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Wikipedia inconsistency

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This attack is also mentioned in the article 2020 in Somalia in the August section. It says that the Elite Hotel was attacked. This article should be consistent with that listing and mention the name of the hotel, too. The hotel name is in the sources so I am wondering what policy allows it to be used in the list but not in the article about the attack. Or is this omission an editor trying to be euphemistic or exercise a form of editorial censorship? - Cameron Dewe (talk) 23:14, 2 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have now updated the article and noted that MOS:DONTTEASE is part of the LEAD Manual of Style. I am assuming that the omission is due to the existing news sources not mentioning the hotel name in their leads nor, in the case of Reuters, even including it the report at all and only providing the name in a photograph caption. Since Wikipedia articles are not news they should not be written in news style, but use summary style. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 00:17, 3 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]