Wikipedia talk:Spellchecking
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Looking for "dialect marker" words sounds very optimistic. Realistically, Wikipedia articles have US spellings, British spellings and misspellings all mixed together. Art LaPella 19:22, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Drift by unmotivated spelling change
| “ | Note: some Wikipedians claim that if the dialect of an article has "drifted" from its first nonstub version, via a series of unmotivated spelling changes, then the dialect to which the article has drifted should be considered the "correct" dialect of the article. | ” |
What exactly is an "unmotivated spelling change"? How do you change something without motivation? How would you detemined whether a spelling change were motivated or not? Jimp 02:06, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Widespread misspelling
Several (nearly 100) Wikipedia articles contain the nonexistent word "impliedly"; this should be "implicitly".
I can't be bothered to track down and correct all of them (I have severely limited internet time); could others take over this task? 193.122.47.170 20:17, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
And if someone does this, formations such as "impliedly — expressly" should be changed to "implicitly — explicitly"; not, of course, because there's anything wrong with "expressly" on its own, but because "implicitly — explicitly" just looks better than "implicitly — expressly".
