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The correct title of the first book is Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - the author, J. K. Rowling, is British, and the book was first published in the United Kingdom. The alternative Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is used only for the United States (USA) publication.
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She’s actually Voldemort’s daughter and was found in the 4th book. You will see they describe her with black and white hair. Sapphina is one out of two of Bellatrix and Voldemort’s daughter. Delphini Delphi is her older sister. Saphhy (talk) 03:51, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Strugglehouse (talk·contribs) changed the harrypotter.com URL in the infobox from "https://www.harrypotter.com/" to "https://harrypotter.com" saying Removing unnecessary "www." from website URL. After being reverted by me with the edit summary "www" is not unnecessary: the canonical URL is "https://www.harrypotter.com/", they reverted me, with the edit summary Absolutely no point in having this if the URL resolves without it.
If you check the web page source, you will see that the canonical URL contains "www", and it is common practice among webmasters and search engines to use the canonical URL and not some other URL that redirects to it (the name does resolve, but the web server has to redirect). So, imo, Strugglehouse's change is unnecessary – pointless, even – and incorrect. Esowteric + Talk + Breadcrumbs10:15, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Esowteric I disagree. The "www." is only needed if the website doesn't work without it. It adds unnecessary clutter to the infobox and looks less appealing. Multiple infobox documentation, including Template:Infobox company and Template:Infobox station, states "Do not include the leading www. unless the URL will not resolve without it." Therefore, it is completely unnecessary to include it unless required for the URL to function. Strugglehouse (talk) 10:28, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I see. Well, if that's what the guidance says, then you're correct. Thanks. It's just that it creates work for the web server and the browser. Eg from an Apache virtualhost or .htaccess file, it may require a 301 redirect:
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