User talk:Eumolpo

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Your edit to Maersk Alabama hijacking
Please do not attempt to correct spelling in URLs, as you did in your edit to Maersk Alabama hijacking. The computer being linked to does not understand the concept of spelling corrections, and will report that no such page exists. Jc3s5h (talk) 13:51, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

"Incorrect" spellings in old book titles
Hello, you recently made some corrections in the articles "Edward Wright (mathematician)" and "Emery Molyneux", changing the spelling of somtimes in a book title to sometimes. However, the change should not have been made as this "misspelling" was in the title of a 1599 book, and in those days the way English words was spelled was not necessarily the same as the way we spell them today. In fact, there were actually hidden comments in the articles indicating that these were not misspellings. In future, before changing spellings in old book titles or quotations, please check the source to ensure that it is really a misspelling. Thanks. — Cheers, Jack Lee  –talk– 10:53, 11 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi Eumolpo, I undid a correction of 'allmost' to 'almost' you'd made in the article on Robert Hayman, for the same reason as the contributor above - though the spelling is incorrect now, it is the way the word was written at the time, and as the quote is meant to be an exact copy of what Hayman actually wrote, we have to stick with his spelling. Otherwise, good luck with your efforts. RLamb (talk) 09:00, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Orthographic correction?
Very cute! --70.127.204.211 (talk) 19:59, 22 September 2010 (UTC)


 * I certanly agree. But Eumolpo is actualy doin a fatastic job on all htose ortographic adjusmtents. Even beating the robosts. Just look at his countribs! - Ipigott (talk) 09:55, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
 * HA! HA! That's even cuter. --72.186.99.244 (talk) 12:43, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

Hi Eumolpo, your "orthographic correction" to Lombok is much appreciated, as is your sense of humour. Felix505 (talk) 07:43, 6 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Sorry, but your correction from 'Intendent' to 'Independent' in Safehold, etc. is incorrect. There is in fact a position within the Safehold church known as 'Intendent', as mentioned earlier in the same paragraph.  Please read the books before making such changes, since (especially in SF) the author may make up new names, ranks, etc. Murray Langton (talk) 09:18, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Oh, you mean spelling
Ortho, Greek meaning straight, right, or conventional; and graphos, to write something: let's see. . . oh I get it, you want to correct the spelling.

sic
Hi there. You must have not noticed it, but on this edit you corrected a word which was marked with [sic]. I try to obfuscate those words so people don't "fix" them, but I sometimes forget and not everyone does this, so caution is required. Best regards, and happy orthographic journeys. --Muhandes (talk) 07:36, 28 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Again, do not change spellings in direct quotes or cited titles. This edit is not allowed. We all know there is a typo in the original, but all we are allowed to do is say what was said, not correct others' mistakes. Note again there is a "sic" after it, which makes it very clear that the (mis)spelling is intentional in wikipedia because it's carrying that mistake from the source. DMacks (talk) 13:52, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Thank you
Just dropping by to thank you for corecting typos at Yahoo Groups. I need a lot of help in this departmnt Ottawahitech (talk) 15:26, 7 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Thank you for correcting my typo in Thomas Pooley. I am the world's worst proofreader! LynwoodF (talk) 16:08, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

Talkback
Hi! Sorry for the issue with Napoca. I have an explanation here Codrin.B (talk) 19:08, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Exaggerate
When correcting spellings as you did here, please make sure that your correction is in fact itself correct·Maunus· ƛ · 15:16, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary
The "misspellings" on Vivian Cook (academic) are intentional; that is the actual title of his book. Cnilep (talk) 07:23, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

"For for" corrections
Hi - please can you take care when correcting "for for" in the text of articles. A lot of the "corrections" you have made today are in fact wrong. Some examples of changes you've made:


 * "it was in fact the very man we'd been looking for for three months" changed by you to "it was in fact the very man we'd been looking for three months". -- from Lofty Large
 * "Olswang has been in the Sunday Times Best 100 Firms To Work For for the last 5 years." changed by you to "Olswang has been in the Sunday Times Best 100 Firms To Work For the last 5 years". -- from Olswang
 * "Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, who they had "been looking for for the last few weeks" changed to "Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, who they had "been looking for the last few weeks" -- from Cofer Black
 * "he appealed to the Danish Consul, Ferdinand Myhlertz, for help and was cared for for two weeks by the Consul" changed to "he appealed to the Danish Consul, Ferdinand Myhlertz, for help and was cared for two weeks by the Consul". -- from Jacob Riis

Arthur Holland (talk) 16:53, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you, Eumolpo, for your helpful edit fixing a duplicate wording issue at the article San Jose Mercury News West Magazine. Much appreciated. ;) Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 18:10, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

Thank you from me too for catching the double "the" in what I wrote on Stereoscopic Acuity. Gwestheimer 23:21, 21 June 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gwestheimer (talk • contribs)

How interesting: an editor who specializes in 'orthographic correction'. Thank you for your 13:01, 12 June 2011 correction of the redundant-'the' I had left after editing a section of SDF Public Access Unix System. I imagine that I was preoccupied with restoring a large section of the article which had 'vaporized' after a previous edit ("Oops! Where did the rest of the article go?"). Curious how the human mind can fail to recognize an obvious error (even under careful scrutiny), when it wears 'blinders' imposed by the perceived urgency of another matter. Diverse specialties will ultimately result in a 'uniform cleanliness' throughout Wikipedia. (Although, as noted above, the context of the apparent error must first be examined to avoid defeating the purpose of one's specialty. Bravo, nonetheless.) Well done. Dlgauthier (talk) 17:35, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

Orthographic
Is fixing "the the" really an orthographic correction?—I thought those were only spelling corrections. (For clarity, this is intended as a genuine question.) -Rrius (talk) 19:08, 10 September 2011
 * You mistake me. I'm not arguing that "the the" is correct; what I am saying is that repeating a word isn't a spelling error. Spelling is the forming of words with letters in the accepted order. Both instances of "the" had the letters in the correct order, it's just that one instance was unnecessary. If accidental repetition of words isn't simply sui generis, it is a question of syntax or grammar, not spelling. -Rrius (talk) 00:31, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

, happy 20 thousandth edit by the way! - 220  of  Borg 08:35, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi Eumolpo, I also was wondering about "orthographic" (as have several others who have enquired or commented on this page). I would suggest that you could possibly change it to the more common 'Typo' as is 'Typographical error' (sometimes called a Speeling error ) You could link 'orthographic' to spelling in your summaries like this orthographic, or perhaps 'orthographic' is better? Chrome (browser) at least will 'remember' it so you won't need to type it out, which I assume you don't do now.

Ask
Hi. I am Jivesh. Thanks for making the little correction on "I Was Here (song)". Do you do copy-edits? ★Jivesh 1205★ (talk / ♫♫Give 4 a try!!!♫♫) 13:02, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi. Thanks for replying. It does not matter. Actually, i want someone like you to better the prose in one of the articles i have written. Can you please hep? I want someone to elevate the English used. Actually, i am not a native speaker of English and at FAC, they ask for articles written in very good English. ★Jivesh 1205★ (talk / ♫♫Give 4 a try!!!♫♫) 09:38, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Okay. It does not matter. Happy editing. ★Jivesh 1205★ (talk / ♫♫Give 4 a try!!!♫♫) 10:21, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Calfornia batfish
Hello Eumolpo. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Calfornia batfish, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: '''this isn't an R2 (not cross-namespace) nor is it R3 (not recent). It gets some views, and redirects are cheap.''' Redirects from mis-spellings are generally considered to do no harm, and to be possibly useful: this gets used every couple of days or so. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 18:27, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

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"her her"
Hi. You have recently been trawling Wikipedia looking for "her her" formations, and "correcting" them to a single "her". You have clearly been doing this in good faith, but can you please stop. In the vast majority of cases (to be precise, in 37 out of 43 cases you changed today, or 86%) the formation is quite correct: one "her" is an object pronoun, and the other is a possessive pronoun, as in "he gave her her first break". I have reverted the 37 incorrect changes you have made today. GrindtXX (talk) 18:35, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

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Eduction, not education
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Spelling correction to Frances Buss
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Hello sir,the statement written in Newar caste system which included royal family and various groups now.........Can't we prefer 'includes' to 'included' ?because Newar itself is made along with it's sub-castes .So,I ask you for change it.plz,response soon.I am looking forward to hearing from you.Jojolpa (talk) 02:54, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

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Spellings of legal terms
Dear Eumolpo:

The term "personalty" means "personal property." It's "personalty," not "personality."

The term "realty" means "real property," or "real estate." It's "realty," not "reality."

Yours, Famspear (talk) 00:57, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

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Gradate
I don't think so. It's a precise technical term. Philip Trueman (talk) 12:33, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Please CHECK the usage before correcting something as orthographic. The use of gradate is a specific term used in biology, and the "correction" you made to pages like Elektrithone actually made the passages incorrect.-- Kev  min  § 12:55, 10 May 2016 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Università di Brescia
Hello Eumolpo,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Università di Brescia for deletion, because it doesn't appear to contain any encyclopedic content. Take a look at our suggestions for essential content in short articles to learn what should be included.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. 1900toni (talk) 15:42, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Please take extra care when correcting proper names and non-English words
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Your edit to LSE (programming language)
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Too hasty spelling changes
I'm afraid that I have to take you to task for a recent edit in which you changed "chid" to "child".

The phrase in which the word occurred was "[H]e held a rally in the county at which he chid his opponent for her unwillingness to campaign there". The position of the word in the clause clearly calls for a verb, like the past tense of "chide"; changing it to a noun like "child" leaves the clause without a verb.

Your gnomery is definitely appreciated: Wikipedia's got tons of spelling and grammatical errors that need correcting, and I'm grateful to editors like you who hunt them down and fix them. However, performing the task too quickly and automatically can introduce errors where none existed before. Ammodramus (talk) 12:34, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

Refusing to stop damaging the encyclopedia
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