Eugene van der Pijll wrote:
The Cunctator schreef:
Some groups[*attribution needed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words*] oppose these measures.
Can we PLEASE make a blanket ban on editorial footnotes in the middle of sentences?
No. It's important that a sentence without a citation is marked "citation needed", that a phrase containing weasel words is marked "contains weasel words", and that a word with a spelling error is marked "spelled wrong".
How else would the reader know there is something wrong with the text?
Whatever the justification (or lack thereof) for the other two, it seems to me that adding the tag "spelled wrong" takes a lot more effort than simply correcting the error.
Ec