User:Grammargal
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Handy-Dandy Links
[edit]- Wikipedia:How to copyedit — guide to copyediting Wiki articles
- Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit — articles so tagged (January 2007)
- Wikipedia:Cleanup — unsorted requests for copyediting and other cleanup
- Wikipedia:Pages needing attention — cleanup requests sorted by topic
- Wikipedia:Typo — systematic fixing of mistakes
GrammarGal's Wikipedia Editing Cheat Sheet
[edit]Useful Bits from the Legend:
Cleanup
cl, cleanup Used to indicate general "tidying-up" edits; may include reformatting, spelling and grammar fixes, markup fixes, and other such minor edits. Useful if you make many different kinds of small changes in a single edit.
Copy edit
copyedit, cpyed, c/e Miscellaneous copy editing. It is encouraged that you specify the changes. Examples: copyedit: major reorganization, left original text cpyed: from 'Tell Joe and I to ...' to 'Tell Joe and me to ...' 'It took 4 years to build...' -> 'It took four years to build...'
Edit that is explained on the article's Talk Page
see Talk, see talk An explanation/discussion of this edit is on the article's talk page. If possible, combine with other text, e.g rephrased, see Talk.
Fixing of typos
sp, tiop, tiops, tpyo, tpyos, tyop, tyops, typo, typos Fixed typos. There is no need to specify any typo corrections.
Formatting
fm, fmt, frmt, formatting, MoS, mos, MOS Applied formatting, e.g. to adhere to Wikipedia's Manual of Style, or to make the look consistent, etc. There is no need to specify the formatted text.
Grammar
gm, gr, grmr Fixed the grammar of a sentence.