Talk:Potatoe

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This page is should insert the fact that this "slip up" occurred at an elementary school spelling bee and that Dan Quayle was reading from a spelling bee card that the teacher supplied him. Andyqaz

This page was voted on for deletion at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Potatoe. The consensus was to keep or redirect it. dbenbenn | talk 08:22, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)


IMO, this page should be a redirect to potato. -- SGBailey 09:28, 2005 Feb 7 (UTC)

  • As of right now, currently working search feature does not turn up the Dan Quayle article among the first ten hits. Since this misspelling is so associated with the Dan Quayle article, I think it is important that someone searching on the misspelling be quickly and easily directed to Dan Quayle as there's a fairly high chance that that's what they're searching for. Dpbsmith (talk) 11:07, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Since this question is being hashed out on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Potatoe right now, the matter will be decided in a few days. In the meantime, the article's present form addresses the two main potential redirects (Dan Quayle and Potato), contains the proper VfD notice, and presents the disambiguation option. I would suggest that changing the page to a redirect now might be confusing to anybody looking at the VfD. --TenOfAllTrades 13:22, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
In WordPerfect Enhanced version 3.5 for Macintosh 680x0 (released in 1997), the misspelled word "potatoe" is automatically corrected into "potato". Apparently, the automatic correction ("QuickCorrection") is triggered by an entry, among few entries, in its preinstalled correction database. In other words, the programmers decided that the word "potatoe" is misspelled and that the word should be changed automatically into "potato". No other word processors are known to do the same thing.
  • I have removed this paragraph as unencyclopedic, and quite likely false. Pretty much all text processors have spell checking functions, and quite a few of them (including MS Word) can automatically replace misspelled text as you type it. - Mike Rosoft 20:00, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
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