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please change "a wrong" to "an incorrect" value

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Summary by Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)

phrasing changed, see T252996 for details

Wittylama (talkcontribs)

Minor feedback,

but could you please change the text string "I corrected a wrong value" to "I corrected an incorrect value", in the english version?

I'm not a linguist so I can't tell you grammatically-speaking why "a wrong value" seems too vague and odd, especially when paired with the quite scientific and precise alternative option of "I updated an outdated value". The word "wrong" also has a secondary meaning of morality - that something is wrong because it is bad; whereas "incorrect" can only mean not-true. Thanks :-)

Jeblad (talkcontribs)

I believe Wittylama is pretty much an expert in English compare to the WMDE team! :D And yes, I do agree with him on this.

Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talkcontribs)

Hello @Wittylama and thanks for your feedback. This totally make sense. We will consider changing the word - I created a Phabricator task for further discussions and work.