Talk:Arthur Richard Dillon

Coat of arms

Hi - why was the long time Coa replaced? --Maxxl2 (talk) 09:17, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

I just thought that a more simple version would look better. But if you guys want to use the past version, it's fine for me - John Ronn ^talk 14:50, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

I have to admit, that your version is modern and shows more clarity, but the older version expresses better the style the 18th century. Therefor the older version is to be preferred. --Maxxl2 (talk) 17:16, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

AWB

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T236729

Moved from User talk:GhostInTheMachine

 – — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 22:45, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

Dear GhostInTheMachine. Thank you for your attention to the page Arthur Richard Dillon. I see you have about double the edit count that I have and lots of experience. However, one of your changes is not a good one. You "corrected" the date format in a footquote: |ps=: "James, Kt. of Malta, Col. of the Dillon Regt. fell at its head at Fontenoy, 30 April, 1745." -> "|ps=: "James, Kt. of Malta, Col. of the Dillon Regt. fell at its head at Fontenoy, 30 April 1745." Many source text use date formats that do not comply with MOS. As I understand it they should be left alone, just as we do not silently correct old-fashioned spelling. What do you think? I seems date fixing in quotes has been reported as a bug in AutoWikiBrowser years ago and will probably never be fixed. With thanks and best regards, Johannes Schade (talk) 21:31, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

Johannes Schade Thanks for the note. I was using AWB to correct other aspects of a long list of articles, and AWB made the above change as a side-effect, so there is no problem with editing the quote back to the original format. Do you have a link for the old AWB bug report? I will give it a nudge — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 22:45, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

Dear GhostInTheMachine. Thanks for your positive reaction. The AutoWikiBrowser bug was logged by User:Tom.Reding under Phabricator task T236729 on 28 October 2019. You can find it by typing PHAB:T236729 into Wikipedia. Dear GhostInTheMachine, please fix the error you introduced. With many thanks and best regards, Johannes Schade (talk) 05:36, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

Courtesy ping to GhostInTheMachine.   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  00:03, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

Dear GhostInTheMachine. Thanks for having fixed it. I wished everybody would be as good as you. Best regards and hoping to meet you again, Johannes Schade (talk) 12:31, 4 January 2022 (UTC)