Wikipedia talk:Lists of common misspellings/Repetitions

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[edit] Source

I would suggest that the program that scanned for these probably included some non-main space pages. Rich Farmbrough 22:23 26 April 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Duplicates

Having done rather alot to hunt down duplicate words and phrases in Wikipedia, I have to conclude that the sections Most frequent duplicates and Most frequent duplicate word pairs are not at all helpful. This seems to be because the statistics were generateed in the first place by ignoring punctuation leading to a very high proportion of false positive and, they are in any case out-of-date.

I propose that these sections be deleted. Gaius Cornelius 19:37, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Even without ignoring punctuation, half the things on that list are clearly intentional duplications. The Beatles song Please Please Me is obviously responsible for the #1 hit on the list. Duran Duran is certainly not an error, or Walla Walla. And I'm assuming that Talk pages were included in this search, which would explain "blah", "giggidy", "yada", and many others. I'd say repeat the search, but don't ignore punctuation, and do ignore Talk pages, where informal language (including intentional duplication) is to be expected. I'm guessing that the punctuation parameter will siginificantly reduce occurances of yo-yo and AT-AT, at the very least. Lurlock 14:46, 11 April 2007 (UTC)