KoehlBot

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This user account is a bot that uses AutoWikiBrowser, operated by Dan Koehl (talk). It is a legitimate alternative account, used to make repetitive automated or semi-automated edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually.
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2015 edit

User account KoehlBot was created 2015-03-29, and the bot was approved 14:02, 17 May 2015 (UTC).

2016 edit

This bot locates and removes questionable templates like {{N.Z.}}, {{Ait}}, and {{nv}}, {{NZACAcari}}, {{PlantSynz|872}} and {{NZOR}}

It also used to locate and remove non-standard categories with references to geographical regions, like [[Category: some taxon (Australia)]] and [[Category: some taxon (New Zealand)]] or change a file category, like from [[Category:Taxa of G.I. Holwell]] into [[Category:Gregory I. Holwell taxa]].

2017 edit

During January as many Category: <<taxon name>> (<<any country>>) files as possible were sorted into in Category:Non-standard taxon formatting and Category:Candidates for speedy deletion, where the files were analyzed before deletion. Discussions in the village pump regarding the geographical categories can be found here and here. Old Non-standard taxon formatted articles get sorted within the category in the Category:Non-standard taxon formatting.
February–April: KoehlBot is using AWB to convert hyphens to en-dashes, see Wikispecies:Project Cleanup/Using AWB to convert hyphens to en-dashes.
October-November: Again using AWB to convert hyphens to en-dashes, see Wikispecies:Project Cleanup/Using AWB to convert hyphens to en-dashes.

2018 edit

January-February: Again using AWB to convert hyphens to en-dashes, see Wikispecies:Project Cleanup/Using AWB to convert hyphens to en-dashes.
February: removing link brackets [[New Zealand]] from red linked New Zealand on 4,603 pages, as w ell as removing numerous "etc.". Changing capital S into lower case on word Species, unless Species starts a sentence, or comes after a * or after a = . Dan Koehl (talk) 22:14, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

2019 edit

January: using AWB to remove invalid Vernacular Name la=. See request from User:Andyboorman and discussion at Wikispecies:Village_Pump#Bot_needed and la=.