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Spellchecking software and online tools can be helpful when copyediting Wikipedia articles. This page explains how to use them effectively and avoid conflicts with other editors.
General advice:
- Be sure to use the spelling for the correct English variant (e.g., American English, British English, Canadian English etc.) for the article you're editing.
- No spellchecker is completely accurate. You must check the output of any tool you use.
- Be extremely careful when editing pages written in languages or dialects in which you are not fluent.
- Grammar-checking tools can introduce more errors than they appear to fix.
- You are responsible for all spelling and grammar changes you make, even if the changes are suggested by an error-checking tool, such as Grammarly or ChatGPT.