I started out correcting spelling mistakes, and for a while found myself fixing and cleaning a ton of disambiguation pages. I also add to articles when I notice that information is missing, and sometimes this mushrooms into major copyediting.
- Misspellings can be fun and helpful
Wikipedia:Babel |
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Sometimes careless fingers can provide new, useful words. Here are some actual misspellings I have found and fixed, along with my proposed definitions:
- Pyramoid
- (adjective): shaped more or less like a pyramid
- Fundametal
- (noun): a metallic element from the bottom row of the periodic table
- Succumbled
- (verb, past tense): lost its determination and broke into small pieces at the same time
- Startling facts I have learned while working in Wikipedia
- "Hamilton's miniatures are generally of small size ..."
- Places in the US with names that don't make it easy to guess which US state they are in
Sweet Home |
Sweet Home, Arkansas (also Kentucky, Oregon and Texas). You were thinking Alabama, perhaps? |
Countries that wanted Chris to leave so bad they issued him a passport |
![USA](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/40px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png) |
Places Chris has stayed in or flashed through: