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This template can be used to encapsulate deliberate or apparent typos to save them from correction by bots and automated wiki-editors. Its purpose is to indicate passages that might appear incorrect to an automated tool, but which are actually correct. It has no effect on the rendered wikitext. The template is also recognized by wikipedia:AWB during normal Regex typo fixing procedures, in which the program skips the text during its evaluation.
Also be aware of:
- {{Lang}} for other-language text. If this is used a language code is required.
- {{Sic}}, which can be used to mark up text, thus [sic], or invisibly.
Examples
The first known mention of a form of the word "billiards" appears in [[Edmund Spenser]]'s ''Mother Hubberd's Tale'' in 1591, where he speaks of "... games that may be found ... with dice, with cards, with {{Not a Typo|balliards}}."- → The first known mention of a form of the word "billiards" appears in Edmund Spenser's Mother Hubberd's Tale in 1591, where he speaks of "... games that may be found ... with dice, with cards, with balliards."
Advanced usage
- In some cases it may be beneficial to obfuscate the text so that it isn't included when searching for particular patterns. In order to achieve this, {{Not a Typo}} supports two parameters, allowing the text to be broken up at an arbitrary position.
{{Not a Typo|patt|ern}}instead of{{Not a Typo|pattern}}- → pattern