https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49820

John Broughton <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #8 from John Broughton <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> I have already suggested bug 50527 as a possible solution to this problem. An
> automatic tag and then manual correction would be a simple-to-implement
> interim
> measure, if not long term.

Bug 50527 proposes that the edit go through, WITHOUT warning the editor of
his/her mistake; instead, the edit summary gets a tag showing that a problem
exists with the *completed* edit. Given that the software can detect this
error, it makes more sense to give the editor who made the mistake a chance to
fix it *before* the edit is completed - ideally, not to allow the edit to be
completed with the error intact within in. That way, (a) the editor is more
likely not to make the mistake again, and (b) if the editor who made the
mistake fixes it before finalizing his/her edit, there is no need for a second
(corrective) edit (and no need for someone to be monitoring recent changes for
the tag proposed in bug 50527).

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