[WikiEN-l] A new and ugly trend

[Ray Saintonge]

The Cunctator wrote:

>and that a word with a spelling error is marked
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>>"spelled wrong".
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>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?
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>How else would the reader know there is something wrong with the text?
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>Because the reader is not an idiot.
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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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