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| <div style="position: fixed; visibility: hidden"><span style="font-size: 0">Please do not remove this invisible timestamp. See ] and ]. - Dank (]) 01:24, 29 September 2022 (UTC)</span></div> | <div style="position: fixed; visibility: hidden"><span style="font-size: 0">Please do not remove this invisible timestamp. See ] and ]. - Dank (]) 01:24, 29 September 2022 (UTC)</span></div> | ||
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| Should read "estimated to be fewer than 50 birds" not "estimated to be less than 50 birds". | |||
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| Amending the number killed to 10 to coincide with news sources and a longstanding policy of not including the perpetrator among those killed. ] (]) 20:13, 1 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
| :Agreed. Suggest, "An attacker kills 10 people, with dozens injured, in ''']''' in the US city of ] ''(street pictured)''." ] (]) 21:04, 1 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
| ::Frankly, I'd prefer something more like "An attacker rams his truck into a crowd and opens fire, killing at least 10 people and injuring dozens, in the US city of New Orleans".--] (]) 21:12, 1 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
| :Do we need to say "in the US city of"...? New Orleans i'd think is one of those cities that the average reader is going to know where it is. If anything this could be reduced to say "New Orleans, Louisiana". --] (]) 22:02, 1 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
| ::I've made the change along the line I suggested in my latter post above, and at Masem's suggestion, have deleted "in the US city of".--] (]) 22:12, 1 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
| :::I've also updated the number of killed, respecting the OP's comments. ] (]) 23:06, 1 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
| :::'''US''': But we often have blurbs with like "Paris, France". New Orleans is not an obvious world capital. Maybe it is well known outside of US, but could start a slippery slope on debating "well-known" cities (like we use to have with whether or not to link a country in a blurb)—] (]) 01:30, 2 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
| ::::What does policy dictate? ] (]) 01:54, 2 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
| :::::I don't believe there is anything formally written, it's more de facto. —] (]) 01:56, 2 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
| ::::::What do you think, "In the U.S. city of New Orleans," to start unless we are running up against length limits, or do you have a better way? ] (]) 02:03, 2 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
| :::::::I never liked <city>, <country>, but it seems to have been the de facto practice (brevity?), and some might take exception with a new practice on a US topic. But as long as we're consistent going forward. —] (]) 02:18, 2 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
| :::::] says that we don't need to link to municipalities as long as its obvious from context. For Paris, there does need to be a secondary name since there's places like Paris, Texas. That's why at least identifying the state helps to provide context. ] (]) 02:00, 2 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
| ::::::I'm not saying France was necessarily needed there. But I don't think it was consciously included because of ambiguity with ], either. —] (]) 02:13, 2 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
| :::::::I'm good with any short addition, as long as no length limits are violated. Further expanding the place name doesn't seem to me to be worth sacrificing what's already there. ] (]) 02:25, 2 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
| ::::::We've also had "], United States",, even though there is ] and ], both in the US. —] (]) 02:30, 2 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
| :Should say "rams a truck" not "rams his truck"; the Ford involved was rented from a Houston man. ] (]) 23:07, 1 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
| ::Fair enough. Done. ] (]) 23:08, 1 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
| :Should we add that the truck had an ] flag, now that media coverage is heavily implying that as the motive? ] (]) 02:39, 2 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
| *The image captioned "Location of truck-ramming attack" does not show the location of the truck-ramming attack and should be removed. <span style="font-family: Cambria;"> ] (])</span> 02:41, 2 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
| *:It does, though. {{tq|Canal Street at the intersection with Bourbon Street, where the ramming began, pictured in 2022}} ] (]) 03:12, 2 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
| *::No, the terrorist went down Bourbon by turning off of Canal; no ramming occurred on Canal. The photo is a disgrace. <span style="font-family: Cambria;"> ] (])</span> 03:42, 2 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
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| * ] – The '']'' space probe flew by the comet ''']''' and collected particle samples from its ], which were later returned to Earth. | |||
| *:This links to ], a redirect to ]. Per ], the link should be changed to ]. ] (]) 00:28, 2 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
| *::Thanks. Done. — ] (]) 01:12, 2 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
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| I would strongly urge that the bit "Often mischaracterized as propaganda ..." be revised to "Often characterized as propaganda ..." (i.e. without the "mis") '''ASAP'''. The current wording is a clear violation of ]. References in the article ] do indeed establish that the film has been characterized as propaganda. Nothing that I see in the article or its references establish that this characterization is erroneous, and we should not be calling the characterization erroneous in wikivoice on the main page. At best, whether or not the film should be considered as propaganda is disputed, and it isn't clear that either position would be dismissed out of hand as ]. Arguments that the film's advice would indeed be efficacious don't mean that the film wasn't ], as it was clearly an attempt to influence public behavior (even if the influence was positive and intent benevolent) and thus definitionally propaganda. ] (]) 01:33, 2 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
| :I concur, it is the word "propaganda" that has been mischaracterized as always meaning negative or misleading. <span style="font-family: Cambria;"> ] (])</span> 03:45, 2 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
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