User talk:The Cheatbot

From Homestar Runner Wiki

Revision as of 22:24, 4 April 2013

Welcome!

Welcome to the Homestar Runner Wiki! We're glad to have you as a member. If you need any help, feel free to ask anyone on the welcoming committee. You can also post questions on the FAQ talk page.

Here are some tips to get you started:

• If you need general information, editing tips, or answers to frequently asked questions, check out the help page.
• Before you do any significant editing, be sure to familiarize yourself with our wiki standards.
• Read up on the rules and guidelines for your user space.
• If you're not sure what you can do to help out, head over to The Stick.
• To practice editing, go over to the sandbox.
• If you're looking for more community interaction, you can also register over at our forum.
• If you see an update on homestarrunner.com that isn't listed on the Main Page, put it up here.
• To sign and timestamp a post on a talk page, type four tildes (~~~~).
• Above all, be sure to be bold and have fun!

Feel free to delete this message when you're done reading it. After all, your user space belongs to you. I hope this information is helpful, and that you'll have a good experience contributing to our knowledge-base and our community.

Sincerely,
 Loafing, and "The Homestar Runner Wiki Welcoming Committee", 20:59, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Shoplifting?

Hey, I hope you won't use the bot for cheating, Dot com ;-) Loafing 20:59, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

My, TheCheatbot, you're a fast one! And thanks for the kind message! --Stux 08:11, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

The Replacements

I'm curious about these last set of edits? --Stux 21:55, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Each thing the bot does eventually gets posted on its user page. If I haven't updated the user page yet, then it usually means that the task isn't complete yet. — It's dot com 22:30, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

My apologies. At the time I thought the task was complete and I got a little ahead of myself knowing that a post might be possibility. However, in my opinion, I think it would be advantageous to provide the description before the task at hand is being performed, so that users know the bot is doing at the moment. --Stux 22:39, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

“Quote Me”

After changing ’ to ' , ‘ to ' , “ to " , and ” to " on several pages ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12]), the thought occurred to me: Can't we get a bot to do some of this work? OptimisticFool 21:48, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Also ´ (as in [13]). OptimisticFool 05:48, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Done for the main namespace. — It's dot com 01:35, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Category organizing

Hey Cheatbot. There are a lot of templates that don't have {{PAGENAME}} in their category. I started to fix a few of those, but then I saw that there were 30-something templates like this. Can you help? — Elcool ^(talk)_(contribs) 10:54, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

I think I got them all, but there may be some leftovers that have to be adjusted manually. — It's dot com 01:35, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Template:commentary

Hey The Cheatbot, we need all of the commentary words on Sbemail pages replaced with said template so it'll show up in the categories. — MichaelXX2 22:23, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

You need to be more descriptive on what this project should entail. — It's dot com 22:14, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

1, 2, 4— e-mail me more!

Hello TheCheatbot.com, I noticed the edit where you fixed e-mail to email in 'Lectric Boots. I'm wondering if this will happen automatically, even in in-context cases? --BroncoTroll^☺ 20:31, 4 April 2013 (UTC) Oh, and I expect an answer in binary.

(Sorry this isn't in binary.) Okay, I had The Cheatbot automatically replace "e-mail" with "email" on 142 pages where it was pretty straightforward. (If those edits don't show up in recent changes for you, click on the link to show bots.) There were a few cases where I let it go ahead and make a change in the transcript of the sender's message or where Strong Bad is typing—in those instances, the transcript itself was wrong and needed to be fixed. Feel free to go through each of those edits to verify them. I also made 24 manual corrections where for some reason the whole page didn't need to change or the capitalization needed to be fixed. I listed the exceptions, etc. in the edit summary. Feel free to check those too. I identified the following pages that as of this writing have the string "e-mail" in them but where I did not make any changes.

These pages fall in four main categories:

1. There is an actual hyphen in the toon transcript.
2. It's an interview or some other external source where we should assume the hyphens were in the original.
3. The page contains a link to E-mail Birds or Real-Live E-Mails.
4. It's a page having to do with Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People.

With regard to SBCG4AP, I think it has captions and labels and stuff like that, and the hyphens are part of the game. Unless someone can say that they're definitely not in the game I think we should leave those pages alone. We also need to look over all of the Main Pages. The button on the site has a hyphen, but most if not all of our pages don't. — It's dot com 21:52, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

I will confirm the edits right away! Oh, and why would my edit to the Homestar Ruiner Responses need verification? I thought that was our text, not their the game's subtitles. --BroncoTroll^☺ 22:03, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

I think we should make a specific exception for SBCG4AP. For consistency's sake, we should use the hyphen on all its related pages and in lists that refer to it. — It's dot com 22:24, 4 April 2013 (UTC)