23: Asquith Mascot Coach / Asquith Mascot Bus

Asquith Mascot Coach / Asquith Mascot Bus

We trespassed slightly into the driveway of a closed restaurant, just to see the bonnet well and find a clue on the brand of this antique looking showy coach. Research was a bit sobering. So far to the hairloom treasure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asquith_(1981_automobile)/ Wir drueckten uns etwas in die Auffahrt des geschlossenen Lokals hinein um die Motorhaube zu sehen und einen Hinweis auf die Marke des historisch wirkenden auffaellingen Busses zu erhalten. Spaetere Nachforschung war leider etwas ernuechternd. So weit ueber das nicht zu alte Schaetzchen: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asquith_Motor_Carriage

9 comments so far...

Fizgig June 22, 2018, 01:59 PM

It's a great replica! Nothing to be disappointed in ;) A fun way to transport the hotel guests....

I think the cars group would appreciate the inclusion of this beauty =)

Sonja June 22, 2018, 04:23 PM

A touristic ye-olded Ford Transit? LOL
But if you think it is worth it....

Hmm... crappy english wikipedia insists on ignoring the whole address for the company and forces the page for the former prime minister on my link :o(

Fizgig June 22, 2018, 08:53 PM

This link? I think the issue might be where your quotation marks landed when posting the link....

Sonja June 24, 2018, 07:03 AM

What quotation marks? I just pasted the address in the browser as it shows up, but only the part before the round brackets goes life. I am not big enough on programming to know what to do when a sign in an address trunkates it and how to detour that. I could get me the line to do a link with exchanged showing words, but can only paste the browser http line into it as I see it as well. Of late, it seems less and less links just go life as seen correctly as it was the case earlier.

Fizgig June 24, 2018, 03:17 PM

Try this (copy & paste).....

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asquith_(1981_automobile)"> ENTER TEXT HERE</a>

Replace the "enter text here" with your own visual representation for the link (i.e. "this link" from my previous comment)...

Sonja June 25, 2018, 03:47 PM

Thanks, what I meant is I could see no sign it's required to post stuff around. I got something like that in a notepad as I can never really remember the correct hyroglyphs in my head, but there was a time when pasting the browser link just worked like a charm in fora and it never did transport you elsewhere than the exact page and require you to look for the sheet with the codes. I understand comercial websites changed that to make it impossible for new visitors to get to specific info without seeing their front page and what they really want to sell, but at wikipedia I think it is regrettable when an article does not link easy without such work arounds any longer. An address where something is located and can be bookmarked for reference should not make weird detours in a free enceclopedia. :(
At least I learned more about H.H. Asquith from it. Before this I did only notice him on "Horrible Histories" as that funny guy on Downing Street that gets the suffragette in a sack delivered and outlaws humans to be sent by mail -- LOL

Fizgig June 25, 2018, 05:38 PM

The problem isn't this site, the problem is the way wiki chose to have the link appear.... Having unusual characters like parentheses within a URL is generally accepted as a recipe for generating broken links. It's a known fact that it causes sites and browsers to render said links incorrectly.

So it isn't a blanket issue with links not working anymore when posted bereft of surrounding code.... Whenever you see a link that has underscores or other unusual characters {for a link} in it, it's best to post it within the confines of the URL "ahref" tag for it to render correctly.

Just FYI...

Sonja June 26, 2018, 09:58 AM

Ah okay, as soon there is signs other than letters and numbers in the address I should fetch the modul for making a custom text link then. And the problem is just that not everyone on a colaborative site is a genious.... Thanks, I will try to keep it in mind.

But why on earth do they not tell their authors to find a way to stick to the basic caracters in the header when it generates the link from this? The german page is headed "Asquith Motor Carriage" to sort it from the prime minister, and it works indeed fine.

Fizgig June 26, 2018, 12:50 PM

I don't know why they do that.... But they do and they're not the only site to do so. It's not limited to the English version of wiki either, this is happening across the board. Maybe not with your particular page, but I know for sure there are German pages with the same use of off characters.

But, at least you have the solution for making the codes render to live links the way they should ;)