danshick-wmde added a comment.
Howdy, I'm the technical writer in question. As is probably clear to everyone involved, properly fine-tuning this message depends on a good understanding of what's happening behind the scenes. As @Charlie_WMDE informed me, the "correct an incorrect value" discards the previous data and "update outdated data" retains but demotes the existing value. I don't see those facts in the above discussion, and in my view they're the most important thing about this issue, the knowledge of which seems to have motivated the wording "not correct and has never been". In light of this observation and the foregoing discussion, I propose the following wording: > Please select the type of edit you are making: > I am supplying updated information (archive previous value) > I am correcting an incorrect value (delete previous value) I also changed to the present tense since the edit is not yet complete. I acknowledge this might be a separate issue that has already been discussed elsewhere, so I'm happy to rewrite in past tense if needed. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260737 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: danshick-wmde Cc: danshick-wmde, Lea_Lacroix_WMDE, Charlie_WMDE, abian, Aklapper, Akuckartz, darthmon_wmde, Michael, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Scott_WUaS, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Lydia_Pintscher, Mbch331
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