Should I take the effort to correct spelling mistakes in titles? I get a +2 from correcting, but this is a never-ending-task. Is this useful or should I spend my energy in something else?
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Being a fairly new user something I don't seem to be able to locate is information on whether small edits to the title are considered as trivial edits. I see the usual recommendation when suggesting an edit is:     Avoid trivial, tiny one-letter edits unless absolutely necessary.   I can see the logic in that for most cases, but for example I just read a question with a title containing "Andriod" which would be trivial in one way but also affect the ability of users to locate the question using both the site and external search engines. Would it be frowned upon to suggest an edit for those cases?
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Before marking this post duplicate or voting to get it closed (the reason for which I simply don't get just because it is a grammar forum after all! If I am seeking recommendation for a book that means I will be coming back someday to the same site for my doubts also provided I get a not so harsh reply!), please read this and help this MBA aspirant.   A little about myself and my research so far. I am a very critical reader of English Grammar and the kind of person who aims at perfection.  Currently, I am keen on taking on English grammar again after a certain gap. Well, I am aiming for MBA, so preparing for entrance exams for the same.  I bought the religiously followed Wren and Martin and started studying it chapter by chapter. I was surprised when I read the pronouns chapter. I studied all the rules given and then started practising but it came as surprise when I found when many of the attempted questions were wrong. The reason simply being the rules for those specific sentences were not given.   For example:     We scored as many goals as they/them?    According to me, the answer should be they, but it's them according to the solution manual. Worse still, the solution manual offers no explanation for this.  So after a chat with my teachers I was suggested to follow the blogs of grammarians and look for any rules for the sentences that have contradictory answers!  I did so and was clarified by  post of pronouns, Rule 5.  Then I saw a book by the same author. I was momentarily happy. It was Momentarily because the reviews on Amazon were too bad about this book. After reading a couple of forums about the book I found a common statement saying that no grammar book is exhaustive.  So, it's okay for me to have more than one. And my simple question is what will be a good and almost exhaustive (if not fully exhaustive) book of English grammar to help get through the subtle usages of English in my management entrances  which is crisp and to the point and yet covers all important rules and syntax, and most importantly having practice tests at the end with solutions and explanations?
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I often see misspelled words in titles and bodies of questions, only to see them spelled properly in the tags. I have to imagine that tags are always spelled right because it's hard to type arbitrary text into the tag box. I also have to imagine that sometimes autocorrect and spellcheck provided by browsers tend to turn programming terms and package names into English words. For example, see   Would it be possible to have some sort of spellchecker that compares text of titles (and maybe bodies) to known tags and offers some sort of correction (maybe red squiggles or something) when there's some statistical probability of a misspelling?  Since this would be using a site's tags, "magneto" would get corrected to "magento" on SO, while "magento" would get corrected to "magneto" on aviation.stackexchange.com.  In theory this could reduce a lot of stupid typos and prevent trivial edits just to fix the spelling of key words.  Note that this is not solving a problem that a user's browser can already solve because browsers ship with English dictionaries, not dictionaries of programming terms. In fact, it's potentially correcting a problem created by the browser (which might have already autocorrected "magento" to "magneto").
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This question is inspired by comments on . The original poster wrote:     How to correct this error?   And comments say that it's an incorrect question. Better is     How do I correct this error?   I am not a native English speaker, so the fact that both versions sound natural to me is quite irrelevant. But I would like to ask anyway whether the first version is really bad.  I have seen a lot of questions starting with How to, so if you say that the first version is incorrect, could you please summarize when it is OK to use How to and when it is preferable to say How do I.
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Is this the correct use of an apostrophe when showing a name and relationship?     When was your father, Robert's, wedding?   Thanks!
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On the beta sites, if I spot a typo I want to correct it. Sometimes that may only be one letter. But I can't because:  You do not have edit privileges. Your edit will be placed in a queue until it is peer reviewed.  This is a pain because I do have rights on other sites but, OK, I can live with it. So I make my correction and add the Edit Summary as &quot;Typo&quot;. Then I see:  Comment must be at least 10 chars long  OK, so I change the Edit Summary to &quot;typo this is a 10 character comment&quot; which is not the best comment ever but by now I'm getting frustrated that fixing one letter is so hard whereas in other software (e.g. MediaWiki on Wikipedia) I would be done by now. Then I see:  Oops! Your edit couldn't be submitted because:  Edits must be at least 6 characters; is there something else to improve in this post?   Oops!?! I just want to make the post more readable and I've spent several minutes trying to jump through all the hoops and it still isn't changed! Aargh! So I looked on meta and found the question had been asked:  The highest voted answer starts with &quot;I think this is an excellent question and I'm unsure about the answer myself.&quot; So to my question - actually a feature request. Please can we allow fixing trivial edits? In the case I was looking at, the word &quot;no&quot; was typed when it should have been &quot;not&quot; and it took me a few reads to figure it out. For people who find English difficult, it might confuse them further. (I think concerns about bumping posts or posts becoming &quot;Community wiki&quot; could be dealt with, e.g. by introducing a &quot;this is a minor edit&quot; button - again, like Wikipedia.)
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I see more and more titles with backticks in the title (like mine here)... For example:      Is this a good practice? I guess not because I find this ugly, so there are three suggestions possible for me:   Avoid them in titles, and put a warning if the user try to use it (not an error, some user could need it some day) Format titles to set a monospace font for words surronded by backticks (without changing the background-color) Edit manually posts and remove backticks (see current accepted answer)   ... or any other ideas if someone has a better one :)
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I'm looking at , which was closed as off-topic a few days ago. Just a few minutes ago, the OP radically revised it; it doesn't even resemble the original question anymore. In fact, the two versions only share about seven words and some punctuation. Here's a screenshot of the most recent revision:    So, the question for the community is this: Is this proper, or should it be rolled back?  Edit: I went ahead and rolled it back because it has a couple of answers already (responding to the old version). But I would still like to know the community consensus on this.
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I'd like to be more aware of when other SOpedians edit my own questions and answers, which is sure to happen because my innate spelling and grammar skills are  overloaded by my vocabulary and lackadaisical proofreading habits.  That said, I would like to review edits to my posts to ensure the basic content has not changed.    What do folks think of this?  EDIT:  So, apparently there is the revisions tab, which I had not seen.  But revisions are not in the summary page, which I'd like to see.
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When reviewing suggested edits, I ran across . It took a post originally in French and Google Translated it to English. I approved it, as it gave the post a chance to survive, and it properly attributed that the post had been translated. It appears that two others did the same.  But should have I? It probably falls under a 'radical change', right?
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According to , questions with a typo or syntax error should be closed. However we still have to address the issue where the OP has made a mistake. Where is the best place to respond to him, in the comments or in an answer?  This question, , is obviously about a syntax error. I left a comment saying where the problem is, and voted to close it as "too localized". However, a user with the close vote privilege chose to give an answer, repeating what was in my comments.  Should we answer the typo question, possibly gaining a few reps, or just leave a comment and close it?
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Should I edit out the (thankfully obsfucated) e-mail address from this ?  Is this something we should allow on the site going forward?  I don't care about the "thank you" or "hello", but this might lead to an answer being sent by e-mail, which would mean it wouldn't be peer reviewed (for what that's worth), and the answer would be lost to the community.
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While trying to edit  I noticed the title vanished:        This is for inline edit, in the  there's no title and no tags as well.  Most likely the cause is the first revision of that question hard deleted as can be seen in the , but still I'd like to get title and tags back when editing.
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For the first time I failed an audit in review, but I sure don't think I should have.  I saw the edit wasn't that good, so I hit the improve button to clean things up and got this message:     This was an audit, designed to see if you were paying attention. You didn't pass. This edit vandalizes the post. Don't improve it – Reject it   Sure, I could have rejected it, but some of those can just be improved, especially if the original post needed editing.  Maybe SO could keep track of my successful improves and see that I know what I'm doing, and let me hit the improve button and not fail me for the audit.  EDIT:  I realized after it happened to me again today, that my workflow is to see that there is an error, and instead of checking the whole post, I go into edit mode, and then completely go over the post editing it as needed.  Since SO doesn't seem to want to adapt to that kind of workflow, I'll unfortunately have to change mine, or just do less.  It really slows things down to have to completely go over a post twice (kind of like the inbox zero concept, try to deal with things immediately).
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What's the grammar behind A'warring, from the lyrics of Symphony of Destruction by Megadeth? It's the first time I'm seeing the use of such apostrophe.
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So we have lots of questions that are titled like this:  Specifically, questions that have one of their tags in front of their title. Thankfully, these silly users usually use a hyphen or a colon afterwards, which makes it really easy to . Can we clear up this clutter?  Perhaps with a filter that strips off the excess when posting? EDIT: As an added bonus, see  for another style of question title that bugs the heck out of me.
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I was reading about various terms for incorrect words, but they didn't seem to fit.  I saw a post where someone said "what do you like to do when you're board?".  That kind of thing.  Also, would that be considered a mistake in grammar?  I didn't think so, but my friend insists it is.  I'm not sure if there even is a word for that kind of mistake, but was just curious about it.  Thanks!