User:JoelHelperBot

This user account is a bot operated by Spellcheck (talk). It is used to make repetitive automated or semi-automated edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually, in accordance with the bot policy. This bot does not yet have the approval of the community, or approval has been withdrawn or expired, and therefore shouldn't be making edits that appear to be unassisted except in the operator's or its own user and user talk space.
Administrators: if this bot is making edits that appear to be unassisted to pages not in the operator's or its own userspace, please block it.

This bot was created to create, improve, and maintain English Wikipedia's US Presidential Election imagemaps, which are all very similar, and tedious to do by hand. As of its creation, the maps are only clickable going back to 1876, and the clickable areas are notably misaligned from the states they represent.

In the future, it may be used for other similar activities that involve editing large numbers of pages that are duplicative and largely generated, as such pages that need editing come to my attention.

You can see the bot's handiwork on its contributions page, if you like.

In the unlikely event the bot goes rogue, please use the emergency shutoff button below to stop its rampage:

Emergency bot shutoff button

Administrators: Use this button if the bot is malfunctioning. (direct link)
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