# Talk:James White (inventor)

Hello Generalissima, I saw that the nominated this article for GA status. I'm currently experimenting with a script to automatically detect spelling and grammar errors, I hope you don't mind being my guinea pig. Feedback and improvement suggestions are welcome. I saw at least one of the detected errors is in a quote so you would have to check whether the error is already in the original text.
Detected possible errors:

Sentence: His interests in mechanics begun at a young age; he claimed to have invented a mousetrap around age eight, and that he "became a tolerable workman in all the mechanical branches long before the age at boys are apprenticed to any."
Correction: replace "begun" with "began"
Explanation: incorrect verb form
Sentence: His interests in mechanics begun at a young age; he claimed to have invented a mousetrap around age eight, and that he "became a tolerable workman in all the mechanical branches long before the age at boys are apprenticed to any."
Correction: replace "at" with "that"
Explanation: incorrect word usage
Sentence: ...by over an decade.
Correction: replace "an" with "a"
Explanation: "Decade" starts with a consonant sound, so "a" should be used instead of "an".
Phlsph7 (talk) 15:41, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank you very much Phlsph7, I love being the guinea pig for stuff like this. And fixing errors in quotes is allowed by MoS unless it changes the meaning, so I fixed it all up.  Generalissima (talk) (it/she)   18:13, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
I had hoped you would say that so I have an excuse for using your other GA nominations as further test subjects. :)
I'll post the results on your talk page so we have the discussion in one place. Phlsph7 (talk) 09:23, 16 May 2024 (UTC)