JBradley Bot

Correction to Race/Ethnicity Term

Apparently this bot changed a correction I made to the Babbitt, MN page. I replaced an incorrect term (Native American) with the correct term (American Indian). In addition to undoing my correction of the error, the bot also undid other additions I made to the page. That should not happen. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Herb Evans (talk • contribs) 14:10, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Census URL

To whom ever is running this Bot, the archive location for "U.S. Decennial Census" is http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/decennial/index.htm so please fix the census table at Hopkinton, Iowa and possibly others that you changed. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 19:06, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

I'm putting two sources at the bottom of the table that I'm using to construct those tables. Can you explain to me why I should replace them with that source if it's not the one I'm using? Jamo2008 (talk) 20:19, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

The http://factfinder.census.gov points a person at that crappy designed new website that is a major pain to find anything. Please try to find the 1890 census for Hopkinton, Iowa at that URL. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 02:32, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

If you look at the bottom of the http://data.iowadatacenter.org/datatables/PlacesAll/plpopulation18502000.pdf file, it refers to the U.S. Decennial Census, which is the first link that I provided above. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 02:32, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

I don't think the 1890 data is on fact finder I get all data from 2000 and before form the Iowa Data Center link, I only get 2010 info from the fact finder, and finding that info isn't that hard. I do want to point out though that I didn't choose to source them this way the majority of the tables I looked at for Iowa cities before I wrote the code to generate the tables used these two links, so naturally I used those links as well. Example here is the Ames, Iowa page in 2009 set up with these two links http://en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?title=Ames,_Iowa&oldid=309887273. I'm not the most knowledgeable person about how citing should be done so if your 100% positive I'm doing wrong I can change it fairly easily, it's just from my perspective it's kind of silly for me to go change all the tables to a link I didn't use (note we are talking about ~900 tables because I've made a lot of them and there were quite a few sourced like this I didn't make). Jamo2008 (talk) 03:33, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

Good job

I was wondering when someone was going to update the census data. Looks good so far. —MJCdetroit ^{(tell me)} 03:32, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

Grammar correction

Please correct the syntax in the geography portion of the bot. It currently perpetuates the incorrect form, "...total area of x sq mi, of which, x sqmi of it is land...", etc. If you write "of which" in a sentence, it is redundant to add "of it" later. The correct wording should be, "...total area of x sq mi, of which x sq mi is land...", etc. Many editors have spent many edits correcting these mistakes from the first time a bot added them several years ago, and it is a shame to see those corrections being undone now. Thank you. --Ken Gallager (talk) 13:53, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

South Thomaston, Maine

The quality of work I had done to that page may have been crappy. However, I'm trying to figure out how your bot came up with different figures for the same town in various categories than I did using the same sources.CircuitChild (talk) 22:26, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

I went and double checked FactFinder and my numbers check out with it. Can you provide more specific info on which values aren't lining up and maybe I can provide more insight. Jamo2008 (talk) 05:03, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

So I went and looked at your version and here are the differences I found.

1. Our population and housing densities are off due to you probably using the area info on the page at the time which was the 2000 census info.
2. Race wise you mistakenly put 96.08% instead of 96.8% and you forgot about the .1% who choose other for race.
3. For % of households with children you used the value for households containing their own children rather than total % of households with children, so a situation like where a grandparent is raising their grandchildren wouldn't be included in the value you used.
4. 21.5% is the population under 20, and you used that value as being under 18.

Those are what jumped out at me during a quick scan. Jamo2008 (talk) 05:24, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

References using external link to Wikipedia article for United States Census Bureau?

Hello. Great work with adding missing 2010 census data. However, I was wondering why your bot is using the following external link in the references:

• Code: |publisher={{URL|1=http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/United_States_Census_Bureau|2=United States Census Bureau}}
• Result: United States Census Bureau

Since you are linking to a Wikipedia article, the usual format would be:

• Code: |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]
• Result: United States Census Bureau

-- Zyxw (talk) 04:12, 16 January 2013 (UTC)