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Not sure what "ever since Israel went on war with Hamas" (not good English, by the way) is supposed to mean, since Hamas started things off by invading Israel and killing over 1,200 Israelis. AnonMoos (talk) 08:03, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Changed a bit. Not being a native speaker probably led to awkward word choices. And I know Hamas struck first and thus Israel had all the reason to retaliate (just not to extend the war to the point where we are now). igordebraga ≠ 01:38, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I understood, on the third reading, the sentence: "Although the distinction that made Alcala's story be told in a movie, Woman of the Hour, is the fact that in the middle of his killing spree he appeared in a matchmaking TV show and won a date, though the woman declined to go out with him and thus escaped a grisly fate." Please decode. Johnbod (talk) 18:25, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about the awkward phrasing. igordebraga ≠ 01:38, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

erelast? I'll take "cursed words I never want to see again" for $1000, Ghost of Alex. FeRDNYC (talk) 17:29, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed it, someone must've tried to change and this unholy mixture of "previous" and "last" emerged. igordebraga ≠ 01:15, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

this first baseman who had home runs in the first four games, including a walk-off grand slam in the first. And adding the 2021 finals that Freeman won with the Atlanta Braves, he had home runs on six consecutive World Series games.
See, strained bullcrap like this is why I can't stand sports statistics, and why I kind of loathe Wikipedia's sports articles and their effect on the project as a whole. (It's not that they're any sort of major editorial burden. For the most part, updates are a slow trickle of minor edits. But seemingly every article about a sports figure feels the need to present up-to-the-minute career statistics, receiving constant updates, ALWAYS uncited, making a mockery of the concept of encyclopedic content, of WP:NOTSTATSBOOK, and a ton of other project norms. And apparently the community of editors working on those articles is completely, unquestioningly fine with that! </rant>)

Because, the thing is, a statistic like that is only correct if you state it very precisely. (To the point where, IMHO, it's robbed of all its impact... but some people are still obsessed with these picayune distinctions.) Freeman didn't have home runs in six consecutive World Series games. Two of them were in 2021, the other four in 2024. There were tons of other World Series games between those, where he didn't even play. He had home runs in six of his consecutive appearances in a World Series game. FeRDNYC (talk) 20:37, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@FeRDNYC: Taking some numbers and specifically highlight very specific ones is just inherent to sports writing, it seems, leading to me simply copying that from his article to not make the entry too dry (that's enough of that in the political ones). igordebraga ≠ 01:15, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Igordebraga just inherent to sports writing You're right about that, and really that's the crux of my ~~complaint~~ lament, not anything about your reporting. That sort of "winningest right-handed pitcher from Kansas who plays for a team with red jerseys" nonsense is just a pet peeve of mine. FeRDNYC (talk) 06:13, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]