Stratt3000

Newb needs help

I'm new to contributing on Wikipedia and have recently joined the Typo Team. I recently fixed my first typo in an article (Suminoe-ku, Osaka - changing maratime > maritime) however, even though the word now shows correct in the article, when I search incorrect spellings of maritime again...a result still shows with the incorrect spelling..?? I just thought I'd ask a fellow Typo Team member..Is this normal or am I doing something wrong? Any input would help...thanks Stratt3000 (talk) 23:43, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

Hi Stratt! It depends on what you are using to search for the incorrect spellings. For example, if you use Google's advance search function to search the "en.wikipedia.org" domain, you need to keep in mind that Google's cache of web pages isn't necessarily real time. In fact, some of them are several days to weeks old. So if you change a Wikipedia page now, it probably won't show up as a change on Google for quite some time. If the live Wikipedia page shows your typo to be corrected, then I wouldn't worry any more about it. To make absolutely certain, check the history of the page. If you see your change logged, then rest assured you did it correctly. Bear in mind that my experience is only with Google. If you are using another tool to search for incorrect spellings, I suspect that the explanation is basically the same. Some of Wikipedia's lists of "things to do" are only generated once a day, so that might be another explanation. I hope that helps! -- Biglovinb (talk) 00:26, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

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