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Editorial (Normative): "Web" to "web", harmonise when SC is upper or lowercase#4461

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@patrickhlauke patrickhlauke commented Jun 22, 2025

Split out normative-only version of #4428

Relates to #4427

Changes unnecessary capitalisation of "Web" to "web", a few straggler cases where lowercase "success criterion/criteria" was referring to specific ones, where we do want title case

…s criteria"

Also includes:

* change "web based" to "web-based"
* change "Web Unit" to "web unit"
* change "Web Page" to "web page" (where appropriate)

Closes #4427
Per @bruce-usab's comment, removed one instance altogether as it was unnecessary, and replaced another with "set of web pages" which is the correct term here that matches the wording of the related SC
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@patrickhlauke patrickhlauke changed the title Patrickhlauke web web normative Editorial: "Web" to "web", harmonise when SC is upper or lowercase Jun 22, 2025
@patrickhlauke patrickhlauke changed the title Editorial: "Web" to "web", harmonise when SC is upper or lowercase Editorial (Normative): "Web" to "web", harmonise when SC is upper or lowercase Jun 22, 2025
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The content in _includes should remain in #4428; that is used for informative docs, not TR space.

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@kfranqueiro sigh ... done

@mbgower mbgower added ErratumRaised Potential erratum for a Recommendation Normative labels Jun 24, 2025
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mbgower commented Jul 15, 2025

Completed working group review period. Moved to quarterly errata refresh

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Also includes:

* change "web based" to "web-based"
* change "Web Unit" to "web unit"
* change "Web Page" to "web page" (where appropriate)
* a few straggler cases where lowercase "success criterion/criteria" was
referring to specific ones, where we do want title case

Closes #4427

EDIT: see the matching #4461 that takes
care of normative documents

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Co-authored-by: Mike Gower <mikegower@gmail.com>
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kfranqueiro pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 29, 2025
…lowercase (#4461)

Split out normative-only version of
#4428

Relates to #4427

Changes unnecessary capitalisation of "Web" to "web", a few straggler
cases where lowercase "success criterion/criteria" was referring to
specific ones, where we do want title case

---------

Co-authored-by: Mike Gower <mikegower@gmail.com>
(cherry picked from commit bc709a4)
kfranqueiro pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 31, 2025
…lowercase (#4461)

Split out normative-only version of
#4428

Relates to #4427

Changes unnecessary capitalisation of "Web" to "web", a few straggler
cases where lowercase "success criterion/criteria" was referring to
specific ones, where we do want title case

---------

Co-authored-by: Mike Gower <mikegower@gmail.com>
(cherry picked from commit bc709a4)
mbgower added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 31, 2025
Updates the errata documents for 2.2 and 2.1 to list the 6 new editorial
changes held for the quarterly update.

These are:
- Rewording the normative preamble of Content on Hover or Focus for
clarity ([#4469](#4469))
- Changing occurrences of "e-mail" to "email"
([#4385](#4385))
- Removing use of "must" in section 7 preamble
([#4458](#4458))
- Fixing the markup for the notes in the "abbreviation" definition
([#4452](#4452))
- Changing capitalized occurrences of "Web" and "Success Criteria" to
match the established lower-case style
([#4461](#4461))
- Restyling the boxed links for the Understanding and How to Meet...
documents ([#4590](#4590))

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Co-authored-by: Kenneth G. Franqueiro <kfranqueiro@users.noreply.github.com>
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