Template talk:Verify spelling

Garbled tooltip message when an optional message is specified

When a tooltip message is specified, the tooltip displays a garbled message. For example, this:

• Foobar{{Verify spelling|This spelling is non-standard.}}

is rendered as:

• Foobar

which displays a tooltip that says: "Please check to spelling/rendering of This spelling is non-standard.".

Also, the default message is incomplete: "Please check to spelling/rendering of":

• Foobar{{Verify spelling}}
• Foobar

A better default message would be one adapted from {{clarify}}:

• "The text near this tag may need to be checked for spelling."

--50.53.60.172 (talk) 06:29, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

pre-text and post-text parameters are incorrect and weird.

{{verify spelling|reason=reason|date=August 2024|pre-text=before|post-text=after}}

renders as:

Since the |reason= is displayed in a tooltip, |pre-text= and |post-text= are not displayed before and after |reason=, as the documentation claims, but they are displayed before and after "spelling?".

I am not sure why anyone would want to put text there.

Polygnotus (talk) 02:05, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

Newcomer task: copyedit

It looks like this template adds articles to "newcomer task: copyedit", which can lead to a lot of attempts to fix otherwise totally fine articles and missing the "verify spelling" tag. I think this template ought not to do that. Reconrabbit 22:29, 30 September 2024 (UTC)