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Discussion on: Are mistakes ok?

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Alex Lohr

If you find factual errors in your articles, there are two ways to handle them once found:

  1. correct the article and add a short note what it said before and why it was corrected
  2. create a new article with updated information and add a reference in the old article.

I would suggest route 1 for smaller errors and route 2 for larger updates.

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Chris Bongers

Yeah, I've been using those two exactly like that.

Rewrite if the whole essence has changed over time, or it's too big to change
And change the small sub fixes.

How do you feel about content-writers making these mistakes?

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Alex Lohr

We're all humans. All the difference we can make is learning from mistakes, be it our own or someone else's. Generally the latter is preferable, because you're not going to live long enough to make all of them yourself.