[WikiEN-l] Spelling Day?

[K Forstner]

Someone wrote:

> I don't know how hard that'd be, but couldn't the bots ignore (just
> report) mispelled words between quotes? ''like that'' or "that"?
> If the mispelling (talking about common mistakes here, like taht, not
> words which can have different spelling/meanings :) is intended, it is
> probably meaning something, so the word or expression is probably
> emphazised (hum, what's the spelling? :)) to show, in the article
> itself, that the mispelling IS intended.
>
>
Bots correcting spelling mistakes are an unfortunate idea. It's just a
guess, but I believe they'd do more harm than good. If you look at the edit
history of
http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_verbs_in_English_consisting_of_Latin_
prefix_and_Latin_verb you can see how hard it can be to correct spelling
mistakes manually. Any form of automated correction would just cause
confusion.

A MUCH better way would be not to make spelling mistakes in the first place.
I honestly believe it can be done.

KF