User:FredBot

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FredBot is a bot, written in Java. He exists to perform many rote edits and maintenance tasks (such as career boxes for people).

Fredbot is run occasionally by Tone, manually. He does screw up from time to time, and if you think this has happened, please inform me promptly. — TONY LOVELL, Editor.

Features under consideration

Editors should pipe in on the discussion panel as to which of these they feel most strongly about.

  • Maintain characteristics boxes in ship class pages and ship pages such that every entry in the Ship Class will be, by default, made in the boxes for all the Ships unless the human editors provide an explicit value on the Ship page to indicate that it differs from the others in its class. This would be an involved effort, however.
  • Maintain the Bibliography section by automatically adding the long-form Citable Source Template transclusion for each such that is used in providing a footnote within the page.

Helping FredBot

Sometimes, my code to make FredBot work is not entirely sure it has done the right thing. As a fig-leaf, sometimes pages where this occurs get added to special Categories for follow-up by human eyes. Here are some.