Wikipedia:WikiProject Fix common mistakes

The goal of this project is to reduce the number of common mistakes in the article space of Wikipedia. I use a program to generate a list of possible errors in an off-line copy of the database (currently used version: November 26th, 2004). The idea is that we check if the entries still contain those errors, and fix the articles if necessary.

The current stage of the project is checking for instances of repetitions, like 'the the' or 'and and'.

Contributors

Contributors:

Eric119
Mlessard
Danny
[[User:Brian Sayrs|Brian A. Sayrs}}

Thanks to all who have helped!

How to help

Any help would be appreciated with this. Contributing is easy:

pick an entry of the list given below.
check if article still contains 'the the'
if it is an error, fix it. if it is a reference to The The (the punk rock band), wikify it (i.e. change 'The The' to '[[The The]]').
if you feel like it, return to step 1.
remove the entries that you have fixed, and the entries that do not need fixing, from the list.
thank you! add your name to the contributor list, if you like.

If you have an idea about another pattern to search for, please add it to the relevant section of the talkpage of this project.

Possible error list

List of articles that contain 'the the'

These articles contained instances of 'the the' on November 26th. Most of these are errors.

Suggested edit summary: [[User:Sietse_Snel/Fix_common_mistakes|fix double 'the'. please help us fix common mistakes in the article space]]

List of articles that contain 'and and'

These articles contained 'and and' on November 26th. Most of these are errors.

Suggested edit summary: [[User:Sietse_Snel/Fix_common_mistakes|fix double 'and'. please help us fix common mistakes in the article space]]