Talk:Subscriber trunk dialling

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This is spelt wrong. It should be "Dialing" and not "Dialling". I just checked on Google, and there's 33,000,000 entries for the word with one L, and 5,000,000 for the one with two Ls. Also, throughout the text, the word is spelt wrong. Zsingaya 13:08, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If I'm not mistaken, dialling vs. dialing is a regionalism, thus then Wikipedia policy takes over which states that regionalisms originally used must be maintained. Dysprosia 13:23, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I... I'm not even sure I understand what you said... surely the word that is more commonly used should be used on Wikipedia, right? How can you tell which one of these so-called "regionalisms" is the original one? Regards, a very confused Zsingaya 12:42, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The article was originally created with a title using "dialling", and that version used "dialling" -- see the article history. There is a redirect set up to catch alternate spellings. We do not use American English's spelling conventions uniformly on Wikipedia, we use whatever convention was used originally, and we especially do not use American English on an article that deals with a subject tied with the UK and Australia. This is all described in the Wikipedia Manual of Style. Dysprosia 13:17, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'll bow to your evident greater knowledge on this issue... sorry for being so persistent on this tiny insignificant matter !!! Zsingaya 11:11, 25 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, while both spellings are acceptable, "dialling" is by far the most common in Britain, and as such all official documentation from the GPO (General Post Office) at the time used that form in reference to STD (and in all other applicable cases, as you would expect). 87.113.176.128 (talk) 17:36, 1 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Article should be merged with "Direct Distance Dialing"[edit]

I've left a message on the talk page at the other article but for completeness am leaving one here, too.

"Direct Distance Dialing" and "Subscriber Trunk Dialling" refer to the same thing. The two articles should be merged.

The main problem, of course, is deciding which title to merge them under. "Motor car" and "automobile" are under a single article at Car, "railway" and "railroad" are under a single article at "Rail transport". I'm not sure what these two could be merged under. (There is also IDD and ISD for international calls, which are found under "International Direct Dialing".)

66.181.176.80 (talk) 23:57, 4 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

STD and DDD are "sort of" the same thing, but there are huge differences in the way that British/Irish STD and North American DDD were implemented, along with numerous other differences, such as American area codes typically covering vastly greater areas (an entire state in some cases) compared to STD. While a mention of DDD in the STD article and vice versa as a reference might be a good idea, I think the differences are sufficiently great that keeping them as separate articles is justified. 70.178.140.205 (talk) 07:23, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

STD[edit]

It would be nice here to credit the team and the man who lead this team. Reginald Chandler was his name, he made this happen.

You won't find him on Google. But if you do take pride in your work and want the facts, please go to a library. 2A00:23C4:959C:2001:30:5C1D:429B:4FB0 (talk) 09:24, 26 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]