{"id":1594,"date":"2010-10-03T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2015-03-20T09:52:17","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T09:52:17","slug":"mistake-in-wikipedia-it-states-incorrect-information-reference-number-plates%e2%80%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/2010\/10\/mistake-in-wikipedia-it-states-incorrect-information-reference-number-plates%e2%80%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Mistake in Wikipedia on number plates\u203c"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Mistake in Wikipedia , it states incorrect information reference number plates\u203c<\/h1>\n<p>According to Wikipedia, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_number_plates#cite_note-21\">Vehicle registration plates <\/a>are the mandatory number plates used to display the registration mark of a vehicle, and have existed in the United Kingdom since 1904. Most motor vehicles which are used on public roads are required by law to display them.<\/p>\n<p>However under the Northern Ireland section it states \u201cThe DVA are considering adopting the seven character system (area code+age identifier+random letters) currently used in Great Britain,[citation needed] using I as the first letter, e.g. IC60 ABC (no confusion could be made with 1 as it would be followed by another letter)\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ic60abc.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1595\" title=\"ic60abc\" src=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ic60abc-300x72.jpg\" alt=\"Number Plates\" width=\"300\" height=\"72\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ic60abc-300x72.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ic60abc.jpg 372w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I contacted the DVA enquires section\u00a0on Friday\u00a0and asked them about the above statement I was told \u201cWikipedia is not 100% accurate and they are not aware for any changes!\u201d There you have it from the \u201chorse\u2019s mouth\u201d there is no change in the pipeline in relation to Northern Ireland Registrations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Have you come across any other Wikipedia Mistakes?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mistake in Wikipedia , it states incorrect information reference number plates\u203c According to Wikipedia, Vehicle registration plates are the mandatory number plates used to display the registration mark of a vehicle, and have existed in the United Kingdom since 1904. Most motor vehicles which are used on public roads are required by law to display [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":1595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10529,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions\/10529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}