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- 1781 – The crew of the British slave ship Zong, running low on water, began the killing of more than 130 African slaves by throwing them into the sea to claim insurance. - Can we change "African slaves" to 'enslaved African people' per the target featured article?JennyOz(talk)12:11, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
- 1924 – The Bronx County Bird Club was formed and would go on to lead the Audubon Society's - and went on to?JennyOz(talk)12:11, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
- Maybe, but basically meh. Looking atenglish.stackexchange.comand/r/grammar,I see arguments for either usage. In my mind, the "would" expresses not just the "talking about the future in the past" sense, but also gives a measure of uncertainty; in 1924 it was known that the club had been founded, but it was not yet known that it would (there's that word again) eventually lead the count.RoySmith(talk)20:47, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
- To me it looks fine. The only concern I had was leading the society'swhat,but that was just where you cropped it.Secretlondon(talk)21:36, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
- Maybe, but basically meh. Looking atenglish.stackexchange.comand/r/grammar,I see arguments for either usage. In my mind, the "would" expresses not just the "talking about the future in the past" sense, but also gives a measure of uncertainty; in 1924 it was known that the club had been founded, but it was not yet known that it would (there's that word again) eventually lead the count.RoySmith(talk)20:47, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
Somehow this has ended up with only 3 entries rather than the normal 4-6, and it looks like there are plenty of eligible items atWikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 30.At least for me, this is leading to very bad MP balance. Even worse, the photo goes with an item that's currently listed as ineligible.:Jay8g[V•T•E]00:47, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
Errors in the summary of the featured list
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- "One hundred ten episodes" or "One hundred and ten episodes"? (might be less clumsy to say "Over six season, 110 episodes of..."Nfitz(talk)02:16, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
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