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"... that Donald Trump never drank Trump Vodka" needs a different tense, I think. It's too final. As the article makes clear it's still manufactured, and pedantically, I'm sure there's no assurance that either all stocks have been destroyed or that Trump is not capable of drinking again, it needs to be something like "... that Donald Trump has never drunk Trump Vodka" --Dweller (talk) 14:04, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

I don't think we can use "drunk" grammatically in that form without causing confusion.--WaltCip (talk) 15:07, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

Has drunk is the past-perfect tense. Were we to use the phrase above, it'd better not to split it: never has drunk. Sca (talk) 15:20, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

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• The short description for the Convair B-36 Peacemaker claims the aircraft was "...the first purpose-designed nuclear weapon delivery vehicle to be mass-produced..." but reading the article makes it clear that was not the case. It was used for that purpose, but it was not designed for it. Take out "purpose-designed" and it's correct.

To sidestep such historical pitfalls, how about this:

The prototype of the Convair B-36 "Peacemaker" (pictured), the Cold War's first intercontinental nuclear-weapon delivery vehicle, made its maiden flight.

Re "intercontenental," note that article describes the B-36 as "the world's first manned bomber capable of intercontinental flight without refuelling" (sic).

("Peacemaker" should be in quotes as an informal name and nuclear-weapon should be hyphenated as a compound modifier.)

Sca (talk) 20:36, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

• Per WP:Copyedit#Punctuation, a comma is required after "Czech Republic" in "... en route to Prague, Czech Republic struck a part ...". HandsomeFella (talk) 13:12, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

  Why do we need to specify "Czech Republic". If it had been on the way to somewhere called Prague that isn't the one in the Czech Republic, we might need to name the country, but this seems excessive disambiguation. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 14:06, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

Agree with Dweller. – Sca (talk) 15:23, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

Maybe, but if "Czech Republic" is there, the comma is required. Please put it there already, or remove "Czech Republic"; it's an eye-sore. HandsomeFella (talk) 15:34, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

Prague is a headline city, due to its status as the Czech capital, its size, its history, and to the fact that there's only one Prague in the world of any significance. Sca (talk) 20:39, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

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