It's happened to everybody. You've filed, contacted us to let us know to publish, and then ... horrors ... you spot a typo that you just know we're not going to catch. (Or, in an alternate take, we miss a typo.)
Figuring nobody gets hurt, you go back in and make the change yourself.
Why's this wrong?
Well, for starters, the Internet world looks down on making changes without owning up to making the mistake. That's why we prefer you either provide an "update" on the bottom of your entry or use the surprisingly versatile "strikethru" code. (Info on both techniques can be found here.)
It also may have the unfortunate side-effect of "unpublishing" your entry ... Which can, in some cases, lead to angry phone calls to us insisting we never published said entry in the first place.
This provides general workplace stress (the cold/hot and mosquitoes do enough of THAT) and also means we have to re-edit your entry all over again. (This approach sometimes will "nuke" all the changes we've made, such as adding "target=new"s to your links and fixing all the bad apostrophes and quote marks.)
So, in short, if you need something fixed, talk to your editor or to us.
Trust us, it's better all the way around.
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