User:John of Reading

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Spelling and grammar
I correct Wikipedia typos on an industrial scale with AutoWikiBrowser (details here).

Typical projects:


 * The Lists of common misspellings
 * "The the" and "the the" - Using a database dump every month or two
 * Grammar and style fixes involving decades and centuries

I scan a downloaded copy of the Wikipedia text. Please feel free to ask me to run scans for you. My latest download is [ watch for a new download].

Other cleanup

 * Articles using default captions and/or alt text copied from help pages
 * Articles listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting
 * Articles listed in Category:Pages using infoboxes with thumbnail images

Content creation
Writing content that meets Wikipedia's policies is hard. Back in 2011–2013 I created four articles:


 * Plas Uchaf
 * Castle of Park [[Image:Symbol question.svg|16px]] - on the Main Page for six hours, but I was singing at Coventry Cathedral that afternoon and missed it.
 * Ascog House [[Image:Symbol question.svg|16px]]
 * The White House, Aston Munslow

I've created one help page, Help:Infobox picture.