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The shortcut WP:TYPO links to this project page. Edit summaries are important and other editors value them when scanning the article history. Edit summary histories are also sometimes considered during user requests for Wikipedia adminship ; so, making valuable edit summaries is a good habit to form.
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
The moss project seeks to find and remove the furry green typos that have been growing on Wikipedia articles. It uses a python script named moss and written by User:Beland to automatically find misspellings, mistakes in English grammar, violations of the Wikipedia:Manual of Style, and confusing or broken wiki markup.
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If a typo rule matches a wikilink target, this rule will be ignored on the whole page. When using AWB, you can refresh the typo list by selecting "File → Refresh status/typos" (CTRL-R). This is useful when you are modifying the typo list on Wikipedia while using AWB to test/process the modification (but basic testing should first be done ...
Best practice on such articles is to begin in talk: try to open a discussion first, before making any changes to the article, paying close attention to the talk page practices given above. If editors prove unwilling to participate in talk, use the Bold - Revert - Discuss cycle to try to stimulate discussion.
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 ...
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).