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I started out correcting spelling mistakes, and for a while found myself fixing and cleaning a ton of disambiguation pages. I also add to articles when I notice that information is missing, and sometimes this mushrooms into major copyediting.

;Misspellings can be fun and helpful

Sometimes careless fingers can provide new, useful words. Here are some actual misspellings I have found and fixed, along with my proposed definitions:

;Pyramoid: (adjective): shaped more or less like a pyramid
;Fundametal: (noun): a metallic element from the bottom row of the periodic table
;Succumbled: (verb, past tense): lost its determination and broke into small pieces at the same time



;Startling facts I have learned while working in Wikipedia:
*"Hamilton's miniatures are generally of small size ..."


;Places in the US with names that don't make it easy to guess which US state they are in:

{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
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| Jersey Shore &nbsp;
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| [[Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania]]
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{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
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| Kalifornsky &nbsp;
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| [[Kalifornsky, Alaska]]
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{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
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| Pacific (not Pacific, California [more than 120 miles from the ocean!], or Pacific, Washington [more than 90 miles!]) &nbsp;
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| [[Pacific, Missouri]] and [[Pacific, Wisconsin]]
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{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
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| Sweet Home &nbsp;
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| [[Sweet Home, Arkansas]] (also Kentucky, Oregon and Texas). You were thinking Alabama, perhaps? 
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{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
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| North &nbsp;
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| [[North, South Carolina]]
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| colspan="50" style="background-color: #c5ccf9;" | '''Countries that wanted Chris to leave so bad they issued him a passport'''
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| align="center" | [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|40px|USA]]
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'''Places Chris has stayed in or flashed through:'''

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!&nbsp;
!align="left"|Countries
!align="left"|States and Provinces
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|align="left"|Spent years:
|align="left"|[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of Germany.svg|40px]]
|align="left"|[[Image:Flag of Pennsylvania.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of California.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of New Jersey.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of Delaware.svg|40px]]
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|align="left"|Spent months:
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|align="left"|[[Image:Flag of Arizona.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of Texas.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of New York.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of Illinois.svg|40px]]  
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|align="left"|Spent weeks:
|&nbsp;
|align="left"|[[Image:Flag of Maine.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of Maryland.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of Florida.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of North Carolina.svg|40px]]   
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|align="left" valign="top"|Spent days:
|align="left"|[[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of France.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of Austria.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of Bermuda.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of the Cayman Islands.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of Mexico.svg|40px]]  [[Image:Flag of Denmark.svg|40px]]  [[Image:Flag of Hungary.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of Slovakia.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of Jamaica.svg|40px]] &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;
|align="left"|[[Image:Flag of Washington.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of Ohio.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of Virginia.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of Hawaii.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of Tennessee.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of Nevada.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of Colorado.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of North Dakota.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of Wyoming.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of Washington, D.C..svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of Quebec.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of Ontario.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of British Columbia.svg|40px]]
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|align="left"|Spent hours:
|align="left"|[[Image:Flag of Ireland.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of Iceland.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of Luxembourg.svg|40px]] [[Image:Flag of Switzerland.svg|40px]]
|align="left"|All other US states except AK, AL, LA, MS
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|align="top" colspan="3"|<small>''Idea and layout borrowed from ''[[User:Calton]]'', who borrowed it from others''</small>
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===Articles Chris has written===
====and is proud of====
* [[George Lichty]]
* [[Wayne King]]
* [[Dream a Little Dream of Me]]
* [[Tom Brookshier]]
* [[Thomas D. Howie]]
* [[Patrice Munsel]]
* [[John Sprunt Hill House]]
* [[Elga Andersen]]
* [[Unity Building (Chicago)]]

====and would like to forget====
I've already forgotten.

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| I, [[User:Gaius Cornelius|Gaius Cornelius]] hereby award you this [[Template:Minor Barnstar|Minor Barnstar]] for all your brilliant minor edits! [[User:Gaius Cornelius|Gaius Cornelius]] 18:14, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
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| [[Image:Working_Man's_Barnstar.png|76px]]
|I award this [[Wikipedia:Barnstars on Wikipedia|Workingman's Barnstar]] to Chris the speller in the hopes that he will continue living up to his user name, and keep showing up in my watchlist for fixing my spelling errors. [[User:Fluzwup|Fluzwup]] ([[User talk:Fluzwup|talk]]) 01:14, 21 November 2005
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| '''ÁÈÎÖŪ''' &nbsp;  This '''Spelling''' Tireless Contributor Barnstar is presented to '''Chris the Speller''' for his continous contributions in Wikipedia.  Presented by [[User:Marine 69-71|Tony the Marine]] 15:16, 29 November 2005 (UTC)]]
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| [[Image:Original Barnstar.png|76px]]
| A barnstar for a tireless [[Wikipedia:WikiGnome|wikignome]]. Your work ''is'' appreciated! [[User:Gflores|Gflores]] <sup>[[User Talk:Gflores|Talk]]</sup> 08:50, 5 March 2006 (UTC)]]
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| [[Image:Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar.png|76px]]| For dedication to improving and expanding Wikipedia. Good job! [[User:Sharkface217|Sharkface217]] 02:26, 31 October 2006 (UTC) 
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| '''The Tireless Contributor Barnstar''' &nbsp; Good job! :-) 16:14, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
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| '''The Philippine Barnstar Award''' &nbsp; I hereby give you this '''Philippine Barnstar Award''' for your diligent efforts and untiring assistance to my Philippine-related articles. Keep up the good work! --[[User:Pinay06|Pinay06]]([[User talk:Pinay06|Talk]]â¢[[Special:Emailuser/Pinay06|Email]]) 18:21, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
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| I award you, [[User:Chris the speller|Chris the speller]], the very rare "No.1" Medal for your dedication and hard work in Wikipedia - well done! [[User:Marine 69-71|Tony the Marine]] 17:16, 21 December 2006 (UTC)]]
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|{{User:TomStar81/Spelling|[[USS Texas (BB-35)]]|[[User:TomStar81|TomStar81]] ([[User talk:TomStar81|Talk]]) 22:51, 2 January 2007 (UTC)}}
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| '''The Minor Barnstar''' &nbsp;  Chris, for fixing all the spelling mistakes, I award the Minor Barnstar. Keep up the good work! <span style="font-family:Harrington; font-size:small"><em style="color:teal;font-style:normal">'''Kamope  [[User:Kamope|userpage]]  [[User talk:Kamope|talk]]    [[Special:Contributions/Kamope|contributions]]'''</em></span> 23:34, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
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| '''The Working Man's Barnstar''' &nbsp;  I hereby award Chris the speller this Barnstar for outstanding work in correcting my poor spelling - [[User:Manxruler|Manxruler]] 17:44, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
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| Because of your dedication and your excellent work in Wikipedia, I have inducted you to my [[User:Marine 69-71/Wall of Honor|"Wall of Honor"]] [[User:Marine 69-71|Tony the Marine]] 21:30, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
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| '''The Invisible Barnstar''' &nbsp;  Almost no-one gives recognition for the "invisible" dab work, but you deserve it. &ndash; [[User:Sgeureka|sgeureka]] <sup>[[User_talk:Sgeureka|t]]•c</sup> 07:39, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
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| '''The Barnstar of Diligence''' &nbsp;  For your continuous efforts in improving and correcting spelling errors, both on mine and other user-created article, I award this barnstar as a matter of thanks. [[User:Miller17CU94|Chris]] ([[User talk:Miller17CU94|talk]]) 18:55, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
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| [[Image:Random_Acts_of_Kindness_Barnstar.png|76px]]
| I award this [[Wikipedia:Barnstars on Wikipedia|The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar]] to Chris the speller , for his work maintaining high standards of spelling on Wikipedia! [[User:FeydHuxtable |FeydHuxtable ]]  25 August 2008
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| '''The Barnstar of Diligence''' &nbsp;  For kindness to all through dilligent [[WP:wikignome|wikignome]]ry across many articles and several years [[User:Dakinijones|Dakinijones]] ([[User talk:Dakinijones|talk]]) 15:06, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
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| '''The Working Man's Barnstar''' &nbsp;  For correcting the spelling of 'on board' in ~100 articles in the last 2 days. Crazy :)  [[User:Rror|Rror]] ([[User talk:Rror|talk]]) 15:36, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
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| '''The Barnstar of Diligence''' &nbsp;  This is in recognition for correcting spelling errors and other typographical errors in literally thousands of articles daily since October 24, 2005. [[User:Dan Dassow|Dan Dassow]] ([[User talk:Dan Dassow|talk]]) 16:47, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
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| '''The Copyeditor's Barnstar''' &nbsp;  Phor yur gr8 wrk on Wikipedia fr fxing te errers of ppl lyke mi whu kan’t spel :D  [[User:Wikiality123|<b style="color:orange;">Wiki San Roze</b>]]<sup> [[User talk:Wikiality123|<i style="color:green;">†αLҝ</i>]]</sup> 12:45, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
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| '''The Minor Barnstar''' &nbsp;  Peeple like me need poople like you! [[User:Amandajm|Amandajm]] ([[User talk:Amandajm|talk]]) 04:43, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
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| [[Image:WikiProject Arkansas Barnstar.png|76px]]
| '''The Great Arkansas Barnstar''' &nbsp;  I award you the Great Arkansas Barn Star for your work on cleaning up my numerous spelling and capitalization errors in the series, History of the [[Arkansas National Guard]]. Thanks for the hard work! Aleutian06 13:41, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
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| '''The Original Barnstar''' &nbsp; I would like to give you this barnstar for your tireless and often thankless work on Wikipedia. Though I've never communicated with you personally, you've corrected mistakes on many articles that I've contributed. Your work spans thousands of articles in every category, and is invaluable to the project as a whole. Best, -[[User:RHM22|RHM22]] ([[User talk:RHM22|talk]]) 00:45, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
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| [[Image:WikiProject Arkansas Barnstar.png|76px]]
| '''The Great Arkansas Barnstar''' &nbsp;  I award you this Great Arkansas Barnstar for your efforts to correct my spelling in the article, [[Arkansas Militia and the War with Mexico]]?  [[User:Damon.cluck|Aleutian06]] ([[User talk:Damon.cluck|talk]]) 13:30, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
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| '''The Minor Barnstar''' &nbsp;  Thank you! [[User:Andreas Philopater|Andreas Philopater]] ([[User talk:Andreas Philopater|talk]]) 19:29, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
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| '''The Cleanup Barnstar''' &nbsp;  Hi Chris, I noticed your very helpful spelling corrections recently when you appeared on my watchlist, so I'd like to award you this barnstar as a token of appreciation for the hard work you do. Best wishes, [[User:SlimVirgin|<span style="color:black;">SlimVirgin</span>]] <small><sup>[[User_talk:SlimVirgin|<span style="color:gold;">TALK<nowiki>|</nowiki></span>]][[Special:Contributions/SlimVirgin|<span style="color:lime;">CONTRIBS</span>]]</sup></small> 16:55, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
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