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Thank you for your vote of confidence that I've at least been doing things the right way so far. I have read through some of the history regarding previous bots and am aware of some of the pitfalls which can ensue, and have obviously taken advice from some experienced bot users, but your caution to
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To me, it looks like you have been discussing this bot with the interested community and intend to keep doing so. If the bot is implemented please individually verify the test run edits, and ask for positive input from the same community on the test runs, suggesting they check test runs also, not
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I don't forsee any problems here, but I think we should get down a few more details about tasks #1 and #2: "make the population parameter be numeric" and "move any non-numeric portions from existing population parameters to population_ref". Could you expand, maybe with some helpful examples? -
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This bot request is to implement steps 1 and 2 of that list. Once it is complete, a separate request will be made for steps 3 and 4. A third pass for the remaining steps is anticipated and has support in principle, but the changes have not yet been fully agreed in detail.
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that username as it never ran and the owner had no further need for the username, but I felt that the close association in name between it and my normal account would be helpful to some people for clarity.
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which is fine as far as it goes, but this prevents us from using the population figure in calculating population density. In this example, ClickBot would split the parameter and output
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just assume\ing if you post and they don't respond it's okay. However, I'm not concerned, from looking at your conversations with other members, that this will be an issue. --
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value will be numeric and so be able to make the calculation. The template can also ensure that the thousands separator is correctly displayed when appropriate.
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