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Refusal: Vanessa Redgrave

Accepted DBE in New Year Honours 2022, so update needed. I would do it myself but it needs a proper citation. Mdrb55 (talk) 11:32, 1 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"Irish government has no power" note

I've removed a very odd little note in the article about honours to Irish citizens. The constitution is very clear about this: "No title of nobility or of honour may be accepted by any citizen except with the prior approval of the Government." Unless the editor was simply making a "the UK could ignore Irish law if it wanted to, we have nukes and such!" point (which isn't especially helpful to anyone), the claim as written was flat-out false. 109.255.211.6 (talk) 09:43, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Which section of this article should (a certain link) point to?

A link that (now) does not work

A certain hyperlink, pointing to [a part of] this article no longer works as originally intended.

Where that link is

The link is displayed as the word "knight", and it is the only occurrence of that word in the lede paragraph of (the "Latest revision as of 08:00, 5 January 2025" version of) the "Order of the British Empire" article.

Why that link no longer works as intended

It does not work (as it used to) because its wikilink includes a "#fragment" suffix, that points to the [erstwhile] "Modern honours" section of this article (that is, "Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom#Modern honours" ... which no longer exists.

That section has since been re-named.

Where should that link point to?

At first I figured that, since the section of this article that used to be named "Modern honours" seems to be [an earlier version of] the section of this article that is now called "System", that the obvious solution would be to just change the wikilink to point to "Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom#System" instead.

On the other hand, the hyperlink seems to be intended to help the reader understand the word "knight" in certain contexts, and the "Orders of chivalry" section ("Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom#Orders of chivalry") of this article contains a table with some information which might be helpful to the reader; so that might be a good choice for the place where that hyperlink should point to.

Any comments?
-- Mike Schwartz (talk) 07:07, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]