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Improving Mindat.orgCommon misprints in descriptions of photographs and localities
21st May 2006 17:25 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager
Please be careful (note that you can write the text in a word document and use the in-built spellchecker before you copy-paste it into the description field).
It's
crystals (or xls) - NOT cristals, cristalls, crytals, xl's, xl'S, or xxs!
crystal (or xl) - NOT cristal, cristall, crytal!
length - NOT lenght
width - NOT widht
twinned - NOT twined
granite - NOT granit
octaedron - NOT octaeder
translucent - NOT translucid
aggregate(s) - NOT agregate(s)
botryoidal - NOT bytroidal
specimen/species - NOT specie
anglesite - NOT angelsite
azurrite - NOT azurrite
cerussite - NOT cerrusite
quartz - NOT quarz
goethite - NOT geothite
chalcopyrite - NOT calcopyrite
pyrrhotite - NOT pyrrotite
sphalerite - NOT sfalerite
stibnite - NOT antimonite
XXX-(Ce), XXX-(La), XXX-(Y) – NOT XXX-Ce etc.
marl - NOT mergel
skarn - NOT scarn
gneiss - NOT gneis
(To be continued)
21st May 2006 18:36 UTCMarco E. Ciriotti Manager
azurite - NOT azurrite
21st May 2006 18:40 UTCPeter Haas
octahedron - NOT octaeder
22nd May 2006 07:47 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager
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