User talk:Giraffedata/comprised of

Do you have a whitelist?
You've "fixed" a file name in Nadira Ilana four times now. Can you whitelist it or something?  -  Sumanuil  '''. ''' (talk to me) 07:51, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Wow, four times. That must be a record.  I guess I'm not used to file names that look just like captions; I'll keep an eye out for those now.
 * Yes, the Wikipedia version of a whitelist for copy editing is the hidden sic tag. I will apply that now.  Bryan Henderson (giraffedata) (talk) 22:15, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

An interesting variation!
See this one, by an editor who claims that they "quadruply check" all their edits! See also User talk:Crouch, Swale, where I mentioned you and your campaign. Pam D  08:30, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
 * "Compromised of" really surprised me the first time I saw it, but it actually happens several times a year on Wikipedia -- I search for it twice a year and usually find it. The only reason I know about it is that someone put an entry for it in Lists of common misspellings/Grammar and miscellaneous.  I've always wondered what mental level that error is: a typo where you set out to write "comprised" and your fingers type "compromised" or where you actually think you heard "compromised" when someone said "comprised".  Or maybe just careless use of autocomplete by an editor typing out an article with his thumbs.  Your exchange with the writer proves it isn't a typo, because the writer calls it a "grammatical error" and suggests the writer just needed to be educated.  So thanks for pointing this out to me.  Bryan Henderson (giraffedata) (talk) 14:37, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

I love this.
That's all. Thank you for removing my "comprised of". I've banished the phrase from my vocabulary. Niplav (talk) 13:19, 14 July 2024 (UTC)