The Cunctator wrote:
and that a word with a spelling error is marked
"spelled wrong".
Fix spelling errors. THIS IS A WIKI. Are you seriously advocating that a spelling error should be marked with a footnote *instead* of being fixed?
How else would the reader know there is something wrong with the text?
Because the reader is not an idiot.
For some idiots it's important to have historical knowledge of the fact that the page at one time contained a spelling error. It's the only thing that stands between them and "Delete, nn." :-)
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