User talk:IcqBOT

<icqgirl> Hello! I take responsibility for icqBOT's possible mishaps. Please inform me for praises, problems and petty things! <icqBOT> I am a bot.

odd formatting

Of the entries created so far, most have formatting issues. The entry for Ingles lacks an inflection line for the verb, and seems to have a conjugation table there instead. There are others with no wikilinks and some categorized in English langauge categories.

Are you testing this bot prior to seeking approval? All bots on Wiktionary require rigorous approval before operating here. See WT:BOT. --EncycloPetey 06:58, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Your edits are requiring a lot of cleanup. Given this, use of the bot is not likely to be approved. I recommend that you learn more about Wiktionary entry format, categories, etc. before trying this bot again. --EncycloPetey 07:27, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi EncycloPetey, I see you blocked IcqBOT. I wrote it and I had a look at the edits it made and the cleanup work that was involved afterwards. I changed Related words to Related terms and I will have it create Proper Noun entries when the first letter is a capital. Since I sorted the headwords, all the first ones that are being added happen to be capitalized ones. The other things, she will have to learn to fix manually herself. The page is shown to her in a text editor, before it is added to Wiktionary. She is new to editing, so she's not entirely familiar with the format. What I did is a best effort attempt to convert the text file she is working from to Wiktionary format.

I admit that I made a few mistakes, nothing that can't be fixed though. Probably due to me being out of the loop for 3 years. Please give it half a chance to get through its theething problems. Also realize that each time you block the bot, Icqgirl cannot edit with her own account anymore either, since the IP address gets blocked as well. I told her to make a few edits, in order to test it. I've been away for the day though, so I'm sorry I couldn't fix it myself. --Polyglot 20:23, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

If her IP address is also blocked, then there is something wrong with the blocking interface. It shouldn't do that. Bots are rarely approved on wiktionary. There must be a compelling reason for one, and it is not a good idea for a new editor unfamiliar with Wiktionary entry layout to be jumping ahead to using a bot. It is good to learn the layout first, and then consider how a bot might assist.

Making a capital entry automatically a proper noun is incorrect. Capitalization does not guarantee a noun is proper, and lower case does not necessarily mean it is a common noun. Common and proper nouns are distinguished on the basis of grammatical properties and application, not because of orthography. --EncycloPetey 04:38, 9 February 2009 (UTC)