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This is easy to fix. You simply create the page with two lines of content. On the first line, put "#REDIRECT [[Plumpy'nut]]", and on the second line put "{{R from misspelling}}". The first line turns the page into a redirect to the page you then link, and the second is a template which categorizes the redirect as a redirect from a misspelling. If you need any more help using Wikipedia, a good resource is the Help desk. I've fixed the page in question, but now you know how to do it in the future. :)

@Nihiltres, I think Mr. Weinberger was wondering if the REDIRECT is the correct way to deal with a misspelling. That is, do we want multiple pages with wrong spellings in the Wikipedia. I believe that if it is a "common" misspelling, then a REDIRECT is acceptable. Of course, Google is a good way to measure "common"ness of misspellings; but in this case, a Google search for 'plumpinut' brings up the recently created Wikipedia REDIRECT as result #2 and this blog as result #6!

I didn't know about the redirect. Thanks!

And I'm shocked at how quickly Google is indexing blogs.

@Devan: It's a good thing to have common misspellings, alternate wordings, et cetera, in general (it helps people find what they're looking for, and we can categorize the redirects as such), but that it shows up on Google that way is interesting, especially because Wikipedia returns the title as "Plumpy'nut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" on the actual page - Google is doing something frankly odd in displaying the title that way. I think I might ask about it, because it obviously shouldn't do that for typographical errors and misspellings or miscapitalizations.

Google indexes the page with the word 'plumpinut', but not the page which that one redirects to.

But I'm intrigued - searching on 'plumpinut' is out of the question? Do you go right to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/? Or do you have a toolbar lookup or other shortcut?