On 8/27/2020 1:02 AM, xxxxxx@gmail.com wrote:
> https://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Tech-World_(world)
>
> There's something a bit odd out here in The Borderlands Subsector. Tech-World is
> on the far side of the a rift between the  Heirate and the Imperium (Trojan
> Reach 2624).
>
> The top of the page says less than 10,000 inhabitants. Later, the article says
> it has 4,000 inhabitants and millions of robots.
>
> Yet... if my eyes do not fail me, the UWP is clearly A455154-E.
>
> With 4,000 population, should it not have a UWP of A455354-E?
>
> One would think that one would pull the description of population etc from the
> UWP, but it looks like it was pulled from the textual reference and ignored the UWP.
>
> Mongoose Traveller: Aslan is cited. Is this an errata for that product effectively?
>
	While there are errata pages in the wiki, the content of the wiki should
*never* be taken as errata. The wiki is a reflection of the existing canon, not
superseding it.

> Should the software on Traveller map not consider presenting both written text
> from a product along with the standard decoding of the UWP and perhaps flag
> discrepancies where feasible?
>
	Traveller map has its own internal database which considers only the extended
UWP data as provided by Marc and reviewed by the Mongoose writers and the Inner
Circle. Discrepancies should be assumed that the wiki is out-of-date or wrong.

> Just a thought. I didn't go looking for nits, I was playing around with
> different eras, and still having issues with the latest FF and TMap. Works okay
> in my Edge though. Anyway, had to look at 'Tech-World' when I saw Port A, Tech
> E, Pop 1. The million robots in the write up helps explain the A Port, E Tech,
> but the population is broken in either the UWP or the descriptive text.
>

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