User talk:Chris the speller

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Bundy again

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Thanks!

Thanks for improving my page, do you know the singer Ana Paula Valadão? --Renan C. Nunes (talk) 04:46, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Review help

Hi! Thank you so much for correcting some spelling in my article. I am new to Wikipedia, and I m doing this article as a part of my English 103 class in Clemson University. It would be really awesome if you could take a look at the article Clemson Tigers women's tennis. I would really appreciate any feedback or comments you may have. Thank you! Ykoroleva (talk) 16:53, 30 March 2012 (UTC) Спасибо большое!:) Ykoroleva (talk) 18:33, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

AWB Caution

AWB can cause a lot of problems. For instance in Classical Anatolia your use of AWB changed the title of a number of images, making them unusable, because they could no longer be linked to the actual files. --Michael Goodyear (talk) 02:43, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Minor barnstar
	Nice work fixing all those spelling errors! Keep it up! Whoop whoop pull up Bitching Betty | Averted crashes 19:04, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

Feedback

Hi Chris. I'm the author of the Takadimi page you fixed a spelling on a few days ago. I'm writing it for an english class and I was wondering if you could give me some feedback on it. I'd really appreciate your opinion. Thanks! Rajahsrider (talk) 17:59, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

Question about new typo rule

Hi Chris! I noticed you recently added a new typo rule for "secondary". Instead of having a new rule, should this be added to the existing "-ary" rule? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 23:10, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Yes, it looks like that would work; I see that the "-ary" rule already fixes "primery", so feel free to expand it. It will then also fix "secondry", and there are dozens of those that need help, too. Chris the speller ^yack 01:19, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Done - thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 05:04, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks Chris the Speller, for checking my new pages (Psychoanalytical ontogeny and phylogeny) for spelling!

--Fan Singh Long (talk) 19:05, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi Chris- I am another one of those who keeps you busy. Corporal punishment for spelling mistakes as a boy proved wasted on me - painful but wasted. So thanks. Regards, Acad Ronin (talk) 21:03, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

For trawling through my 11,000 odd carefully chosen words about the Leyland Titan (front engined double decker) and sorting out not only the spelling but the punctuation. Stephen Allcroft (talk) 10:11, 14 June 2012 (UTC) Stephen Allcroft

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	Thank you for finding my typos and adding buttons on Kelly Rathbone page. I nice addition to my current WikiProject page. Zedw3 (talk) 12:52, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Capitalization

See Talk:Jacobite_Risings#Capitalization. Dicklyon (talk) 17:36, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

Nannine seem to stick out there - couldnt work out what it was - thanks for fixing the State Batteries in Western Australia issue! SatuSuro 22:19, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Pierre Monteux

I see I am yet again in your debt for correcting my errors in articles I've been working on. There can be no escaping the conclusion that you are a boon and a blessing to Wikipedia. Bless you! Tim riley (talk) 16:46, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Help me?

Hello Chris the speller,

Thank you for your nice spell checking using Typo fixing in the article Adujivitam.

Could you please correct the grammatical mistakes in the article Adujivitam? If any help regarding factual stuffs is needed, I can provide them.

59.161.191.206 (talk) 10:33, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

 Done. Chris the speller ^yack 14:33, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Big Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.161.132.111 (talk) 11:22, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

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	Thanks for your work, especially for the Ben Jukich article Go Phightins! (talk) 19:23, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Book:Arkansas Confederate Infantry Units

Chris

I wonder if you would do me the favor of looking in to the Book:Arkansas Confederate Infantry Units. It's a large task, but you have touched a few of these articles before and I would appreciate your input. Thanks!Aleutian06 (talk) 23:27, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

BRT in NJ

If you have time and feel inclined, any help you might lend to cleaning up Bus rapid transit in New Jersey would be greatly appreciated. Djflem (talk) 23:37, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

I gave it a hit. You might want to look at the first fragmentary sentence/paragraph in "Proposals and studies". Chris the speller ^yack 03:51, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Belated notification of problem

Hi, I realise that I'm a few months late in informing you, but this edit broke the link to Image:Aldershot, Ash, Shalford, Basingstoke, Guildford & Peasmarsh , Wimbledon RJD 4.jpg by removing one space (the one after Peasmarsh). Filenames must not be checked for spelling, grammar or punctuation. Thanks. --Redrose64 (talk) 10:22, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

I have spared thousands of filenames where the tools I use wanted to "improve" them; looks like one slipped through. I don't make a habit of this. Altogether, I'm happy with my batting average. Cheers! Chris the speller ^yack 14:55, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	I create new pages, and try my darnedest to get them right, but somehow always leave bits hanging that are misspelled. Thanks for coming in afterward and fixing up things I miss, that is vital and not always appreciated on Wikipedia. Ultracobalt  (talk) 05:18, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

Centuries

Thanks for correcting my 12th-century mistake in Hogsthorpe. It was late at night, but I can't use that as an excuse as I've written "a 12th century whatever" in numerous articles – a trawl back for me I think :) Thanks again Acabashi (talk) 08:55, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

Voltigeur

Good spot on being/been. I am hoping to put this article up for GA soon, so this was very welcome. Tigerboy1966  15:36, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

and err.. thanks for the other 20 or so articles where you fixed the same careless mistake. I think I must have been hovering between "being placed" and "having been placed" and ended up with a grammatical chimera/chimaera/Chimaera.  Tigerboy1966  17:43, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Don't feel bad; there were about 500 of these; yours were a drop in the bucket. Chris the speller ^yack 17:48, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

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Hello, Chris the speller!

Dabbling around with Her Majesty, are we? You might just run your eye over Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant. It's got all these nasty boats' names and things! If you've got nothing better to do, of course! Amandajm (talk) 15:08, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

I gave it a little touch-up. Chris the speller ^yack 15:16, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

So sorry you didn't like "undercover", Darling! Thanks for your promptness!

Since you love language, you might like to take a look at Margaret Diesendorf, my late Mother-in-Law.

Amandajm (talk) 15:45, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Veni, Vidi, Tweaki. (I came, I saw, I touched up.) Chris the speller ^yack 18:21, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

OMG! I'm being stalked! Amandajm (talk) 02:45, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

BTW, Graham just did a lovely job on my user page ...... is he your relation? Amandajm (talk) 02:49, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

No, Graham seems to be from Down Under. Chris the speller ^yack 02:54, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

twenty five & 20th century are not typos

Your recent "correction of typos" in the article on Mallerstang was, in fact the substitution of what may be the more common American usage for what I think is the more common (and certainly a valid) usage in UK English: i.e. "twenty five" and "20th Century" without your hyphens. So I have reverted to the version as I originally wrote it. Best wishes John Hamilton (talk) 10:53, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

I responded on your talk page.

Chris, I have responded to your comment on my talk page, on my talk page. Acabashi (talk) 01:24, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

List of castles in England

Hi, I see you have been at work on the List of castles in England. The alterations you have made in the tables are to text that was provided in abbreviated form in order to keep the tables tidy. It was, obviously, a matter of deliberate policy, and there was a lot of discussion about the page last year, during which nobody ever suggested that it would be better for the style of the text in the table notes to be changed.

Abbreviation was adopted in order to get as much information as possible into a small space. In practice the notes have since been trimmed down anyway, by me, but a similar abbreviated style is in use in other pages where the notes are more extensive. As it stands, the style is now not consistent, as some of the text remains in abbreviated form. The practice of introducing a space in, for instance, "c. 1305" had also been deliberately eschewed, on the grounds that it looks neater as "c.1305" in the tables. If this is considered to be precluded by wiki guidelines, I think that is a pity. Paravane (talk) 15:34, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

A few points:

• A brief scan of the many sections of the talk page does not reveal that there is a different style in effect for this article, nor is there any obvious comment to that effect that shows up in edit mode. How is an editor to know?

• You know - from a quick glance up and down the tables - because there is a pattern of missing prepositions and definite and indefinite articles in the notes, which you have been changing.

• Some of the text in the "Notes" column wraps to two lines, while most remain on one line, at least on my browser. This was true before I made changes, it remains so after my changes, and my changes caused very few cases, if any, to wrap to a second line.

• On mine some wrap to 3, which is still OK currently. Originally there were longer notes, and there might be again in the future, as I or others edit the page.

• "c.1305" looks quite wrong to me, and probably to many other editors. It does not permit using a narrower table column. I see no benefit to be gained in departing from the MoS.

• A narrower column is hardly likely in this context. It's a point of view. I think that having the 'c.' on one side of the column, and '1305' on the other side, with a space in the middle, looks wrong. Until now there has not been a dissenting voice.

• The tidiness you speak of comes at the cost of readability; this is not a bargain, in my opinion.

• Again, a point of view: despite a great many edits, nobody has expressed that opinion until now.

• Dozens of cases of missing hyphens in "xxth century" used adjectivally brought me to this article. I have pretty good tools to correct this situation in normal English text, but they break down to a considerable degree when lots of prepositions and definite and indefinite articles are scrapped.

It might be a good idea to move this discussion to the article's talk page. Chris the speller ^yack 17:01, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

Responses interspersed. I don't myself think it's worth pursuing further. As I look through your changes again, they are too minor to argue about. I see there were inconsistencies before; there still are now, not obviously more or fewer, so there hasn't really been a fundamental change. I'd like to make the point, though, that, unless a page is obviously neglected, then its current state is not arbitrary but reflects for the most part an implicit consensus by previous editors. Paravane (talk) 22:49, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

Well, it's nice to occasionally run across an editor who, though he disagrees with your edits, can refrain from a doing a knee-jerk reversion of your work, and can register his disapproval with civility. Both of us can see that descriptive notes in a table need to be kept to a reasonable length, but still need to somewhat resemble normal English prose. We disagree about exactly where that balance point should be, and that's not surprising. One balance point might work better for a reader who is looking through the list trying to find a certain castle, or one with a certain feature; the other balance point might be preferred by a reader who is just browsing aimlessly, soaking in some of the information. You're right that the difference is not worth spending much more time on, and the article size was increased by much less than 1/2 of 1 percent. Happy editing! Chris the speller ^yack 01:33, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

long-time

As you seem to be into hyphens recently, I've seen "long-time" in use, is the hyphen approriate for that one? Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 13:27, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

I would use "longtime", as many dictionaries prefer, but Oxford likes the hyphen, as do Macmillan and Cambridge [1]. The hyphen may be less popular in the US in this case, but it's OK with the hyphen or as one word. Chris the speller ^yack 16:04, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

Your travel box

As you have borrowed, I am borrowing from you. I hope that's alright. DavidSSabb (talk) 01:11, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

A sterling idea! Chris the speller ^yack 02:00, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

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