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Ann Curry appearance on Season Finale of Law & Order: SVU

Weird coding[edit]

It’s nearly impossible to edit this article on the mobile app because, in many paragraphs, any time I try to edit a particular sentence, the cursor is automatically diverted to the end of the paragraph.

What’s up with this? - Julietdeltalima (talk) 13:28, 7 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Inexplicable past-prospective tense[edit]

Compare these two sentences (neither of which are in the article; they’re just condensed examples):

(1) Hargitay would become an executive producer.

(2) Hargitay became an executive producer.

Or:

(1a) Meloni would reprise his character in a 2021 spinoff.

(2a) Meloni reprised his character in a 2021 spinoff.

What am I missing? Why are these cumbersome, confusing, unnecessarily verbose, melodramatic past-prospective-tense constructions as depicted in (1) and (1a) superior in ANY manner to the (2) and (2a) examples?

Thanks for either explaining this to me or just not doing this inefficient and ambiguous clichéd thing any more. Julietdeltalima (talk) 13:41, 7 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia editors doing an impression of how dumb people think smart people write isn't that big of a mystery. Predestiprestidigitation (talk) 18:25, 7 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 18" listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

The redirect Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 18 has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 July 5 § Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 18 until a consensus is reached. estar8806 (talk) ★ 22:30, 5 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"Law & Order: New York" listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

The redirect Law & Order: New York has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 July 5 § Law & Order: New York until a consensus is reached. estar8806 (talk) ★ 22:32, 5 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]