'ttem. The correct char is, however, ´, so if you could have the bot change them back and then start ignoring them, it would be nice and something that I'd appreciate greatly. Pjacklam has a [http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruker:Pjacklam/Samiske_tegn subpage] in the Norwegian wiki that has all of the special symbols needed for the different Sámi languages. Thanks :) -[[User:Yupik|Yupik]] 21:50, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
: Thank you for explaining this to me, and sorry for messing up your articles. Luckily, back in February, I changed the way my bot treats ´s: it now only converts them to apostrophes when they're found in common English contractions. Unfortunately, I won't be able to get my bot to revert the changes, but I will go back and fix them up manually myself. Cheers, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 22:01, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
== Please take care in technical articles ==
Dear Commander: The "history" page of the article "History of evolutionary thought" records that on 25 February 2007 you edited the sentence "The preformed parts expanded and rearranged themselves to grow into an adult, and so Bonnet was called a 'preformationist'" to read "The performed parts expanded and rearranged themselves to grow into an adult, and so Bonnet was called a 'preformationist'".
This "improvement" in spelling had to be reversed by GRBerry on 28 February 2007. You seem to be very good at taking criticism (which is refreshing!), so I gently offer this: when "fixing" technical articles, take great care: there are many terms used which are quite unknown to even fairly well-educated language users. "Preformed" is one such term. Thank you for your good attitude. [[User:Writtenright|Writtenright]] 00:45, 10 April 2007 (UTC)Writtenright
:Hi Writtenright, thanks for the tip. As it turns out, I've run across the (correct) use of 'preformed' a number of times on Wikipedia. Usually it's used when discussing moulds used in metallurgy, glasswork, plastics and so on. I guess in this particular case I must not have been paying as much attention as I should have been, and inadvertently approved the change. I've made a note of it so it won't recur.
:Thanks for the compliment; the way I look at it is that in the interests of speed, I don't worry about being 100% perfect with either the rules I add to my bot, or how thoroughly I check the edits they make. I try to be fairly careful, but I do make the occasional mistake that probably wouldn't happen with a slower, more measured approach. In order to make this an acceptable compromise, I think the very least I can do is to encourage criticism/feedback from other Wikipedians and respond to it as best I can. Cheers, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 22:23, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
== S.p.A. ==
Hi CmdrObot. In a recent edit to [[Alfa Romeo]], you incorrectly changed several instances of “S.p.A.” (the abbreviation for “Società per Azioni”, the Italian version of [[joint stock company]]) to “S.p. A.” (i.e. inserted a space before the ‘A’). Might be one to watch out for in the future. Regards. [[User:DH85868993|DH85868993]] 03:07, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
: Ah. Thanks for that. I'll add a special case to my bot to handle it. Cheers, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 20:25, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
== A->an ==
While it's usually true that the indefinite article should be "an" if the word following begins with a vowel letter, there are times where this is not the case as with this edit: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Holy_Qurbana_of_Addai_and_Mari&diff=125688299&oldid=123457672]. "Euchological" as normally pronounced in English begins with the same consonant sound as "you" and "yes", like "eureka" and "euphony", and so the preceding article should be "a", not "an". See the usage note here [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=a]. I wonder if this is a uniform enough rule for words beginning in "eu" that it should be made a general exception? ''[[User:Csernica|TCC]]'' <small>[[User_talk:Csernica|(talk)]] [[Special:Contributions/Csernica|(contribs)]]</small> 03:02, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
: Hi TCC, thanks for noticing that. You are, of course, quite right. I've run across many 'eu' words before, and I haven't seen a single case where it should be preceeded by 'an' rather than 'a'. Before now, I just created specific exceptions for the individual words ('euro', 'eurocard', 'eurofighter', 'europop', and so on, ad nauseam), but I think it's about time I made a specific rule in my bot to handle it. Cheers, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 18:08, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
== [[HNoMS Olav Tryggvason]] ==
Dear commander, this source: '''* Berg, Ole F.: {{lang|no|''I skjærgården og på havet - Marinens krig 8. april 1940 - 8. mai 1945'', Marinens Krigsveteranforening}}, Oslo 1997 ISBN 82-993545-2-8''' is a Norwegian source, as signified by the lang|no tag, hence the first letters of months is not supposed to be capital. I thought that tagging sources with lang|no would prevent this problem, isn't that correct? [[User:Manxruler|Manxruler]] 14:12, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
: Hi Manxruler. Thanks for pointing out the bug in my bot. I've made it ignore any text inside a lang template. Cheers, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 21:29, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
::Glad to be of assistance. Its a fine bot you have made, good to hear its getting even better. [[User:Manxruler|Manxruler]] 23:21, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
== This is an awesome bot! ==
I love you cmdrobot. Let's elope to the hills and have perfectly spelled children. No, but seriously, great job :D Keep upholding the iron fist of English! - [[User:Fluck|Fluck]] 15:02, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
: LOL. Thank you! Having just read your user page, I'm glad I'm on your good side; it sounds like your enemies have a difficult time of it. I'm happy to hear you believe in the iron fist of [[Linguistic prescription|prescriptivism]] too. None of this namby pamby [[descriptive linguistics]] for us! [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 00:38, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
== Singular value decomposition ==
I've no idea how this could have happened, but [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Singular_value_decomposition&diff=128315379&oldid=126953832 your edit] at [[Singular value decomposition]] added a plus/minus symbol at the start of the article. No big deal, and I corrected it, but I'm letting you know in case it's a bug. Cheers, [[User:Jitse Niesen|Jitse Niesen]] ([[User talk:Jitse Niesen|talk]]) 00:24, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
: Hi Jitse. I think the problem was probably me accidentally clicking on the ± button in the 'insert symbol' widget while verifying the bot's edit. Thanks for letting me know though. Cheers, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 00:43, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
== [[Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood]] ==
Your bot has made a number of spelling and punctuation changes to this page, but -
*Most of the spelling changes are in old quotations. I haven't checked the originals, but I have no doubt at least some of them were correctly transcribed.
*Furthermore, it seems to replace '...' with '. ..', which is plain wrong.
Yours, --[[User:ColinFine|ColinFine]] 16:17, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
: Thanks Colin. I've made note of the spellings in the quotes on that page. Also, you're quite right about the bot introducing spurious spaces into ellipses; this happened as an inadvertent side effect to a change I made to the bot recently. I've fixed it now. Thanks again. [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 20:33, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
== Additional function suggestion: decapitalisation of headings ==
According to [[Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(headings)]], only the first word and proper nouns should begin with a capital letter. Would it be possible to differentiate between names and other proper nouns and non-proper nouns? Perhaps it could check a dictionary and if it's listed as a regular noun, it gets marked for decapitalisation. If a word were entirely capitals, then it would be left as an acronym. --[[User:Seans Potato Business|Seans]] '''[[User talk:Seans Potato Business|Potato Business]]''' 20:28, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
: Hi Sean, thanks for the suggestion. It's a good idea, but I suspect not quite so easy to determinte what's a proper noun as it might first appear (eg Potter, Cooper, Smith, Archer). Also, what if you had something like an embedded movie name, like "The public debate on 'Mortal Combat'", or an official title, such as "Reaction to the Director General's report"
: For what it's worth, my bot already does 'case normalisation' for some common headers, such as 'External links', 'See also', 'Plot summary', 'Track listing' and so on. Hopefully this is enough for the moment. Thanks again, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 20:43, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
::Yeah, I think you're right. :( Thanks for the attention! --[[User:Seans Potato Business|Seans]] '''[[User talk:Seans Potato Business|Potato Business]]''' 10:37, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
== [[Origin of Western Ganga Dynasty]] ==
Hi. Can you please run spellcheck on this article if and when you have time?
Thanks[[User:Dineshkannambadi|Dineshkannambadi]] 22:49, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
: Sure thing. I've spellchecked it now. Cheers, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 00:54, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
Thanks.[[User:Dineshkannambadi|Dineshkannambadi]] 01:20, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
==Cumberland, Maryland Radio Chart==
You made some changes to the radio chart on the Cumberland, Maryland page. This messed things up BIG time. I figured you didn't mean to do this, so no worries. But, there are sometimes, especially with charts, that blank areas are a good thing and should be left alone. If you have questions with charts and whatnot, please let me know and I will be glad to help. - [[User:Orangemonster2k1|SVRTVDude]] <sup>([[User_talk:Orangemonster2k1|V]][[Special:Contributions/Orangemonster2k1|T]])</sup> 03:21, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
: Hi SVRTVDude, I'm very sorry about that. I'll have look at getting my bot to leave that sort of thing alone in future. Cheers, [[User:CmdrObot|CmdrObot]] 19:55, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
::Hey, not a problem:) All was corrected quite quickly, so not many people probably noticed. Take Care....[[User:Orangemonster2k1|SVRTVDude]] <sup>([[User_talk:Orangemonster2k1|V]][[Special:Contributions/Orangemonster2k1|T]])</sup> 23:54, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
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