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A news item involving Ted Turner was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 7 May 2026.

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Suspended from Brown U.

Latest comment: 6 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

reading his autobiography the reason he was suspended from brown is he was disruptive and drunk at Wheaton College, not the reason mentioned here. RPMcMurphyNEST (talk) 14:54, 18 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

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The following request is to fix an error in grammar (verb tense). The error is located in the first paragraph of the "Legacy" section, just below the photos. Please change X "Turner has been regarded as one of the entrepreneurs who transformed the cable industry and being referred to as "the Alexander the Great of broadcasting" by Slate magazine:" to Y "Turner has been regarded as one of the entrepreneurs who transformed the cable industry and has been referred to as "the Alexander the Great of broadcasting" by Slate magazine:"

In summary, the request is to make "being" change to "has been". Thank You. ~2026-20250-35 (talk) 10:53, 1 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Done. Toast1454_T_C 12:13, 1 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

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Reference 106 contains multiple grammatical and spelling errors and suspected to be inaccurate. ~2026-27568-14 (talk) 03:28, 7 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before posting an edit request. There is no consensus that United Press International, a news agency similar to Associated Press, is considered an unreliable source from what I've found looking through WP:RSN, and spelling/grammar issues in a source do not automatically make it unreliable. Umby 🌕🐶 (talk) 03:42, 7 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

Semi-protected edit request on 7 May 2026

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Typo in the last sentence of the 'Controversial comments and other controversies' section saying he "comtinued to enthusiastically Tomahawk" Taylorhindman (talk) 05:39, 7 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

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re-add this photo to show how he looked in his older days https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ted_Turner_at_the_LBJ_Foundation_(cropped).jpg ~2026-27503-96 (talk) 09:12, 7 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

Not done. It's not clear what changes you want to make. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 13:32, 7 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

Turner turned the Braves?

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Shouldn't this say Turner owned? ~2026-28292-14 (talk) 23:16, 10 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

(for anyone wondering what this comment is about) the sentence said "Turner turned the Atlanta Braves baseball team, who won the 1995 World Series under his ownership, into a nationally popular franchise, and founded the charitable Goodwill Games". While this is grammatically correct if you read every word, I split this sentence up and made the order of the clauses simpler and more direct. Unknown Temptation (talk) 11:02, 11 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

I’m proud of you @Unknown Temptation ~2026-28890-07 (talk) 14:32, 13 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

Yeah, you're all right — TheFlorida Typer | DMS — 03:43, 25 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

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Semi-protected edit request on 7 May 2026

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Turner turned the Braves?