Wikipedia talk:Lists of common misspellings/R

Roccoco

I have twice removed Roccoco from the list
The first time my edit summary was "Rm Rococco - acceptable alt sp see rococo"
This was reverted with the totally meaningless edit summary "wrong word"

The second time my edit summary was "Rm Rococco again - it is not a misspelling but a perfectly acceptable alternative see Rococo Please do not reinstate"
This was reverted with "not supported by article"

The article Rococo starts with the line

"Rococo (less commonly roccoco)"

I cannot see how the alternative spelling is "not supported by article", it is the third, fourth and fifth words of the article. It couldn't be any clearer, or nearer the front.
This is not a list of "words that have more common alternative spellings" but a list of "common misspellings" and Roccoco is not a misspelling.
Arjayay (talk) 08:13, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

The misspelled word you removed was rococco (r-o-c-o-c-c-o), not roccoco. Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 06:14, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

Apologies - I am WP:TROUTing myself as I type - please feel free to join in with a swordfish, whale, giant squid or anything else that comes to hand. Arjayay (talk) 14:57, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

Adopt a Typo

Wikipedia:Lists of common misspellings states “If you adopt a typo, please add in parenthesis "adopted" next to the word. This should help keep people from doubling up on words.”
I have adopted the whole of Wikipedia:Lists of common misspellings/R as it stands today, and aim to check and correct all the words weekly. Rather than add “adopted” to every single word in the list, I have added a single line at the top.

It has taken over a year to get to this point, 7 months to clear the long term backlog, some of which went back several years, 10 weeks to clear the backlog accumulated during the first trawl, then 4 weeks to clear the 10 week backlog, and 2 weeks to clear the previous 4 weeks etc.
I have just completed my seventh weekly trawl and believe I can keep this up, provided Wikipedia’s internal search facility remains updated - historically it has stopped updating about every 6 months.

After 7 weekly iterations the results are interesting - only 4 words have occurred every week:- “Recieve”, “Refered”, “Refrence” and “Retreived” whilst 128 words have had no misspellings at all.
If this continues, after say 6 months, we may need to consider the definition of a “common” misspelling?
Arjayay (talk) 09:14, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Inclusion criteria and removing words from the lists

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I can find no explanation of what the criteria are for a word being included in this list - what is the definition of a “common” misspelling?
Having adopted all of Wikipedia:Lists of common misspellings/R I have run weekly searches on all these words for over 2 years.
Only 2 words, "Refered" and "Recieve", occurred every week. "Retreived" occurred every week except one, whilst "Refering" and "Refrences" missed 2 weeks.
Conversely, 22 words have not occurred at all, 14 words have only occurred once and 10 words have only occurred twice.
IMHO a word that does not occur more than once a year, over such a long trial period, is not a "common" misspelling and I propose removing these from the list.
I would welcome any comments before doing so. - Arjayay (talk) 10:22, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

Removal of words - 2015

Me again - over 2 years on, and there are several words that have not appeared in the last 2 years and others that have appeared only once or twice in those 2 years.
IMHO words that do not occur more than once per year are not "Common misspellings" and should be removed
This has been discussed previously, at Wikipedia talk:Lists of common misspellings/Archive 1 when the removal of such words was supported.
As before, I will do this in three phases - words that have not appeared at all in the last 2 years, words that have appeared only once, and words that have appeared twice
Please discuss these removals if you have any objections whatsoever - I propose reducing the cycle from 2 years to 1 - so will return in December 2016 - Arjayay (talk) 22:41, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

I have also added 7 words that have each occurred more than twice in the last year - although the multiple misspellings of Rio de Janeiro may only be temporary, due to the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics in 2016 - Arjayay (talk) 18:15, 12 December 2015 (UTC)