[aggregate] check evaluation and extraction #1411
Description
Relevant issues
Blocked by #1408.
Brief
Most of our open issues (158, as of the time this issue was opened) relate to new checks. This issue exists to track them all in one place.
Legend
The following legend is used in this section.
- ❌ Rejected
- ❓ Awaiting evaluation
▶️ Planned- 🚧 Work in progress
- ✔️ Implemented
The following resource indicators are used in this section.
- ❌ Rejected
- ⏸️ Awaiting evaluation
- ❓ Unidentified
- 🔍 Needed
- ✔️ Acquired
To-do items
| Name | Related issues | Status | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strunk & White | #8 | ❓ | |
| Metaconcepts and Usage | #1391 | ❓ | |
| Steve Pinker | #9 | ❓ | |
| Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" | #10 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Consistency | #16 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Intelligent Editing | #17 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Weasel words | #23 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| David Foster Wallace's "Tense present" | #26 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| GMEU | #27, #46 | ✔️ | |
| Safire's "On language" columns | #32 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Typographical issues | #41 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| AAVE / Black English | #48 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Butterick's Practical Typography | #49 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Sexism and biased language | #51 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| "For who the bell tolls" | #52 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| ETK Plus | #56 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Autocrit | #57 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Placement of "only" | #60 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Marketing speak | #64 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Realtorspeak | #65 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Improper tmesis | #66 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Ambiguities from spatial metaphors for time | #69 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Check if dates ever happened | #70 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| After the Deadline | #71 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| LanguageTool | #72 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Correct citations | #73 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Veridical quotations | #74 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Valid and compact Roman numerals | #75 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Checks that would improve sample essays | #77 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Email capitalization | #78 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Hedging | #80 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| "Common errors in English Usage" | #87 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| "Writing scripts" | #92 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Hemingway app | #93 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Open hyphenation issues | #94 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| "annunciate" | #97 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Repeated rewriting | #104 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| "20 Great Writers on the Art of Revision" | #105 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Stephen King on adverbs in dialogue attribution | #106 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Assorted books on writing | #107 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| "Famous advice on writing" | #108 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Chuck Palahniuk | #109 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Correction, misprints, and errata | #111 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Richard Nordquist | #112 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Specified NY Times article | #113 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| "The art of styling sentences" | #114 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| "The science of scientific writing" | #115 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| "How to write badly well" | #116 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| "After deadline" by NY Times staff | #117 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| "Comma Queen" video series | #118 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Gower's "The Complete Plain Words" | #120 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Inflammatory language | #122 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Specified thesis | #128 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| "Robin Kinross of hyphen press on style" | #130 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Media-friendly word replacements | #131 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Names for groups of things | #132 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Assorted weakening or condescending phrases | #133 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| List of dirty words | #137 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Words banned from NY Times | #138 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Technical dictionary | #142 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Garner's list | #148 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Psych Terms to Avoid | #149 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Matt Might's guide to email | #150 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| FemaleScienceProfessor | #151 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| "Common errors made by [ESL speakers]" | #152 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| "mucous" vs. "mucus" | #163 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Uncomparables | #164 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| "fervid", "fervent", "perfervid" | #165 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| "feckless" | #166 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| "nomal" | #167 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| "hairy" and related terms | #168 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| alexjs.com | #243 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| just-say-no | #244 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Retext | #245 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| NCDJ | #246 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Ableism | #247 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Conscious Style Guide | #248 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Mistress Matisse's guide blog on sex work | #249 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Plural of nucleus | #252 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| plainlanguage.gov | #253 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Federal Plain Language Guidelines | #254 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Duplicated section numbers | #259 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Gender bias in reference writing | #260 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Correct maker-name | #263 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| "repel" in skunked terms | #271 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Missing period at the end of the last sentence in a paragraph | #275 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Don't complain about "obviously" when it's used reasonably | #276 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| grammark | #282 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| GNU diction | #283 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Grammarian Pro | #285 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Allow "discriminant" and "matrices" when topic is math | #293 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Allow "at the end of the day" when meant literally | #295 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Prefatory counting and signaling | #310 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Assorted clichés | #314 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| "literally" | #315 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Selected emails | #334 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Carol Fisher Seller's "The Subversive Copyeditor" | #335 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Copyeditor's Handbook | #336 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Edward P. Bailey's "Plain English at Work" | #380 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| "but however" and "but nevertheless" | #382 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| A/an distinction | #386 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Mignon Fogarty's blog | #400 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Kate Turabian's book | #401 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| "Woe is I" | #402 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Eats, Shoots, & Leaves | #403 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Style Writer | #407 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Ambrose Bierce's "Write it Right" | #411 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Multiple nouns, and plain language | #419 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| The A.V. Club's Star Wars Style Guide | #434 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Evaluate adulterate / adulterous | #494 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Citation parenthesis detection | #496 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Complicated redundancies | #501 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Passive voice | #534 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Lexical illusions | #549 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Foxtype | #558 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Expand cases for venery terms | #561 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Vitality vs. vitalness | #569 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Just Not Sorry | #571 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Assorted usage and grammar tools | #572 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| WordRake | #573 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Hnadbook of Nonsexist Writing | #607 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| "how does X look like" | #649 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Wilbers' "Keys to Great Writing" | #696 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Allow "todo" or introduce case sensitivity | #773 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Lucy Kellaway and The Economist's style guides | #873 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| "CITE" and "REF" in annotations list | #987 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Vale | #1154 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Punctuation spacing | #1342 | ❓ | ⏸️ |
| Inclusive Naming Initiative | #1377 | ❓ | ⏸️ |