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Hey, I might be a bit of a dull annoying type right now, but I've noticed that the wrongly spelled words "existance" and "existant" appear quote frequently in this wiki (they're correctly spelled "existence" and "existent"). Since they seem to form a common problem, maybe someone could write a bot that automatically corrected them or something. Picard(o) 12:40, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Or do what I did. Early in the morning of 13 June 2006 I fought and won the Great Appearence/Appearance War. This was my Tribble war. I eradicated all of the instances of "appearance" and "appearances" misspelled as "appearence" and "appearences." I did that manually, and it was a LOT of them. To this day, I still sing songs of the Great Hunt. --OuroborosCobra ^talk 12:42, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Tribbles, eh? That's a good metaphor. They are like tribbles. Of course, a manual hunt would be one way to do it, but it would be easier with some kind of spelling-bot that did it automatically. Picard(o) 12:47, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Meh, I'll just do it now. Chances are that by the time we got a bot to do this, I would be long done. --OuroborosCobra ^talk 12:50, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Good luck, my hero. ;-) Picard(o) 12:51, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Done. There were only about 30-40 of them, not bad at all. --OuroborosCobra ^talk 13:09, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

It was bad enough for me ;-) Thanks for fixing it though. Picard(o) 15:01, 4 January 2007 (UTC)