Grammargal

Grammargal!

She's a gal.

She digs grammar.

Is human.This user is a participant in the Grammar WikiProject.

This user was a member of the League of Copyeditors.

Handy-Dandy Links

• Wikipedia:How to copyedit — guide to copyediting Wiki articles

• Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit — articles so tagged (January 2007)

• Wikipedia:Cleanup — unsorted requests for copyediting and other cleanup

• Wikipedia:Pages needing attention — cleanup requests sorted by topic

• Wikipedia:Typo — systematic fixing of mistakes

• Wikipedia:Manual of Style

• Wikipedia:Edit summary legend

• Wikipedia:Special pages

GrammarGal's Wikipedia Editing Cheat Sheet

Useful Bits from the Legend:

Cleanup

   cl, cleanup
   Used to indicate general "tidying-up" edits; may include reformatting, spelling and grammar fixes, markup fixes, and other such minor edits. Useful if you make many different kinds of small changes in a single edit.

Copy edit

   copyedit, cpyed, c/e
   Miscellaneous copy editing.
   It is encouraged that you specify the changes.
   Examples:
   copyedit: major reorganization, left original text
   cpyed: from 'Tell Joe and I to ...' to 'Tell Joe and me to ...'
   'It took 4 years to build...' -> 'It took four years to build...'

Edit that is explained on the article's Talk Page

   see Talk, see talk
   An explanation/discussion of this edit is on the article's talk page.
   If possible, combine with other text, e.g rephrased, see Talk. 

Fixing of typos

   sp, tiop, tiops, tpyo, tpyos, tyop, tyops, typo, typos
   Fixed typos.
   There is no need to specify any typo corrections.

Formatting

   fm, fmt, frmt, formatting, MoS, mos, MOS
   Applied formatting, e.g. to adhere to Wikipedia's Manual of Style, or to make the look consistent, etc.
   There is no need to specify the formatted text.

Grammar

   gm, gr, grmr
   Fixed the grammar of a sentence.