Talk:Libral standard

libral->liberal

Hi Tabletop

You (and others in the past) have edited the roman republican coinage page to change "libral" to "liberal". This is wrong, liberal is an entirely unrelated word. To quote from the page.

The bronze coinage was initially a fiduciary currency rather than a token currency, based on a "libral standard" where the as weighed one Roman pound (libra) with fractions in units of Roman ounces (unciae), with 12 unciae in a libra.

I assume this is being done via bot - is there a way I can flag this so that these spurious changes do not reoccur?

Curtius (talk) 11:58, 8 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Stop Libral being incorrectly corrected

The changes are done manually (and not by bot) one at a time, which gives time for a quick (not always reliable) check. There were a few occurances of liberal mispelled as libral which were correctly corrected.

Maybe there should be:

a note like (sic) only in reverse, or
a note like (Not a misspelling), or
a note like (Real spelling), or
an actual article about Libral being the adjective for Libra and not the misspelling of Liberal so that the word Libral is highlighted in blue like a valid link.
when the word Libral is incorrectly corrected, it no longer can be found by Wiki Search, given that there are 67,000 matches of Liberal. It is therefore desirable to maintain a list of pages such as Etruscan coins that contain the word Libral so that the incorrect corrections can be located and uncorrected.

I think that I would prefer option 4 as it is the least cluttered.

Tabletop (talk) 23:48, 8 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

libral->liberal

Stop Libral being incorrectly corrected

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