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Today's OTD

• 1865 – American Civil War: The Union Army captured Columbia, South Carolina, from the Confederacy, while a large fire of unknown origin destroyed much of the city.

The lede of Capture of Columbia does claim that the fire destroyed much of the city, but it's unsourced. Later in the article, however, there's a sourced claim that in fact "not much of it burned." That probably needs to be sorted out on the talk page, and this wording shouldn't be on the front page until it is. -Elmer Clark (talk) 09:41, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Hmm. It's not a great article anyway, and there's a Featured Article we're not using. Therefore, I've swapped it for Myles Standish. Black Kite (talk) 09:49, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Tomorrow's OTD

• (Truman) The capitalization of President seems justifiable here, especially since Tandja gets that treatment. Jmar67 (talk) 00:09, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

  MOS:JOBTITLES contains the relevant explanation. In any case, a more pressing error is that Harry Truman links to a redirect (WP:MPNOREDIRECT). — RAVENPVFF · talk · 09:38, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

  I've changed it back to a pure title, "President Harry S. Truman", as the U.S. part is clarified later in the hook anyway. Also linked directly to his article. Cheers  — Amakuru (talk) 10:08, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

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