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Loathe as I am to continue giving oxygen to this debate, but if there is "a person or group ... running a campaign to keep mentioning war on
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When the scheduled dates are either today or tomorrow, those words appear in a new line following the dates. This looks strange to me. At the moment that condition is not fulfilled, and only the dates appear. My change was to put "today" and 'tomorrow" on the same line as the dates, separated by a
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So out of 35 entries, 4 relate to war, and 31 do not, and just over half the days of the coming week have a war-related entry, rather than it being 'almost without exception'. To compare, this is one less than the rate that the anniversaries of scientific discoveries, observations or announcements
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History is what happened. Many of the most important events in human history worldwide have to do with wars, due both to the fighting/fatalities and the consequences. (Take a look at maps of Europe in 1914 and 1945.) Just as ITN isn't a platform for sanitizing the news, OTD isn't a venue for
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It is intriguing that almost without exception every day in OTD there is at least one article (not all articles) on war. I wonder if a person or group is running a campaign to keep mentioning war on
Knowledge (XXG). Is someone trying to propagate continued conflict using Knowledge (XXG)?
340:. Statements like yours are the problem. What is of cultural importance to a single nation shouldn't determine what's on the front page. We should move beyond such parochial concerns. There is indeed an issue with incredibly obscure and minor American Civil War facts on OTD.
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You may be asking "wait, what about situations when we copy some files locally and protect them?" But that still does not put the file in this category unless you add it manually and no one does that. This category has no been used since 2017.
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