Talk:Kennedy Highway

Commemorates
Does anyone know who the Kennedy Highway is named after? Have a source? Iowajason (talk) 23:28, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Edmund Kennedy. The article refers. Summerdrought (talk) 21:11, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

Substituting en-dashes for hyphens
Congratulations on the changes you made to Kennedy Highway. I have 2 questions:- 1. Does the fact that you changed some but not all hyphens in the RJL reflect your choice or some problem with AWB? 2. Would it be possible to set up a script to change all occurrences of “ space-space” in an RJL to en-dashes? Downsize43 (talk) 00:01, 5 June 2019 (UTC)


 * There's not a problem with AWB, but it has limitations. It has settings to let it run rules against all text, or run more safely by ignoring delicate things like image names, templates, link targets, and headings; you can't have it both ways on a single run. Change a hyphen to an en dash in an image name, and you will get howls of protest because the image no longer appears. Change a link target, and it becomes a red link. In this case I was running rules against all text, but with the rules carefully constructed to avoid the most dangerous mistakes. For example, they can change a spaced hyphen to a spaced en dash in the title of a "cite book" template, and they can do that in text that follows a wikilink, since image names would not be expected to contain double square brackets. A separate run could be made in the safer mode of AWB to catch the ones I missed in this run. Another way is to enable the gadget wikEd in your preferences and use that to step through the article one hyphen at a time; this is the most efficient way to clean up just one or two articles. I will do that for this article, because there are only about 20 changes left to make. Chris the speller   yack  05:30, 5 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Downsize43 (talk) 11:19, 5 June 2019 (UTC)