https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44507
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Bug ID: 44507
Summary: grammatical error(s) in message
MediaWiki:Permissionserrors
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: trivial
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Interface
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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This message should be "permission error" rather than "permissions errors", and
should be retitled accordingly, for the following reasons:
*Except for bizarre corner cases, it will only generate one error, so the
plural "errors" is inappropriate.
*For similar reasons, the error would generally only involve one permission
(e.g. sysop, oversight). I'm a little less fussy about this one – after all,
the word "permissions" has a special meaning in computing – but the singular
would be preferable, and is the more common usage according to a Google search
for "permission error" and "permissions error". In English, we generally don't
pluralise attributive nouns unless we have to.
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