User:Pdebee/typos/hyphen restored to ‘hurdy-gurdy’

Project overview
On 7 January 2015, I decided to start restoring the hyphen to the word hurdy-gurdy, as per the Oxford English Dictionary, wherever it had been omitted when referring to the musical instrument in Wikipedia. I have been playing this instrument for a few years now, and I therefore always thought that articles in our encyclopedia ought to spell its name correctly and in accordance with the OED's accepted standard.

It turns out that the instrument is mentioned in many articles, and very often without the hyphen. Therefore, I resolved to adopt this as a typo to nurture, and I have now set up a new subpage (containing the typo search link) and also the present subpage to keep track of my progress. [21:56, 4 February 2015 (UTC)]

I completed this task yesterday [23 February 2015], at which time there were 656 searched articles containing at least one occurrence of 'hurdy-gurdy' in any of its various spellings: (H/h)urdy-(G/g)urd(y/-ies), with or without the hyphen.

Of these, the 251 articles listed below included 463 instances of the typo, specifically in reference to the musical instrument. Many other articles, among the initial 656, contain the titles of creative works that also misspelt the word 'hurdy-gurdy', but these instances of the typo can obviously not be corrected.

I will continue to check regularly for new instances of this typo, and to fix them in references to the musical instrument itself. However, for now, I am pleased to declare "Mission accomplished!"

With kind regards; Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk) 14:40, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

 Latest updates: 
 * Total searched articles:  / Corrected articles: 253 (see list below) / Instances of typo: 464 [02:22, 26 February 2015 (UTC)]

WP articles with the missing hyphen restored to ‘hurdy-gurdy’ (as instrument)
 Total number of articles to date:  253.

A
 * A Midwinter Night's Dream‎
 * Ad Vielle Que Pourra
 * After the Break
 * 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
 * Amoebic Ensemble
 * Anderswelt
 * Anne de Bretagne (rock opera)
 * An Ancient Muse
 * Andy Irvine (musician)
 * Anna Katharina Kränzlein
 * Anna Murphy (musician)
 * Aquatic (album)
 * Arcade Fire
 * Augustus John
 * Autumn Sky
 * Ayahuasca (Pelt album)

B
 * Baìo
 * Bandura
 * Barafundle‎
 * Baroque music
 * Barrel organ
 * Bastard (Subway to Sally album)
 * Ben Grossman
 * Big City Secrets
 * Black Sails (TV series)
 * Blackmore's Night
 * Blowzabella
 * Book of Days (Meredith Monk album)‎
 * Bow (music)
 * Bowed string instrument
 * Bournemouth Sinfonietta
 * Brendan O'Brien (record producer)
 * Brendan Perry
 * Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep

C
 * Cancionero (ensemble)
 * Candice Night
 * Carla Kihlstedt
 * Chansons pour les pieds‎
 * Chris Funk
 * Coil (band)
 * Coil Live
 * Cold Blow and the Rainy Night
 * Cyclobe

D
 * Danish folklore
 * Danish traditional music
 * Dean Shostak
 * Donskoy ryley
 * Dorothy Carter
 * Double Vulgar
 * Dufay Collective

E
 * Early Music (Lachrymæ Antiquæ)
 * EastWind
 * Ein Hod
 * Electric (Richard Thompson album)‎
 * Eluveitie
 * Engelskrieger
 * Ensemble Micrologus
 * Equisetum arvense
 * Eroica (album)
 * Ethan James (producer)
 * Everything Remains (As It Never Was)‎
 * Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
 * Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion
 * Experimental luthier
 * Experimental musical instrument

F
 * Fate of Nations
 * Faun (band)‎‎
 * Fiddle
 * Fires at Midnight
 * Folk baroque‎
 * Folk instrument
 * Folk music of England
 * Foundling (album)
 * Fräkmündt
 * French folk music
 * Fresh Horses (album)‎

G
 * Gerry Markman
 * Ghost of a Rose

H
 * Hala Strana
 * Hållbus Totte Mattson
 * Hang On (Weezer song)‎
 * Hedningarna
 * Helena Espvall
 * Heliocentric
 * Helium Vola (album)
 * Helvetios
 * Herdy Gerdy
 * Herzblut (Subway to Sally album)
 * Hold Your Horses
 * Homerun (The Kelly Family album)
 * Honky-tonk
 * Huldre (band)‎
 * Hurdy-gurdy
 * Hurdy-gurdy (disambiguation)
 * Hymn for My Soul

I
 * I Am the Last of All the Field That Fell: A Channel‎
 * In C
 * In lichter Farbe steht der Wald
 * In Mirrored Sky
 * In Search of the Lost Divine Arc
 * Insides

J
 * Jackdaw (band)
 * Jerome Myers
 * Jimmy Page

K
 * Keep the Car Running
 * Keyboard instrument
 * Kolyosnaya lira

L
 * La Musgaña
 * Labyrinth der Sinne
 * Lead Us Not into Temptation
 * Leo Abrahams
 * Le Vent du Nord
 * Les Arts Florissants (ensemble)
 * Levellers (album)
 * Limousin‎
 * Liod
 * Lira (disambiguation)
 * List of Aerosmith band members
 * List of concertos by Joseph Haydn‎
 * List of folk metal bands
 * List of musical instruments
 * List of musical instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number: 32
 * List of period instruments
 * List of string instruments
 * List of 16 Horsepower band members
 * Live at the Enmore Theatre (film)
 * Live in Paris and Toronto‎
 * Local H
 * "Lonesome Day"
 * Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings
 * Louis van Waefelghem
 * Low Estate
 * Luthier

M
 * Mara (album)
 * Meadow Lake, Nevada County, California‎
 * Medieval folk rock
 * Medieval metal
 * Mediæval Bæbes
 * Mercan Dede
 * Meredith Monk
 * Messe I.X-VI.X
 * Michael Kaeshammer
 * Mike Pinera
 * Milladoiro
 * Mock Tudor (album)‎
 * Moravian traditional music
 * Mother Fist and Her Five Daughters
 * Mozart and dance
 * Music of Auvergne
 * Music of France
 * Music of Limousin
 * Musical keyboard‎
 * Mykola Budnyk

N
 * Nigel Eaton
 * Nights from the Alhambra
 * No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded
 * Nyckelharpa

O
 * Oles Sanin
 * Omnia (band)‎‎
 * Organistrum
 * Origins (Eluveitie album)‎

P
 * Pack Up the Cats‎
 * Page and Plant
 * Paris Moon
 * Past Times with Good Company
 * Pehr Hörberg
 * Plumpton, East Sussex
 * Poor Man's Heaven

Q
 * [spare]

R
 * Rainbow Islands Evolution
 * Rebecca Foon
 * Recordings featuring the hurdy-gurdy
 * Red Apple Falls
 * Reflektor
 * Régine Chassagne
 * Reload (Metallica album)‎‎
 * Renaissance music
 * Riot City Blues
 * Ritchie Blackmore
 * Roy Harper
 * Rumor and Sigh

S
 * Saltatio Mortis
 * Sagovindars boning‎
 * Save Me (The Tea Party song)‎
 * Schandmaul
 * Schattentantz
 * Schrei!
 * Seven (Suns of Arqa album)
 * Shaming of the Sun
 * Shubert Alley
 * Sinfonia
 * Slania
 * Slania/Evocation I – The Arcane Metal Hammer Edition
 * Slovo (album)
 * Spielleyt
 * Spirit (Eluveitie album)‎
 * Spiritual Beggars
 * St James Garlickhythe
 * Steven R. Smith‎
 * Stevie Wishart
 * String instrument
 * Sunny Hill
 * Sweet Warrior

T
 * Tanzwut (album)
 * Telegraphs in Negative/Mouths Trapped in Static
 * Template:Hungarian Folk Music
 * Template:Medieval music
 * Template:Renaissance music‎
 * Temple Stone
 * Terra Celta
 * The Albion Band
 * The Battle of Evermore‎
 * The Blind Leading the Blind‎
 * The Book of Secrets
 * The Crane Wife
 * The Green Man (album)‎‎
 * The Last Rose of Summer
 * The Maid Freed from the Gallows
 * The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud
 * The Necks
 * The Piratica Series
 * The Raven (Lou Reed album)‎
 * The Rising (album)‎
 * The Serpent's Egg
 * The Song Remains the Same (album)
 * The Song Remains the Same (film)‎
 * The Village Lanterne
 * The Wind That Shakes the Barley (album)‎
 * Third (Portishead album)
 * Third Eye (Monsoon album)
 * This Can't Be Life
 * Time on Earth
 * Titanfall
 * True Stories (Martin Simpson album)
 * Tulipan
 * Tuning peg
 * Turbulence (Steve Howe album)‎
 * Two Horizons

U
 * Under a Violet Moon
 * Undeniably The Whitlams

V
 * Valkyre (band)
 * Vên
 * Vielle
 * Viola organista
 * Virginia Musical Museum
 * Volume 2: Release

W
 * Weckt die Toten!
 * Winter Carols
 * Winterset
 * Wolfgang Weichselbaumer

Y
 * You? Me? Us?‎

Numeric
 * 16 Horsepower
 * 1956 in British music
 * 1956 in music