User:Cartridge-bot
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The cartridge-bot user is to run the cartridge-bot, the purpose of which is to identify, classify, and correct inconsistent, missing, and erroneous ballistics data in the firearm cartridge infobox, which also was once described in the firearms wikiproject.
The initial version of the bot, which is nearly coded, source code soon to be released, utilizes the MediaWiki API to check instances of the infobox for inconsistent and missing data, prints the results, and suggests a few obvious edits, but does not make any automatic edits. I'd like to enhance it in the future to automatically correct inconsistencies. It is to be run manually, on an occasional basis.
My ultimate goal is that energy should be a computed field rather than user-input, so the bot is a good place to start in identifying errors, correcting those that can be, and classifying the various pages that use the infobox.
I described my initial proposal to clean up these errors via a bot in 2013 on the talk page of the firearms wikiproject. I also posted regarding the problem on the .30-06 Springfield talk page.
User:Dfavro (talk) 00:05, 4 November 2016 (UTC)