Thread:BunsenH/@comment-39080707-20190409164329/@comment-24577221-20190410170413

If there is a definite error in something in-game, it's worth mentioning it in the wiki page about that item.

If it involves text that we quote, such as a monster's bio, that is usually marked by adding "[sic]" immediately after the mistake. For example, there used to be an error in the Jellybilly's bio in the game, so what we had in the wiki was something like "Even though they may never meet face-to-face, Jellbellies [sic] generously return every piece of Cybop fan mail they receive, taking advantage of their many tentacles to write several replies at once."

"Sic" is Latin, and means "thus". Used in quotations as an editorial marking, it means "the person wrote or spoke exactly thus". That shows that we are correctly quoting something that we know is incorrect, and haven't made a mistake ourselves in the quoting. Direct quotations should almost always show exactly what was originally said/written.

(In some cases, if somebody is being quoted from a speech they give, it's okay to leave out the "um"s and "er"s.  As long as that doesn't significantly affect the meaning of what they say.  It may be appropriate to leave the "um"s and "er"s in, to show that the the person is speaking really badly.  Just remember that almost everyone speaks with "um"s and "er"s, so if you're trying to use that against someone, it's very likely that it can be used right back.)