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Template:ITN-Update I find the usage of "gay" in the Jason Collins story to be too colloquial for an encyclopedia. The link is to "homosexuality", is there any reason that the word "homosexual" couldn't be used? The term "come out" is also fairly colloquial, but that at least links to an article actually named "coming out". --Khajidha (talk) 14:02, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

I think at this point, the term "gay" has lost its colloquialism. I think it's probably the best word. "Come out as homosexual" sounds like something from the '90's to my ear. --Floquenbeam (talk) 14:38, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Not that it's directly related, but "gay" is the PC term now. Ryan Vesey 19:20, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

• The blurbs on ITN occasionally astonish me: this entry on 'Great Mosque of Aleppo' is one. Is it really necessary to reiterate that the Great Mosque of Aleppo is in, of all places, Aleppo? Anyway, as it's about to fall off, I guess my point is becoming moot. -- Ohconfucius ^{ping / poke} 19:17, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

  Without repeating the name of the city, we would have a hard time linking it, which is quite important to the blurb. One could go with Great Mosque of Aleppo, but I don't believe it's called just the "Great Mosque" on its own and I don't believe the ways it's currently worded looks odd at all. -- tariqabjotu 19:52, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

  Given that "Great Mosque of Aleppo" is linked and "civil war fighting" is linked to Battle of Aleppo (2012–13), I don't see why "Aleppo" needs to be stated again in isolation and linked. The city itself is not as relevant to the item as the fighting in/for the city. The item could probably be worded better to "reveal" the Battle of Aleppo in that link. - dcljr (talk) 22:36, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

The European Union passes a two-year ban on neonicotinoid insecticides, which are suspected to be the primary cause of colony collapse disorder. Neither references specificialy mention colony collapse in the article neonicotinoid, concern has been for the drop in bee numbers possibly from colony collapse, or from lack of Queens or from the quality of Queens. All three should be listed or the news should be changed to (e.g.) ... which are suspected to be the primary cause of the collapse of honey bee numbers throughout the world to reflect what is actually happening. Me, a beekeeper in UK Edmund Patrick – confer 05:57, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

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Surely it would be better to use "roofless" as in the article, rather than "topless". Unless, of course, you *are* trying to amuse your male, teenaged readers :-)

132.244.72.6 (talk) 08:21, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

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No mention of May Day?Applejuicefool (talk) 18:51, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Not when it has had a {{refimprove}} template on it for the last year. Bencherlite^Talk 20:56, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

While a good point, that doesn't make it *not* May Day.Applejuicefool (talk) 23:44, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

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Shouldn't that say "expected to be worth over $80 billion"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.148.154.196 (talk) 02:34, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

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