User:Rama's Arrow/Copyeditor

mr-1	ही व्यक्ती प्रारंभिक पातळीचे मराठी लेख निर्माण करु शकतो.

en-us-N

This user is a native speaker of American English.

fr-1

Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français.

This user is a member of the
Counter-Vandalism Unit.

This user [1] an administrator on the English Wikipedia.

A guide to the art of copyediting, with practical tips, advice and links to useful tools.

[edit] Links

DON'T STARE AT THE SCREEN FOR TOO LONG Tired eyes and minds trigger spelling and grammatical mistakes.

There is no particular need to supplement Wikipedia's editing tools with a word processor, although the benefits are quite clear.

Use the page search tool to track all the instances of keywords such as "also," "and" and "as well as." At every instance, study the sentence in question and surrounding text — this is a useful way to conduct pin-point examination of prose, instead of having to read all of it altogether.

Simple sentences yield beautiful prose. Remove words with common meanings, and try using synonyms in different sentences.

Word processors are helpful in mass changes, such as standardizing between Commonwealth English and American English, as per the subject of the article. It is easy to make 90% of the changes in one instant — for Commonwealth English, use "organise" instead of "organize." Thus, mass search-and-replace of "-ise" and "-ize" is a useful method. In the latter case, if words like "size" are misspelled as "sise," it is easy to detect the problem through the automatic spellcheck.

There should be no comma before "and" or "as well as." In such cases, people often write as they speak — this is the root cause of many grammar problems.

Also, inverted commas must follow and not precede fullstops. There are considered commonplace and perhaps not mistakes at all. However, I choose to follow the training I was given at school.