Here are some spelling, grammatical, cspitational, and punctuational advices for standard writing settings:
- Don't say the before Ukraine or Wikipedia. These names are proper nouns, not common nouns. The United States and the United Kingdom are two exceptions.
- There should be no spaces between the comma and the last word in the clause. Likewise, there should be a space after a comma or a period/full stop.
- Word's is possessive (e.g. the word's meaning), and words is plural. (e.g. there aren't enough words)
- Do not capitalize words if:
- They are not at the beginning of the sentence.
- They are not proper nouns. (There are many Comparisons and There are Many comparisons are incorrect because many is a descriptor and comparisons is a common noun, unless you're trying to write like the Founding Fathers)
- Here are some disputed conventions:
- Both to whom and to who are correct, regardless of what college or university says otherwise.
- Regardless means that there aren't regards. Irregardless means without no regards, which means with regards, or it can be a contranym.
- Both taser and tazer are correct.
- Web site or website?
- Intensive purposes is intents and purposes.
- Quinoa is pronounced keen waw.
- Part-taken is partaken.
- Czechia is the proper short version of the Czech Republic.
- Color and colour are correct.
- Theater and theatre are correct.
- In most cases, affect is a verb (e.g. this will affect our economy), effect is a noun. (e.g. this has an effect on our economy)
- Except excludes things (e.g. we'll pardon all of them, except for Bob), accept says yes to things. (e.g. we accept your offer)
- a tree, the tree and the trees are correct, but a trees is not correct.
- There describes location (e.g. it's right over there), their describes ownership, associaton or connection (e.g. we saved their lives and their files), and they're describes identity or intents. (e.g. they're guys and they're going to help)
- Proper nouns always start with capital letters, except in some rare cases. (e.g. johannes dole, JOHANNES DOLE, and Johannes DOLE are incorrect. Johannes Dole is the correct capitalization)
- ...ice ,water...ice,water... and ice , water... are not correct. ...ice, water... is correct.
- Here are some conjugations:
- They die. It dies. It died. It's dead. They're dead.
- They bring. It brings. It brought. It's brought [to]. They're brought [to].
- They sing. It sings. It sang. It's sung [by]. They're sung [by].
- They break. It breaks. It broke. It's broken. They're broken.
- They do. It does. It did. It's done. They're done.
- They go. It goes. It went. It's gone. They're gone.
- They lead. It leads. It led. It's led [to]. They're led [to].
- Here are pronouns:
- About boys: He is. His nose. With him. It's his.
- About girls: She is. Her nose. With her. It's hers.
- About unknown gender guy: They are. Their nose. With them. It's theirs.
- About object: It is. Its nose. With it. It's its.
Wikipedia first world problems:
- When you finish editing, and you're in the middle of the edit summary, and then accidentally press a certain key that causes the edit to be saved.
- When you revert an editor's unconstructive edit to the article, only to find out they have unconstructively edited that article multiple times in a row.
- When you finish editing but forget to write an edit summary.
- When you want to finish the edit but can't think of something to put in the edit summary.
- When you end up undoing a possibly good edit but aren't sure whether to restore that revision or not.
- When you accidentally end up messing up an article and accidentally saving it.
- When the Recent Changes log takes too long to load. (especially inconvenient for patrollers)
- When you accidentally put in inaccurate edit summaries.
- When you forget to log in while editing.