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I had originally worded the hook "killing ...", per the article title. Someone apparently changed it, on (I would guess) the grounds that hewas charged with murder at trial. OK, I guess, but it's not the way I would have done it for precisely this reason.
And if you read the article, there was no argument he had fired the fatal shot; he just argued he hadn't realized the guy he shot at was a cop and therefore it was self-defense.Daniel Case (talk)08:59, 28 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The new hook says that he wascharged with murder -- that doesn't mean hecommitted murder? Indeed, it would seem more accurate, since (as Daniel notes) you can't be charged with killing. I think it's also a reasonable possibility that a person's family might think they were innocent but unlikely to be declared so at trial (seeAlford plea -- this is a whole thing.)UndercoverClassicistT·C09:01, 28 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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"Along with the other hyrax species and the manatee, these are the animals most closely related to the elephant." I would suggest to add "living" before "animals". And since there are more than one species of manatee and of elephant, better to make these plural. Hence "Along with the other hyrax species and the manatees, these are the living animals most closely related to the elephants."JMCHutchinson (talk)18:13, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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