Wiktionary:Votes/bt-2006-03/Request for bot status: ThirdPersonBot

Discussion moved from Wiktionary:Beer parlour/2006/March#Request for bot status: ThirdPersonBot.

• Bot: User: ThirdPersBot
• Owner/operator: User: Connel MacKenzie
• Purpose: Fill in third person verb forms, exactly as is currently done manually.
• Generation restrictions:
  1. Entry must not already exist.
  2. Root form must link the 3rd person form one or two lines after the ===Verb=== heading.
  3. Inflection can be provided by regular text wikification, or any other template that wikifies terms, including Uncle G's inflection templates as well as Ncik's templates (or any others!)
  4. All but the last three two characters of the root form must match the plural form to be auto-generatred in this manner.
  5. Auto-generated only if there is no other inflected form (e.g. any adjective or noun inflection).
  6. ===Verb=== header of root term must be within an ==English== language section.

VOTE:

• For:
  1. --Connel MacKenzie T C 05:44, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
  2. -- Tawker 06:27, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
  3. --SemperBlotto 08:33, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
  4. --EncycloPetey 23:39, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
  5. --MGSpiller 01:51, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
  6. Davilla 03:02, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
  7. -- Keffy 06:32, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
  8. -- Jonathan Webley 08:59, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
  9. — Vildricianus 10:00, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

• Against:

• Comments:
  1. I would prefer that the headers of the created pages use ===Verb form=== rather than simply "Verb". This makes it clearer that mnore information will be found in a main entry. --EncycloPetey 23:39, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
• Spelling rules as above. Also as above, should not have a noun sense, as that would imply both plural and verb inflection. I know there was some opposition at first, but I think you went overboard by dividing these tasks so finely. Davilla 03:02, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
  • See "Generation rules #5" - yes, if there is a noun form, it is excluded. I don't think I went overboard dividing the tasks. This is the identical subdivision I had when I first proposed it and Ec unilaterally denied the entire request specifying that each sub-task needed separate approval. I think that is very illogical, but it has had the side benefit of separating the flamewars to only the sub-components generating controversy (i.e. redirects and translations.) --Connel MacKenzie T C 03:45, 17 March 2006 (UTC)