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HAPPY NEW YEAR Hoping 2015 will be a great year for you! Thank you for your contributions!
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Treaty of Louviers

If you have time, can you look over my newly created article for copyediting. Thanks.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 12:26, 19 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Chris the speller ^yack 14:18, 19 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!--Doug Coldwell (talk) 14:31, 19 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think these changes are correct

[1] -- Unbuttered parsnip (talk) mytime= Fri 22:38, wikitime= 14:38, 20 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Unbuttered Parsnip: It would be more constructive and efficient to consult Wikipedia's Manual of Style than to complain to an editor who is following the MoS, especially when the pertinent part of the MoS was linked in the edit summary: "A hyphen is not used after a standard -ly adverb (a newly available home, a wholly owned subsidiary)". Chris the speller ^yack 14:48, 20 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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	You hit my watchlist 20 times today. Every single edit on it made the encyclopedia better. Thank you. Faceless Enemy (talk) 00:48, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Question on disambiguation pages

Chris, would you please take a look at my question here and let me know what you think? I saw that you're a member of the disambiguation project. There are a lot of "Model X" pages out there that haven't been created yet, but I don't want to go ahead and create them if they should be properly folded into the "MX" pages. Thanks for any input or guidance you can provide. Faceless Enemy (talk) 14:38, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Chris the speller ^yack 16:40, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In response to Four Viola's and Audacity's notice about deleting the Learning-Disadvantage Gap article

Thank you Chris the speller for your help in fixing a grammar/typo issue in the Learning-Disadvantage Gap which I've created a couple of months back. I've received a notice regarding the nomination of the Learning-Disadvantage Gap article for deletion off of Wikipedia. I'm presenting this in response to Four Viola's and Audacity's notice about deleting the Learning-Disadvantage Gap article. FYI, please consider the following points, thank you:

The Learning-Disadvantage Gap report at first inspection may incorrectly be seen as a document of original concepts, especially by someone not immersed in the convoluted world of educational standardized high-stakes testing systems in use today, and the growing movement in opposition to it, but in fact it is not. The anti-standardized high-stakes testing movement is not my own. I am but a pawn in the movement. The Learning-Disadvantage Gap is a collection of original articles and studies that I have accumulated over the past five and a half years from reliable separately published articles not yet compiled in a format easily accessible to the public. Not even the Learning-Disadvantage Gap words and concept is original, as I have borrowed from references as well.

To clear up any possible misunderstanding, the Gap is compiled and written exclusively by myself with technical assistance by my staff. The name, Music Teacher’s Club, is just that, a name, and this is my very first proposed entry to Wikipedia. I am the owner of a music store, Johnny Thompson Music.com, and chair of Parents and Students for Music and Arts aka AllArtsAllKids.org.

Having studied Wikipedia policies I believe the Gap avoids cherry-picking of reference articles in a negative sense and synthesis of combining separate ideas to reach any conclusions. Actually, the report does not reach conclusions other that what is from any of the two hundred plus references. All two hundred plus references are interconnected by one goal: educational equality for all.

I do not pick references that agree with my personal view, rather, I learn first from each and every reference before I report on it. I am the student and messenger, not the teacher. That said, the report may be the first of its kind that combines original works of others that I am aware of.

This is a neutral report which includes reporting on current educational inequities and non-compliances of statutory and education laws by the United States Department of Education.

The collection of two hundred plus references to the Gap consists of works by U.S. Department of Education, K-12 teachers, principals, and district superintendents, university professors and studies, parents and students, civil rights groups, court cases, constitutional attorneys, statistical groups, arts advocacy groups, and more. Just one reference alone includes a list of five hundred plus university professors who as a group are petitioning the U.S. Department of Education specifically to stop test-focused reforms particularly NCLB (No Child Left Behind).

Although written by a potpourri of writers, each with their own expressed views, the goal of each and every reference, and within the stop high-stakes testing movement in general, is equal learning-opportunities for the disadvantaged and all students in America, without regard to their socio-economic and academic standings.

The Learning-Disadvantage Gap, and in fact big Gov’s standardized high-stakes testing, is not generally known by the American public. The national mainstream media has yet to cover the movement and to spark a national debate. That said, there is a substantial and growing grassroots movement, starting on the East Coast, that has tens of thousands of students “opting out” of March and April NCLB, Common Core, and other state test-based no-excuses high-stakes yearly testing. I will mention at this point that my group, Parents and Students for Music and Arts, has a twitter account and am proud to report that the largest independent anti-high-stakes testing group of teachers follows us on Twitter.

I consider this Wikipedia report, an honor should it be accepted, a very much needed public service article. It is my plan to continue upgrading quite often. Currently, we are doing so almost daily. I believe it to be a wonderful venue for educating people on the subject with limited time to invest. Also I believe it is so important that parents of economic and academic disadvantaged kids have a source to learn from that offers hope. The Gap welcomes contributions as well as other points of view from Wikipedia’s very large at-large contributing public editors. We are looking forward to having an active Wikipedia article.

JCharlesThompson (talk) 23:41, 24 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Asking a favour, if you have the time?

Hi, I've seen you do some excellent work copy editing some of the finer points of prose. Would you be able to cast your eye over Live and Let Die (novel), which I currently have at Peer Review? If you don't have the time or inclination, then it's no problem at all. Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 20:53, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Just a little punctuation. Chris the speller ^yack 01:01, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That's very good of you; much appreciated! Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 11:25, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you, Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 15:56, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Missing hyphens

How do you find all of those missing hyphens? I run across tons of them in the articles I'm reading. Do you have a script that looks for them? Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 17:32, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Bubba73: An excellent question. The Wikipedia search box generally ignores hyphens and other punctuation/markup/capitalization, but you can get it to filter the results by having it look into the source afterwards, as in:

"two step process" insource:/two step process/

You can also find miscapitalized terms, too:

"took a job as an assistant professor" insource:/as an Assistant [Pp]rofessor/

Note that it will find "Assistant" capitalized, whether "professor" is capitalized or not. Chris the speller ^yack 20:09, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

But do you have to go search for "two step process" and any other combinations you think of? That seems like a lot of work, and I've seen a lot of results of your work. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 20:21, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Bubba73: You can cast a wider net with this:

"step process" insource:/ step process/

or find over 3,000 articles with this:

"year contract"insource:/ year contract/

I'm mostly using Auto Wiki Browser (WP:AWB), so I can run hundreds of articles a day through it. But, yes, it's still a lot of work. Chris the speller ^yack 00:45, 5 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Well, keep up the good work. I do a lot of hyphens and spelling out small integers. And that is just in articles I'm reading - I don't search for them. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 00:47, 5 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I had a feeling that I wasn't entirely alone. Happy editing! Chris the speller ^yack 00:57, 5 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Further importuning

Hello, Chris. I wonder if I can yet again impose on you, to look at Maurice Ravel. I'm hoping to take it to FA, and your all-seeing eye over the prose would be a great comfort. Tim riley talk 18:34, 9 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Warmest thanks for your work on the article. I'm in your debt once again. Tim riley talk 06:42, 10 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A cheeseburger for you!

Hey! Chris the speller, I Just Wanna Say Thanks For Your Contributions! National Names 2000 (talk) 03:11, 23 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

What, no tomato? Well, it's the thought that counts. I'm touched. Chris the speller ^yack 03:20, 23 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Another favour, if you have the time?

Hi Chris, I've just finished an overhaul of Burning of Parliament. Do you have the time to have a check for some of the more egregious errors I may have made? Many thanks – SchroCat (talk) 08:55, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@SchroCat:

Done. There was very little to fix. If I had written it, "publically" would never have shown up; is there any reason not to use "publicly" instead? Chris the speller ^yack 04:24, 1 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

My ignorance alone, I think! Now swapped over. Thanks so much for your efforts, once again. Cheers – SchroCat (talk) 05:58, 1 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

-Speakers v. -speaking

Hi Chris! I'm relatively new to Wiki, but I'm grateful for the attention paid to the Welsh language page. "[language]-speaking" definitely deserves a hyphen, since it's functioning as an adjective. However, "[language] speakers" should not be hyphenated because it is a noun phrase where "[language]" is modifying "speaker." I'll refer you to the "noun + noun, single function (first noun modifies second noun)" on page 4 of the following excerpt of the Chicago Manual of Style. Diolch am dy waith / thanks for your work! - TreyMcCain (talk) 21:03, 6 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@TreyMcCain: I was trying to distinguish between a person who spoke Welsh and a resident of Wales that spoke something. If you didn't like the results, it probably means that I was not as successful as I could have been. I went and hacked up the article again, and this time did away with "Welsh speakers", instead using "Welsh-speaking people" or something else. Adding a handful of words made it all very clear, I think. Although I live on the other side of the pond, I am fairly aware of issues involving Welsh as I live in the general area of the Welsh Barony. Happy editing, and let me know if I can help in any way. Chris the speller ^yack 16:23, 7 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

After further investigation, it seems we're on the same side of the pond after all. Chris the speller ^yack 16:27, 7 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Chris the speller: Ah, that makes much more sense. While I can see the logic of your choices, usage prefers "[language] speakers." A short Google search reveals that the BBC, www.wales.com and www.omniglot.com (rather respectable sources to my mind) prefer "Welsh speakers." I think that "speakers" should clearly signal that language and not nationality is being referenced. For instance, I could say "French speakers" and refer at once to people in France or to people in Cameroon. "[language]-speaking people" seems a little clumsy to me when "[language] speakers" is perfectly acceptable. -- Yeah, I float between TX & MS right now, but I'm hoping to move to Wales next year. I've been a few times over the past ten years and fell in love with the people, culture and language. How cool that you're part of that heritage in the U.S.! I can't claim Welsh family, but it'll take more than that to keep me away. Diolch unwaith eto / Thanks again! TreyMcCain (talk) 01:29, 8 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Categories for renaming

Hi Chris, you added renaming templates to a couple of categories for open-air museums, but it appears that you omitted to list them at WP:CFDS. [2] It's not too late to do so. – Fayenatic London 08:32, 24 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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I would like to nominate Chris the speller (talk · contribs · count · logs) as Editor of the Week. Chris has been on Wikipedia for over nine years, and using AWB has made over 300,000 edits. I've never seen an edit from him that hasn't improved a page. He quietly copy edits, fixing spelling mistakes, typos, redirects and missing hyphens. He has an excellent eye for detail and works extremely hard. I believe he would make a very deserving Editor of the Week.

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Thanks again for your efforts! Go Phightins! 23:23, 24 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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