NationStates Jolt Archive


I spy a typo

Tha East Side
07-04-2008, 03:48
The resolution The World Assembly was passed 11,609 votes to 2,259, and implemented in all UN member nations.
Imota
07-04-2008, 04:25
It'll take a little while for all the old UN stuff to be changed to WA. Don't worry about it, or better yet, tell all your friends and laugh at it. Good job!
Omigodtheykilledkenny
07-04-2008, 16:39
Can I ask why all the old (now archived) UN resolutions are now labeled "World Assembly Resolution #__", when the WA was only established just yesterday? ;)
Roshavia
07-04-2008, 18:44
Because no one likes getting sued by international peace-keepers, not even Max.
Frisbeeteria
07-04-2008, 19:01
Can you say "Global Search and Replace"?

However, it's a fair point, and I'll see if [violet] or Salusa can fix it when they do the actual archiving.
St Edmund
08-04-2008, 17:33
Can you say "Global Search and Replace"?

(OOC)
There was a rather amusing case of that here in the UK a few years ago, when an examinations board called 'Oxford Cambridge and RSA Examinations', whose name is generally abbreviated to 'OCR', absorbed the 'Midland Examing Group' (or 'MEG'). They kept MEG's existing exam papers in use for a while, but did a global search-&-replace on the electronic files of these to change 'MEG' into 'OCR' in them. This was fine until the people doing some Science papers started asking what size units such as 'Ocrawatts' and 'Ocrajoules' were... ;)
Rotovia-
09-04-2008, 09:57
(OOC)
There was a rather amusing case of that here in the UK a few years ago, when an examinations board called 'Oxford Cambridge and RSA Examinations', whose name is generally abbreviated to 'OCR', absorbed the 'Midland Examing Group' (or 'MEG'). They kept MEG's existing exam papers in use for a while, but did a global search-&-replace on the electronic files of these to change 'MEG' into 'OCR' in them. This was fine until the people doing some Science papers started asking what size units such as 'Ocrawatts' and 'Ocrajoules' were... ;)

I very much doubt search and replace has ever not caused highly embarrassing mistakes.