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Anyone have Wikipedia editing privileges? I just happened to notice a small typo (spelling error) under https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hades#Cult_and_epithets , subhead: “In Latin or Etruscan:” where (mas.to)

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Anyone have Wikipedia editing privileges? I just happened to notice a small typo (spelling error) under https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hades#Cult_and_epithets, subhead: “In Latin or Etruscan:” where the next to last bullet entry reads: “• Uragus, expressive of bis power over fire.”

That “bis” should obviously be corrected to “his”.

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[–] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

I'm pretty sure this is explained on the talk page with a bigass banner but that's only for those with the eyes to see