Talk:Train derails near Xinma station in Yilan, Taiwan

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Death tolls[edit]

@TheGracefulSlick: With count of number killed in a {{breaking}} story, there's a temptation to write the number into the headline, but we've found that's risky and we modernly try to avoid it; we have technical (as well as aesthetic) reasons to avoid renaming articles after publication (it causes duplicate entries in some feeds). Btw, we mostly spell out integers up to twenty. --Pi zero (talk) 22:02, 21 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Pi zero: understood. I wrote the title as is, mainly because I compared other articles on this site related to train accidents. What do you recommend as a replacement title?TheGracefulSlick (talk) 00:28, 22 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe "Train derails near Xinma station in Yilan, Taiwan"? --Gryllida (chat) 00:32, 22 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed, alternative detail to provide uniqueness ("tell the most important and unique thing"). If the number killed seems important, sometimes one can specify a bound, or an approximation (or both). --Pi zero (talk) 00:43, 22 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The changeability of the numbers on such things is also a good reason to attribute such numbers with care (there are of course plenty of reasons to attribute in news reporting). --Pi zero (talk) 20:32, 22 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This needs to be checked for plagiarism very carefully...[edit]

...as we are not legally allowed to copy any phrases from external sources. We have to write them in our own words -- without rearranging them, instead aim to convey the information in our own succinct way. I had to correct 'a mountain tourist attraction' in the last paragraph and a phrase one paragraph up but I ask the authors and reviewers and everyone else to check more. --Gryllida (chat) 05:34, 22 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Review of revision 4440471 [Passed][edit]