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I'm not certain we're always consistent on capitalising degree names; part of my confusion may well lie in that i'm not entirely sure, either, whether i would use a capital "B" or "M" or whatever else in the degree's names. In editing today, however, i noticed that within a single edit here AWB changed one example of "Master's" to "master's" and left a second, which surely isn't correct. Do we look to downcase the degrees? Kahtar talk ~ an alternate account of LindsayH 10:23, 5 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

First of all, the typo checker doesn't catch everything because it's difficult to write regular expressions to catch all possibilities. But if we're talking about a "bachelor's degree" or "master's degree", or if text is saying "with a master's from" (also uncaught), it's uncapped, and if it's Master of {Something}, it's capped. As a regular user of AWB, I will correct additional typos I see (in view) that AWB doesn't catch. To boil it all down, AWB is just an editing aid, not a dictator for what we save. Stefen 𝕋ower_{'s got the power!!1!} ^{Gab • Gruntwerk} 14:48, 5 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Great, thanks for the answer. Indeed, i have many a time changed what AWB offers ~ or gone back and re-edited ~ but this time i just wasn't clear on which was correct. As for writing regular expressions catching everything...i simply admire anyone who can use regex properly, it's so far outside mine abilities. In short, thanks and i hope you didn't feel i was complaining or grumbling, cheers ~ Lindsay^Hello 17:20, 5 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've found that while what AWB catches is incomplete, it is great at leading me to see more serious problems to correct in regular editing. Also, this is the typos complaint center as such - it's all good. Cheers! Stefen 𝕋ower_{'s got the power!!1!} ^{Gab • Gruntwerk} 18:11, 5 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

We had 57 hits for the phrase "he than". I've just corrected 49 of them, I think the false positives are "HE than" and "hệ thân" can we have a rule for the future please? I've also searched for "She than" and am working through 22 of them. ϢereSpielChequers 20:10, 30 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Can look at this. Neils51 (talk) 21:27, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Neils51 (talk) 13:57, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The section #AutoWikiBrowser (AWB) says "Typo fixing is prevented within: <...> any text that follows a colon or asterisk". This clearly used to be the case, as discussed in previous topics such as Archive 3#AWB avoids too many areas that contain typos. However, when testing this with AWB 6.4.0.0, it does seem to correct typos in text following an asterisk. I prefer this behavior, but I am wondering if the Wikipedia page is wrong or whether I'm missing something in AWB's settings. Larswijn (talk) 18:18, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The typo list currently changes "a NZ" to "an NZ" which is correct, but I've just found an exception to this rule: changing "a NZ$420 million" to "an NZ$420 million" is incorrect, because it's pronounced" a $420 million New Zealand dollar ..." or just "a $420 million dollar ...". Could someone fix this pleaase? ―Panamitsu (talk) 21:22, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I was linked to 1330787229 where the dates were transposed when using this regex. I missed it thinking it was just a change of 1937-2021 → 1937–2021 similar to the edit summary. Any idea what caused this? Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 22:10, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I would guess this is probably not a typo rule but a general fix (FixDates) gone awry. Stefen 𝕋ower ^{Huddle • Handiwerk} 00:08, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

In the "incorrect" edit, the dates are not actually swapped. They are only displayed that way in the diff because they follow straight on from some Hebrew characters and punctuation; browsers are trying to apply Hebrew formatting rules to the wikitext. The dates are displayed correctly in the rendered article because the expansion of the {{langx}} template adds a "go back to Left-to-right formatting" marker.

Hello, it looks like our rule for "Cincinnati" doesn't cover all the common misspellings. It catches Cincinati but (as far as I can understand the regex) misses "Cincinatti" and "Cincinnatti", which I regularly find (I have adopted the typo).-Ich (talk) 13:08, 6 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Tested, and it caught the three. Perhaps provide a page where it doesn't seem to work. Neils51 (talk) 13:34, 6 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

You're probably right; I'm not good at regex and probably misread it. Thanks for checking.-Ich (talk) 20:58, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]