My comment was in no form intended as an attack if you saw it as such please accept my most sincere apologies It is however my personal opinion that edits like this are silly This particular edit did not make any improvements it did not fix anything it merely constituted a technical interpretation of an editing guideline not even a policy One or two such edits don t make much difference but I wanted to point this out to you just in case you decide to do it systematically in which case it would be a waste of everyone s time including yours indeed Hence my comment and it is in so many words simply because I have a propensity to blabber As for the literal interpretation of the guidelines please note that their intent is usually to prevent misunderstandings and useless reverts like ours In general sense not just within this guideline when something is not broken it is counterproductive to fix it This is why we never change British spellings to American and vice versa switch between different date formats or between link styles unless something obviously needs fixing or otherwise creates problems With Turan no problem existed before your edit no problem was solved during your edit and no problem appeared after your edit All in all your edit was pointless In such cases it is always best to stick with what s already in place especially because there just might be other reasons why the original contrubitor chose one style over another reasons you might not be aware of In case of Turan for example piped link style is typical in vast majority of articles about the Russian inhabited localities With your desire to achieve universal consistency surely there should be some appeal in preserving the consistency which is already in place Cheers August 10 2010 18 16 UTC