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What does "correct a spelling mistake on the Talk page of a subject" mean? Did you: - Write a comment on the article's talk page about a spelling mistake in th

What does "correct a spelling mistake on the Talk page of a subject" mean? Did you: - Write a comment on the article's talk page about a spelling mistake in the article itself? If so, why not directly modify the article? - Modify an existing comment on the talk page to correct a spelling mistake in that comment? If so, I can see why that would be seen as étiquette-breaking.

qubex 9y ago
I edited the spelling mistake, and added a comment to the effect that I had changed the spelling, and I listed the initial text and my change, and provided a reference as to why my proposed spelling (transliteration) was preferable.
- pwinnski 9y ago
  It seems clear from your comments here that you still defend editing someone else's comment on a Talk page because the software let you. This is wrong. If you disagree about transliteration, you should have added a comment of your own with the supporting documentation you mention, without removing the other user's transliteration from their comments. The fact that the software did not automatically prevent this is irrelevant. My bank's software will let me spend money I don't have, and charge me overdraft fees after the fact; that doesn't mean I had the money to spend since the software let me. Here on HN, that seems to be worst possible justification or rationalization for behavior everyone else both there and here is telling you is not okay.
  - qubex 9y ago
    Much the contrary, I am not arguing that I was allowed to do this because the software did not prevent me from doing so (which would be off-topic for the sake of the “Why Wikipedia Cannot Say The Earth Isn’t Flat”), I am arguing that there is an objective truth to matters, including that the earth is flat and that certain spellings are ‘correct’ and all others ‘incorrect’, and that policy (and software) must not prevent these truths from being asserted.

qubex 9y ago

I edited the spelling mistake, and added a comment to the effect that I had changed the spelling, and I listed the initial text and my change, and provided a reference as to why my proposed spelling (transliteration) was preferable.

pwinnski 9y ago
It seems clear from your comments here that you still defend editing someone else's comment on a Talk page because the software let you. This is wrong. If you disagree about transliteration, you should have added a comment of your own with the supporting documentation you mention, without removing the other user's transliteration from their comments. The fact that the software did not automatically prevent this is irrelevant. My bank's software will let me spend money I don't have, and charge me overdraft fees after the fact; that doesn't mean I had the money to spend since the software let me. Here on HN, that seems to be worst possible justification or rationalization for behavior everyone else both there and here is telling you is not okay.
- qubex 9y ago
  Much the contrary, I am not arguing that I was allowed to do this because the software did not prevent me from doing so (which would be off-topic for the sake of the “Why Wikipedia Cannot Say The Earth Isn’t Flat”), I am arguing that there is an objective truth to matters, including that the earth is flat and that certain spellings are ‘correct’ and all others ‘incorrect’, and that policy (and software) must not prevent these truths from being asserted.