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Can we add milatary => military

Occurrences here. Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 00:30, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

• Fixed here. Shadowjams (talk) 05:36, 29 May 2010 (UTC)  Done

french => French

We don't have this Capitalisation in Cultures, languages, and ethnic groups or elsewhere. Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 00:34, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

• Done  Done Shadowjams (talk) 05:31, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
• Except for french fries.--BillFlis (talk) 12:55, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

• french fries says you can use French fries with a reference. Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 16:48, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

• Well, you can use "French" but "french fries" ("sometimes capitalized") and "french-fried" don't need "correcting".--BillFlis (talk)

Good point. Should we exclude that one example, or is the rule generally problematic? I think we do the language capitalizations generally, notwithstanding other similar examples. Shadowjams (talk) 08:52, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

• There's also the verb french ("often capitalized"), which doesn't take any particular words after it. Also, french curve is only "often capitalized F".--BillFlis (talk) 12:28, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

winnining

Hello, winninig gets changed to winnining instead of winning. It's probably not very common but whatever. --Closedmouth (talk) 12:55, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

This rule would be the problem <Typo word="-ining" find="(?!\b(?:(?:Br|Kl|M|H|St)e|Nar|Kurt|Lap)inig\b)\b(\w+)inig(s|ly)?\b" replace="$1ining$2" /><!--Don't match (Br/Kl/M/H/St)einig, (Nar/Kurt/Lap)inig-->.

I'm honestly not sure exactly what that rule's fixing. Maybe someone can explain it, in which case I'd be more comfortable adding the exclusion for Closedmouth's example. Shadowjams (talk) 06:02, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

It fixes typos like "beginig". No harm to add a new rule for "-inninig" to "-inning" above this one. Rjwilmsi 09:39, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

False Positives

1. McGrath, Alaska
2. McLeod River
3. Me You Them
4. Meagan Good
5. Meanings of minor planet names: 65001–66000
   

N'Sync ---> NSYNC

Cit helper (talk) 01:46, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

I may not understand you correctly: I couldn't find any occurrences of "sync" on any of those pages.--BillFlis (talk) 09:58, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Yes, that was a suggestion that has been brought to my attention, not a FP...Cit helper (talk) 06:04, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

The numbered entries have False Positives with various words (this was just a dump from false_positive.txt).Cit helper (talk) 06:04, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Axel Finet -> Axel Finite (False Positive, Name) Article: Nick Tarabay
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Cit helper (talk • contribs) 07:46, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Agree about Finet it has several uses. Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 10:53, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

I corrected the various "Finite" and "-finite" rules not to change "Finet".--BillFlis (talk) 12:07, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Defered from Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks

I noticed today that there are many articles with the word "Olympic" or "Olympics" misspelled. Common misspellings are "Oylmpic", "Olmypic", and "Olypmic". Would a bot be able to fix these spellings, or am I in the wrong place? Thanks, GaryColemanFan User Talk:GaryColemanFan 9:05 pm, 27 May 2010, Thursday (19 days ago) (UTC−6) -- Cit helper (talk) 06:04, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

I added a rule here. It corrects your suggestions "Olmypic" and "Olypmic", as well as "Olypic" and "Olymic" (and of course all their plurals), but I was not able to find any instances of "Oylmpic", so that's not included.--BillFlis (talk)

"achiveved" -> "achieveved"

AWB replaced "achiveved" with "achieveved" here, which is obviously incorrect. Could someone please fix the rule? --bender235 (talk) 13:08, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Nurnberg

Someone please add a rule that replaces "Nurnberg" with either "Nürnberg" oder "Nuremberg" (I suggest the latter would be more appropriate). --bender235 (talk) 21:21, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

The are several articles with "Nürnberg" in the title (e.g., German cruiser Nürnberg), although the city is under "Nuremberg". I found some (probably incorrect) occurrences of "Nurnburg" (with U for E).--BillFlis (talk) 11:56, 19 June 2010 (UTC)