![]() | This page is not really active anymore. I have since made a tool to correct these automatically. Wmahan . 15:02, 21 August 2006 (UTC) |
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Hi, thanks for providing those pages so I have some typos to look for ;) Maybe if I start from the other end (and of course strike out things I've corrected), we'll avoid overlap? Fredrik 08:47, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)
I wouldn't mind at all, and thanks for the interesting reference. Wmahan . 07:11, 2004 Apr 10 (UTC)
I've removed "licencing", "licenced", and "gasses" from the list and commented them out on the List of common misspellings. "Predominately" was a mistake on my part; I should've checked for "predominantly" instead. I think both are actually valid, though, so I've removed them from the list as well. Thanks! Wmahan 19:18, 2004 Apr 5 (UTC)
You raise a good point, but what about the fact that predominate is listed as an adjective (and hence predominately as an adverb) at Merriam-Webster online? Strictly speaking, I'm sure you're correct, but I'm willing to accept that language evolves; I'm not sure I want to keep changing supposedly incorrect words once they appear in a dictionary. Wmahan . 04:11, 2004 Apr 20 (UTC)
Well put. My view for now is that, in accordance with our goal of improving Wikipedia's image and credibility, I can better spend my time fixing the other mistakes that (to me) are much more flagrant. Maybe once we get a handle on the more egregious misspellings (granted, we probably can't fix everything), I'll start changing predominately to predominantly. Wmahan . 05:03, 2004 Apr 20 (UTC)
license is a noun or verb in the US but only a verb elsewhere whereas licence is a noun outside the US. Therefore licenses may be correct inside or outside the US depending on the noun/verb status of the word and licences is correct outside the US providing that it refers to nouns but licencing/licenced is a misspelling the world over. The correct spelling is licensing/licensed everywhere. You should reinstate the words on the list of common mispellings. -- Derek Ross 03:53, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
You have on your articles with mis-spellings List of radio stations in Georgia (U.S. state) with "whta" a mis-spelling, but this is not so. WHTA are the call letters of a radio station, not a mis-spelling. 66.245.72.59 18:49, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Barbeque is not an incorrect spelling. As is noted in the article it is an alternate spelling -there is no reason to go around changing it. Rmhermen 12:23, Apr 15, 2004 (UTC)
Wmahan, I've noticed some of your corrections in some of the articles I've worked on and I think some of them were due to me. For which I apologize; my fingers and I have recurrent wrangles over digraphic swaps (and other adventures). So far, it's been something of a drwa. But English spelling is sufficiently insane that almost anything is possible; Shakespeare spelled his name something like 5 different ways. And then there's ghoti, my favorite.
But in the case of cypher and cipher (and decipher and decypher, and so on) there actually is a dual use. See Talk:Cryptography for a long running discussion. Is it possible to factor this into the 'spelling review crew' work?
ww 14:46, 1 May 2004 (UTC)
Hi Wmahan, have you read the discussion at Talk:Cryptography#Cypher_vs_Cipher? Personally I prefer cipher, which to me looks more natural, over cypher, which to me looks archaic and pretentious. Fowler wrote in 1926 that only the British used cypher, while both the British and the Americans used cipher, but the situation has almost certainly changed since then. Both spellings have waxed and waned over the centuries, and the dominant one at any particular time is just a matter of fashion. I say that we should allow both, and not try to 'correct' to one or the other. -- Heron 08:42, 4 May 2004 (UTC)
I recently added an article entitled Eblana (an ancient name for Dublin). Eblana is also the name of a company (with which I am intimately linked!). In this case Eblana is an acronym meaning European Business Language Agency. In order to illustrate that the lan part of Eblana stands for language, I've emphasised the first part of the word, which leaves the second part ('guage') apparently as a separate word. This was picked up as a misspelling. I've added Eblana to the exceptions list. Any other suggestions for a solution?-- Pmaguire 17:52, 2 May 2004 (UTC)
Quick note: Thanks for your spelling edits on Fred Lerdahl. Hyacinth 23:12, 5 May 2004 (UTC)
Was about to start editing these (well, I've already done a couple) when I thought to check. It seems that Payed is an allowed variant spelling for Paid. Looks weird to my eyes, but it's acceptable apparently. I'll just leave those, unless you really disagree.
See this link -- Bwmodular 13:07, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)
On P-Z all the entries from pr onwards are struck out, but I think this is a typo, not deliberate. difficult to know what to do except 'unstrike' everything from pr onwards.
![]() | This page is not really active anymore. I have since made a tool to correct these automatically. Wmahan . 15:02, 21 August 2006 (UTC) |
Note: if you want to discuss a particular correction I performed, please mention the article in question. Doing so will allow me to better address your concern, if necessary by reverting my change. Wmahan .
Hi, thanks for providing those pages so I have some typos to look for ;) Maybe if I start from the other end (and of course strike out things I've corrected), we'll avoid overlap? Fredrik 08:47, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)
I wouldn't mind at all, and thanks for the interesting reference. Wmahan . 07:11, 2004 Apr 10 (UTC)
I've removed "licencing", "licenced", and "gasses" from the list and commented them out on the List of common misspellings. "Predominately" was a mistake on my part; I should've checked for "predominantly" instead. I think both are actually valid, though, so I've removed them from the list as well. Thanks! Wmahan 19:18, 2004 Apr 5 (UTC)
You raise a good point, but what about the fact that predominate is listed as an adjective (and hence predominately as an adverb) at Merriam-Webster online? Strictly speaking, I'm sure you're correct, but I'm willing to accept that language evolves; I'm not sure I want to keep changing supposedly incorrect words once they appear in a dictionary. Wmahan . 04:11, 2004 Apr 20 (UTC)
Well put. My view for now is that, in accordance with our goal of improving Wikipedia's image and credibility, I can better spend my time fixing the other mistakes that (to me) are much more flagrant. Maybe once we get a handle on the more egregious misspellings (granted, we probably can't fix everything), I'll start changing predominately to predominantly. Wmahan . 05:03, 2004 Apr 20 (UTC)
license is a noun or verb in the US but only a verb elsewhere whereas licence is a noun outside the US. Therefore licenses may be correct inside or outside the US depending on the noun/verb status of the word and licences is correct outside the US providing that it refers to nouns but licencing/licenced is a misspelling the world over. The correct spelling is licensing/licensed everywhere. You should reinstate the words on the list of common mispellings. -- Derek Ross 03:53, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
You have on your articles with mis-spellings List of radio stations in Georgia (U.S. state) with "whta" a mis-spelling, but this is not so. WHTA are the call letters of a radio station, not a mis-spelling. 66.245.72.59 18:49, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Barbeque is not an incorrect spelling. As is noted in the article it is an alternate spelling -there is no reason to go around changing it. Rmhermen 12:23, Apr 15, 2004 (UTC)
Wmahan, I've noticed some of your corrections in some of the articles I've worked on and I think some of them were due to me. For which I apologize; my fingers and I have recurrent wrangles over digraphic swaps (and other adventures). So far, it's been something of a drwa. But English spelling is sufficiently insane that almost anything is possible; Shakespeare spelled his name something like 5 different ways. And then there's ghoti, my favorite.
But in the case of cypher and cipher (and decipher and decypher, and so on) there actually is a dual use. See Talk:Cryptography for a long running discussion. Is it possible to factor this into the 'spelling review crew' work?
ww 14:46, 1 May 2004 (UTC)
Hi Wmahan, have you read the discussion at Talk:Cryptography#Cypher_vs_Cipher? Personally I prefer cipher, which to me looks more natural, over cypher, which to me looks archaic and pretentious. Fowler wrote in 1926 that only the British used cypher, while both the British and the Americans used cipher, but the situation has almost certainly changed since then. Both spellings have waxed and waned over the centuries, and the dominant one at any particular time is just a matter of fashion. I say that we should allow both, and not try to 'correct' to one or the other. -- Heron 08:42, 4 May 2004 (UTC)
I recently added an article entitled Eblana (an ancient name for Dublin). Eblana is also the name of a company (with which I am intimately linked!). In this case Eblana is an acronym meaning European Business Language Agency. In order to illustrate that the lan part of Eblana stands for language, I've emphasised the first part of the word, which leaves the second part ('guage') apparently as a separate word. This was picked up as a misspelling. I've added Eblana to the exceptions list. Any other suggestions for a solution?-- Pmaguire 17:52, 2 May 2004 (UTC)
Quick note: Thanks for your spelling edits on Fred Lerdahl. Hyacinth 23:12, 5 May 2004 (UTC)
Was about to start editing these (well, I've already done a couple) when I thought to check. It seems that Payed is an allowed variant spelling for Paid. Looks weird to my eyes, but it's acceptable apparently. I'll just leave those, unless you really disagree.
See this link -- Bwmodular 13:07, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)
On P-Z all the entries from pr onwards are struck out, but I think this is a typo, not deliberate. difficult to know what to do except 'unstrike' everything from pr onwards.