User talk:Ziggy spacedust

Accuracy in linked article titles
Speaks for itself? When you changed "Constantinople" to "Istanbul", you broke the link to the article concerned, which turned the link from blue to red (meaning there is no such article under that title). Please check the effects of your changes before you save them. Thank you. Haploidavey (talk) 06:54, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for informing me, I was unaware of this. Ziggy spacedust (talk) 07:15, 4 July 2022 (UTC)


 * That's OK. Links are highly sensitive to changes in mark-up. You made an edit in good faith. "Istanbul" is the common terminology these days but in my long-distant youth (1950's) "Constantinople" was by far the more common name in English-language histories and contemporary maps. It took quite a lot of insistence on the part of Turkish authorities to get recognition for "Istanbul". Haploidavey (talk) 07:50, 4 July 2022 (UTC)