User:LilHelpa

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First, thank you for donating your time to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is an amazing example of what can be done with cooperation and consensus-building.

I concentrate on typos and general fixes and some copyediting and enjoy polishing the fine work of others. I occasionally use WP:AWB to handle a large number of identical typos, but have found that the best work comes from manual editing with a grammar checker such as Grammar Check.

I do not really want to be involved with discussions, planning, decisions, and contentions. I am task-oriented and truly want to do the best job possible. If you have constructive criticism for me or information on how to improve my service to Wikipedia, please give it. I do make mistakes and want to know when I have made them.

My archived awards are here. What have I been up to lately? This.

Pet projects*

• Searching odd combinations of words ordinarily not used in order to find typos:

"the have/has/have" (often should be "they have" or a noun is missing)

"a have" (often transposed from "have a", but also other errors)

"the with" (often transposed)

" the to " (finds "to the to the")

" the it " (almost always should be just " it ")

" the was " (missing nouns, typos, dupe phrases)

Botched infinitives ("to began", "to became", "to made", etc)

... and many similar others.

• Chipping away at the huge number of "the the" and "the The" errors.
• Ongoing corrections to frequent headings such as "References" and "External links".
• Correcting both: their -> there and there -> their
• Correcting "it's" (contraction) versus "its" (possessive)

Links related to my work

• Wikipedia:Lists of common misspellings
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Fix common mistakes
• American and British English spelling differences
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style
• Wikipedia:How to copy-edit
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia
• User:WolterBot/Cleanup statistics
• WP:Layout
• CAT:COPY
• Wikipedia:Reviewing
• Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links - starting to interest me
• WP:AFILIST
• Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia

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