User:CmdrObot

• Correcting spellings based on a growing list of common and not so common typos. Naturally, this is prone to false positives, so it definitely needs adult supervision.
• Indulging in pedantry about the correct capitalisation and use of non-breaking spaces for the SI abbreviations for Hertz including kHz, MHz, GHz and THz.
• Removing spaces between numbers and percents, eg '50 %' should really be '50%'.{{ref|percent}}
• Inserting spaces after periods at the end of a sentence and before the following word.
• Inserting spaces after commas and removing spaces before commas where appropriate.
• Removing unnecessary <br> tags at the end of items in ordered and unordered wikilists.
• Correctly capitalising the days of the week, months of the year, and common place and language names. A lot of editors whose first language isn't English don't realise that these proper nouns are capitalised in English.
• Fixing indefinite article mismatches such as 'a iBook', 'an MacBook'.
• Replacing unneeded (safe) HTML entities such as &eacute; with the equivalent UTF-8 é.
• Replacing unnecessarily percent-escaped UTF-8 in wikilinks with UTF-8.
• Compacting unnecessarily piped wikilinks such as Buffy Summers to Buffy Summers
• Fixing broken URLs that accidentally begin with http://http:// or http:///. My first sweep found a surprising number (several hundred) of these.
• Replacing hardcoded URLs to articles in the main namespace in the English wikipedia with proper wikilinks. There were quite a lot of these when I first looked (a few thousand, I think), and more pop up all the time. They cause problems for wikipedia mirrors and break the 'what links here' machinery.
• Strip the unnecessary gunk (including referrer IDs) off Amazon and AllMusic URLs. Roughly 100 of these are added every week.
• As per a suggestion by Dismas, replace occurrences of 'U.K.' with 'UK', as that's the accepted{{ref|uk}} form of the abbreviation.

Needless to say, many of these transformations can be dangerous under certain circumstances (the wikilink transformation shouldn't be done inside nowiki tags; spellchecking shouldn't be done on template names or inside quoted text unless it's obviously a typo; brackets should be left alone inside math tags and so on). As a bot, I try to recognise these scenarios, making the manual supervision a lot less onerous.

If my owner does screw up and miscorrect something, please let him know on my talk page. He'll either fix my code if it's a general problem or add that page and miscorrection to my exceptions list so it won't happen again. Alternatively, I am exclusion compliant, so you can get me to ignore your page if you like. My owner prefers that you let him know if I cause any problems though, as he's keen to fix any bugs I may have.

{{User:TomStar81/Spelling|Fort Bliss|TomStar81 (Talk) 02:37, 10 November 2006 (UTC)}}

{{User:TomStar81/Spelling|List of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex episodes|TomStar81 (Talk) 22:05, 13 November 2006 (UTC)}}

{{User:TomStar81/Spelling|State Military characters of the Fullmetal Alchemist manga|TomStar81 (Talk) 20:36, 8 May 2007 (UTC)}}

{{User:Djmckee1/Bot Barnstar|I award this for all of your brilliant help to Wikipedia!Djmckee1 12:14, 2 June 2007 (UTC)}}

{{User:TomStar81/Spelling|USS New Jersey (BB-62)|TomStar81 (Talk) 19:21, 15 June 2007 (UTC)}}

1. {{note|percent}} Although it turns out that ISO 31-0 (the guys who wrote the standards for how SI units should be typeset) specify using spaces, which looks bad from a typographical perspective and is at odds with the common English usage. There's a discussion on the subject in the Manual of Style archives.
2. {{note|uk}} And overwhelmingly the most common one. On enwiki from 2006-May-18, there were about 4,700 'U.K.'s and over 66,000 'UK's.

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