The number of misspelled names that have made their way into digital stories has edged down in the past couple weeks and we're catching more of them in scripts and other places before publication. Thank you.
But the evidence indicates we have a bad habit. It looks like we're not always double-checking the spelling of some familiar folks' names. We must be trusting our memories.
Some examples from recent months follow. We have:
The names of famous folks are easy to double-check before sending a script or story to be edited and before hitting "publish." Please make sure you do.
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