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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)

Incorrect pluralizations

Please check this regex to see if it would be a good addition:

<Typo word="-eys" find="\b([Aa]ttorn|[Dd]onk|[Mm]edl|[Pp]ull|[Tt]urk)(?:ie|y)s\b" replace="$1eys" />

In particular, I question whether "Medlys" and "Medlies" should be included here, in a separate rule ("Medly" seems quite common), or not at all. PleaseStand ^(talk) 23:56, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

I'm testing it now. It's mostly catching "attornies". Don't see any issues with it yet. Shadowjams (talk) 04:09, 20 June 2010

It's pretty frequent too, more frequent than many of our rules. I'll add it in to the new additions. Shadowjams (talk) 04:14, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

I removed the "Medlies" rule because I found the quoted term "Monstrous Medlies" at Colley Cibber (it's sourced to a book). You can add that back if you like. Shadowjams (talk) 04:18, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

Importing Typo list for other languages

I would like to use this great plugin for my language but when i try to enable RegexTypoFix checkbox it is saying it will load typos list from english wikipedia. But I want to set it to download from my own langauge wikipedia. How can i do this? -- Mahir78 (talk) 10:29, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Add <!--Typos:http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos&action=raw-->, replacing the en with whatever language you want, to the local checkpage. —Reedy 10:40, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Request addition

Could someone please add:

ascession --> accession

it's in many many "list of monarchs" type articles and it's a blatant misspelling, there's too many for me to fix them all manually. -- œ^™ 22:12, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Sometimes, maybe "ascession" should be "ascension", no? They only differ by one letter.--BillFlis (talk) 00:03, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

I considered that and actually checked and pretty much all of them deal with accession. The search turns up nothing but lists of consorts etc. Besides, ascession is much more likely to be mistaken for accession because of the similar sound, and "ascension" isn't commonly misspelled. -- œ^™ 05:34, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Okay so is noone going to add this? -- œ^™ 02:33, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

I'm not in the process of testing it right now, but if you'd like to, try this: Find: "\b(A|a)sc+es+[io]{2}n\b" Replace: "$1ccession". The extra stuff in the middle should catch the "io" "oi" switch, and I'd guess that ascension misspellings will probably include an "n" somewhere, which would exempt it from that regex. Shadowjams (talk) 05:58, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Playright -> Playwright

There is a publishing house "Playright publishing". Is there a way to make sure the word is not replaced when it is either 1. capitalized or 2. followed by the word "publishing" ?--Muhandes (talk) 10:37, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Yes, you can protect that deliberate misspelling by applying the Sic template.--BillFlis (talk) 16:00, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, I obfuscated it with Sic on wherever it was used. --Muhandes (talk) 14:13, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

centerfield -> center field?

Concise Oxford has "centerfield" as a valid word. Should it really be replaced with center field? --Muhandes (talk) 14:13, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

childrens' → children's

I'm not sure how to add this but it is very common. Currently it does childrens' → children's' which is incorrect. If someone could add this it would be most helpful. --Muhandes (talk) 14:11, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

I just had it work correctly at least in one case. It might be that the times when it didn't work were due to ’ used instead of '? I will have to supply an example of a page not working correctly I guess. --Muhandes (talk) 14:43, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Sorry for multiple edits, but I was right. The problem is indeed with the use of the second type of apostrophe. Namely, childrens’ → children's’ see Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek for example. --Muhandes (talk) 14:48, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

I modified the rule to handle both types of apostrophe.--BillFlis (talk) 17:07, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

mens → men's

We have childrens → children's and womens → women's, why not mens → men's ? If this is appropriate, can anyone add it please? --Muhandes (talk) 09:17, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Because of Mens sana in corpore sano, Mens rea, etc. (Latin phrases), as well as Mens Sana Basket. However, I did add a rule to change "mens'" to "men's".--BillFlis (talk) 11:55, 25 June 2010 (UTC)