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There are 19 dead links currently on the main page TFA. This is pathetic. Suggest it be pulled for something that doesn't suck. Isn't that what we keep Jenna Jameson in reserve for? (Looks; shit, it has 24;) Br'er Rabbit (talk) 03:04, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Are you saying Jenna Jameson doesn't suck? Not so sure about that... -- tariqabjotu 04:42, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Pun was intentional. It's her /job/ to “suck”. However, Amador Valley High School, just sucks in the ordinary, far-far-far from the best work wp has to offer sense. The 19 dead links don't begin to scratch the misery that is this article. Br'er Rabbit (talk) 04:53, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

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Voyager 1

Do we really need 2 definitions of the ill-defined, arbitrary line it is said to have crossed today? This is equivalent to Saudi Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud (pictured), a recently deceased member of the royal family of Saudi Arabia, dies in Geneva or Nik Wallenda walks on a tense wire across a cataract on the river connecting Lakes Erie and Ontario, to become the first person to successfully tightrope walk over Niagara Falls. Kevin McE (talk) 15:58, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

"edge of the heliosphere" is more precisely but obscurely defined for astronomers, and "boundary of the Solar System" is for non-astronomers. So which group should we misinform? Art LaPella (talk) 20:14, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Nik Wallenda

Regarding "Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to successfully tightrope walk over Niagara Falls" - surely Charles Blondin did this more than a century ago, and dozens of people have done so since? 78.149.254.201 (talk) 15:03, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

I think the difference is that Blondin crossed the Niagara Gorge whereas Wallenda crossed over the Falls themselves.--ukexpat (talk) 15:16, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

The article uses the words "directly over Niagara Falls". I recommend adding "directly" to the ITN blurb as well. All of the previous nine people crossed the Niagara Gorge, part of which is part of the (Canadian) city of Niagara Falls. http://www.niagaraparks.com/media/niagara-falls-stunting-history.html (Although I seem to be too late with the suggestion.) - Tenebris 07:07, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

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Tomorrow (June 19), 1846:

baseball isn't linked; it was linked to baseball before the day's last revision but that's perhaps a bit too generic. Given the topic and date could it be linked to origins of baseball?--JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 01:08, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

That blurb has been rotated out, but Origins of baseball needs more footnotes, and is thus ineligible. —howcheng {chat} 16:08, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

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