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Biased account of the 2017 Catalan election, and the "exiled" status of Carles Puigdemont

The following text contains a biased account of the 2017 Catalan election:

In the Catalan election, pro-independence parties, spearheaded by the exiled Carles Puigdemont (pictured), secure a majority.

To my mind, the fact that a non pro-Catalan independence party such as Ciutadans won the latest election (by a significative margin of two seats and over 160.000 votes on the runners-up, JuntsxCat) is as relevant a takeaway as the one-sided account stated on the current headline; specially considering that it had never happened in the democratic history of Catalonia. Moreover, Carles Puigdemont is not an exiled politician by any stretch of the imagination, since he's not being held from entering his own country for his political ideas; he is, simply put, a fugitive from justice.

4567L (talk) 12:48, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

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• Boxing Day - about half of it's unreferenced. The Rambling Man (talk) 10:35, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

• "Beijing–Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong high-speed railway" - a lot of this is unreferenced, including the whole "Transfers to other rail lines" section, plus a distinct lack of citations for the table in the "Sections" section. The Rambling Man (talk) 15:44, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

  Added references to Boxing Day. Replaced the railway with 1996–97 strikes in South Korea. —howcheng {chat} 21:28, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

  Which would be okay if 26 December could be verified in the strike article... The Rambling Man (talk) 21:32, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

  Fixed the URL for the first reference, which includes the date. —howcheng {chat} 23:48, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

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The song has been used in promotion of Shrek the Third. This is third instance of a Smash Mouth song being used in some fashion for the Shrek film series. "All Star" and a cover of The Monkees song "I'm a Believer" were both used in the first Shrek film. 3, not 2, Smash Mouth songs are associated with Shrek. Please fix. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_of_My_Life_(Smash_Mouth_song)

The hook says "... that two of Smash Mouth's U.S. top-ten hits are associated with a big green ogre?" (emphasis added). "Story of My Life" wasn't U.S. top-ten according to Smash Mouth discography#Singles. Did I miss something? Art LaPella (talk) 05:35, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

The Ruth O'Reilly hook currently on the main page is not the one that I had proposed and was approved as it omits information to the point that the hook is misleading plus a potential BLP issue in it's current form. She wasn't complaining about the IRFU not supporting her, she was complaining about them not supporting women's rugby. Could someone please amend the hook to make it state "lack of support for women's rugby" as what was originally approved? The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 08:01, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

Done. Killiondude (talk) 08:10, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

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