Questions tagged [typographical-error]
For questions about typographical errors in questions, especially when they are made in code and the cause of the problem, or typographical errors in the Stack Overflow website itself.
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What should I do about typo answers that did not solve the question?
A reasonably common occurrence is someone asks a question about their code not working, and then there is an answer like:
You made a typo, change mispelled to misspelled
And the answer gets a ...
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An asker indicates... should be 'reviewer' instead in the Staging Ground help page
I have noticed the following lines in the help article What is Staging Ground?
An asker indicates that your post is ready to leave the Staging Ground. Your question will then be posted directly to ...
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Typographical errors in the Stack Overflow User Survey.
Tl;dr in the Stack Overflow User Survey, capitalize "Github" as "GitHub" and add a hyphen in "AI-powered".
See this screenshot (click for full-res screenshot):
However, ...
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Should there be canonicals for common typos?
For example, a possibly common beginner typo in Python is misspelling lambda as lamda. However questions that ask about their code that does not work because they spelled misspelled a keyword are typo ...
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Please, add closed typo questions to Roomba!
Well, the title says everything and I know there are other questions around but I still want to revive this subject again in a hope things will change.
Typo questions attract easy answers within a few ...
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Does it make sense to repair typos in posts (I would like, but suggestion canceling)?
Does it make sense to repair typos in posts (title and content)? Do you use fuzzy search algorithm during searching?
Is it because it is probably not needed to update typos? I am thinking about these ...
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Missing space after submitting suggested edit [duplicate]
When I submit an edit for approval, this is what I see:
Thanks for submitting an edit.It is only visible to you until it’s been approved by trusted community members.
The grammar error is the one ...
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How many typos in a question is considered too many?
I came across this question, which contains a lot of typos (the original revision). To some extent, I consider it nearly incomprehensible.
Being afraid of not having enough expertise in the context of ...
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The “Welcome to review queues” needs a space before the “you” link
I’m not sure exactly when I noticed it, but on iPhone 15.6.1, the word "by" is touching the word "you" (which is a link) in the "Welcome to the review queues" message.
I ...
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Why are typos not mentioned in the list of questions that shouldn't be answered?
Within my first week or so of joining SO I posted an answer to a question where the only issue with the code was that they forgot to add () for a method call or something similar. I think I even used ...
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Question list says "Votes" instead of "Score", but it displays score, not votes
I think it is pretty self-explanatory how it is right now, but it seems somewhat weird to see '-1 votes'.
Might someone new to SE think that this is a total vote counter and think the '-1' is a bug?
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Is this a typo or is it intentional? - 'Approve' & 'Reject' in user's suggested edits list
In the suggested edits list for a given user, this is shown:
Now I am wondering why 'Approve' and 'Reject' appear in present simple, shouldn't they be in past simple? (Approved, rejected). Or am I ...
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Link in the latest blog post is broken
The link in the latest blog post (Stack Gives Back 2021) is broken.
Link to Girls Who Code is supposed to contain the href value as:
https://girlswhocode.com/
but instead, its href value is:
http://$...
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Why was my question about a regex closed? Can I still provide an answer?
My question, Is there no catastrophic backtracking in Go regex?, was closed as "not reproducible or was caused by typos" and I'm afraid I don't understand why. I don't believe there is a ...
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Ill-formatted code error preventing answer submission: Xml comment breaks answer submission
This question was earlier titled as just 'Ill-formatted code error preventing answer submission'. After finding the cause, it was amended to help potential future searches. See my answer that follows.
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