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Build up

I've taken out the automated replacing of "build up" with "buildup". According to the OED, "build up" is two words, not one. - SchroCat (talk) 11:51, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

can be find

It's surprising what can be find if you look. Should we fix this automatically? Smaller numbers of things "can now be find", "should be find", "could be find", etc. Certes (talk) 11:32, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

childrens'

This gets corrected to "children's'"... could someone more adept at regexes make it eat the extra apostrophe? Alistair1978 (talk) 18:09, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

enmasse

Hi, AWB just suggested to me that I change "enmasse" to "emmasse". Can I suggest that "en masse" would be a better call. ϢereSpielChequers 22:22, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

WereSpielChequers, as far as I can tell there were only three instances of this that weren't some sort of proper name, which have now all been fixed. Ionmars10 (talk) 22:52, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, but that's not the issue. There will be a steady trickle of these things in the future, and currently the typo rules suggest the wrong change. ϢereSpielChequers 22:54, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

Excersice

Should excersice -> exercise be added?

currently six

Profesor

Apparently Profesor is correct in Polish, and I suspect in some other languages. We currently have a couple of thousand articles with profesor. I suspect this means too many false positives for this to be useful in AWB. Should this typofix be disabled? ϢereSpielChequers 17:55, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

wikt:profesor is valid in several languages, notably Spanish. A random selection that I checked were correct use of another language rather than typos. Perhaps it's a job for a one-off manual fix, after excluding phrases which indicate correct use such as el profesor. Certes (talk) 18:19, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

If you're going to exclude phrases, also exclude any use of Profesor followed by a word beginning with a capital letter.--Srleffler (talk) 21:43, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

I just checked through those, and fixed the 7 out of 677 which were errors. Certes (talk) 22:41, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

I've also checked the 508 not followed by a capital, and fixed 7 out of 508. The rest seem correct, though I left four borderline cases (1 2 3 4) on the assumption that the previous editor has a clue. The discrepancy between my total and the original couple of thousand is because I required profesor (any capitalisation) in the source; I excluded profesör etc. and transclusion via {{Japanese Club Football}}, {{Televisa telenovelas 1970s}}, etc. This has been a useful check, but I fear that automating it would cause more false positives than improvements. Certes (talk) 12:29, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

The problem is that it currently is in the AWB typo fixes. My argument is that it should come out of them. ϢereSpielChequers 15:04, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Then I agree with you. It may have done a good job in the past but seems likely to do more harm than good in future. Certes (talk) 15:42, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

More issues

Probably since the introduction of the "efficiency" changes. Now, "long term" is "fixed" (to include the hyphen) to "long-m". I am a beginner at regex, so just reporting this for now. This is on North Devon Railway while doing a standard typo-fixing run. Thanks! After refreshing the typos, the problem no longer exists. Dawnseeker2000 17:22, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

That one's been fixed, along with "vice president" and "on date". See also WT:AWB#Institute. Certes (talk) 18:02, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

I've checked for other possibly problematic recent changes, and pre-emptively fixed the only ones I found: "east–west" and "west–east" (the second rule of each name). Of course, there may be other bugs both new and old which didn't match the pattern I was seeking. Certes (talk) 18:17, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for the quick response and explanations. Dawnseeker2000 20:32, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

I think this is now all cleaned up. (I fixed a ve-president and a couple of long-m and short-m relationships.) However, there is a small risk that someone who opened AWB on Saturday and has not reloaded the typo list since will introduce other errors, so it's worth another check later. The institute one is awkward to check for, as ie is common (though often wrong) in other contexts. Certes (talk) 15:36, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

aberannt

AWB has just suggested that I "improve" an article by changing "aberannt" to "aberrannt. Can this be changed to "aberrant" please. ϢereSpielChequers 15:06, 7 September 2020 (UTC)