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Improving Mindat.orgCommon misprints in descriptions of photographs and localities

21st May 2006 17:25 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager

Misprints appear in a lot of descriptions of photographs and localities.

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

Please read:

azurite - NOT azurrite

21st May 2006 18:40 UTCPeter Haas

Please read also:

octahedron - NOT octaeder

22nd May 2006 07:47 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager

Thanks for the corrections (I knew this would happen ;-)
 
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