User:LilHelpa

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

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