Wikipedia talk:Typo

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[edit] Arctic

Arctic has other non-proper noun uses, so I don't think it should be changed. BJTalk 06:49, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Work Completed Archive frequency

Can the Work completed section be archived every month? Just a thought as the section has become too long. Mahalo! --Vikas Kumar Ojha Talk to me! 16:27, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

I agree! It's definitely too long. However, I am a newbie, so I can't take care of this myself. I think it's getting to be a real pain to scroll down the whole colossal list, somebody please archive it. Sue H. Ping 20:18, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Done. :) --Galaxiaad 04:00, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks so much. :) Sue H. Ping (talk • contribs) 17:45, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

I think we should further divide the 'work completed' section into month or weeks. It would be much more organized that way. -- Ynhockey (Talk) 12:49, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Userbox and Category

The userbox when added on the page, doesn't categorize a user as a member of Typo team. I am not really WP savvy, but I think that it may be a good idea. We can have a category for Typo Team Members and users can directly be listed if they add the userbox. Just a thought. Mahalo! --Vikas Kumar Ojha Talk to me! 16:30, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Sorry it took me so amazingly long, but done. :) --Galaxiaad 19:36, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] None

"None were" outnumbers "none was" 1016 to 510, but I was taught that "none were" is wrong and "none was" is correct. Comments, please, before I go changing anything. Philip Trueman 11:27, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Clean up articles and fix typos?

I searched for amoung so that I could change it to among. There are about 600 articles when I search, so there's plenty of typo correcting to be done, but many of these articles are not encyclopaedic, or notable, or they contain many other errors.

Is it worth fixing the typo and leaving the rest, or should I be adding a tag to the article and letting other people know that the article needs improvement? DanBeale 13:11, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

My opinion about fixing other errors in the article: it just depends on what you feel like doing. I only read through the whole thing if it looks interesting or full of egregious errors (unless it looks like vandalism or copyvio, in which case I usually open it in my regular browser (I use AWB) to check out the history). But I think you should definitely add appropriate tags (while you fix the typo, of course... why not?). I've found quite a few uncategorized (and non-English, and so on...) articles while looking for typos, and there are other teams for fixing that... ;) We can't do everything. Just my 2 cents. (Also, have you looked into AWB? It fixes typos and some other stuff (semi-)automatically in whatever article you're editing.) --Galaxiaad 22:51, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dont

Thinking about tackling some of the "donts" and adding the apostrophe. Did a quick search and found numerous articles titled this way. Anything that can done about those, or should it be left alone? --Csodennc 03:40, 23 March 2007 (UTC) I take a zero-tolerance aproach to punctuation; don't, won't would'nt, shan't, etc is the correct useage. (from my Oxford Dictionary of Style & Usage)--dick 23:22, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Practising, Recognised

Any thoughts on those two spellings? Getting over a thousand results for both. Are they acceptable in certain areas? My knowledge is to spell it Practicing and Recognized--Csodennc 06:17, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Both are acceptable in British English --Thiseye 00:07, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
  • These are correctaccording to the Oxford Dict. of Style & Usage--dick 23:26, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
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