Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Fixatypobot

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Fixatypobot

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Operator: Datakid1100 (talk · contribs)

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic

Programming language(s): C# DotNetWikiBot

Function overview: To correct typos.

Edit period(s): Mounthly

Estimated number of pages affected: 6 per minute.

Exclusion compliant (Y/N):

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

Function details: Correct typos. A list of typos to be corrected will have to be made.

Discussion

Denied. I'm afraid bots which attempt to fix spelling are denied, as it's not realistically possible to prevent false positives, because in some places misspellings are actually wanted. Please see Wikipedia:Bot policy#Restrictions on specific tasks and Wikipedia:Bots/Frequently denied bots. You are, however, welcome to use a program which does assisted editing (i.e. every edit is approved by a human), which fixes spelling/typos. WP:AWB has a plugin which does for this. - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 10:20, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

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