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A fact from Pelican Pete appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 April 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the world's largest pelican is over 15 feet (4.6 m) high?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2011/April.

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Badly written sentence

"The backdrop is a water falls upon which Pelican Rapids receives its name" reads very poorly. Is it trying to say "The backdrop is a waterfall from which Pelican Rapids receives its name"? Or is it trying to say "The backdrop is water falling from the dam where the rapids after which Pelican Rapids is named used to be". Or what??? -- SGBailey (talk) 10:44, 5 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Changed the sentence to: The backdrop is a waterfalls upon which Pelican Rapids receives its name from the rapids the dam makes. From there you know of course you can edit the article.--Doug Coldwell ^talk 13:17, 5 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I can chnage the grammar, but one has to be careful making it read well that the meaning does not change at the same time. -- SGBailey (talk) 15:06, 5 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Revision of April 5th 2011 - photograph

I've just revised this article in several ways and hope it's an improvement. The changes include some rearranging and adjustments to style, but most importantly I made corrections to the details about Pelican Pete's location, the city, river and rapids, and so on.

Of course, the job isn't finished. But I'll leave it mostly to others.

The main niggle I have at present is the photograph. Apparently somebody intended to remove the distorted building on the right side of the image, but didn't do so. I wonder if there is a better photograph that shows the entire sculpture with some good background?Twistlethrop (talk) 14:32, 5 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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