Well yes, there usually is a clear difference between trial strikes and patterns, but in practice the coin name directions are not always followed when adding new pages or editing page titles…
I created some new pages of Italian trial strikes and patterns recently (without realizing the problem about the difference between trials trikes and patterns myself, but I'm trying to rectify the mistakes), and every page got accepted with the words ‘pattern’ in parentheses, even if this was wrong and should have been ‘trial’. Just some exaples of wrong pages (some added by me, some not, but all got validated by moderators even though the guidelines were not properly followed):
N#242069 → title says ‘trial strike’ instead of ‘trial’
N#242923 → title says ‘trial strike’ instead of ‘trial’
N#243171 → title says ‘trial strike’ instead of ‘trial’
N#243094 → title says ‘trial strike’ instead of ‘trial’
N#244304 → title says ‘trial strike’ instead of ‘trial’
N#246856 → title says ‘trial strike’ instead of ‘trial’
N#308998 → title says ‘pattern’ instead of ‘trial’
N#429727 → title says ‘pattern’ instead of ‘trial’
N#308996 → title says ‘pattern’ instead of ‘trial’
N#429732 → title says ‘pattern’ instead of ‘trial’
N#429730 → title says ‘pattern’ instead of ‘trial’
This is just the ‘tip of the iceberg’ but there are so many of these mistakes it makes me wonder why new pages are even validated if the coin name directions are clearly not followed. Sometimes the title says ‘trial strike’, sometimes just ‘trial’ and sometimes ‘pattern’, even when the pattern is actually a clear trial strike (with words like ‘essai’ or ‘prova’ mentioned on the coin).
I could of course correct these mistakes myself, which I will gladly do, but I just feel like there should be a better way to avoid these mistakes so that we don't have to correct them afterwards.
To be clear, I do not wish to judge anyone making these mistakes as I make them myself sometimes, but I just feel like some pages are all over the place…
