User talk:Justjourney
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Again, welcome! --EncycloPetey (talk) 01:01, 8 June 2025 (UTC)
Where did you locate the original text to make the correction? It is more likely that it should be case rather than cause, but without an original to compare against, we cannot know for certain which is correct. --EncycloPetey (talk) 01:01, 8 June 2025 (UTC)
- @EncycloPetey, Oh, what happened was I was looking for typos for the word "causing" (misspelled as "casuing") using the search function on the English Wikipedia. Since the search function gave me results for other wikis (on the right), I was about to fix the typo on Thornton v. Wynn, because of what I did on Wikipedia. I mindlessly changed it to "cause", but I think you're right that it should be "case". I've fixed it now. Justjourney (talk) 01:05, 8 June 2025 (UTC)
- Again, how do you know you made a "correction", if we do not have a copy to compare against? Wikisource reproduces published documents, as they were published. If the original had "cause", then we should have "cause". If it contained a typo, then our copy should also have that typo. We do not make changes to improve the text. --EncycloPetey (talk) 01:16, 8 June 2025 (UTC)
- I thought it was a summary of the case/cause, and I was supposed to edit it. Sorry. Justjourney (talk) 01:28, 8 June 2025 (UTC)
- Again, how do you know you made a "correction", if we do not have a copy to compare against? Wikisource reproduces published documents, as they were published. If the original had "cause", then we should have "cause". If it contained a typo, then our copy should also have that typo. We do not make changes to improve the text. --EncycloPetey (talk) 01:16, 8 June 2025 (UTC)