Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/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[edit]
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)[reply]
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