User talk:SpellingBot

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[edit] Symbol errors

Hi! Just a quick message to let you know that for some odd reason the spelling bot removed the UK '£' symbol from the Brighouse article when it changed the spelling of 'thier(Sic)' to 'their'. I have reinstated the symbol. Richard Harvey (talk) 07:31, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Likewise, changing "thier" to "their", it change all accent and "°" in the page to "?". See [1]. - Rollof1 (talk) 08:53, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks to you both. Sorry about that - that's very odd. I'll look into this and get it fixed before I make any further changes. TimR (talk) 17:19, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Spelling

Not sure what this edit was about. First, millennium (with two 'n's) is the correct spelling. Second, and least important, the Millenium Hilton Hotel is the actual spelling. -- VegitaU (talk) 17:48, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the comment. There are (fortunately) quite a few people who have the time and patience to correct misspellings, one of the commonist of which is "millenium" where it should be "millennium". As you've noted, the Hilton Hotel near Ground Zero is (for some reason) called the Millenium Hilton. In going through the various pages with "millenium" spelled with one 'n', on the odd occasion which it is correct, I've been putting in a comment in the source to inform well-intentioned editors that it shouldn't be 'corrected' to two 'n's. If it really bothers you, please remove it, and I'll try to remember not to put it back when I next revisit the page. Sorry for any inconvenience. TimR (talk) 21:53, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
Oh, I see now. Okey-dokey. -- VegitaU (talk) 22:00, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Emery Molyneux: "Untill"

Hi, the bot recently corrected the spelling of the word "untill" in the article "Emery Molyneux" to "until". Normally there wouldn't be a problem with this, but the article is about a 16th-century mathematician and cartographer, and the spelling "untill" was correctly quoted from a text from the same era. Is there any way to teach the bot to avoid certain articles? — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 01:09, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I'm sorry about the mistake. Correcting spelling is never straightforward, so I check every single change which my program finds. I've spotted (and therefore not 'corrected') several archaic spellings, such as the one you point out, but I obviously missed this one. Sorry about that. One method which makes it very easy to see that a spelling has been checked and should not be changed (by manual editing, as well as by automated assisted editing) is to put a comment in the page, which is visible when editing, but doesn't get displayed on the page proper. Some I have come across are simply like this:
<!-- sic -->
My code can put this comment into the page if I think that it's worth noting for me or others who might be tempted to 'correct' is wrongly.
<!-- PLEASE NOTE that "untill" is the correct spelling here. -->
Anything like this should be enough to prompt an editor to think twice before editing. TimR (talk) 08:57, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

OK, thanks for the suggestion. — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 13:52, 13 June 2008 (UTC)