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What in the world is a “career-year”? It has neither a Wikipedia entry nor a Wiktionary entry. Electrical & computer engineer (talk) 03:24, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

A "career year" usually means the best year of a player's career, or the year by which the player would want to be measured. I've heard the phrase many times, but we shouldn't use it if it will confuse many readers; are there others who are unfamiliar with it? (Incidentally, I do not believe that "career year" should be hyphenated.) Newyorkbrad (talk) 03:28, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

I have to say I've never heard of it (I'm a British sports fan). Woody (talk) 12:50, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

I think I've heard the term used by some US sports commentators, but didn't understand what it meant. Certainly never used in the UK. Best to replace it. Modest Genius ^talk 16:12, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

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Main page states that Inca Emperor Atahualpa was executed today in 1533. Atahualpa page gives july 26 as date of execution, with 29 Aug shown (in infobox) as date of burial. Cheers IdreamofJeanie (not logged on) 1830 29/08/11 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.30.184.48 (talk) 17:31, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

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The tagline for Gun Hagglund is in error. She was not the world's first female TV news presenter; Barbara Mandell of ITN in Britain pipped her by three years. [1] [2] No doubt the Swedish source cited believes in its accuracy, but the article creator should have done a cursory check. It took me all of thirty seconds to find out about Mandell.  ῲ Ravenswing ῴ  13:52, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

It is not that easy to establish exactly who was the first to read news in television, but unlike Mendell and possibly others, Hägglund was an established news anchor in a national televised news show. Although a number of obituaries says that Hägglund was the first woman news anchor, I chose to put it more diplomatically "commonly recognized (as the first news anchor)". This was also suggested for the hook, but shortend for reasons not known to me. Bruzaholm (talk) 14:13, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

It is that easy to establish who was the first to read news on television. I found two reliable sources claiming a 1955 date for Mandell, which is three years before Hagglund, and don't doubt I could find a number more. The hook says "first female news presenter," not "first female news presenter to complete a certain undefined and arbitrary term."  ῲ Ravenswing ῴ  15:08, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

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