User talk:SnorlaxMonster

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SnorlaxMonster (talk) 23:04, 29 October 2010 (EDT)

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...isn't really apparent vandalism per se. The person who edited this could have easily messed up their wording. Don't forget to assume good faith. SugarCookie 420 10:57, April 7, 2019 (EDT)

When the only change is to make something clearly false, it seems pretty clearly like vandalism to me. It's one thing if it looks like a typo that happened while making a constructive edit, but that was clearly a case where someone was deliberately inserting false information. --SnorlaxMonster 11:00, April 7, 2019 (EDT)

Still, I see it as an honest mistake and less of actual vandalism. He may have misread the sentence or believed it worked better, but it is definitely not obvious vandalism. SugarCookie 420 15:45, April 7, 2019 (EDT)

All-Out Attack

Hi there. You know the All-Out Attack page you've edited? I've previously thought about the same thing. And that's why I edited it in. Juju1995 (talk) 01:43, April 25, 2019 (EDT)

Spirit battles and Python

I saw in the edit history for your list of spirit battles that you used Python to scrape them from their pages. If you don't mind, which API or package did you use for that? I'd like to use Python to make sure the hundreds of various places that list battles are consistent (the edits will be manual, I just don't want to spend several days recollecting the wiki markup). --CanvasK (talk) 18:50, August 26, 2020 (EDT)

It's mostly just urllib.requests and regular expressions. The code just iterates through each Spirit series page (I provide it a list of them) and parses the relevant table from the edit page. I probably should be using the MediaWiki API, but given how infrequently I run the code that shouldn't make a huge difference.

I'm happy to share my code if you're interested, although since it was primarily for my personal use it's not necessarily particularly well commented (or even easy to follow) in its current form. It also doesn't currently work, because I hadn't anticipated it would need to deal with rowspans (e.g. Ninjara, Cuphead), and doesn't fail particularly gracefully. I can take a look at the code over the weekend though, and try to get it working again. --SnorlaxMonster 06:53, August 27, 2020 (EDT)

I hadn't thought of using the edit page, I was thinking of passing the regular page and somehow getting the markup text that way. I may take a shot at it myself now that I got a rough idea on what to do; I may ask about seeing your code later if I ran in to too many issues.

How'd you get just the Spirit Battle section? I see that there is "section=#" in the URL but that isn't the same for each series. --CanvasK (talk) 07:11, August 27, 2020 (EDT)