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• Update needed for Sri Lanka blurb - the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka has suspended President Sirisena's attempt to dissolve parliament. Source from BBC. Proposing following blurb. starship.paint ~ KO 13:54, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

Amidst a constitutional crisis, the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka suspends Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena's attempt to dissolve parliament.

•  Done. Took out redundant "Sri Lankan". Did verify article was updated with this news. --Masem (t) 15:23, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
  • If this is a sufficiently major development to justify updating the blurb, shouldn't the article lead also mention it? Modest Genius ^talk 16:36, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
    • I just updated the article too. --Masem (t) 16:45, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

Amidst a constitutional crisis... -- "amidst" is a bit old-fashioned, and not even very easy on the ear -- how about just "amid"? Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 21:36, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

• An outbreak of Ebola ... kills more than 200 people since August 2018. — The 2018 is unnecessary. Lack of a year obviously implies this year. Modulus12 (talk) 20:47, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

 Done. Was being cautious, I've seen in articlespace ppl think that construction is too ambiguous. --Masem (t) 21:00, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

Disregarding the year, the whole thing looks odd. Can you really use "since" in a present tense sentence?  — Amakuru (talk) 23:56, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

• Per comic book, there's no hyphen in "comic book". Unless it's a "Spider-Man comic book". But that's a different story. InedibleHulk (talk) 21:34, November 13, 2018 (UTC)

Though per Stan Lee, it should be "comicbook". With all due respect to this recently-dead transformative figure, I think that's a terrible idea. Wikipedia's front page should play by Wikipedia article rules. InedibleHulk (talk) 21:55, November 13, 2018 (UTC)

Our article is comic book, and so as two words we have to treat comic and book as compound modifiers. Stephen 22:05, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

There was a request at ERRORS/TFA yesterday to remove the hyphen in the compound modifier "high-school". What's the rule? - Dank (push to talk) 23:30, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

High school classmates could be read as his school classmates who were high. So grammatically, even though high school is not hyphenated on its own, as part of a compound modifier it should have been. Stephen 23:46, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

But how high do you have to get before you start thinking we could mean Stan Lee was a comic who created books? Even presuming "comic" didn't mean "cartoon", wouldn't we call him a comedic author? Clear enough that we don't need to start cobbling together new words. InedibleHulk (talk) 23:54, November 13, 2018 (UTC)

It doesn't matter whether the alternative parsing is plausible or not. The rule, on enwiki at least, is to hyphenate compound modifiers unless they are proper nouns. So comic-book is correct. And high-school was correct. See MOS:HYPHEN.  — Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

MOS:HYPHEN says a hyphen "can help", not "you must do it". I don't care what the rule is, and until yesterday, I had generally been guessing correctly which way the winds were likely to blow on hyphen rules. I get that there's a judgment call required in how likely a misreading is if there's no hyphen. I may be misreading, but it sounds to me like I'm not going to know what to do unless we get more discussion of the rule. - Dank (push to talk) 00:18, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

Khajidha? Modulus? Thoughts? - Dank (push to talk) 23:50, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

I've never seen either "high school" or "comic book" hyphenated when used as a modifier. While that is the general rule, some compounds are so well established that they don't need to follow it. Both "high school" and "comic book" fall into that category. --Khajidha (talk) 00:13, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

If it was newsworthy to mention Stan Lee's recent death (and I believe it was), then I think it also appropriate to list him under Recent Deaths. I also think that this would be true for anyone else's death. 75.156.37.89 (talk) 00:31, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

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• Please remove the piping on Westchester County, New York, so the state name is visible. Otherwise readers might think this is in Bedford or one of the many other places with the same name listed on Bedford (disambiguation). Modest Genius ^talk 18:09, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

I raised this yesterday but was told it's "not an error." Apparently the "New York" in the photo caption is good enough. Modulus12 (talk) 20:44, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

• DYK image caption states "Court house in Bedford, New York". Courthouse is the universal U.S. spelling (unspaced). Bri.public (talk) 21:58, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

Attempted to fix and made a mess of it at first, but  Done. 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 22:08, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

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