User:John of Reading

This page is about a Wikipedia editor, a harmless drudge. It is not part of the encyclopedia. For the 14th-century theologian, see John of Reading.

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This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than 15 years.

This user has made an absurd number of edits (c. 789,000)

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This user has a bot account, John of Reading Bot, (contribs)

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Spelling and grammar

I correct Wikipedia typos on an industrial scale with AutoWikiBrowser (details here).

Typical projects:

• The Lists of common misspellings
• "The the" and "the the" - Using a database dump every month or two
• Grammar and style fixes involving decades and centuries

I scan a downloaded copy of the Wikipedia text. Please feel free to ask me to run scans for you. My latest download is enwiki-20250920-pages-articles.xml.bz2 watch for a new download.

Other cleanup

• Articles using default captions and/or alt text copied from help pages
• Articles listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting
• Articles listed in Category:Pages using infoboxes with thumbnail images

Content creation

Writing content that meets Wikipedia's policies is hard. Back in 2011–2013 I created four articles:

• Plas Uchaf
• Castle of Park - on the Main Page for six hours, but I was singing at Coventry Cathedral that afternoon and missed it.
• Ascog House
• The White House, Aston Munslow

I've created one help page, Help:Infobox picture.

External links

• Listen to Wikipedia - a very different recent changes feed