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In Wikipedia, billions of users try to improve articles by adding fresh information as they come out. However, even the best editors have made silly mistakes that can have the most bizarre consequences. This is the near-complete list of Marianian's unfortunate mishaps.
The wrong box!
edit- Date: 15 May 2009
- Article: Microsoft Office
- Blooper: here
Marianian had been making a couple of NPOV edits because some random person had edited the article to claim that Microsoft Office was “a popular office suite”, a prose in which Wikipedia do not tend to say unless there was a citation to support it. So that was corrected then.
The editor then noticed that there wasn't a mention to why version 13.0 was skipped, so Marianian opened the relevant section with the right citation link in hand. That was http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=38146, which referred to the announcement of the new Office 14 suite, which is of course relevant: no problem.
The editor wrote the reasons for version 13.0 being skipped and realising that the citation was in the wrong position he copied and pasted the citation in what he thought was the editing box, with the reference tags neatly in place, and pressed Return, expecting to see a line break generated... but no, Wikipedia had saved the unfinished version with the unformatted citation as an edit summary![1]
Thank goodness Twinkle was attached in her account has it had been for nearly a year, so the accidental edit was reverted at the speed of Superted and an apology added in the talk page just to make it clear it was a pure accident and not a spam edit. As for the mentioning of Office 13 being skipped, it eventually made it into the final edit she made minutes later.[2]