User:SmackBot

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This user account is a bot operated by Rich Farmbrough. It is not a sock puppet, but rather an automated or semi-automated account for making repetitive edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually. Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please use the big red button. If that doesn't work block it.

Contents 1 Flag status 2 Approval status for various tasks 3 Tools 4 Tasks 4.1 Current tasks 4.2 Recurrent tasks 4.3 Task queue 4.4 Completed tasks 5 Abandoned tasks 6 Later

[edit] Flag status

• Local request 21 February 2006 for very fast editing here.
• Meta request 23:34, 3 March 2006 (UTC) here.
• Granted here.
• Meta de-flag request c. 19:37, 30 March 2006 (UTC) here.
• Reflag requested and granted here 26 June 2006.

[edit] Approval status for various tasks

• Using AWB notified 5 March 2006 here..
• As of 10:33, 26 March 2006 (UTC) a request for withdrawing approval from this bot was running at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approvals#SmackBot_and_AWB_operated_by_Rich_Farmbrough
  • As a result the flag was voultarily relinquished, and regained through a new process (see above).
• Approval request for recurrent task 1. Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approvals#SmackBot Task Approval Approved.
• Approval request for recurrent task 2. Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approvals#SmackBot Task Approval II Approved.
• Approval request for recurrent task 3. Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approvals#SmackBot Task Approval III Approved.
• Approval request for one-off task 10. Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approvals#SmackBot Task Approval IV Approved.
• Approval request for one-off task 11. Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approvals#SmackBot Task Approval V Approved.
• Approval request for recurrent task 3a. Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approvals#SmackBot Task Approval VI Approved [1].
• Approval request for recurrent task 3b and 3c. Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SmackBot 7and8 Approved.
• Approval request for one off tasks 13 and 14requests IX and X.
• Note, when Smackbot is using AWB, some of the general fixes options will usually be turned on, to get the most value from the edits. Hence most edit summaries say "and/or general fixes". Again usually, the motivating change will be made or none at all.

[edit] Tools

I use Firefox and AWB at the moment. I also use perl to scan database downloads. I will prepare lists of articles for other users when I can.

[edit] Tasks

[edit] Current tasks

[edit] Recurrent tasks

1. Correct "External link" to "External links" in articles with more than one external link.
2. Correct "Reference" to "References" in articles with more than one reference.
3. Correct "ISBN:" to ISBN to allow wikimagic to prevail.
   • Other minor improvements to layout of ISBN numbers to allow wikimagic to prevail.
   • (Insert correct hyphenation of ISBNs, label articles with invalid ISBNs (too short, lang code, pub code undefined)).
   • (Check check digit, label articles with invalid ISBNs).
4. Date maintenance tags.

[edit] Task queue

1. Remove unnecessary capitals from section headers - work on common errors.

   Most common 245 done once. - will probably become a recurring task

[edit] Completed tasks

1. U.S. 2000 census articles into past tense.
2. Initial runs of recurrent tasks
3. Moved Saint Louis categories to St. Louis, and corrected links.
4. Remove unnecessary capitals from section headers - Most common 15 done.
5. Remove unnecessary capitals from section headers - second most common batch c. 230.
6. UK links direct to United Kingdom. Nazi to Nazism.
7. Pipe US to United States replace with U.S
8. Replace/pipe link Academy Award with Academy Awards
9. In days of the year replace first occurance of date with templated link, completed manually.
10. More Fix-ups in US Census articles
11. Remove spurious links to months of year and days of week.
12. Labelled all bad checksum ISBNs.
13. Renamed "invalid isbn" template "please check ISBN".
14. Modified Swiss geog articles census field to avoid deprecated "as of month year" links.
15. Tidied up album articles

[edit] Abandoned tasks

1. Fix section headers and templates in Pokemon arts.

   Not started. Probably been done by someone else by now.

2. Clean up piped links

   Stopped probably permanently. Might roll into other tasks.

[edit] Later

Work on bald heads, drugs, corporal punishment, fishing goats.....