User talk:Bgpaulus

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Text obfuscation examples

Plain text (no template)

• No obfuscation: in Ilino0is country

Not a typo template

• As written: in Ilino1is country

Sic template

• Sic: in Ilino2is [sic] country

Text template

• Text: in Ilino3is country

Adopted typos

Basic stuff

These should be pretty self-explanatory.

Active adoptions

• "IIlinois*" (2 Is, 1 L) should be "Illinois*" (0 false positives)
• "Ilinois*" (1 L) should be "Illinois*" (7 false positives)
• "Illinios*" (IO) should be "Illinois*" (5 false positives)
• "Illlinois*" (3 Ls) should be "Illinois*" (0 false positives)
• "Febraruy*" (RUY) should be "February*" (0 false positives)
• "Febrary*" (RAR) should be "February*" (1 false positive)
• "Febraury*" (BRA) should be "February*" (1 false positive)
• "Februay*" (UAY) should be "February*" (1 false positive)
• "Februry*" (RUR) should be "February*" (0 false positives)
• "Febuary*" (BUA) should be "February*" (40 false positives)
• "Feburary*" (BUR) should be "February*" (17 false positives)

Subtle stuff

Sans-serif fonts can make it difficult to visually distinguish between:

a minuscule l (as in Lima) and a majuscule I (as in India)

a numerical digit 0 (as in Zero) and a majuscule O (as in Oscar)

Active adoptions

• "lceland*" should be "Iceland*" (0 false positives)
• "ldaho*" should be "Idaho*" (0 false positives)
• "lllinois*" should be "Illinois*" (0 false positives)
• "lndia*" should be "India*" (3 false positives)
• "lndonesia*" should be "Indonesia*" (0 false positives)
• "lntra*" should be "Intra*" (0 false positives)
• "lowa" should be "Iowa" (83 false positives - no wildcard; too many valid permutations)
• "lran*" should be "Iran*" (9 false positives)
• "lraq*" should be "Iraq*" (0 false positives)
• "lreland*" should be "Ireland*" (0 false positives)
• "lsland*" should be "Island*" (1 false positive)
• "lsrael*" should be "Israel*" (0 false positives)
• "ltali*" should be "Itali*" (1 false positive)
• "ltaly*" should be "Italy*" (0 false positives)
• "0hio*" should be "Ohio*" (0 false positives)
• "0klahoma*" should be "Oklahoma*" (0 false positives)
• "0man*" should be "Oman*" (3 false positive)
• "0regon*" should be "Oregon*" (0 false positives)

Pending adoptions

• "lnter*" should be "Inter*" (11 to check; 1 false positive)
• "lsle*" should be "Isle*" (1 to check; 6 false positives)

Notes

All searches include Article (0), Template (10), Category (14), and Portal (100) namespaces. Coming back soon to reformat this as a table. ► Bgpaulus (WORDS & DEEDS) ◄ 23:14, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Sir Alexander Temple

Thanks for correcting the typo in spelling February. The baptism date 1583/4 is a convention often used to indicate an old style date (before the change of the calendar in 1752). For the moment I have changed it back to this format. Is there a Wikipedia convention for dealing with Julian dates? Rjm at sleepers (talk) 21:12, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for correcting my misunderstanding, Rjm. I wasn't aware of the convention and had mistaken the "1583/4" for uncertainty regarding the year of baptism, but this led me to this which, in turn, led me to this. The answer to your question seems to lie somewhere in this section of the WP:MOS. There was quite a bit to absorb, but it does seem to me that your use of the dual year convention is correct and proper. Cheers! ► Bgpaulus (WORDS & DEEDS) ◄ 22:05, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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Fixed in this edit. ► Bgpaulus (WORDS & DEEDS) ◄ 03:25, 1 February 2016 (UTC)