[Wikipedia-l] Common typos (was: Tucci528)

[Ray Saintonge]

Welcome to the list Hynek.

Hynek Hanke wrote:

>I think it could also correct all the mistakes
>at majority of the pages very quickly since
>with _every_ edit, the person who is editing
>is noticed about these possible problems.
>...  The editor can use his
>own judgement to decide to fix it or not. 
>For me, that seems better than some one-time massive
>corrections. Use ispell/aspell or something.
>
In Czech this would not be a problem, because that language is official 
in only one country.  This makes it much easier to establish an academy 
to set standards for the language.

English is spoken in many countries, but most notably in the United 
Kingdom and the United States.  Over time these two have developed 
different standards for language use, including spelling.  Wikipedia has 
had to develop guidelines so that these two cultures can live side by 
side in articles.  The proposal to have this spell check every time an 
article is edited could easily lead to a whole new round of edit wars.  

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