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  2. Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a spelling checker - Wikipedia

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    Through systems such as Wikipedia:Redirects, Wikipedia:Categories, Wikipedia:Portals, Wikipedia:Infoboxes, Wikipedia:Navboxes, Wikipedia:Projects, Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages, Wikipedia:Set index articles and, finally, the Wikipedia search engine, editors make a great deal of effort to try to get readers to the information that Wikipedia has ...

  3. Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    Almost half of Wikipedia readers visit the site more than five times a month, and a similar number of readers specifically look for Wikipedia in search engine results. About 47 percent of Wikipedia readers do not realize that Wikipedia is a non-profit organization.

  4. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Spelling

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    The following is a handy reference for editors, listing various common spelling differences between national varieties of English. Please note: If you are not familiar with a spelling, please do some research before changing it – it may be your misunderstanding rather than a mistake, especially in the case of American and British English spelling differences.

  5. Wikipedia:Spellchecking - Wikipedia

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    Many office suites, such as Microsoft Office and LibreOffice, are equipped with spelling and grammar checkers that are on by default.Open the Wikipedia article, select "edit" from the menu atop the page or section, select and copy the article source, paste it into a Word or Writer document, follow the red (spelling) and green (grammar) markers, and correct mistakes as necessary.

  6. Wikipedia : Naming conventions (use English-language sources)

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    The use of modified letters (e.g. those with accents or other diacritics) in article titles is neither encouraged nor discouraged; when deciding between versions of a word that differ in the use or non-use of modified letters, follow the general usage in reliable sources that are written in the English language (including other encyclopedias and reference works).

  7. Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    Normalize archaic glyphs and ligatures in English that are unnecessary to the meaning. Examples include æ→ae, œ→oe, ſ→s, and þ e →the. (See also § Ampersand.) See Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles § Typographic conformity for special considerations in normalizing the typography of titles of works.

  8. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Abbreviations

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    Upon re-use in a long article, the template {} can be used to provide a mouse-over tooltip, giving the meaning of the acronym again without having to redundantly link or spell it out again. The template inserts a <abbr> tag into the page's HTML. Example: {{abbr|CIA|Central Intelligence Agency}}, giving: CIA. (This mouse-over will not work on ...

  9. English orthography - Wikipedia

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    Other examples of this type are the - ity suffix (as in agile vs. agility, acid vs. acidity, divine vs. divinity, sane vs. sanity). See also: Trisyllabic laxing. Another example includes words like mean / ˈ m iː n / and meant / ˈ m ɛ n t /, where ea is pronounced differently in the two related words. Thus, again, the orthography uses only a ...