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Why is the lede of the main page summary more passive than the article itself?
Lede:
Blair Peach died on 24 April 1979 after an anti-racism demonstration in Southall, London, England.
Article:
Clement Blair Peach (25 March 1946 – 24 April 1979) was a New Zealand teacher who was killed during an anti-racism demonstration in Southall, London, England.
I get that Peach was injured on the previous day, and died on 4/24, but it is bizarre to me to have "died after a protest" being the leading description here. imho the lede here should read
Blair Peach died on 24 April 1979 after being mortally wounded by police during an anti-racism demonstration in Southall, London, England.
I'm going to WP:BOLD and update the lede now, but wanted to put the talkpage note here for further discussion. Ford MF (talk) 18:08, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
". . . that "The Glorious Cause: . . ." has been the first, second, and third volume of the Oxford History of the United States?" Mixes categories, so it is misleading or a trick statement. It was the first volume published, but it was never intended to be the first volume chronologically-—when it was published it was intended to be the second volume, but since then the period before 1763 has been divided into two volumes. So it is now the third volume chronologically. Because the sentence doesn’t define in which way it is first, second, and third, it’s a TRICK statement, not a sensible statement of fact. Wis2fan (talk) 03:45, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
... that in 1982, historian Gordon S. Wood harshly criticized the book The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789, and in 2020 he recommended it to readers?). Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 04:41, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
It was the first volume to be published as part of the Oxford History of the United States.
Robert Middlekauff's new narrative history of the American Revolution is the first volume to be published in C. Vann Woodward's projected eleven-volume Oxford History of the United States(page 1060, bolding added)
At the time of its publication, The Glorious Cause was presented as the second volume in a projected eleven-volume series
this volume is the second in chronology and the first to appear in print(page 455, bolding added)
Later, the series planned to produce two volumes on history before 1763 (The Glorious Cause will be the third volume chronologically).
ALT0's viability depends on considering the arithmetic by which one concludes that if there are a volume I and II before The Glorious Cause, then The Glorious Cause must be volume III, to be an example of "[r]outine calculations [that] do not count as original research".
how little attention in this series is going to be paid to the colonial period. Peter Mancall, the author of Volume I, and Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton, authors of Volume II, have to deal with whole centuries
The Glorious Cause is number III in The Oxford History of the United States.
a trickcontrary to Wikipedia's purpose. The purpose of WP:DYK is to encourage readers to click on the link and learn about something new. The goal of this hook—and of many hooks—is to prompt an amused confusion that motivates a reader to click the link and read the article to figure out how something seemingly contradictory turns out to be true when understood in context. Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 17:03, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
"Three-fourths" looks wrong to me (first hook) - is it correct in Indian English? I would always say three-quarters, which is used in the article. However I can see this being confused with three quarters. Would 75% be better? — Voice of Clam (talk) 09:02, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
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