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Challenging bizarre edit based on apparent misreading of MOS:AVOIDBOLD[edit]

I'm challenging this edit by User:Surtsicna on 12 August 2021 and proposing a revert of the lead paragraph to the prior version. The edit summary was as follows: "This lead sentence exists for no other reason than accommodating boldface. Can we not just skip to the point? See MOS:AVOIDBOLD and MOS:REDUNDANCY."

The crisis is commonly and universally known in English as the Iran hostage crisis. If you search on Google Books, there are many books with that phrase right in their title.

Accordingly, this is not one of those situations where an editor is writing bizarre, tortured or unnatural lead sentences just to start the article with the article title (the entire point of MOS:AVOIDBOLD). The original lead sentence was a readable definition of the subject of the article all along. It correctly began by saying "The Iran hostage crisis was," followed by a definition. --Coolcaesar (talk) 17:30, 31 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Fixing this mess now. Unfortunately, this is what happens when people attempt to make edits to Wikipedia articles on subjects on which they are not well-informed. Any educated person growing up in the United States in the 1980s encountered mentions of the "Iran hostage crisis" frequently in news coverage in print and on television. Plus, there was that song that got frequent radio airplay. --Coolcaesar (talk) 14:48, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

First time edit, pls help?[edit]

I added a link to a NYTimes story that just came out where Ben Barnes admitted that he and Former Governor John Connolly Jr conspired to stop hostages from being released until after Reagan took office. I just don’t know how to make the reference number correctly appear, also not sure if the sentence should go at the end of the section. I didn’t want to change any other parts of the article, first time out. MC

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/18/us/politics/jimmy-carter-october-surprise-iran-hostages.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare MaureenPC (talk) 08:49, 19 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Interim Government[edit]

Should we include the Interim Government of Iran In the info box because it started during the Interim Government? Von bismarck (talk) 13:56, 27 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No, because the Interim Government of Iran was against it. Parham wiki (talk) 21:44, 1 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]