Questions tagged [spelling]
For discussing spelling-related edits, asking about preferred spellings, or reporting spelling problems on the site itself.
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Errors in blog post "Ask like a human: Implementing semantic search on Stack Overflow"
I probably should have included these earlier, but I didn’t realize at the time of posting. I also realize this post is rather nit-picky, but most, if not all, of these are valid issues anyways.
Here ...
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How to deal with mass typos fixing, should they be a part of homepage?
There are several questions about the issue, but related to low-rep users, e.g. Are we discouraged from fixing typos and misspellings on Stack Exchange sites?
I would like to discuss how should we ...
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Add typo on all sites of Stack Exchange as a general reason
I propose to add the typo close/flag reason on all sites of Stack Exchange sites as a general reason instead of the "community specific-reason".
Instead of using different messages that says ...
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Proofreading the "Five Stack Exchange sites turned ten years old this quarter!" blog post
A preface, as a frequent critic of the blog (lest anyone think I'm totally negative on it): this post was good! I enjoyed reading it and clicking through to the posts on some sites that I don't ...
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Why are questions edited so much and so thoroughly?
Often when I ask a question, the tiniest mistakes in it will get edited out almost immediately, sometimes entire sentences will be reformulated in a better way. I am assuming that's done by actual ...
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Can the link replacement tool be used on typos in regular text?
I discovered a simple typo that is pretty prevalent. Can this be fixed with the "link" replacement tool, given that it's actually "a simple Find and Replace tool"? (That linked Q&...
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Line break and typo issues in the blog post "The many strengths of neurodivergence"
In the recent blog post The many strengths of neurodivergence, there are two issues there:
The content of "... Stack Overflow about their experience as ..." is split into two paragraphs, ...
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CC BY-SA in footer should be capitalized
The footer currently has cc by-sa written in small case but it should be capitalized as CC BY-SA following the style used in the official Creative Commons page, the Help Center, and one of the ...
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How should "rich text" (format? RTF?) be stylized?
The new Stacks editor introduces support for Rich Text Format (RTF) and although there are just 115 posts on MSE containing "rich text" (at the time of this writing) that number is likely to ...
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Space is missing in the Data Processing Addendum page content
In the Stack Overflow for Teams - Free & Basic Data Processing Addendum page, under the "Processing operations" section, there are some spaces are missed in the content.
In the below ...
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Typo in the "Public Network Terms of Service"
In the Public Network Terms of Service page, there is a typo. In the second point, the character "e" is missing from word "Enforceable".
Contracts are Binding and Legally ...
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Minor typo in the Metaverse blog post
In this blog post:
The leading "t" is not included in the link for "trading virtual sword and shields in World of Warcraft".
The phrase probably should read "...swords...&...
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Spelling mistakes in the API documentation change log page
There are some spelling mistakes in the API documentation Change Log page, under the Version 2.0 section.
Section name
Spelling mistake
Supposed to be
General Changes
reponse
response
Method ...
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"mist" instead of "must", "inquery" instead of "inquiry" typos on Contact page validation error messages
There two sentences with "mist" instead of "must" and "inquery" instead of "inquiry":
The details of your inquery mist be at least $minLength$ characters.
The ...
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Extra "room" word in chat suspension sentence
I found a sentence in traducir during making translations:
Link to room chat room where issue occurred (if available)
It seems that the first "room" should be eliminated.
You can see this ...
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Typo in "An error occured when uploading the image". occured -> occurred
When an image upload fails, there is a typo in the error message:
Zoomed-in version:
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Pending synonyms page needs one more space
There is no space between sentences on the pending synonyms page (in case of absence votable tags):
Same content for that page can be achieved opening the mentioned link in browser's private mode.
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How can I change tag names to fix spelling mistakes and/or improve readability?
There are tags which are wrongly spelt or unreadable. Users have created posts on the Meta sites to request fixing this issue. Unfortunately these issues have not been fixed and the moderators of ...
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Typo in moderator inbox, "new announcments"
Possibly a typo in sentence (should be "announcements"):
Moderator inbox (new announcments)
Found as a source string in transifex/traducir: https://ru.traducir.win/strings/12478
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"Perhaps you'd like to select a different tab?" - shouldn't that be 'tag' instead of 'tab'?
I just removed a tag on Linguistics.SE from all questions and then reloaded the tagged questions page. It was empty, as expected, but the suggestion is to select a different tab. It think it should ...
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How can I modify a bounty notice (e.g., fix a typo)?
I made a typo while offering a bounty on the question Link for "serial voting" message
Is there a way to fix spelling errors in a bounty notice? Can site moderators do this?
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Extra “will” in message from UI
I found a sentence in Transifex that contains an extra “will” word:
When a post is closed with a single community-specific close reason, this will message will be displayed publicly above any private ...
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Apostrophes in UI (', ’) which is correct?
I just noticed that in site UI at least two types of apostrophes are used:
’
'
According to Wikipedia the first one is called "Typesetter's apostrophe" and the second one is "...
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I've been getting grammar corrections rejected - resulting in a ban, while in the past every single one was always accepted. Review system broken? [closed]
I've so far been very impressed with Stack Overflow's unique review system, which has been a marked improvement on most any other.
Yet, I got banned for reviewing... What I think happened was that non-...
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Why does searching on Stack Overflow and other communities not have spelling correction?
Why does searching on Stack Overflow and other communities not have spelling correction? Something similar to Google's spelling correction...
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Inconsistent use of punctuation in newly introduced message on voting buttons
Inconsistent use of punctuation in newly introduced message on voting buttons: sometimes ends with a period, sometimes not.
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Commonmark -> CommonMark typo in automated CommonMark migration
Commonmark -> CommonMark typo in automated CommonMark migration
Example from https://travel.stackexchange.com/posts/157697/revisions
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Typo on https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/posts
In https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/posts
Most applications should use the question or answer specific methods, but /posts is available for those rare cases where any activity is of intereset.
'...
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MathJax {alignat}: Typo in Warning
Minor bug/typo:
Warning should say Argument to \begin{alignat} must be a positive integer, instead of ... must me a ... as shown below during an edit.
(taken from Bin Packing with Relational ...
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AI for proper grammar and spelling
I've noticed that there are a lot of people who edit posts. Even though they do an awesome job (I have a large vocabulary, but my grammar could use some work), I've noticed that most of (at least my) ...
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Typo in the user preferences - activity data checkbox tooltip
There is a typo in the user preferences page - Activity data checkbox tooltip.
The tooltip text is
Use On-Site Activity for Relevent Content
The typo in the "Relevent", it should be "Relevant"
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Typo in the flag summary page banner
There is a typo in the Disputed flags page banner. The word agreement is as aggreement. Extra "g" is added.
In plain text:
When flags are reviewed by trusted members of the community and they are ...
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Spelling mistake in Stack Exchange, Inc. API Terms of Use page
In the Stack Exchange, Inc. API Terms of Use page, the first paragraph has a word with a spelling mistake.
The word programmatically is displayed as programatically (with single m).
... a set of ...
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Typo on https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/create-filter
In https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/create-filter
When the size of the parameters being sent to this method grows to
large, problems can occur. This method will accept POST requests to
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Typo on https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/posts-by-ids
In https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/posts-by-ids:
To find ids programatically look for post_id, answer_id, or question_id on post, answer, and question objects respectively.
It should be:
To ...
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Is it considered good practice to edit region based spellings? [duplicate]
Recently I've noticed that some of my questions/answers on various communities have been edited for reasons such as "spelling mistakes".
They've included things such as changing "initialise" to "...
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Can I build a bot for Stack Exchange which fixes spelling and grammar?
I've been looking into the Stack Exchange API, and thinking of building a bot.
I often see posts by new users that have poor spelling and grammar. I figure that a bot can easily do the job of fixing ...
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"Stack Overflow" or "SO"?
I have seen users with more reputation than me using "SO" instead "Stack Overflow" while asking questions on Meta Stack Exchange.
Yesterday I asked a question on Meta Stack ...
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Inbox typo "exampe comment"
I just received an inbox notification for an "exampe comment" (sic):
That should be "example comment".
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What's the preferred solution to other users writing my username wrong?
This is probably a weird and somewhat silly question, but recently, I've found that a couple of users have made the same typo in my username: Nzali instead of Nzall. If people accidentally make a typo ...
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Why doesn't the spell-checker work in question titles in Firefox?
I rely on using the spellchecker when writing my posts.
I noticed that when I write in the title field the spell checker isn't available. In the body of the question the spellchecker does function ...
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Inconsistent typography in close reason
The text for the close reason “unclear what you’re asking” contains four apostrophes: three simplified typewriter apostrophes U+0027 and one correct typographic apostrophe U+2019.
unclear what you're ...
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Spelling error in release notes
The iOS latest version of the SE app's release notes has a spelling error:
The achievement bar button item will now stay in it's designated area
The word it's is misspelled; there should be no ...
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Typo in roomba deletion reason: RemovedAbandonedClosed has an extra "d"
When a closed question gets automatically deleted, the reason of deletion which is displayed is "RemovedAbandonedClosed", but the help center says it should be "RemoveAbandonedClosed" (without the ...
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Typo when dismissing comment flags as moderator
Perhaps a minor issue, but the text that accompanies this action reads "comment flag dimissed" [sic]:
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Typo in Stack Snippets: "Javascript" should be "JavaScript"
That's not a pluralization bug, so I shouldn't expect Jeff coming to my house with a giant "S", right?
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Typo in the Terms of Service
I found a typo in the Terms of Service, section 4.
When accessing the askubuntu.com, meta.askubuntu.com, or chat.askubuntu.com sites ("AskUbuntu"), Subscriber will also abide by the most ...
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Spelling correction in Tour page
In each site's Tour page (except MSE) under Improve posts by editing or commenting section the image describes about how to use comments.
In that the content is as add comment but actually in the ...
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Spelling correction in comment everywhere privilege page
In each site's Comment Everywhere - Privilege page, under How do I comment? section the description is starting as "Click the add comment link under each post....."
But actually in the posts add a ...
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