MinusBot

Did the bot screw something up? Suggestions? Leave a message on this page and I'll get back to you. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 17:26, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

Proper minus signs

Hi! This bot made a change to an edit I made on Feng Zhang, changing -18 to −18!!!!!!!! That is, as far as I can tell, it changed a minus sign to a minus sign! Is there some other way of entering a minus sign on wp, other than pressing the - key on my keyboard? Thanks, Viroguy (talk) 23:08, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

@Viroguy: It changed a hyphen (-) to a minus sign (−). The difference is very subtle, but it is there. There are a few ways to enter the correct minus sign, you can select it from the edit bar (see [1], between the ± and × signs), or by writing − in the edit window. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 23:31, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

2 August 2017 malfunction

If you're here about the following edits: [2], the issue was that I forgot to log out of MinusBot, and performed some semi-automated cleanup I'd normally do from my own account. The edits are out of scope for MinusBot, but were all manually checked and do not need to be reverted.

With apologies for the inconvenience. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 23:26, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

1 October2017 malfunction

If you're here about the following edits: [3], the issue was that I used JCW-CleanerBot's settings instead of MinusBot's settings. The edits are out of scope for MinusBot, but were all correct for JCW-CleanetBot and do not need to be reverted.

With apologies for the inconvenience. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 00:37, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

fixes inside chem blocks

In this edit the bot changed

<chem>\mathsf{{Ba(OH)2} + K2CrO4 -> BaCrO4(v) + 2KOH}</chem>

into

<chem>\mathsf{{Ba(OH)2}} + K2CrO4 -> BaCrO4(v) + 2KOH}</chem>

turning a } into a }}. This broke the chem formula. <chem> should be treated the same as <math> and no changes made inside the block. <ce> is a synonym for <chem> and should also be skipped.--Salix alba (talk): 09:22, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

@Salix alba: an issue with WP:GENFIXES, and out of my control. Do report it at WT:AWB because this will affect all AWB-based bots. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 10:59, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

MinusBot added back extra space after template

Hi, on Radian I carefully deleted a newline after the Table of angles template by adding a comment, because there was too large a space. But MinusBot added the line back, making the space too large again. I'll admit I don't really know what going with the template, but removing the new line definitely fixes it: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Radian&diff=1086432029&oldid=1086430983 Is there a better fix or some way to tell MinusBot not to add the linebreak? --Mathnerd314159 (talk) 04:19, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

The solution is to fix the template. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 11:33, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks! I thought I tried that but I guess the template preview was wonky. --Mathnerd314159 (talk) 16:00, 6 May 2022 (UTC)