User talk:Metamusing
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[edit] SAS
In the SAS System and SAS Institute articles. SAS is historically pronounced "sass", so "a SAS" is correct, not "an SAS". Cheers, Metamusing (talk) 16:31, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
- Hi Meta, thanks for that. I've added SAS to my list of exceptions, sorry for the inconvenience. CmdrObot (talk)
How about continuing to change articles before acronyms if the same article would be used when the acronym was treated as a word. When a different article would be used if the acronym was treated as a word, perhaps generate a list to be manually checked before automatically changed. This might increase the ratio of work saved to work generated for other editors. Thanks and Cheers, Metamusing (talk) 16:40, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
- Hi Meta. I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'treated as a word'. Do you mean check the acronym as if it were all lower case letters first?
- I think it might not be worth doing; the reason I've got a number of complaints so far is that this is my first sweep over wikipedia with the bot with acronym-checking code, so I've had to build up its exception list to 'teach' it all the cases I should leave alone. That sweep is almost finished now (and I've a big long exception list, most of it populated by things I could figure out for myself, but also with help from other editors like you for the things I didn't know). Also, after the sweep is done, I'll go back to my ordinary spell checking rather than focussing on a/an, so the number of time I come across a/an, let alone get it wrong, will go down quite substantially.
