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See Wikipedia:Typo for information on and coordination of spellchecking work. Note that not all occurrences of these spellings will be misspellings: if they are in song titles, for instance, they must be left as the song writer intended (but it is worth checking back to sources); if they are in transliterations such as " Tao Te Ching " or in ...
It is a focused effort of the Wikipedia Typo Team. Wikipedia is an evolving resource. Even if you completely correct Wikipedia of some typo today, the same typo will creep back in with time. "Typo adoption" is a defense against that by encouraging users to periodically check Wikipedia for particular typos using special searches on their user page.
Add {{User Typo Team}} to show the project userbox on your user page. Note the bold "Wikipedia Typo Team" in the userbox above will be a link to this project page when used on your user page. The original userbox was designed by Galaxiaad and may still be used using the old {{User:Galaxiaad/typo}}.
Full instructions on how to resolve complicated cases are at Wikipedia:Typo Team/moss § Instructions for editors. Other notes: "Probably OK" words can be deleted if they are in fact OK, or just fixed if they are not OK. For HTML tags (especially in the HB+ section), see Category:Articles with HTML markup for instructions
Another kind of typo—informally called an "atomic typo"—is a typo that happens to result in a correctly spelled word that is different from the intended one. Since it is spelled correctly, a simple spellchecker cannot find the mistake. The term was used at least as early as 1995 by Robert Terry. [15] A few illustrative examples include:
This page has copy-and-paste examples for adding words to Wiktionary when dealing with correctly-spelled words flagged by moss. If you aren't confident in the definition of a word, you can use {{rfdef|en}} ("en" if it's an English word, otherwise the right language code ).
Typo fixing is prevented within: image names, template names and parameters, wikilink targets, text in quotations and italics, and any text that follows a colon or asterisk. If a typo rule matches a wikilink target, this rule will be ignored on the whole page.
When the passage can't be accessed, then instead of coming up with a message (like "Success...." or "This word couldn't be found"), I get a very brief message and then the page re