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transcription in Mrs Macquarie's Chair

Mrs Macquarie's Chair includes a transcription of a stone inscription. The inscription includes this line: "Was finally Completed on the 13^th Day ofJune 1816". The "th" is superscripted in the inscription (as shown by the photograph in the article). Hence the "th" should be superscripted in the transcription.

The transcription also includes an invisible comment: "The transcription follows the actual inscription as closely as feasible; e.g. there is no space in "ofJune" and some words are in small caps."

Previously, the "th" was superscripted. Then PkbwcgsBot made an edit that removed the superscripting. (The edit has this edit summary: "fixing WP:WCW error 101 (Ordinal number found inside < sup> tags), replaced: < sup>th< /sup> → th)".) The edit seems to be wrong for the transcription. Hence I have undone it.
EllieTea (talk) 05:58, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

@EllieTea: You are incorrect to revert the edit. There is a policy called MOS:ORDINAL which states that the suffixed of ordinal numbers should not be superscripted. Regardless of what it says in the transcription, that revert is absolutely wrong and it should not have been undone. Pkbwcgs (talk) 18:13, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

The MOS does not discuss inscriptions. I did not find any Wikipedia policy that deals with inscriptions. Inscriptions are almost always transcribed as closely as feasible, at least in the first instance (to minimize losing information); smoothing, etc., is done afterwards. As an illustration, the MOS rules that you cite, if applied to transcriptions, would not permit the "ofJune" that I noted earlier; yet that is the correct transcription here. An example of a transcription of an inscription is given in the article Duenos inscription.
EllieTea (talk) 03:15, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Incorrect edit summaries

For any one who is confused, this edit, this edit and this edit are part of task 4. Apologies for the confusion. Pkbwcgs (talk) 18:36, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia/ISBN errors

Was your bot going to continue updating Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia/ISBN errors regularly? Once or twice a day would be helpful, if you're still willing. Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 07:57, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: My bot took a break because I was busy with other things. My bot has now resumed daily ISBN and ISSN error updates. Pkbwcgs (talk) 09:57, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

Thanks! It is helpful. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:33, 17 November 2019 (UTC)