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- Double Seven Day scuffle - it would be instructive to include "secret" ahead of police because it took me a couple of attempts to parse this ("the police of a named individual" was odd for me) and also because the article refers to it as such as well. The Rambling Man (Stay indoors, stay safe!!!!) 08:13, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
Done --Floquenbeam (talk) 03:19, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
- 2012 Krasnodar Krai floods - blurb says " equivalent of five months' rain fell " but article says "equivalent to three or four months' worth of precipitation in a typical year". The lead says "almost half a year's worth of rainfall". A bit of a mess. Plus, our blurb suggests it rained this much on this day but the article says it took two days for [insert amount here] to fall. The Rambling Man (Stay indoors, stay safe!!!!) 08:18, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
- This is a bit of a mess. One dead link, and one link in Russian, mean the only thing I can verify myself (to RT.com...) is the "almost half a year's worth of rainfall in two days". They could still all still be true (3-4 months worth over whole region, rounded up to "half a year' by sloppy RT.com, and 5 months in one day over one part of the region), but you have to take 2 of the 3 refs on faith. I think we recently had a foreign language ref that we took on faith, so leaving for someone else for now. But if there are Russian speakers around, check ref 2, that's what this hook is clearly sourced to. --Floquenbeam (talk) 03:30, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
- Oh well, eight hours on the main page and still no resolution. The obvious thing to do in these cases (to me at least) would be to pull the blurb so we're not providing our millions of readers with conflicting garbage. The Rambling Man (Stay indoors, stay safe!!!!) 08:06, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
- This is a bit of a mess. One dead link, and one link in Russian, mean the only thing I can verify myself (to RT.com...) is the "almost half a year's worth of rainfall in two days". They could still all still be true (3-4 months worth over whole region, rounded up to "half a year' by sloppy RT.com, and 5 months in one day over one part of the region), but you have to take 2 of the 3 refs on faith. I think we recently had a foreign language ref that we took on faith, so leaving for someone else for now. But if there are Russian speakers around, check ref 2, that's what this hook is clearly sourced to. --Floquenbeam (talk) 03:30, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
- Battle of Carillon - the "order of battle" section is not verifiable using the singular (non-RS?) source provided. Tagged for ref-improve. The Rambling Man (Stay indoors, stay safe!!!!) 08:37, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
- Bayonne Statute - for five years, the lead of this article has said the statute was approved on 6 July. The article does say it was "promulgated" on 8 July with a source, is that the same thing? Either way I guess these inconsistencies need to be addressed by someone with some level of expertise in the subject. The Rambling Man (Stay indoors, stay safe!!!!) 08:42, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
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- "The door to the right opened onto the upper floor..." Jmar67 (talk) 00:13, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
- Done --Floquenbeam (talk) 03:33, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
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