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title="Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Black Death/archive1">Featured article candidate</a></b></td><td>Not promoted</td></tr><tr><td><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_Death&oldid=40194389">February 19, 2006</a></span></td><td><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_assessment/Natural_disasters/Black_Death" title="Wikipedia:Article assessment/Natural disasters/Black Death">WikiProject peer review</a></b></td><td>Reviewed</td></tr><tr><td><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_Death&oldid=193355500">February 22, 2008</a></span></td><td><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Black_Death/archive2" title="Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Black Death/archive2">Featured article candidate</a></b></td><td>Not promoted</td></tr><tr><td><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_Death&oldid=240996619">September 25, 2008</a></span></td><td><b><a href="/wiki/Talk:Black_Death/GA1" title="Talk:Black Death/GA1">Good article reassessment</a></b></td><td>Delisted</td></tr><tr><td><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_Death&oldid=823675075">February 3, 2018</a></span></td><td><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Black_Death/archive4" title="Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Black Death/archive4">Featured article candidate</a></b></td><td>Not promoted</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="width:100%"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Globe_current.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="In the news"><img alt="In the news" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Globe_current.svg/20px-Globe_current.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="19" class="mw-file-element" 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">June 13,</span> 2024</span>. <q>We examine three case studies—articles for the 'Black Death,' the '<a href="/wiki/Viking_Age" title="Viking Age">Viking Age</a>,' and '<a href="/wiki/Old_English_literature" title="Old English literature">Old English literature</a>'—to explore how the medieval is forged, defined by us as crafted and created, 'on-Wiki.'<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span></q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Forging+the+medieval+on+Wikipedia&rft.date=2024-05-21&rft.au=Fran+Allfrey%2C+Lucy+Moore%2C+Richard+Nevell&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Flink.springer.com%2Farticle%2F10.1057%2Fs41280-024-00321-6&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATalk%3ABlack+Death" class="Z3988"></span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_news" title="Template:Cite news">cite news</a>}}</code>: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_multiple_names:_authors_list" title="Category:CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list">link</a>)</span></li></ul> </div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc"/> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Wiki_Education_Foundation-supported_course_assignment" data-mw-thread-id="h-Wiki_Education_Foundation-supported_course_assignment"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Wiki_Education_Foundation-supported_course_assignment"></span>Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Wiki_Education_Foundation-supported_course_assignment"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Talk:Black_Death&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sciences_humaines.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Sciences_humaines.svg/40px-Sciences_humaines.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Sciences_humaines.svg/60px-Sciences_humaines.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Sciences_humaines.svg/80px-Sciences_humaines.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="256" data-file-height="256"/></a></span> This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between <span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2022-01-11">11 January 2022</span> and <span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2022-05-06">6 May 2022</span>. Further details are available <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Ed/University_of_North_Georgia/HISTORIOGRAPHY_(SPRING)" title="Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of North Georgia/HISTORIOGRAPHY (SPRING)">on the course page</a>. Student editor(s): <a href="/wiki/User:Hdgoble" title="User:Hdgoble">Hdgoble</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://xtools.wmflabs.org/topedits/en.wikipedia.org/Hdgoble/0/Black+Death">article contribs</a>). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Improvements_to_general_writing_quality" data-mw-thread-id="h-Improvements_to_general_writing_quality-20231025153200"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Improvements_to_general_writing_quality-20231025153200"></span>Improvements to general writing quality<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Improvements_to_general_writing_quality-20231025153200"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Talk:Black_Death&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Improvements to general writing quality"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-bar"><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-metadata"></div><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-actions"></div></div></div> <p><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="c-VHarbee-20231025153200-Improvements_to_general_writing_quality"></span>Several poorly written sentences and sections make the article needlessly complex. </p><p>Examples (original in italics, revisions underneath): </p><p><i>It is recognised that an <a href="/wiki/Epidemiology" title="Epidemiology">epidemiological</a> account of plague is as important as an identification of symptoms, but researchers are hampered by the lack of reliable statistics from this period.</i> </p><p>| </p><p>Researchers are hampered by a lack of reliable statistics from this period. </p><p><br/> <i>A research in 2018 challenged the popular hypothesis that "infected rats died, their flea parasites could have jumped from the recently dead rat hosts to humans". It suggested an alternative model in which "the disease was spread from human fleas and body lice to other people".</i> </p><p>| </p><p>In 2018 researchers suggested an alternative model in which "<i>"the disease was spread from human fleas and body lice to other people".</i> </p><p><br/> <i>The most authoritative contemporary account is found in a report from the medical faculty in Paris to <a href="/wiki/Philip_VI_of_France" title="Philip VI of France">Philip VI of France</a>. It blamed the heavens, in the form of a <a href="/wiki/Conjunction_(astronomy)" title="Conjunction (astronomy)">conjunction</a> of three planets in 1345 that caused a "great pestilence in the air" (<a href="/wiki/Miasma_theory" title="Miasma theory">miasma theory</a>).</i> </p><p>| </p><p>Philip VI of France wrote in 1355 that a conjunction of planets had caused "a great pestilence in the air" (miasma theory). </p><p>--and so on. It would be worth doing a full pass on this article for clarity and I am willing to do so if allowed. <a href="/wiki/User:VHarbee" title="User:VHarbee">VHarbee</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:VHarbee" title="User talk:VHarbee">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Black_Death#c-VHarbee-20231025153200-Improvements_to_general_writing_quality" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">15:32, 25 October 2023 (UTC)</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-buttons" data-mw-thread-id="c-VHarbee-20231025153200-Improvements_to_general_writing_quality"><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">[</span><a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">]</span></span><span data-mw-comment-end="c-VHarbee-20231025153200-Improvements_to_general_writing_quality"></span> </p> <dl><dd><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="c-64.46.14.251-20240206221900-VHarbee-20231025153200"></span>I'd like to add this example which I came across while reading the article, which was both difficult to parse and definitely inaccurate (at least in regards to linked articles).</dd> <dd>|</dd> <dd>Early Christians considered bathing a temptation. With this danger in mind, <a href="/wiki/Benedict_of_Nursia" title="Benedict of Nursia">St. Benedict</a> declared, "To those who are well, and especially to the young, bathing shall seldom be permitted." <a href="/wiki/Agnes_of_Rome" title="Agnes of Rome">St. Agnes</a> took the injunction to heart and died without ever bathing.</dd> <dd>|</dd> <dd>St. Agnes of Rome lived ~3 centuries before St. Benedict, so the phrase "took the injunction to heart" is definitely false. <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/64.46.14.251" title="Special:Contributions/64.46.14.251">64.46.14.251</a> (<a href="/w/index.php?title=User_talk:64.46.14.251&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User talk:64.46.14.251 (page does not exist)">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Black_Death#c-64.46.14.251-20240206221900-VHarbee-20231025153200" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:19, 6 February 2024 (UTC)</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-buttons" data-mw-thread-id="c-64.46.14.251-20240206221900-VHarbee-20231025153200"><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">[</span><a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">]</span></span><span data-mw-comment-end="c-64.46.14.251-20240206221900-VHarbee-20231025153200"></span></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Semi-protected_edit_request_on_14_February_2024" data-mw-thread-id="h-Semi-protected_edit_request_on_14_February_2024-20240214060200"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Semi-protected_edit_request_on_14_February_2024-20240214060200"></span>Semi-protected edit request on 14 February 2024<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Semi-protected_edit_request_on_14_February_2024-20240214060200"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Talk:Black_Death&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Semi-protected edit request on 14 February 2024"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-bar"><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-metadata"></div><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-actions"></div></div></div> <span data-mw-comment-start="" id="c-Wizzeh-20240214060200-Semi-protected_edit_request_on_14_February_2024"></span><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237879475"><table class="plainlinks tmbox mbox-small tmbox-notice editrequest" role="presentation" data-origlevel="semi"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/30px-Information_icon4.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/45px-Information_icon4.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/60px-Information_icon4.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620"/></span></span></td><td class="mbox-text">This <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_requests" title="Wikipedia:Edit requests">edit request</a> has been answered. Set the <code style="white-space: nowrap;">|answered=</code> or <code style="white-space: nowrap;">|ans=</code> parameter to <b>no</b> to reactivate your request.</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Change "An estimate of the case fatality rate for the modern bubonic plague, after the introduction of antibiotics, is 11%, although it may be higher in underdeveloped regions." to "An estimate of the case fatality rate for the modern plague, after the introduction of antibiotics, is 11%, although it may be higher in underdeveloped regions." (removing the word "bubonic"). The case fatality ratio linked appears to refer to plague in general, rather than just the bubonic form. <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Wizzeh&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Wizzeh (page does not exist)">Wizzeh</a> (<a href="/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Wizzeh&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User talk:Wizzeh (page does not exist)">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Black_Death#c-Wizzeh-20240214060200-Semi-protected_edit_request_on_14_February_2024" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">06:02, 14 February 2024 (UTC)</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-buttons" data-mw-thread-id="c-Wizzeh-20240214060200-Semi-protected_edit_request_on_14_February_2024"><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">[</span><a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">]</span></span><span 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exist)">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Black_Death#c-2A00:23C8:CAB:AD00:B7C3:EDB1:9DCE:1FEA-20240514190200-Semi-protected_edit_request_on_14_February_2024" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:02, 14 May 2024 (UTC)</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-buttons" data-mw-thread-id="c-2A00:23C8:CAB:AD00:B7C3:EDB1:9DCE:1FEA-20240514190200-Semi-protected_edit_request_on_14_February_2024"><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">[</span><a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">]</span></span><span data-mw-comment-end="c-2A00:23C8:CAB:AD00:B7C3:EDB1:9DCE:1FEA-20240514190200-Semi-protected_edit_request_on_14_February_2024"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Is_there_any_room_(in_this_article)_for_a_mention_of_the_currently_noticeable_as_well_as_medically_significant_genetic_changes_that_were_presumably_impulsed_by_Black_Death's_dramatic_toll?" data-mw-thread-id="h-Is_there_any_room_(in_this_article)_for_a_mention_of_the_currently_noticeable_as-20240806082500"><span id="Is_there_any_room_.28in_this_article.29_for_a_mention_of_the_currently_noticeable_as_well_as_medically_significant_genetic_changes_that_were_presumably_impulsed_by_Black_Death.27s_dramatic_toll.3F"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Is_there_any_room_(in_this_article)_for_a_mention_of_the_currently_noticeable_as-20240806082500"></span>Is there any room (in this article) for a mention of the currently noticeable as well as medically significant genetic changes that were presumably impulsed by Black Death's dramatic toll?<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Is_there_any_room_(in_this_article)_for_a_mention_of_the_currently_noticeable_as-20240806082500"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Talk:Black_Death&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Is there any room (in this article) for a mention of the currently noticeable as well as medically significant genetic changes that were presumably impulsed by Black Death's dramatic toll?"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-bar"><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-metadata"></div><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-actions"></div></div></div> <p><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="c-83.202.216.238-20240806082500-Is_there_any_room_(in_this_article)_for_a_mention_of_the_currently_noticeable_as"></span>Hello, here is what I am talking about: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05349-x">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05349-x</a> <a 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