Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Halibott

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Halibott

Operator: //Halibutt

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Fully manual (using AWB)

Programming Language(s): AWB

Function Summary: Tedious tasks like changing several hundred links in accordance with WP:RM

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run):From time to time

Edit rate requested: I'm not sure if anytime I have some free time fits here... So far I've been able to make roughly 100 edits in one go.

Already has a bot flag (Y/N):Nope.

Function Details: See description above.

Discussion

Since it's basically an AWB account and all changes are applied manually, it's not really a proper bot and, as suggested at the talk page, it doesn't really fit the definition. However, I listed it here to avoid clogging the watchlists, as several hundred edits in a row might indeed be a problem for someone who has them all in his or hers watchlist. //Halibutt 13:27, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

If approved, will this still be completely manually run? — xaosflux ^Talk 02:49, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

As in most cases the changes I do consist of correcting piped links, I still have to watch the changes for proper grammar and context, so yes. Of course, I don't deny that perhaps in the future I could do some automatic spell-check or some similar task which would most probably not require as close attention, but so far I focus on complicated cases rather than simple "apropriate ==> appropriate" changes. //Halibutt 18:28, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

While the bot is approved, you may want to stay away from spell checking, unless you're making sure that you're staying away from regional variants of English... Titoxd^(?!?) 05:41, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Approved; the bot shall run with a flag. I was about to ask for testing but I see that you already did quite a bit of that.Voice-of-All 04:30, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. AAMoF I didn't know that approval was needed and ran it just as I did under my own user name initially. It was only after two or three days that someone suggested I should list it here. Anyway, the block button is there anyway and the AWB stops once any comment appear at the talk page, so it's easy to stop me should I do something wrong. //Halibutt 09:28, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Voice of All, as far as I know AWB does not include the BrE/AmE differences in its dictionary, so there's no risk that I would start a crusade against common grammatical and spelling errors mistaken for dialect ;) //Halibutt 20:26, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

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