987 Cayman article posted today but linked to 2013 thread
987 Cayman article posted today but linked to 2013 thread
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samoht

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169 months

Thursday 1st October 2020
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https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

New 987 Cayman buyers guide article posted today 1st Oct 2020.
However the comments section is a forum thread from July 2013.

A bit confusing for readers confused


samoht

Original Poster:

6,953 posts

169 months

Thursday 1st October 2020
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Looking a bit further, it appears that a staffer has edited the original article rather than creating a new entry. The below is one of the five-part series of the 2013 original, however the link on the below page back to 'Introduction' now takes you to today's new article.

https://www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-buying-guide-c...

Can also tell because the article id number 28004 is out of sequence with all the other articles published today such as 43158, 43159 etc.
https://www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-buying-guides/...

Edit: original 2013 version of the page is visible here https://web.archive.org/web/20130711185125/http://...

Hence by re-using the same article id, it has inherited the link to the 2013 forum thread, as well as replacing the 'Introduction' section of the original 2013 article.

Edited by samoht on Thursday 1st October 19:24

Ben Lowden

7,215 posts

200 months

PH Marketing Bloke

PH TEAM

Friday 2nd October 2020
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Yes, apologies for the confusion here. We've started to update some of our older buying guides that need a bit of a refresh, but obviously have wanted to retain the original content/contributions from the community so we updated the original article from 2013.

In future, we'll make sure we put a highlighted post in when we're reviving an old thread to avoid confusion. Thanks for pointing out!