Talk:July 12, 2007, Baghdad airstrike

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STOP one-click editing.... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fomeister (talk • contribs) 03:44, 1 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Article title

Shouldn't this be "July 12, 2007, Baghdad airstrike" per MOS:DATE which says "A comma follows the year unless followed by other punctuation"? The Rambling Man (talk) 06:25, 11 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

From the context it seems pretty clear to me that MOS:DATE is referring to when the date is used in a sentence. I don't think it would apply in this case.Aervanath (talk) 19:20, 4 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree. The Rambling Man (talk) 19:27, 4 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

How do you infer that from both MOS:DATE and MOS:COMMA? 142.161.81.20 (talk) 19:32, 4 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Bolding

Bringing this here to discuss my edit after it was reverted. @KalHolmann: According to MOS:BOLD: "[Bolding] is also done at the first occurrence of a term (commonly a synonym in the lead) that redirects to the article or one of its subsections, whether the term appears in the lead or not." The term "collateral murder" is widely used to refer to the event, or at least part of it, and said term also redirects to this page. It's not exactly an alternative name, and it doesn't appear in the first sentence, so I see no reason for it to not be in bold. Most readers would be more familiar with the term than the current generic mouthful. Prinsgezinde (talk) 21:21, 17 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Prinsgezinde: Thank you for explaining that. Yes, I see that you are right. I have reverted my own edit, restoring yours. KalHolmann (talk) 21:28, 17 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Title Typo

Hello. Can someone correct the "airstrike" in the title, please? While the article describes multiple airstrikes, the article's title makes it seem that there was only one airstrike. Thank you in advance. L00fers (talk) 05:54, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

There were many airstrikes in Iraq during 2007, but this article is about a specific set of 3 airstrikes. Airstrike is more specific. Although the article still needs to be moved because of Wikipedia:Naming conventions (events). The title should only have the year without the specific date. 2601:80:8402:1AA0:0:0:0:4972 (talk) 04:17, 30 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]