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Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses

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Re: Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Scott_Key_Bridge_(Balt...

Already roughly 75 edits since the collapse.

It makes me wonder what goes through someone's head when one sees a mass casualty event like this, and your first instinct is to rush to Wikipedia to change the article to past tense ('was' a bridge).

Re: Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses

#16

You can look back on the livestream here to see the collision and collapse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83a7h3kkgPg

Here's a clip from that livestream of the collapse, clipped by The Guardian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVdVpd-pqcM

Re: Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Already roughly 75 edits since the collapse.

It makes me wonder what goes through someone's head when one sees a mass casualty event like this, and your first instinct is to rush to Wikipedia to change the article to past tense ('was' a bridge).

There is a lot of misinformation in the world, and Wikipedia can often be one of the places people go to for reliable knowledge.

They probably will be getting more traffic than any single major news paper.

A lot of people, potentially scared and confused, and going to be reading that article and making decisions based on it.

Keeping the information good and complete sounds to me like a deep kindness.

Re: Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses

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You can look back on the livestream here to see the collision and collapse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83a7h3kkgPg

The lights on the ship were going off and on, and it appeared to be smoking before hitting the bridge. Does not look like they had much control at the time.

Re: Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Already roughly 75 edits since the collapse.

It makes me wonder what goes through someone's head when one sees a mass casualty event like this, and your first instinct is to rush to Wikipedia to change the article to past tense ('was' a bridge).

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Re: Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses

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This has been confirmed by local authorities: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/26/major-bridge-in-baltimore-co... https://twitter.com/TheMDTA/status/1772524001815920876

As of right now, that page starts out with a photo of an entirely different bridge of the same name from Washington DC, quite confusing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_Bridge_(Washington,_D.C.) (hn breaks the trailing parenthesis in the link)

Edit: they removed the photo.

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