Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Punctuation/Round1

message: You could make the link from the listings page to the article that needs editing an edit link, to save users the  bother of that extra mouse click. (Or add another link so users can decide whether to visit the article in read or edit mode. Your filenames, but, suggest there are 625k errors to correct, which is disheartening until you realise that is not the case. In my experience, people like to know far through a project they are, and I'm not sure your files make this very easy. Ah. And if you cannot edit the listing files, then people are going to repeat the same work over and over again. Still. Kudos on doing the work. --Tagishsimon (talk)
* 652k is the total number of articles, not errors. I can make that more clear in the text. Unfortunately, the dumps total 5 megabytes, so I don't think it's appropriate to host them on wp where they can be edited. The idea is that you do a dump and then remove it from the list, so that the work isn't repeated. Are the dumps too long for that? I can easily make them shorter, at the expense of a much longer list on the project page. Brighterorange 00:06, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Archived talk from Round 1 

message: I've noticed a number of false positives with the pattern
:lots of properly punctuated interesting text.
I have just been moving the image onto a new paragraph which doesn't affect the layout any, but it would be nice if these were detected by the bot. -- pcr 23:25, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  False Positives 

message: Ran across many pages ending with a reference to a town named Decatur and the towns are usually named after Stephen Decatur Jr. and that's the last phrase in the paragraph. The paragraph ends with  ...town is named after Stephen Decatur Jr.
* Given that the project rules say to not change these, I think it would be prudent to filter out Jr., Sr. and D.C. (I see that one a lot). I'll update the program, but we still have to wait for another dump to come out.. Brighterorange 14:21, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Paragraphs ending with "Jr."

message: Could User:Humanbot help by bringing you to the right articles, marking them done if you save, etc? r3m0t talk 16:19, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)
Might be cool. --Phroziac (talk) 16:44, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Perhaps [[User:Humanbot]] can help? 

message: I'm not user if this is an operator error or an error with the project code, but this edit shows an example where the change led the failure of Image tags to close properly.  
Dragons flight 02:08, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)
* These edits are done manually, so it was a mistake of the person who made the change. As soon as the next database comes out, the listings will also avoid including things that end in image tags, which would have kept this from even showing up in the "potential problems". PS. most of the changes we make are good! Brighterorange 12:51, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  CORRECTION ERROR 

message: Congratulations for all the Project Contributors, the last dump file is being worked on and Round 1 will be over soon. I am really itching to get Round 2 going... ;) But I agree with Brighterorange that waiting one month might be a good idea.Poli (talk • contribs)
That's it. Round 1 is over! Thanks Budgiekiller for the last dump file!-Poli (talk • contribs) July 9 2005 19:30 (UTC)
* Thanks, everyone, and congratulations! I'll do some project cleanup tomorrow, but I am rather busy today ;) Brighterorange 02:46, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Round 1 Over