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Today's FA

• The second mention of the South West Pacific Area has South West as one word. —184.248.53.188 (talk) 01:55, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
  • Thanks, done. I also changed Template:TFATOPIC to Template:TFAFULL. - Dank (push to talk) 02:00, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

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Earthquake toll up to at least 35, as per article. Brandmeister^talk 13:27, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

• The earthquake in Turkey article cites two sources that report the earthquake death toll has risen to 35. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 13:53, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
• Below link is for Coronovirus which shows the death toll for the virus has risen to 56. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 13:53, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

Yup. [1] – Sca (talk) 13:35, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

Can we get Kobe's picture up please? The Rambling Man (Staying alive since 2005!) 21:50, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

• KOBE blurb should say four others (total deaths: five). – Sca (talk) 22:41, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

  It's Kobe, his daughter, and three others. That is a total of five.  — Amakuru (talk) 22:45, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

• This edit removed "former". I don't understand why? He wasn't a basketball player at the time of his untimely death, so "former" was a perfectly apt description. The Rambling Man (Staying alive since 2005!) 22:38, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

  Everyone is a "former" holder of any given occupation after they are dead. Including the word doesn't add anything to the hook, and looks a little odd to me.  — Amakuru (talk) 22:43, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

• Can we get Death of Kobe Bryant in the blurb? P-K3 (talk) 22:44, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

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Today's OTD

• 2001 Gujarat earthquake blurb (and lead) say "destroyed nearly 400,000 homes" but the source says "approximately 339,000 buildings destroyed and 783,000 damaged" so not really "nearly 400,000" and no clear mention of those buildings being "homes". The Rambling Man (Staying alive since 2005!) 12:45, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

  Nine hours later... The Rambling Man (Staying alive since 2005!) 21:51, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

I've corrected the article, but I can't do the blurb. Mikenorton (talk) 22:00, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

Mikenorton I appreciate that, thanks. It's a shame we seem to have been displaying an error (which would have been easily checked surely?) all day. The Rambling Man (Staying alive since 2005!) 22:03, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

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• humanist in the first sentence should link to Renaissance humanism, not to Humanism. — RAVENPVFF · talk · 01:43, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

  So not a philosophy major...a search of the article for 'humanist' takes me to the categories. 'Humanism' takes me to the infobox and books that only say humanism, not renaissance humanism. --valereee (talk) 22:28, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

  @Valereee: The Humanism article mainly deals with philosophical ideas dating from the 19th century onwards; Renaissance humanism more accurately covers the time period concerning Budé. Perhaps the books only state "humanism" because the Renaissance variety would probably be the only one they would be talking about. — RAVENPVFF · talk · 11:47, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

Whoops, sorry, I did change it a couple hours ago, forgot to come back here! --valereee (talk) 12:35, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

The Collegium Trilingues did not become the Colle de France. The Collegium Trilingues was and still is in Leuven Belgium. The College de France was to some extent inspired by it but is quite separate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gobanian (talk • contribs) 17:08, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

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