Re:What went down on Wikipedia after Queen Elizabeth II's de...
by Hamuko on Saturday September 10, 2022 @06:01PM
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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
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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.
Re:What went down on Wikipedia after Queen Elizabeth II's de...
by akolbe on Saturday September 10, 2022 @09:09PM
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I just looked at it on Google Street View. It needs a few more old trees, but a lot of it is quite charming.
Re:What went down on Wikipedia after Queen Elizabeth II's de...
by akolbe on Saturday September 10, 2022 @06:54PM
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All the more remarkable is that all of this is done by unpaid volunteers.
Re:What went down on Wikipedia after Queen Elizabeth II's de...
by Denvercoder9 on Saturday September 10, 2022 @07:15PM
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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.
Re:What went down on Wikipedia after Queen Elizabeth II's de...
by akolbe on Saturday September 10, 2022 @07:30PM
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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...