User talk:LGBot

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Bot Tasks

This is a list of tasks that the bot might be able to help get done faster. Feel free to request anything that you want done, and I'll add it to the list if it seems feasible. If you'd like to contact the bot operator directly, you can do so at User talk:Jonpro. Also, please sign your comments with ~~~~.

Great job!

Hey Jonpro,
Great work with the bot! Looks like it's running smoothly... as for tasks, think it could change instances of The Order to the Order? Actually, I'm not sure which one is correct, but I think there's instances of both floating about the wiki. Thoughts anyone?
OwenIsCool 01:39, 15 March 2007 (CDT)

i think "the" is definitely the correct form. --Skeeta 01:56, 15 March 2007 (CDT)
Yeah, whichever one is correct, I'm pretty sure the bot could fix those. And I think "the Order" is correct as well. Is there anyone who thinks it should be "The Order"?--Jonpro 10:38, 15 March 2007 (CDT)
You know, in real life these things are often a matter of belief. For example, a Christian would say "We pray to Him" where non-Christians would more likely write "They pray to him." So Lucy would probably write "We in The Order" because, to her, it's The Order and there is no other Order. Thank Goodness this isn't real wikipedia where we'd have to make a decision about real people's deeply held religious beliefs. For what it's worth, the official description of Date With P. Monkey also capitalizes "The" in the middle of a sentence. --JayHenry 11:43, 15 March 2007 (CDT)
i think that only applies to the capitalization of "order." for ex, someone wouldn't say "Our God."--Skeeta 18:47, 15 March 2007 (CDT)
Date With P. Monkey and Me For Daniel capitalizes mid-sentence. In Bree Is Crazy Daniel leaves it lower case. I thought of another example of the controversy. Newspapers insist on capitalization, such as The New York Times, but others insist it should be the New York Times. I guess there's no right or wrong answer. --JayHenry 23:25, 15 March 2007 (CDT)

Another one similar to this is The creators. Is it "the Creators", "The Creators", or "the creators"?--Jonpro 22:34, 15 March 2007 (CDT)

A few bad edits

The bot recently made a few bad edits to Bree, Daniel, and a couple other pages due to an error in logic on my part. I was removing leading blank lines from the YouTube tag pages and accidentally removed some (necessary) blank lines in a few other articles. I have reverted all of the bots bad edits and fixed the logic so it won't happen again.--Jonpro 16:36, 15 March 2007 (CDT)

Soundtracks

Hey Jonpro,
For a while I've wanted to have video pages link to the LG15 Soundtrack table instead of having their own music links (in the template). Twjaniak had tried to explain to me how to do this with "anchors" and I didn't quite get it. It did seem like something fairly repetitive though... think if I figure out how to do it, we could have good ol' LGBot run it?
OwenIsCool 18:35, 15 March 2007 (CDT)

Hmmm, I guess it depends on exactly how it would work. If it's a matter of replacing one string of text with another, then definitely. And you can get pretty clever with this, so some things are possible that at first don't seem to be. There are other things the bot can do, but it sounds like replacing would be the thing to use here. Most likely, if it is a repetitive task, the bot will have some way to do it.--Jonpro 20:07, 15 March 2007 (CDT)
All righty, I took another look at it and apparently this is how it works.
Step 1: Add anchors to the song titles. For "A Cup Of Blue", put the div tags around the title (note the div id cannot have spaces) <div id="A_Cup_Of_Blue>A Cup Of Blue</div> It doesn't matter what's in between the tags, it could be hyperlinked or anything, won't make a difference as long as the bot can figure out how to separate the title from the hyperlink so it can copy it. What we'd be linking to is the little "anchor" you've made. This step seems fairly straightfoward in that all the bot would have to do is add the markup and use the song title name (with no spaces) as the anchor.
Step 2: Update the blog pages to include links to these anchors. On Bree Phone Home that would mean putting in "[[LG15Soundtrack#A_Cup_Of_Blue|A Cup of Blue]] by Steve Watkins". Now I can see that being trickier since we haven't been consistent with how we credit the music there. However, if the bot can at least make the anchors, it won't be as much work to link to them.
Is at least some of that doable for LGBot? If it'd be too much work to program it, just let me know. It definitely looks like more work than "the Order" or "the Creators".
OwenIsCool 13:36, 16 March 2007 (CDT)

Video template

I've noticed that only the videos from Snow Angels on actually use {{blog4}}, and the ones before it use {{blog3}}. Would it be a good idea to try to convert all of them to {{blog4}}? If so, what are the differences between the two templates? If it's nothing too extreme, the bot might be able to make the conversion.--Jonpro 20:13, 15 March 2007 (CDT)

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