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The page to which you link disagrees. "has been reproduced verbatim from the quoted original and is not a transcription error". And all the examples use quoted material.

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Re^4: The view from Barnes & Noble
by moritz (Cardinal) on Oct 09, 2008 at 16:29 UTC
    And all the examples use quoted material.
    Not quite. 
    It is also sometimes used for comic effect:

    The Daily Mail was the first newspaper [sic] …

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      That's a quote (of a line from the Wikipedia page about the publication), just like the other indented paragraphs. The example shows an editor adding the "[sic]" to a quote to denote his amusement as the publication being called a newspaper. (It's a tabloid.)

      Anyway, I wasn't picking on the OP, and I wasn't looking for a discussion about the meaning of the construct. I was asking what he meant since it was unclear while explaining why it was unclear. The fact that monks have posted three or four different assumption as to what the OP meant the question was warranted.

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