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The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):

Wrong Thing n. A design, action, or decision that is clearly incorrect or inappropriate. Often capitalized; always emphasized in speech as if capitalized. The opposite of the Right Thing; more generally, anything that is not the Right Thing. In cases where ?the good is the enemy of the best?, the merely good ? although good ? is nevertheless the Wrong Thing. ?In C, the default is for module-level declarations to be visible everywhere, rather than just within the module. This is clearly the Wrong Thing.?
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

Wrong Thing A design, action, or decision that is clearly incorrect or inappropriate. Often capitalised; always emphasised in speech as if capitalised. The opposite of the Right Thing; more generally, anything that is not the Right Thing. In cases where "the good is the enemy of the best", the merely good - although good - is nevertheless the Wrong Thing. "In C, the default is for module-level declarations to be visible everywhere, rather than just within the module. This is clearly the Wrong Thing." [Jargon File]