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Re:What went down on Wikipedia after Queen Elizabeth II's de... by jrockway on Saturday September 10, 2022 @05:22PM (#32794677)
I was perusing Wikipedia as the news broke and was most amused how quickly the national anthem changed from "God save the queen" to "God save the king". But, the filename and "subtitles" still referred to the queen. I checked today, and indeed the file has been renamed and the embedded lyrics have been updated. Very impressive, honestly.

I hope there's a third version of that sound file floating around where it claims to be "My country, 'tis of thee".

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Re:What went down on Wikipedia after Queen Elizabeth II's de... by rootw0rm on Saturday September 10, 2022 @07:06PM (#32795288)
Sadly, the Sex Pistols have yet to release their version of "God Save The King"
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Re:What went down on Wikipedia after Queen Elizabeth II's de... by rad_gruchalski on Saturday September 10, 2022 @07:37PM (#32795449)
And Motörhead’s cover.
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Re:What went down on Wikipedia after Queen Elizabeth II's de... by u786347834678 on Sunday September 11, 2022 @05:39AM (#32798236)
Lemmy resurrected - there's a thought. (No sleep till Balmoral) I will go an take my tranquillizers now....
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Re:What went down on Wikipedia after Queen Elizabeth II's de... by Hamuko on Saturday September 10, 2022 @06:01PM (#32794902)
I was also pretty impressed at the speed of which edits were being added. I opened the Poundbury article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poundbury) and even though the news had just broken and it was a tangentially related article, the opening paragraph already said "keen endorsement of Charles, King of the United Kingdom".
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Re:What went down on Wikipedia after Queen Elizabeth II's de... by gerdesj on Saturday September 10, 2022 @07:56PM (#32795558)
I had no idea about Poundbury's link to CRIII. I live in Yeovil, roughly 30 miles away and I have a customer there too.

From memory it is quite different to the norm - lots of space is one impression I had. The road system is a bit different to what we expect in Britain too. Can't quite put my finger on it.

I think I might toddle on down and review the place with my eyes open.

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Re:What went down on Wikipedia after Queen Elizabeth II's de... by akolbe on Saturday September 10, 2022 @09:09PM (#32795968)
I just looked at it on Google Street View. It needs a few more old trees, but a lot of it is quite charming.
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Re:What went down on Wikipedia after Queen Elizabeth II's de... by akolbe on Saturday September 10, 2022 @06:54PM (#32795210)
All the more remarkable is that all of this is done by unpaid volunteers.
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Re:What went down on Wikipedia after Queen Elizabeth II's de... by Denvercoder9 on Saturday September 10, 2022 @07:15PM (#32795342)
Changing mentions of Charles, Prince of Wales to Charles, King of the United Kingdom seems like something that's easily automated though. I highly doubt someone manually went searching for pages that mentioned him to update them.
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Re:What went down on Wikipedia after Queen Elizabeth II's de... by akolbe on Saturday September 10, 2022 @07:30PM (#32795419)
The two people who changed it in the Poundbury article only changed it there, and nowhere else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Poundbury&diff=11...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Grahame

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Poundbury&diff=ne...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/81.231.1...

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Re:What went down on Wikipedia after Queen Elizabeth II's de... by chongli on Saturday September 10, 2022 @10:55PM (#32796453)
"My country, 'tis of thee" is an American song written by Samuel Francis Smith, an American Baptist Minister. Why would the UK use it as their national anthem?
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Re:What went down on Wikipedia after Queen Elizabeth II's de... by varyherb on Saturday September 10, 2022 @11:14PM (#32796518)
Perhaps some internet sarcasm is going over my head, but the lyrics are by Samuel Francis Smith. Its melody is the same as that of "God Save the Queen/King."
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Re:What went down on Wikipedia after Queen Elizabeth II's de... by btown on Saturday September 10, 2022 @11:18PM (#32796532)
Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_(My_Country,_%27Tis_of... Smith wrote new lyrics to the melody from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Save_the_King .
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Re:What went down on Wikipedia after Queen Elizabeth II's de... by rendall on Sunday September 11, 2022 @12:41AM (#32796882)
That is confusing. Perhaps they liked it better than their previous national anthem The Stripe-Spangled Banner?
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Re:What went down on Wikipedia after Queen Elizabeth II's de... by TaylorAlexander on Saturday September 10, 2022 @08:34PM (#32795772)
I guess you could just say “god save the monarch” though it changes the number of syllables.
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Re:What went down on Wikipedia after Queen Elizabeth II's de... by scrollaway on Saturday September 10, 2022 @09:00PM (#32795921)
God save the crown ;)
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Re:What went down on Wikipedia after Queen Elizabeth II's de... by TaylorAlexander on Saturday September 10, 2022 @09:52PM (#32796163)
Hey there ya go!
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