Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/May 18

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Tropical Storm Hernan intensifying offshore Mexico on August 26. Tropical Storm Hernan was a short-lived tropical cyclone that caused widespread flooding and destructive mudslides across southwestern Mexico in late August 2020. The eighth named storm of the 2020 Pacific hurricane season, Hernan formed to the southwest of Mexico on August 26. The cyclone peaked with maximum sustained winds of 75 km/h and a minimum atmospheric pressure of 1001 millibars, before passing just offshore western Mexico and dissipating in the Gulf of California. Hernan, despite not making landfall, dropped extremely heavy rainfall across several states, peaking at nearly 610 millimeters (24 inches) in Jalisco. Over 305 millimeters (12 inches) of rain fell across the Costa Grande of Guerrero from August 24–27. 1,674 homes and 9 schools all suffered severe damage. A man died after falling off his roof checking damages from Hernan. The cyclone caused a total of MXN$594.05 million (USD$26.91 million) in damages across seven states along the Pacific coast of Mexico. (Full article...) Recently featured: Raymond Brownell Hö'elün Operation Title Archive By email More featured articles About view – talk – edit – history – watch
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"damages" should be "damage". Awien (talk) 14:30, 17 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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The note reads

• 1991 – The Somali National Movement declared the independence of Somaliland (flag pictured), internationally recognised as an autonomous region of Somalia, following the collapse of central government during the Somali Civil War.

Whereas it would be much more neutral to say;

• 1991 – The Somali National Movement declared the independence of Somaliland (flag pictured), a de facto state that is internationally recognised as an autonomous region of Somalia, following the collapse of central government during the Somali Civil War.

Thank You. Feel free to ask me questions at my talk. Outback the koala (talk) 00:41, 18 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Okay  Done. In future, please use

WP:ERRORS for things on the main page. Thanks — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:45, 18 May 2011 (UTC)[reply

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• Moved to Ineligible: Plessy v. Ferguson (maintenance); 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens (maintenance)
• Omitted:
  2006 democracy movement in Nepal
• Included: Siege of Vicksburg (first appearance); Cinema of India (first appearance); Sada Abe (first appearance); Eli Cohen (first appearance); Nix (moon)/Hydra (moon) (first appearance for both)

Woohoo, all five blurbs are making their debuts! —